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Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is clown car stuff. “A.i.” as it exists is NOT on track to become “smarter than humans.” It’s just fancy autocorect, and it sucks for nearly everything except cheating and scamming.

I know professors personally who have had their lives destroyed by being doxxed by the Professor Watchlist organized by Turning Point USA, for saying the "wrong thing" in class one time. I will not celebrate violence but I also will not pretend this is "practicing politics the right way."

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it…

Last night, a minyan of T'ruah rabbis wearing tallitot and holding sacks of flour and rice blocked 2nd Avenue in New York City, in front of the Israeli consulate. We held signs that said "Food --> Gaza" and posters with images of starving Gazan children. 🧵

In NYC, 40+ Jews arrested calling to LET GAZA LIVE This is what Torah looks like. Second photo, top left, that’s the incredible Rabbi Ari Lev Fonari getting arrested.

Not many omnibus films in the National Film Registry, beyond Disney’s Fantasia. This year I’m nominating my favorite 21st Century example of the form, which would be the first Registry entry for segment directors Caveh Zahedi, Jay Rosenblatt, @vsoe.bsky.social, Paul Harrill, Ira Sachs & many others.

Sound and Vision: Yuan Goang-Ming, Isaac Julian, Ruth Asawa exhibit reviews Toplining, Lessons of the Hour, 2019, Isaac Julian This year three of the major art museums in San Francisco had toplining shows of contemporary artists of color. While this might seem unremarkable in the 21st century it…

Marine Combat Veterans & US Citizens confront ICE bounty hunters as they leave work, after a long day of kidnapping people.

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

Is it time for your right-wing family to stop snubbing the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

I spend a lot of time contemplating what's happening politically and trying to interpret/make sense of it. But I also take time off for pleasure. And then come back to the work. We're all in the fog of civil war, and it behooves us to go to whatever gives us back the clearer, bigger vision.

But the eggs.

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"Apologize to every tree for wasting oxygen they worked so hard to make and to your mother for the 9 months she spent making a little bitch" #SNAP

Dear Press: it's not a "clash." "Protestors CLASH with ICE agents blah blah blah" One side (cops, ICE, CPB) is heavily armored and armed, and starts violence at every opportunity. The other side (protestors) is hardly ever armed, and shows up with signs. It's not a "clash."

Democrats who posed in Washington with Benjamin Netanyahu, a war criminal wanted by the ICC: Adam Schiff Jacky Rosen Amy Klobuchar Chuck Schumer Maria Cantwell Chris Coons Cory Booker Did I miss anybody?

And they sprayed the damn fields while community members could only run and then watch through tears. Like something out of Vietnam. All so they could break us. All so they could steal the very people who work the hardest to keep our county going.

This is positively medieval when rulers go after the food chain. Those protesters are literally trying to defend our farm workers that feed us.

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

Happening now in Camarillo, protesters are desperately facing off against ICE to try to defend America’s farm workers. /

it’s a good time to speak up. might not have the chance in a few years if you don’t do it now.

Rise Up: Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival review Edgy, Queerpanorama, 2025 Because shit is so chaotic in the US right now I almost forgot about the Frameline LGBTQ+ film festival this year, but fortunately a friend reminded me that it was happening. I was lucky enough to…

I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine

Jackson seems to be one of the few non MAGA public servants who realizes that the rules of engagement have changed. Decorum is a joke, there is no respect, hypocrisy is accepted, the loudest/first/most entertaining POV is the right one, and the needs of citizens are unimportant to the new rules.

I've said this a lot in recent essays but not as often here: Yes, we're witnessing the expansion and entrenchment of a police state in the US. But unlike the vast majority of concentration camp regimes I've studied, most Americans still have countless opportunities to resist. We can stop it.

Turn your anxiety into action! ⚡ Voter ID rules in many states could could block people from voting this year. TOMORROW, July 10, we're texting voters to make sure they know what ID they need and how to get one if they don't have it yet. Join us!

Totally unscientific observation based on three plane trips but the flight I was on from Taiwan to the US this spring was half empty. Same with two of my friends from Germany to the US this summer. Anyone else anecdotally noticed a decrease in inbound international travel to the US or nah?

I repeat: what kind of educator, and what kind of unionist cannot see how "AI" will be used to automate and dehumanize education at all levels? It is a THREAT to labor, it is environmentally disastrous and built on the theft of the labor of artists and authors. For shame.

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine. But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires? No.

All Out Against ICE, Sat. July 19, Dublin, CA Come through!

...For example, if this same disaster had happened in that far-leftist hellhole of California, every subscribed mobile phone in the affected area would have received an immediate, loud notification along with text instructions about what to do. Not so apparently in rugged, individualistic Texas.

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There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

Quite on the mark, I think www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you don’t like immigrants and immigration you’re stupid and a racist. I said what I said

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The #SquidGame cast are so happy to not have to do another interview in English.

Good news! Federal judge orders the release of Columbia student activist Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#NoKings San Francisco

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

The idea we should behave in such a way that the Trumpists will not portray us as dangerous/ lawless/ violent is a silly idea, because they always portray us that way and no amount of curtseys and rolling over and playing dead will change that. So people might as well speak up and stand strong.

We must stand up against this senseless cruelty.

We are seeing a lot of people confused about today’s events in South Korea. So here’s a recap, we open thread! 🧵 On December 3rd, at around 11 PM (Korean time), President Yoon announced martial law. This was the first declaration of martial law since the Sixth Republic’s Emergence in 1988.

6/4/89 never forget. Image from HK Tiananmen Square march and memorial 6/4/17. One of the last ones permitted before the crackdown