I chat with people who think they’re so far removed from what’s going on today with ICE and I always hit them with the “my grandma was 6 when they put her in an incarceration camp.”

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps. Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

Wisdom the Laysan albatross is back! She's at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, part of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Originally banded in 1956, she's at least 75 years old, has flown >3 million miles (lifetime Premier 1K® on United), laid 50 to 60 eggs, and fledged ~30 chicks. 🪶

Lots of great posts in the last 24 hours about all sorts of great technologies that are worth supporting. Le Guin already nailed it two decades ago, though: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology

stop making me look at those horrible men

Academics. I am begging you. Answer your goddamn emails.

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

I am disturbed that my social media feeds are now as full of Heated Rivalry as they were with Palestinians screaming for help at this time last year. I do not yet know what to do with this disturbing information. But it distrubs me deeply. What does it mean bout distraction? Agendas? Priorities?

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Today I went to see a movie for a benefit. The exact movie was kept as a “surprise,” but described as a NYC romp. It turned out to be “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” In which the cat dies and one of the main characters develops AIDS. What the actual fuck.

Yesterday, USA Fencing honored my uncle with the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award. I wish he had lived to accept the award in person. Fencing and the fencing community meant so much to him. I am so proud of his accomplishment, and so inspired by his lifelong commitment to learning new skills.

Israel approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’ https://aje.news/42nx1a

Hand pulled noodles!!

I checked the publications dates books that informed my thinking about this kind of tech before it became AI discourse. Books like Artificial Unintelligence, Algorithms of Oppression, Race After Technology, Weapons of Math Destruction: 2016-2019. Unsurprisingly, this observation truly tracks.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, the "nobody left" part especially. My aunt sent a box of photos and tintypes, and some have names on the back but most are total mysteries. I think they might have belonged to my grandma's favorite aunt? How many generations back do the unknowns go?

Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Lee, and Quincy Jones. And now I guess Macklemore but I think he transferred.

RIP JVDB.

I do not doubt that engagement went up if she was replacing a $250 textbook. Students who get first-day access to course materials, for free, are more likely to do the reading. But you really don't need AI to make that happen! You need OER! Here's a textbook my colleagues made:

And absolutely no one seeing this news would have the thought “maybe this is because they are doing a good/smart/lawful thing.” Our default news reaction now is “what fresh hell”—and with good reason.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Charles you keep trying to negotiate with a running chainsaw.

Every Democratic candidate in NJ-12 except Sam Wang at a CAIR event say that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

"If we improve the lives of current American citizens, we risk the perception that this is a good country. Then people would want to live here. We’d be right back where we started: needing to spend all our taxpayer dollars deporting beloved community members."

Birnam wood ammirite?

Macbeth: SHIT

R told me the score, and I was like, the Patriots scored ONE GOAL?! And I really hate that I know that much about football.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.

So. Much. This. 👇

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Friday night soyrizo in progress

All the replies on here arguing that there shouldn't be exceptions to the ICE-doesn't-wear-masks proposal are missing the point, falling for Schumer's trap of debating his stupid ideas as if they have merit. Let's not lose sight of the goal: END ICE NOW.

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

There stood a woman: bloated stomach, glassy-eyed, hair dry and wild, pale, lips pulled back in an ugly grimace. Wendy screamed. It was a mirror. Self-care had fallen to the wayside since Danny was born. Also, there was a dead body rotting in the bathtub.

From my morning run. The approach was a little dicey and I had to run in the bike lane for a while, but it was worth it!

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

My cat has figured out that I will keep giving him piles of treats with a pill hidden inside until he eats the pill. Lord have mercy.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

I know everyone is fangirling Amanda Gorman, but I would like to introduce you to a more recent National Youth Poet Laureate and current CUNY student m.youtube.com/watch?v=8mzp...

I shared this thread with my art historian spouse, and she declared this thread an art historian’s dream.

Guillotining has become the moderate position, actually.

I protested Clinton in high school. If you recall, he also bombed Iraq.

ME TOO.

I appreciate everyone who’s on strike today. I will also say, if you have small, local businesses in your area that are open, especially if they are owned by or employ immigrants, support them.

Everything I do to this paper makes it worse.

The problem with having three different scholarly editions of Frankenstein is that I never know which one I'm citing. Pretty sure there are page refs to all three in this draft. Pretty sure I could not locate all three if my citational practice depended on it.

I have a friend who had to block Cuomo on Instagram because she kept waking up to discover that she'd spent a drunken evening cyberbullying him on Threads. Man I love her. We should all be cyberbullying these assholes.

Ds are demanding DHS stop "deporting US citizens," but deporting *US citizens* is not legal to begin with! So they're offering money to criminals if they...what, stop criming, I guess? It's basically 'hey stop robbing this bank and we'll give you a million bucks'. I swear I am going insane

Biden’s legacy is a mountain of corpses paid for by US taxpayers