Boston's Michelle Wu has attracted notice for standing up to Trump on ICE raids. But her stance is undermined by the city's fusion center, which civil liberties advocates have warned abt for yrs: "The whole purpose of it is federal & local law enforcement collaboration." boltsmag.org/boston-polic...

As if we didn’t already have enough problems with public trust in journalism and the collapse of local news, someone thought it would be a good idea to add dynamic AI pricing to the mix.

As if we didn’t already have enough problems with public trust in journalism and the collapse of local news, someone thought it would be a good idea to add dynamic AI pricing to the mix.

It was cold out but I biked to work anyway. Turns out it wasn’t cold enough; the snow melted off the top of the building and landed on my bike. When I went to leave I was like, “I don’t remember all this snow when I parked. Guess I’m even less observant than I realized.” Then I got closer. Ope.

A lot has been said about how Fox News melted so many boomer brains, but not as much about the insidious way the NYT is corroding the minds of our progressive elders. How their beloved paper of record is poisoning them against their anti-genocide children, making them doubt their trans grandkids.

Ellis notes that the feds argue "plaintiffs have not been engaged in First Amendment protected activity" because they've "intermingled themselves with rioters." "But as I've previously stated," Ellis says, "I don't find defendants' version of events credible."

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different. shutting the fuck up is free.

Terrible scenes just minutes into the new socialist regime in New York as literally hundreds of billionaires discover mamdani already living rent free in their heads

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.

There is an election today in the Washtenaw Intermediate School District. I think you should vote Yes on the Career Technical Education Millage: www.damnarbor.com/2025/11/elec... #a2Council #YpsiCouncil

Omg 💀 bsky.app/profile/jami...

Is this anything? I couldn’t help myself.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Today I agreed to a virtual meeting with a couple of representatives of a student organization. One showed up on time and with a list of questions. The other one sent his AI note taker. Don’t do this. Never do this. Especially don’t do it without advanced consent, but really just don’t ever do it.

A modest study confirms anecdotal evidence that drivers have no idea what to do with HAWK / PHB signals at pedestrian crossings ... and that the do dangerous shit like accelerating to get through -exactly- when a pedestrian is likely to be rushing to make the signal. www.umass.edu/news/article...

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

When we have a Congressional majority that is actually in Congress there really needs to be a root and branch rewriting of privacy laws, data and digital rights. The Privacy Act was written in 1974, and has been continuously ignored by the Trump admin.

A person I interviewed for this story told me her 8th grader recently read Night by Elie Wiesel in school and observed “it’s sort of like what’s happening here right now” in case you’re wondering how things are going for Chicago’s kids.

We warned this exact thing would happen. This is why dozens of human rights groups have been calling to BanFacialrecognition.com for years

They know facial recognition doesn't work as well on POC

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

anyway the Gender currently happening is not really extricable from the Fascism and thinking about how to counter the latter requires thinking more carefully about the former. thank u.

Just thinking: I am a double-boarded physician-scientist at @uclahealth.org, but I grew up in poverty. Gov't provided the welfare & foodstamps that aided my refugee family. Gov't grants subsidized my education. I am only where I am today bc of the #America that was. And it makes me want to cry.

okay so WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS my gifts for trans people program will be open for applications in just a little over 2 hours, at 9AM Mountain. if you are trans and want something in my shop but can't afford it for any reason, this page nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan... has the info and links.

tell everyone

Girl, wash your face.

LEGAL RELEASE FORM: You agree to let us film you ME: Seems OK FORM: We own your face forever ME: Ummm FORM: We own your face via technologies that haven’t been invented yet ME: FORM: in other galaxies ME: OK hold on FORM: If we kill you during filming you’re not allowed to scream

Meanwhile the federal workers here are in food lines because he said we don’t have any money but hey let me do my new ballroom. #DC

Can't flush my smart toilet on account of the AWS outage

We had SO MUCH FUN reporting on trans representation at No Kings, but we can't bring you original journalism without funds. We're challenging you to make a donation today, to show us that on the ground reporting is what want from your trans news source. www.assignedmedia.org/support

I did a few different phone banks last November and Fated States was by far the easiest and the most fun, with the clearest training! Highly recommend!

University-wide AI mandate.

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Pssst, if any Long COVID (or ME/CFS, IACCI, etc) friends are thinking of using the new free RTHM AI tool, worth noting that their terms of service explicitly grant them permission to use any medical history you upload to train their models.

It was never about "doing it the right way." 1/4

It’s easy to forget now that the landscape is so bleak, but I got into this work because once upon a time I loved the internet, all its weird little corners and goofy humor.

Sometimes for bedtime I introduce the tween to ancient internet relics. Tonight it was Cake Wrecks. This one had me laughing so hard I almost died. It took a full minute to save the picture because I couldn’t see from all the tears in my eyes. This decorator really did a great job.

Great to see Michigan’s Dana Nessel on this list.

This moment is a test. Donald Trump wants us to blink first and hand him over power. We have too much to save to give in. Protecting the American people is too important a task for us to give up before anything even starts.

Did you know ICE is holding a disabled advocate and whistleblower who helped shut down one of their detention centres? Alma Bowman is a 58 year old woman from Georgia who spent 30 months in ICE custody during the first Trump regime. When released she became a fearless advocate for detainees 🧵

We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer! Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset. aadl.org/node/647334

I would pay money above and beyond my existing subscription for an @ifbookspod.bsky.social episode about that Klein/Coates conversation.

gentle reminder for anyone who is anticipating the need for caramelized onions later this week: you should probably start now

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism. ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees. One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help. He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

The DSCC’s pick for MI senate is Haley “Endorsed non-Democrat Michael Bloomberg for President” Stevens. Vote McMorrow!

If this city lost the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, for example, a whole lot of people would be fucked. I respect that we all have lanes and different types of risks that we can engage with. The big orgs aren't going to take the lead on everything. FEEL EMPOWERED BY THIS.