This machine fights fascists.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it

tfw INTERNAL PANIC: Nat.pow exponent is too big

Can't help but think of all the university presidents who have either negotiated or fecklessly tried to fly under the radar while the research enterprise is being dismantled. Each of them embarrassed by their own marketing slogans like "Fearlessly Forward™️."

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."

TRUMP ON TRUTH SOCIAL: we NEED to put TURDS in BABY FORMULA! IMMEDIATELY NPR: with the science not yet settled, some parent groups sing the praises of therapeutic turd supplements

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

don't forget this

So many of these essays by university presidents wouldn't pass muster in a middle school class on persuasive writing.

oh. Oh. OH. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

someone should make a good programming language

He's going after the Groypers? wapo.st/4n0sDeV

statehood for DC

ICE in Carver Langston DC, 20th and H st NE. 2 Men taken. Seeing people being kidnapped is about as horrible as you would expect. Reported to @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

Missing @jmct.bsky.social today. 😢😘

Keep in mind that organized academic workers, not administrators, accomplished this.

Let's be clear what this image represents. Those skull masks were first popularized on the far right by a very specific Nazi terror movement that began on the pro-terror Ironmarch forums and entered mainstream news with the Atomwaffen Nazi terrorist murders. THAT is the reference here.

for other DC people - @freedcproject.bsky.social is collecting signatures in protest of the mayor's executive order calling for cooperation with Trump freedcproject.org/news/no-conf...

my kingdom for a state, though.

The lead up to the declaration of martial law in Pakistan included the use of the military, called to stop a pogrom, for performing civic functions in Lahore like cleaning, planting trees and repairing roads. People began to see martial law positively. By 1958 Pakistan’s fledgling democracy died.

If we’re gonna take Mayor Muriel Bowser’s claim that crime is down due to our federal occupation at face value, let’s also calculate all the illegal arrests, detentions, and disappearances. Cause we know those are crimes too.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

The past few days I've been thinking about how we subject our youngest to mass shooting drills, training them to fear and protect themselves from masked men with rifles. Now they're subjected to these goons on the way to school. Meanwhile kids are still being shot dead in school.

We've said it once, we'll say it again 👉🏽 no one hates DC residents more than Muriel Bowser.

DC is under siege by our own federal government, with armed military patrolling our streets & masked agents scooping up neighbors & taking them away. Our residents are afraid, hesitant to go out & to work, angry that our limited autonomy is being eroded. There is nothing welcome about this.

tired: null wired: nullification

If Obama or Biden had said this, it would be rightfully understood as them arrogating dictatorial authority to themselves, it would be the only thing anyone in the media or opposition would talk about for a year, and it would probably end their presidency. For Trump, it’s literally just Tuesday.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

"Our children deserve to feel safe at school and never doubt that they will be reunited with their families when the school day is over." 51st.news/opinion-ice-...

❗️ALERT❗️ ICE currently at Fort Totten Metro — stay clear of the area. If you see someone being detained, film it, get their name & a family contact and DM us to coordinate getting that information & we will connect them to Migrant Solidarity.

Local community groups like @freedcproject.bsky.social are also organizing efforts to help protect families from federal overreach as they travel to and from neighborhood schools. You can help by joining an upcoming orientation: freedcproject.org/event-list?c...

Vile & disgusting people. I hope all their families hate them & they don’t have a moment of peace in public.

DC: If you see anything related to Trump’s ride along this evening, send to marisakabas.04 on Signal.

NEW RESEARCH: Parked cars can account for 10 percent of the surface areas of some cities. It turns out that their albedo (reflectivity) can significantly contribute to the urban heat island effect. Dark-coloured cars are the worst, making the air around them 3.8°C hotter vs nearby asphalt road. 🧵

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

@mayorbowser.bsky.social showed a hell of a lot more fire and urgency about getting a stadium deal than about the federal government taking over and occupying our city

it's pretty frustrating how republicans can just spew endless lies about city life with zero repercussions but the moment a dem disparages a pickup truck it's open season

Alright I'm angry and it's a travel day (bye Chicago). So one like = one awesome thing about DC that has little or nothing to do with the feds.

The vote goes down today for the RFK stadium. This is literally what the DC Council is voting for.

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." --Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

the trump administration is destroying ALL higher education but we only hear about the ivies because that's where the rich and powerful went or where their kids go. the obsession with them is missing the bigger picture.

Bike investment vs. car investment.