T r a i n s Seriously though, this is fucked. Turns out firing a shitload of knowledgeable workers isn’t ever a good idea when you’re trying to preserve the job

I think this argument (see picture) by Jamelle Bouie, and the points that followed from David French, are exactly right. The right has gotten the idea that politicians and elites control American culture in a very top-down way. This is mostly, as Bouie says, "a bit of projection"...

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

trump pulling a hardboiled egg out of charlie kirks corpse on stage and shows it to the audience as they scream. he is asking them if he should take a bite of it and they are cheering

hey if you're someone interested in flatting/coloring comics, this is a great resource. very few people know how to do it correctly, and it's not difficult but it IS more technically intensive than most people assume! these are useful skills!

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Night heron looking for an early morning fish 🪶🌿📷

log on, see misinformation, see prominent chicago left account posting "Actually asking 'Source?' is offensive and rude" and I just.... honey-pumpkin, we are in this entire situation BECAUSE people stopped caring about sources. your comrades asking for sources on big news events are not your enemy

Man, fuck the Huffington post.

Folks there is no actual evidence ICE is evacuating their detention facility in Chicago the source is literally the Huffington Post claiming they've seen "communications" they won't publish stop pushing this at the very least until we get literally any confirmation Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

You all know we won't shut up about this, but there is a specific dynamic of national outlets reporting on Chicago carelessly—as if there are no real stakes here because the middle of the country is a big black hole to them Thanks to @huffpost.com for participating in it!!!

It is taking every ounce of self control not to encourage a pile on on this specific reporter But holy fuck, man. No excuse for this garbage

We heard you like irresponsible journalism so we did some journalism from our national platform as irresponsibly as humanly possible about a community going through a major crisis, pls subscribe

“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”

It’s 21 September, when we watch Demi Adejuyigbe’s escalating sextilogy of “21 September” videos youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

BREAKING: The Donald Trump sock puppet has been assassinated.

the federal surge in Chicago never ended

Please send us a text if you believe you have further evidence of this specific agent assaulting folks (not just yesterday, but any time over last few weeks) 📱

Screengrabs from when his mask was down, on Fox News of all places

These are the real ones out in the tear gas making sure protesters aren't disappeared. Please support today:

"Fuck this Nazi bullshit" is a perfectly acceptable editorial stance, in fact

Guys the point of sharing this was not to make wildly racist comments, jfc If you recognize these tattoos, please text us

I think a lot of people think about this all like it’s a natural disaster they can only flee from or cower in fear of. But it’s not a mountain lion or a tsunami—there are people causing all this and they have names and faces. It’s our job to tell people that.

hi y’all 👋 i’ve gotten a ton of new followers over the past few weeks (seriously, it’s wild), so i thought i’d reintroduce myself. i’m a journalist + editor in chicago. i write about policing + surveillance + prisons + courts. i work for the @chicagoreader.com. here’s some of my work:

@mulchy.bsky.social is a dedicated reporter and organizer who has been on the Bad Guys in Uniform beat for a while (he didn't just pop up out of nowhere!). Read some of his work:

After agents push people off the driveway again, an agent with a pepper ball gun appears on the roof of the building. “We’re trying to get you some help, I hope you can hear me,” one protester yells into a bullhorn trying to reach the man inside who was arrested earlier.

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I told the Reverend he made me proud to be a Christian.

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

BREAKING: there is egg nog at the grocery store

I’m going the fuck back to bed

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

let me just go ahead right now and say: lol

Everything is really scary and chaotic for Trans individuals right now. Regardless of whatever lies and fear that is spread, we know that the world is better with Trans people in it. You are all worth fighting for, and we will continue to advocate for your rights and your safety.

Don’t fall for it. We’ll be barraged with horrible news for 4+ years. You will see your favorite shows be replaced with slop starring Tim Allen and Rosanne type bootlickers. Commercials recruiting you for ICE with Dana White ranting over it. You’ll forget this discount as they jack up prices 50%

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Screambot: aaaaaaaaaaghhhh

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison. TikTok(2k): 139 Instagram (22k): 719 Tumblr (13k): 12k Bsky (52k): 22k

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

1. Telling trans people that even if Democrats won't protect us we should be selfless and vote for them to protect other people is a shitty thing to say. Asking for our rights and calling out Dems when they won't support us doesn't help fascists. Tell Democrats to support and defend us instead.

TIL Bob Iger is married to Willow Bay, dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. HER NAME IS PRONOUNCED “Will-Obey” Lethal amounts of irony poisoning here, I’m going to go watch the crab video ten times to detox

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Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.

Also, I have talked to two friends currently with TT jobs, who have an H1-B and their green card applications have been initiated. They both received emails yesterday to the tune of "we hope it won't apply to your case, but if it does we won't renew your contract."

Any academic folks on H1B visas (even with stamps in passports) please get legal advice from your University attorneys before leaving the US.

These folks are real ones. I support them, and I hope you will too.