Urgent call to action, Texans: we need to write to our State Board of Education members and tell them NOT to adopt the proposed required reading list they’re considering at the the end of the month. It is BAD. I wrote about why here: franklinstrong.substack.com/p/call-to-ac...

My graduate ethics course was canceled after I refused to censor discussions of race, gender, and sexuality. Ethics is about people and power, not scripted silence. This is bigger than one class. I address it in my next video, premiering at 5:00 PM today. youtu.be/wP_W3AHcDxY

Do you study disinformation or want to start working in that area? Come to the DSI June 15-18th with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @rcalo.bsky.social, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @emmaspiro.bsky.social, and many more. disinfoinstitute.org

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” Good iob, Bari Weiss!

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Someone needs to create a simple easy to understand website tracking all of the Trump pardons & their connections to him, his family, & friends.

Researchers have been indexing stories of AI’s harmful outcomes since 2018. Most incidents are anchored by a news story. So, the database is not an archive of all AI’s problems. Rather, it's a compilation of its newsworthy issues, reflecting significant challenges in AI adoption. buff.ly/OqLNFR5

The Bari Weiss founded UATX, where "cancel culture" was banned imploded over the imposition of ideological litmus tests on affiliates by its oligarch benefactors, such as a bar on "hating the rich." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

20 data center projects, with an estimated $98 billion collective price tag, were blocked or delayed in just one three month period last year. boondoggle.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...

🔴 "Government invasion into a reporter’s home and the seizure of journalistic materials is exactly the kind of scenario our First Amendment was conceived to protect against." Today, we joined over two dozen organizations in condemning the outrageous government invasion.

it's important to remember that the people making out that bad words about AI are *racism* are overwhelmingly eugenicists and race scientists this is the right-wing trick of trying to coopt non-right-wing terms as a gotcha e.g. hailey is a rationalist and they're race science all the way down

Apparently someone was singing Come Out Ye Black and Tans at an anti-ICE demonstration

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

Some of the stories in here are absolutely chilling. One US citizen of Somali descent was just riding an elevator with ICE agents and then they detained him for almost half an hour in the freezing cold despite him showing agents his passport card. They only let him go once protestors showed up.

"There is nobody more American than American Indians! We are America, how can you possibly target Native Americans? It's legally impossible!" -Chase Iron Eyes tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social about four Oglala Sioux Tribal members being taken by ICE... Three are now missing . LIVE NOW ⬇️

JUST IN: New ACLU class action lawsuit in Minnesota seeks to bar ICE from stopping Latino and Somali residents without probable cause. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The FBI's raid on a WaPo reporter’s home was based on a lie. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to rescind rules protecting journalists are being used as a cudgel to attack the First Amendment. Read more from FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social in @theintercept.com:

The findings, based on internal ICE material obtained by 404 Media, public records, and testimony from an ICE official, shows what kind of technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Breaking News: Boeing knew about flaws in the model of a plane that crashed in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 last year, the transportation safety board said.

STAR TRIBUNE, JAN. 14, 8:20p CT: "A man was shot in the leg Wednesday night during a federal immigration enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. Witnesses say a series of gunshots followed a car chase involving federal agents."

There is no way to do this without it becoming a privacy and security nightmare, not just for the wearer but for everyone around them, and the companies just don't care.

Hey folks, I know many of you will love this episode. Kris & I talk about what accountability should look like post Trump. It’s worth a listen.

Democratic response to threatened Greenland conquest

ICE & CBP are breaking multiple laws now. Just wait. If this not dealt with now. They are gonna try dragging people out of polling lines in the midterms. Citizen or not. They are gonna raid polling places shutting them down claiming fraud.

Here is our breakdown of Webloc, the phone surveillance tool ICE has bought which lets the agency track phones in entire neighborhoods. See phones it has data on in an area, follow them home or to work, see the exact route they took www.youtube.com/watch?v=rurJ...

Imagine saying that you’re “against unnatural chemicals and vaccines” and then ingesting unregulated and untested alternative medicine concoctions.

ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court  www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut... - via @TexasObserver

NEW: Completely unredacted Flock audit logs have been released to the public by numerous police departments and in some cases include details on millions of Flock license plate searches made by thousands of police departments from around the country.

Fun twist: the guy who started the one super PAC that contributed to Andrew Cuomo when he made his last-minute appeal to crypto bros is now accusing Adams of stealing the NYC Token idea. He says he pitched Adams on the idea in June, though it doesn't sound like it was focused on antisemitism then.

HAPPENING NOW: We’re at CBP headquarters in DC for a rally and vigil with Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social to demand ICE Out For Good. Watch: www.youtube.com/live/O25GeAh... #ICEOutForGood

A look at the ICE recruitment ads that draw from white nationalist ideology.

Most voters do not believe the ICE officer in Minneapolis was justified in using lethal force, new EXCLUSIVE poll results show. @dataforprogress.org polled Americans on how they view ICE in the aftermath of Renee Good’s murder in Minneapolis last week. RESULTS: zeteo.com/p/ice-renee-...

Sonic Youth - Youth Against Fascism youtu.be/eWzIlCJAw-o?...

BREAKING: Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are now on strike at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian. It's the largest nurses' strike in NYC history.

Google wants to turn your chats into a pricing tool—and use it against you.

George Retes is an American citizen and veteran who was unjustly pepper-sprayed, arrested, and imprisoned for three days by ICE. Yet he won't be intimidated by this lawless administration. He's speaking up and telling his story as part of a new $250k @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social campaign. 👇

We are such a joke of a country.

MAHA logic: eat like the Japanese. Just don’t eat like the Japanese.

NEW An initially-secret report for Customs and Border Patrol in 2013 found: In many vehicle shooting cases, the “driver was attempting to flee from the agents who intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby … creating justification for the use of deadly force.” 🧵

NEW LIMITED EDITION POSTER Last time I released this, I got visited by the FBI. Made this right before the holidays, but obviously the world changed yesterday, and I couldn't sit on it. 12x16 glow in the dark poster, signed and numbered in a one-time edition of only 150 copies.

This is a very important stand against authoritarianism.

Incompetent Corrupt Evil

#iceoutforgood #lasvegas

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.