Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.

This essay is stunning in its moral and intellectual clarity, and also in its gorgeous sentences. I'm not sure if I'll read the book, but I'm so glad I read this review of it. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...

🚨 Hey folks, I have a new article out in @flsjournal.bsky.social on how defense attorneys operationalize digital evidence in sexual assault trials. I find they rely heavily on rape myths (i.e., she asked for it, she's lying) to get around rape shield laws. Hope you check it out! rdcu.be/fqmcC

🚨 Hey folks, I have a new article out in @flsjournal.bsky.social on how defense attorneys operationalize digital evidence in sexual assault trials. I find they rely heavily on rape myths (i.e., she asked for it, she's lying) to get around rape shield laws. Hope you check it out! rdcu.be/fqmcC

In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs

Go and listen to the new TED Talk from @candiceodgers.bsky.social, explaining what the data really says about teens and social media, and why bans are the wrong answer. What we're getting wrong about teens and tech go.ted.com/candiceodgers

Norway bans AI access in schools for kids ages 6-13, while also restricting AI for kids 14-16 to prevent academic decline | PC Magazine www.pcmag.com/news/norway-...

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

for what it’s worth, trans women in a federal case I’m covering have been denied their hormones while being held in men’s facilities under federal charges. I feel like cis people don’t realize that this is happening at all

youre not going to believe this but the dumb assholes we put in charge have fucked everything up

It's just really depressing how virtually all of the public conversation about teens is about stopping them doing stuff and taking stuff away? Would love to see conversation about how we can facilitate them doing more stuff and trying more stuff safely and without pressure. And not just fucking AI.

now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline

happy Friday ☺️ A Volatile Picture: War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... (US/Canada - summer sale!), liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/... (UK/rest of the world including Sri Lanka).

Congratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥

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Police sexual violence is the SECOND most frequently reported type of police misconduct (and let's not forget how underreported sexual violence already is). Giving them unlimited access to surveillance tools is a nightmare for the women in their lives.

#BBCBreakfast: "... families had to be led to safety through the flames.. it wasn't just homes, cars were also torched by young masked men in these predominantly unionist streets, but the target here was immigrants.." This is what the likes of Reform are inciting.

They want to make buying a phone more tightly regulated than buying a gun.

the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.

New: this company will add tech to track phones, AirPods, smartwatches, pet tags, and more to license plate readers. The idea is to link devices' identifiers to specific cars and where those people were. It "bridges [LPR] data with sensor-captured device identifiers" www.404media.co/this-company...

Talking to women who have endured sexual violence, abuse, substance abuse and recovery, and multiple arrests/ incarceration, their PTSD is rarely recognized and almost never allowed in court to reduce lengthy sentences.

If everything that’s come out about Platner’s past—some of it pretty recent!—is supposed to just be accepted as the price of having more “working class”* candidates, what exactly do people think life should be like for working class women? *He’s not really working class; he’s a prep school creep.

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

This is incredibly sad news. RIP Marjane, you brought beauty into the world and spun amazing stories.

'My First Name' - by Susan Harlan (2017) No, you can’t call me By my first name, And yes, I know that A male professor Told you that titles Are silly Because a certain genre Of man Is always dying To performatively Divest himself Of his easily won Authority.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

“Pornography is the unseen dark matter molding and shaping how the online right speaks and thinks about politics, on anything from immigration to transgender people to higher education.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...

Surveillance provides the infrastructure of gendered violence. This is a practice that long predates Flock and goes way beyond local police. NSA employees have tapped into the backbone of the internet using national security tools to spy on women.

This post from @irms.bsky.social about the beliefs of the shooters who killed three people yesterday at the Islamic Center of San Diego has me thinking about @milleridriss.bsky.social calling misogyny the "connective tissue" of hateful extremism. www.theirms.org/blog/misogyn...

I wrote about how American eugenics shapes the way Trump and his allies view the world and the harm they inflict on it. Includes a cameo from one of the key researchers in this field for the last 40+ years, @plombardo2024.bsky.social.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

The issue is that these harmful technologies aren’t going to materialize in the real world unless they can be used to police, maim, and kill. They will never be *just* a disability object. From @fractalecho.bsky.social and my Wheelchair to Welfare pipeline piece. newrepublic.com/article/1793...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

In like, five years I am going to be reading somebody's book called How Bed-Stuy Became White 😞

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

this is correct. ive seen clinton, obama, and biden along with other failed dem presidential candidates all talking about the deficit like theyre fucking reaganites. the dem stance should be "big things need big government, the same government that landed on the moon and won world war 2."

Just in: State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified.

On maculinism and the backlash against women.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I wrote about the campaign to criminalize “organized retail theft” in this piece. It’s the only time I’ve written something where I felt like I was going crazy. Theft is already a crime! But retailers lied about the stats, the law, and the causes—they claim that MS-13 and Hezbollah are behind it.

The 6 conservative justices green light Ala Rs request to change their map in wake of Callais, acting immediately rather than waiting for next motions conference. Removes one of 2 majority minority districts. They’re now a runaway freight train, jettisoning Dem seats right & left. Really really bad.

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

he is spiking your electricity prices

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

“Quieter methods of removal will look more like ordinary criminalization, which many people in the U.S. are conditioned to ignore. This moment is a test for our movements. Can we recognize criminalization as the primary means of human disposal under fascism and organize accordingly?”

How we talk about an issue dictates how we respond to it. And that is absolutely the case with domestic violence. Last week I wrote about how law enforcement so often responds to a DV homicide with some version of *there’s no threat to the general public*. Now this. 🧵