new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

“A study of fatal mass shootings, incidents in which 5 or more ppl were killed, from 2014 to 2019 found 59% were domestic violence [DV]. In 68% of cases, the shooter was committing or had a history of DV. Fewer victims survive mass shootings tied to DV than ones where that dynamic isn’t present.”🧪🛟

"Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up, says @milleridriss.bsky.social" 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

Step 1: Cut funding for food stamps Step 2: Stop measuring hunger Step 3: There's no evidence cuts to food stamps led to a rise in hunger www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Lost in news about Trump declaring that H-1B visa holders will have to start paying $100,000 a year, is the news that they plan to completely phase out "employment-based visas that offer paths to citizenship, including for professors, scientists, artists and athletes" (cont'd)

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

dems grow tf up teenage girls get violent threats just for having instagram accounts

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Nuanced as always by @kattenbarge.bsky.social . I also think we need to say more about the increasing role of parental involvement in driving policy, whether book bans or social media bans. The deference to parents as the experts allows tech & conservative actors to exploit their genuine concerns.

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

Ok yall. Let me break it down for you. Forget software engineers, DOCTORS come here on H1bs. Thousands of them. They’re required to work in rural medically underserved areas for at least 3 years in order to get the visa. This will cripple YOUR local hospital and rural critical access hospital.

Sociology we have to talk about ASA/Footnotes' decision to publish an article about how *checks notes* a sociologist in upper admin *checks notes* used Sociology to *checks notes* cut the Sociology Program at their university. 🙃 www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...

Today in luxury surveillance.

When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV

What's striking in the contemporary USA is that it's Democrats and progressives tasked with appeasement, not the right and Republicans. If someone doesn't want to meet you halfway you have to go way too far to meet them. Which prompted this from me in 2020: lithub.com/rebecca-soln...

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

In a meeting that devolved into confusion and near chaos, federal advisers on Thursday voted 8 to 3 against vaccinating children under four years old with a combination shot that protects against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/h...

San Francisco, which runs hundreds of automated license plate readers that track driver locations, allowed out-of-state agencies to search its database 1.6 million times, including for ICE. A flagrant violation of California law's that prohibits any sharing, full stop. sfstandard.com/2025/09/08/s...

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

@lookoutnews.bsky.social has a story I had been waiting for someone to do, with this reminder: "Turning Point USA’s “Professor Watchlist” ... was used by two Turning Point employees to violently assault a queer ASU professor two years ago." (They admitted it, too: newsroom.asu.edu/statements/p...)

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

One insurance denial for Teressa's husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.” “This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’” ➡️ Full story: www.propublica.org/article/ment...

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

Make sure you follow @thetriibe.com. None of us have the resources we need but we are jumping in where big newsrooms can't/won't to try to keep you informed:

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

SPECIAL REPORT: A large swath of the U.S. currently does not have the basic, ground-level immunity necessary to stop the spread of viruses that had once receded into the past, a six-month NBC News investigation in collaboration with scientists at Stanford University finds.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

A student was lynched today at Delta University in Mississippi. Black people, please be safe.

Last November I wrote that Republicans wanted to “socialize the means of cancellation” through the creation of a “Snitch State.” Feels relevant now. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

New from 404 Media: airlines are selling *5 billion* ticketing records to the government for warrantless searching, per new docs we obtained. ARC is a data broker owned by United, American, Delta, etc. Then sells peoples' travel info to ICE, Secret Service, FBI etc www.404media.co/airlines-sel...

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Hey folks. Faculty at SUNY are trying to get admin to adopt ICE & immigration safety measures for international students & faculty. If you live in New York or work for SUNY/CUNY, please send a letter (template provided) or share with your networks 🙏🙏 #AcademicSky actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

He once faced discipline over allegations he punched a 13-year-old. He’s now one of the officers approving felony charges in Chicago’s new bypass program, which allows police to file more charges without a prosecutor’s review.

Hudson has since passed of complications of long COVID. She spent so much time being both right and ignored, and how frustrating it must have been to watch people act like this couldn’t possibly have been predicted, when the racism and ableism was right there.

My new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right, is out today! The book explores how play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. #digitalculture #games #politics #platforms

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

you can’t do shit about a police investigation or how big money will spin the news. but you know what you *can* do? help the actual people this will be/is being weaponized against. tap into the thread. make a few calls so people close to power know this *also* isn’t the time to bail on trans folks.

People are going to learn a lot about Groypers, Pepe the Frog, Furries, Helldivers 2, 4Chan and a bunch more this weekend. And they will be absolutely terrified.

Again, this is a well-documented pattern: white criminality is framed as unexpected and shocking, non-white criminality as predictable and due to cultural failures. (Class matters too, ofc.) The whole framing radiates shock and surprise, as if this is simply inconceivable.

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

Anyway, seems like the white community should really do something about all this white-on-white crime.

Seems like Erin Fogg (@criminalerin.bsky.social) got suspended within 10 minutes of posting this?