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...

It is not a “settlement” guys seriously stop fucking calling it that

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.

Good morning. Back with a DV mutual aid request for support with groceries. We are at $20/$150 if you would like to support. Please RT for reach. Thanks so much! C: $Lockdownyourlife V: lockdownyourlife www.ko-fi.com/lockdownyour...

"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. 🧵

You are welcome. We will send the bill soon. www.earth.com/news/mexicos...

watching the willful and steady destruction of respect and faith in all three branches of government is kind of depressing not going to lie

A bill “introduced by Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff and endorsed by the biggest AI developers in the world—including OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft—would change the K-12 curriculum to shoehorn in ‘AI literacy, something that young people and teachers alike already hate in schools.”

"Bracing"? I think I'd use "salivating" there www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

🙏🏼 Iwas glad, however, to see that @ejdickson.bsky.social did highlight the severe limitations of relying on takedowns to address online harms. Allowing platforms to engage in, & monetize, harms while relying on downstream moderation or alignment to mitigate those harms is a recipe for failure.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

42 Democrats just joined 192 Republicans to reauthorize FISA Section 702 – a warrantless surveillance law that's been used to access Americans' data. Democratic leadership did not whip their members, enabling them to vote with Republicans and give Trump the surveillance powers.

The data broker loophole allows agencies to buy personal data without a warrant. As Congress weighs FISA 702 and AI use, Senior Civil Rights Policy Advisor at UnidosUS, Claudia Ruiz, calls for reforms to the law that would require a court order before agencies can purchase sensitive data.

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Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

This seems bad, no?

“Measles is basically a canary in the coal mine for our entire system,” says Dr. Scott Harris, the state health officer in Alabama’s Department of Public Health. “When it surges like this, it signals that our vaccination programs are starting to fail, and that other diseases won’t be far behind.”

Wife: The way you know AI is a scam is that the same party and people who have been waging war on public school funding for 50 years are now pushing to spend tax money to get AI into public schools and saying they're doing it to "level the playing field" or so "kids don't get left behind"

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

Re-upping in light of this latest report: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Also: "We did not include allegations against local clergy, because there are too many." sfstandard.com/2026/04/20/7...

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

And RFK Jr. can espouse it so easily and discuss it so bluntly because, generally speaking, it has bipartisan support.

so that’s called “social murder”

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

So we kicked Native Americans off of their land + imposed restrictions on how they could use it for the sake of "environmental conservation," and now hyperwealthy Americans are retreating to that land while profiting from ecological destruction + exploitation? Cool. inthesetimes.com/article/yell...

Really excited to see my and @ardenthistorian.bsky.social 's pieces on the nerdy fascism of Palantir up @religiondispatches.org -- give it a read, those people are weird and awful. religiondispatches.org/fool-of-a-to...

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Also: bsky.app/profile/eile...