1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit. An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans. It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I spent the last week writing up this essay on what it means to be trans in this moment. What it means to live under authoritarianism as the scapegoated minority of the moment and how it feels inescapable as an infinite loop. www.thedissident.news/exit-conditi...

“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

It's been such a joy working with @jimccasey1.bsky.social and the @ccp-org.bsky.social team to bring #DouglassDay to UCSB and @ucsblibrary.bsky.social!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

#DouglassDay is off to a great start at UCSB! Join us tomorrow for the public transcribe-a-thon and birthday party! douglassday.org/ucsb/

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

In our latest, we’re joined by @melissagiragrant.com to discuss how Minneapolis is fighting back against state violence with extraordinary acts of community care, Melissa’s reporting on ICE surges across the county, and ICE paying a visit to our own home soundcloud.com/deathpanel/d...

Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree

Yes, literally.

This is a must read by the brilliant @silkys13.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...

“The kidnapping hasn’t stopped in LA. The degrees of separation between neighbors you see to neighbors you know abducted by ICE is shrinking.”

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

In this cold!!! The level of determination is humbling & inspiring. We will win.

It appears that this legend owns a little bookstore — and you can order books from him instead of Bezos. Link in next post.

And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.

As a someone with a 33 year NIH-funded lab whose grant is supposed to be reviewed this week, shut NIH down if that is what's needed to end ICE terrorism. Innocent lives are more important 🧪

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting. More accurate terms: - observers - witnesses - volunteers - neighbors - residents - people

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city.

M. Gessen, who wrote a memorable piece in November 2016 about what the election of Trump meant for the US, names and explains what we plainly see before us now: state terror. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

"It’s become normalized in the world for Palestinians to die."

"One child bleeding from an eye injury wasn’t seen by medical staff for two days. Another child’s foot was broken when a member of the staff dropped a volleyball net pole." They were fed meals "that were moldy and had worms" and then refused to treat food poisoning. apnews.com/article/immi...

It doesn’t show up in the captions, but she’s also offering them food.

ICE has spent hundreds of millions on surveillance. Some technologists are building tools to find it, map it, and push back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

NEW from Important Context: Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Worried about the surveillance dystopia? There are ways to disguise yourself from facial recognition systems, and it doesn’t require owning clothes with a special design or high-tech gear. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full guide by @samleecole.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/the-state-of...

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Please share - @pewresearch.org wants to hire a data archivist who will be an advocate for data users, helping to ensure that our datasets are easy to discover and reuse by researchers, journalists, and the public. pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CenterExtern...

This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas. Over 40 people were injured, mostly students. More than 8,000 students are trapped inside. But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.

Who could have seen this coming??

The Karmiole Fellowship is accepting applications until January 30. If you need funding to do archival research at UCSB, this is a great opportunity. We've got some really unique collections, and our Special Collections folks are tops! More info: www.library.ucsb.edu/karmiole-fel...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Gender-affirming care helps trans kids live happy, healthy lives. Health care decisions belong to families and our doctors, not politicians.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Call this what it is: A fascist power play to viciously curtail freedoms in the heart of the free world. If the administration is able to do this, nobody is safe. Not you. Not your loved ones. Nobody.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

YES. "Education should remain the space where we confront the architectures of our tools: the labor they obscure, the inequities they reproduce, the futures they foreclose. Instead, it risks becoming the laboratory of the very systems it should critique." www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/when-ed...

I really want to thank billionaires for making fiction so much easier by expanding the range of explanations for evil behavior that are believable. "His brain was cooked because he had too much money" is the easiest sell.

bringing this statement over from Alice’s Twitter. it appears the below was Alice’s last post before passing. I am heartbroken

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social just passed away. What a heartbreaking loss. And a reminder of how important Teen Vogue was.

Sadistic. Cruel. Despicable. There aren’t enough words.

"There are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue." Damn, what a coincidence. All these news orgs keep laying off the same types of people while a bilious, rapey, leather-faced buffoon provides them cover and shakes them down for money to build a library named for a man who does not read.

Humanities Librarian (African American Studies and English Literature) Tenure-Track faculty at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #jobopenings 📚 #Skybrarians (FYI Im chairing this search)

What did people do before SNAP?” They died. Healthcare, vaccines, disability support, education & food assistance are vital to our survival. They’re why the average lifespan isn’t 35 anymore The mark of a good & decent society is whether it sees the value in helping others.

To the artists replaced by AI - thank you, from replacement.ai youtu.be/GovzZMWvtd8?...

I know @shannonmattern.bsky.social and @zgtcooper.bsky.social have been saying this too, but it bears repeating: it sure would be nice if policy and tech adjacent people who are suddenly obsessed with data centers would acknowledge the entire decade+ body of work from critical data center studies

"Companies desperate to rush generative AI products to market are pushing flawed products onto the public that are predictably being used to pollute our information ecosystems. ... every library worker, regardless of role, is being asked to try and mitigate the effects."

AHIP, the country’s biggest health insurance association said its members will continue to cover updated COVID and flu vaccines through the end of 2026. AHIP covers over 200M people & includes Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Centene, Aetna, Elevance, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, Molina, and Cigna.