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.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

When AI boosters say they want to 'democratize art', this is what they want.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

We're not waiting for our bosses to defend our schools. AAUP, UAW, AFT, AFSCME, and more have joined together to defend UCLA just like we did Harvard. We won that and we'll win this. Your dues pay for these cases so join today!

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Charlie Kirk's allies warn Americans: Mourn him properly or else reut.rs/3JYLkkp

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

Horrific news about the IMLS and what's happening with federal grant money intended for #libraries: bookriot.com/imls-freedom... Just so, so gross.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

I am genuinely confused by all this pageantry. He was not an elected official. I cannot think of another time a regular citizen being killed garnered this response. It’s perverse.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Protestors chant FREE DC FREE PALESTINE TRUMP IS THE HITLER OF OUR TIME To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

"school shooting industry"

This year Israel has bombed Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen and Qatar. www.ft.com/content/4a6e...

The Israeli military carried out ‘targeted strikes’ on Hamas officials in Doha, Qatar. A senior Hamas source says the attack happened as a negotiating team was discussing a Gaza ceasefire proposal.

Qatar says Israel’s attack targeting residential building in Doha a ‘flagrant violation of international law’.

"[T]he federal government has turned its back on its own people," said Bob Griffin, an emergency preparedness expert from SUNY Albany. Great analysis from AP. See our tracker/map for more on Trump's delayed and incomplete allocation of disaster aid.

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

$3,000 to each author for each book, largest total copyright infringement recovery in history. This is massive win and a huge blow to AI companies—and this out of the case that otherwise allowed training as fair use. Other judges are already more sympathetic to authors. deadline.com/2025/09/anth...

❤️💙 the @douglassday.bsky.social community so much! Save the date for Friday, Feb 13th! Newsletter went out this morning. Nearly 800 people signed up in the first hour!! douglassday.substack.com/p/save-the-d...

"...defeating the fascism we face now requires much more than defeating the current administration or winning elections. It requires a deeper shift: the recognition that we need to always stand in solidarity and fight for others as if our lives depended on it." www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-re...

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!