We're coming up on primaries. If you feel like the candidates you have in general elections do not represent you, now is the time to get involved. I don't want to hear anyone who didn't support a primary campaign complaining in November about their options. Seriously go look up who's running now.

Deadline on this is extended until Wednesday -- and if you want to write about your experience in a short piece (50-200 words) for this call, but need help, I have a group of volunteer writing coaches and professional editors ready to help Minneapolis folks out with this.

“don’t GIVE him what he wants just let him DO whatever he wants!” - half the Democratic Party and also the ghost of Neville Chamberlain, probably

getting awful sick of hearing liberals use domestic abuser logic to chide protestors for property damage as the state murders people

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.

South Austin: We have vulnerable communities near St. Elmo Elementary (South 1st & St. Elmo) and the apartments between South 1st/Congress. ICE activity is increasing in the area. Observers would be helpful, especially around 7:40 & 3:10--school dropoff/pickup times. Please spread the word; be safe!

Nice thing about Minneapolis being kinda small is that it’s hard to convince us protesters are being paid because you’d go out and oh there’s that kid from my high school who played Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha one year, and is that the pharmacist at my CVS over there, and there goes our realtor

Timely research from today's UVAToday daily email news.virginia.edu/content/stay...

Because the media does not know how to frame what is happening, they keep referring to regular Minnesotans as protesters. But there is very explicit training that so many people done to learn how to be a constitutional observer. People are bearing witness to kidnappings, with phones and whistles.

This tota disconnect - acknowledging that AI causes real harms and then dismissing them bc it can also do this silly little thing that you can already do yourself and better - is the same brain rot that is infecting the pro-AI in schools weirdos.

literally what the villain of Inglorious Basterds does

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

This kind of messaging is intended to drown moms in research, risk, and responsibility. The goal is to keep them so anxious and so busy that they can't work for pay--especially not in high-powered "mens" jobs--or get involved in any kind of efforts to push for progressive change.

Good thread that ends up here…

Mpls: If you are working to support neighbors right now I *highly* suggest avoiding the generic "let me know what you need" and instead asking/offering directly: "I'm going to the store. Send me a list." "Do you need shampoo? Fruit? Toilet paper?" "Can I help with your laundry?"

we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.

In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos. This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Note the people honking horns and blowing whistles in the background, making it clear that this was being witnessed by many people.

This is exactly right. The people who control the levers of state power are lawless and cruel. But that doesn’t make them omnipotent. Obscuring that distinction is an act of defeatism that only serves the regime.

Congress should pass a law requiring agents to show their faces, identify themselves, & wear their badges. It’s not agent safety we have to worry about these days. End so-called Kavanaugh stops & admin warrant-based forced entry into homes too. Let’s have a Constitution.

And don't get me started on scripting. Forcing teachers to work from a script means teachers who are passionate about and expert about the subject are less able to communicate that passion and expertise and more teachers can be hired who lack them. Then we wonder why kids don't read.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

a short practical thread (tldr: your risks are not necc the same as anyone else's risks):

This is why we need to rebuild union power. Strong unions serve as a countervailing force to runaway corporate power and ensure workers share in the profits their labor creates. Otherwise, the rich eat up a larger and larger share of the pie — like this:

Every time you call out the lie. Every time you call it murder. You smack at totalitarian control. Keep doing it. Keep speaking the truth. It matters.

I continue to be dumbfounded as to why certain organizations (like the American Psychological Association) are still on X but not Bluesky…#AcademicSky

If you run a team or are a boss or have any power to do so, remind people they can step away from the computer and log off work if needed. Being seeped in this all day long is not healthy — few tasks are more urgent than taking care of your sanity.

Out of curiosity, I tried to use ChatGPT to make R code a few times. Once it worked great, solving the problem with more elegant code than I’d have used. Twice it worked fine, clunky but it got there. Twice it generated cuckoo-bananapants nonsense- but I’d only know that if I knew how to code.

Read the whole thing. It's good, I promise.

Truly People have not built their datacenters to be efficient or environmentally friendly. They've built them fast. And that means they aren't using closed-circuit water coolant cycles. AND evaporation means that water is LOST to the environment AS A GHG! Not as water people downstream get to use!

Again, the man who’s next in line for the presidency after this walking corpse has said he’s deeply influenced by this outright Nazi, so maybe we could get a little more attention on that?

When universities tout their partnerships with OpenAI, parents, faculty and everyone really should be asking how they intend to account for the increasing evidence that their technology is hurting people, especially young and vulnerable people. How many instances of harm will be enough?

i dunno i actually find the "these people are nihilists and debate is meaningless" refrain kind of misleading. they are not nihilists: they have a clear policy agenda. persuasion remains powerful: the use of words and images to change the narrative is one of our greatest assets.

It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.

And in the end, the GOP got its wish. The Satanic panic around daycare led to a rapid and lasting reduction in Americans' trust in childcare providers, which helped prevent the US from ever building a national childcare system, and helped flatten the growth in maternal employment. 7/

Rather than invest in care as a public good, the US has opted to dump that work downstream, where it flows from the state onto families, from men onto women, and from privileged women onto others (including immigrants) more vulnerable than them. 5/ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

And if Econ and Me doesn't do it for you, check out the Tuttle Twins. It's neoliberal propaganda for the YouTube era, created by the PragerU crew. The first episode alone teaches kids: 1. Taxes hurt hard-working people 2. Poor people lie and steal 3. It's okay to use violence to fight tax laws 1/🧵

Bribery & treason are *the* two constitutionally enumerated “high crimes and misdemeanors” for impeaching & removing the President etc.

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

Starting your "research" with ChatGPT is like filling the foundations of your house with cotton candy or building your menu around radium.

‘I have zero experience with pedagogy and have never taught a class but I’m positive ChatGPT will ‘transform’ education! Subscribe now!’

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Good thinking comes from collaborations…meaning all parties make intentional, thoughtful contributions towards a common goal. No matter how human like these AI models sound, they aren’t collaborators…

I mean this in the kindest way: this could be solved by creating meaningful connections with your peers/colleagues. I have a writing group and a thinking group and plenty of people to text or call with questions, and it doesn’t require draining the earth of resources or stealing work.

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth. The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%. Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.