From @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and @rebeccareyn.bsky.social at @aaup.org ! www.aaup.org/bringing-fra...

in case you might be wondering, given leadership evidence to the contrary from the Vice President of the United States, killing women is wrong and *illegal.

"As a photographer, Michele S Reiner shot the cover image of President Donald Trump for his 1987 bestseller 'The Art of the Deal' . Trump.. blamed Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to him for the couple’s killings..He did not mention his personal connection to Michele S Reiner." tinyurl.com/5f9tfrsk

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The fitness imagery doesn't surprise me. MAGA figured out long ago that fitness bros are a ready audience for disinformation campaigns. They consume tons of content (usually podcasts) while spending hours a day in the gym or on long runs/rides, often looking for "secret" info to give them an edge.

I will be brief. If you care about the quality of news we get, this clip is the most disturbing and important 20 minutes I have for you. If you have only 5 minutes to watch then do that. Via @michaelsocolow.bsky.social Did you watch the clip? Now go to this link. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/c...

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…

I don’t have a lot of capacity to deal with this but I just found out the sixth edition of the Disability Studies Reader is out. Four years ago a bunch of disability studies scholars, activists & artists protested our inclusion in this textbook. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

The propriety! It is strained

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

At least 140,000 children and 67,000 adults have died as a result of Musk, the orange, and Rubio terminating USAID support to healthcare and food aid. The lag effects of HIV/AIDs, TB and malnutrition will soon start increasing the toll more rapidly.

NEW: Rümeysa Öztürk says she's had 4 painful asthma attacks in ICE custody, and not only is her asthma going untreated but a nurse tore off her hijab, saying, "You need to take that thing off your head." www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

The White House. The actual White House. This is the attitude of every abuser, who is now fearful of the consequences of their abuse.

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

laughed pretty hard at this boat

Free speech and academic freedom killed off in the USA in less than 3 months.

More incidents demonstrating this unholy alliance of American silicon valley techbro and DT administration leadership --- being *hoisted with their own petard.* With dangerous, insecure and reckless *corporate tech product usage* in governance. www.wired.com/story/michae...

I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history. Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.

This is a deeply ill, deeply dangerous man

The crisis is less “is Elon Musk the president” — whatever — than the reality that the United States functionally has no one in the role. Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.

Few publications have risen to the moment like Wired. Kudos to them for courageous, quality coverage of our current national crises.

Holy shit! In plain sight…

Our inability to imagine big numbers is going to kill us all.

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.” www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

‪This is brilliant and as long as there is intelligence, there is hope. By Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz.

The whole thing with USAID and NED has really demonstrated to me how many people are detached from reality, and how they create elaborate fantasies about organisations and individuals they don't like based on each others' delusional thinking.

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

Oh cool you can't FOIA anything DOGE is doing because they've been declared presidential records by president musk

Happy "Nevertheless, She Persisted" anniversary to all who celebrate. Keep persisting.

Given the systematic ramping up of the rhetoric, this week may well be the exact date of the end of constitutional rule in the U.S. Once Musk&co openly defy court orders we are in Ermaechtigungsgesetz territory. (I thought those German words were just history but no) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

If Republicans really wanted to cut costs for families, then they wouldn’t slash the funds we use to educate and feed our kids, cut access to health care coverage, allow oil companies to pollute our air and water, and shovel even more money to defense contractors.

gritty has seized control of the federal government

This is the America that will win in the end. The revolution will be televised. Stay tuned, MAGA.

I’ve literally just been screaming at the scanner LET THE DJ PLAY!!

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

I can confirm that Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran now have Department of Education emails and they did NOT on Thursday. This stuff is still happening at lightning speed.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Easiest way to trap me as well, tbh.

The priest doesn't have time for your shit.

Elon Musk Wants to Pay for His Tax Cuts With Your Social Security and Medicare. The point of Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s DOGE is to cut entitlement programs so Trump can give tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy and corporations. apple.news/AovzGgCzhThS...

They’re really gonna try to run the government the way Musk ran Twitter, huh?

NYU banning student protestors from a building that houses a legendary archive of the history of radical protest is almost like hiring a journalist who covers policing in New York City and penalizing him for covering policing in New York City... Our conversation with @chenjerai.bsky.social:

did you see the stuff online. it’s crazy

In #JapaneseFolklore iwana bozu are char (a type of river fish) who grow to an enormous size and transform into #yokai. They are able to shapeshift into human form, dress in Buddhist priest's robes, walk and talk. Mostly they approach people who are fishing in rivers to ask them... #SwampSunday 1/3