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Just a quick update: I still have all my social apps removed from my phone. Honestly, its been great and I don't really think I will be coming back to these long term as itati. At least not right now. If anything the presser with RFK JR about Tylenol proves my point(s) and I would rather be happy.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

sorry but I need to get off socials. i'll respond to discord/signal DMs but otherwise i just feel like its kind of over and the deluge of digital confirmation isn't helping.

me: let me put on some calming music *Cradle of Filth begins to play*

NGL I am unwell today but at least I am writing through it? i just really need to see my therapist lmao

BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

At this point Ezra Klein is simply a fascist appeaser and I am tired of trying to pretend otherwise

AI can now generate fake microscopy images that are nearly impossible to detect. A serious threat to scientific integrity—and we’re not prepared for it. Commentary in @natnano.nature.com #nanotechnology

"The authors see the direct link between fascism and AI, for fascistic regimes always attack academic integrity and prefer voters to be uneducated and uncritical. I find the analogy with tobacco most pertinent: knowing of the mortal risks we can now choose to smoke or not at our own peril." ‼️

I'm really disappointed where we are in this fundraiser. If we cannot gather this money, Zakaria will be stuck in the zone where IOF is doing all sorts of attacks. Are you really turning your backs to someone who is desperately in need? 5/1000 chuffed.org/project/zaka...

When I say Charlie Kirk was a victim of blowback from his own efforts, this is what I'm talking about. Kirk fundamentally believed in political violence. He did not expect it to touch him personally, but he saw political violence as legitimate and necessary. His murder was abhorrent and ironic.

A United Nations Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts reut.rs/46nAyvo

saw this post on Insta from my friend Laramie, a queer horror writer (excerpt from SACRAMENT by Clive Barker), then opened bluesky to see Talia’s post, and I am feeling both things so deeply. you are fucking magic. we are magic. we are a hydra. chop off a head, ten grow back. I get queerer every day

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The coming crackdown is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They would try to do this regardless. The crackdown will happen because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.

These are the Trump Administration’s demands on UCLA, in addition to a 1.2 billion dollar fine, as reported by the LA Times today. I must note again that the Trump Administration’s attempt to use title vi to enforce conservative agenda items is flagrantly illegal.

Yeah. The @karenattiah.bsky.social firing for those posts are a bridge too far. Just awful.

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Leading decision makers at prestigious institutions would like to talk about whether Black people are inherently criminogenic

Similar language for 12-month hormone supply got added to California's SB 418 this year. It's an urgency bill: as soon as signed it goes into effect. Ask the gov to sign: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ 1) Select "An Active Bill" 2) Select "SB 418" 3) Check "Pro", write & submit a short message

Project Esther matters. It is a companion document to Project 2025 that clearly outlines how the regime plans to dismantle organizing by targeting organizers with RICO charges (as playtested in cop city) and terrorism charges for supporting Palestine. Spread the word. We are not safe.

Real shit real talk: They are going after the trans flag as a way to legally legitimize it as a "hate symbol" that they can then bring terrorism/RICO charges against trans people. As described almost explicitly in "Project Esther".

A few people have asked if there is anything that they can do about UNL's decision to cut its Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Department. There is a public feedback from that one can submit to UNL that you can access here: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Clint Rowe (our dept. chair) has asked to get…

New from me — There’s been a lot of ink spilled since Charlie Kirk's murder about the "right" way to honor his death. Getting liberals fired from their jobs and forcing devoted civil servants to resign in disgust couldn’t be a more fitting tribute to his life.

Check in on your friends if you havent heard from them. If you're a minority, please be mindful of your surroundings. Carry pepper spray so you can protect yourself. You should be able to find some cheap to order or pick up at local venues. If you feel truly unsafe in your areas use a buddy system.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I don't want to do this, but I need help I need to escape an abusive situation I don't know how much I need so I'll just put a ballpark around $1000. I don't know if I'll have to leave earlier than October 1st to go into a hotel to get away from her. Any help is appreciated $jadeskarlettdragon

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Olay Olurin and her squad are once again cooking with gas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9QL...

Late-night reading leads to late-night thinking. "Indigenous knowledge isn't a relic of the past. It is a living, breathing survival guide for the present and the future." johnniejae.com/why-indigeno...

This is so damn evil and it needs to be pointed out that it zero targets many black folks’ sources of higher education specifically. I’m genuinely terrified that it will outright kill many of the smaller HBCUs.

"They say that I'm sick, but I never thought of it as a trouble. Until one day, I found my own beach. I wanted to leave something there, but I couldn't leave a thing."

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Love feeling panic because I have to go into lab today because it means driving by police stations in a post "supreme court said looking Latino is probably cause" America

Reminder that in 2011, Trump questioned how Obama got into Columbia and Harvard.

our public school system only teaches kids to take tests and then we are shocked they don’t know how to do anything else? or that they can’t solve “common sense” problems when they’ve not been shown how to play or use their imagination or given unstructured space without entertainment?

It’s wild that trans people are some of the most vulnerable people in society but conservatives somehow see them as the most powerful and scary people who must be stopped.

Stop calling it "witholding". The money was appropriate by Congress, and by law was to be disbursed to the intended programs. The money was supposed to go to the programs, Trump and McMahon prevented it from doing so, sending the $$ back to the Treasury. Call it theft, because it is.

Ironically, had the Kirk assassination not happened, the three big stories this past week would have been. -The Trump birthday note -Trump tells Republicans not to negotiate with Democrats (which likely kills Obamacare subsidies) -The CPI report shows tariffs are affecting inflation

Stress ate some mochi pancakes and I am not feeling too good tbh

me: I shouldn’t eat again, my husband got me Panda Express for dinner also me: *making ube mochi butter cake for my lab*

Mr Beast about to go out like Houdini

This basic facility with Internet and pop culture and its impact on political life is only going to get more crucial to understand, from here on out

Vanity Fair and Newsweek of all places have some explainers— tho the latter's article is characteristically far more willing to imply the alleged shooter held leftist ideologies than far-right ones, & of the two only VF's digs into the gaming culture aspect, so I'd say it's definitely the better one

Hey, so...Covid rates have gotten real high. Maybe change your behavior to fit this new risk profile? Stop eating indoors at restaurants, mask on mass transit, that kind of thing?