This person took this when they called the race

If you're curious about Theatre of the Oppressed and want to train with Julian Boal in NYC, Register for Nov 1-2. Early bird price until 9/30 www.tonyc.nyc/events

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

Dear young people, you are allowed to enjoy when horrible people lose for at least a few hours. Revel in it. Tomorrow is soon enough to start picking everything apart. lol.

I'm so glad that I had mentors and touchstones who reminded me to celebrate small victories. I would have burned out on organizing in my 20s if I hadn't heeded their advice.

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers. We'll also make a rad book...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

McCarthy “introduced a whole new political style. As a noun, McCarthyism was a mode of politics rather than an ideology. It meant hitting hard, moving fast, telling lies, and grabbing headlines along the way.”

By popular demand, we are offering an online resistance lab for journalists and media makers about making and distributing media under surveillance. @interruptcrim.bsky.social www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/r...

Scientists collecting water, air and soil samples in Los Angeles neighborhoods ravaged by fires say they’re concerned about long-term health risks for residents.

Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture initiative seeks a postdoc with exp in data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. INFO academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746, contact @lindsaythomas.net

Thrilled to have Jason Stanley (Yale University) join us this week for a talk about "Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future about" Tuesday, March 11, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 DM for Zoom details

2025 is budget year in Wisconsin. Not sure how the process works or why it matters? Reporter Hallie Claflin explains it all in this 2-minute read.

if your state or city doesn't have a digital services group or office of innovation, one thing you can do is start advocating for one.

"It is no longer enough to say, 'The other side is really bad, so vote for us because we’re slightly less bad.'" In this op-ed, Angelita Morillo calls on fellow Democrats to stand up to Trump. ⤵️

Can't wait ⚡

Call for papers: A special upcoming issue of Social Text invites critical and cultural theorists of the colonial era to engage the ways in which their scholarship is foundational for tackling the problems of this digital era. Abstracts due March 1. socialtextjournal.org/call-for-pap...

Dangerously, I've also discovered that small presses have book clubs! @haymarketbooks.org has a $10 monthly subscription for every new Haymarket title released *and* 50% off all other titles. I got "Can't Pay Won't Pay" from @debtcollective.bsky.social for free today, and a couple others 🥳

NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

Hey, @teenvogue.com has launched a sustainability series—featuring vintage and thrifted finds, a sustainable fashion glossary, and more. Wish every fashion publication could do this. www.teenvogue.com/the-last-sto...

Nex Benedict’s death was confirmation that anti-trans policies and rhetoric have a body count. Is anyone listening? Read more here ⤵️

For more on the Compton's Cafeteria Riot and the legacies of anti-carceral activism at the intersection of Turk & Taylor Streets, this essay by @susanstryker.bsky.social is worth a close read: "The crossroads of Turk and Taylor challenge us to envision — and build — a future where justice dwells."

📢 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is under attack. Trump and Big Tech friends don’t like the CFPB and its work to protect consumers and their rights so they're trying to take it down. Take action now to help save it fftf.link/cfpb

#LAFire The story of how the fire impacted my friend, Everard, and his family is captured in this episode (micro-documentary) of Just Fix It In Post! with one of his former students, Sean Rice. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0kz... #LA #ACCD

🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans. Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

The work freeze at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau is putting Big Tech regulations 'on ice'. The cease-work order won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.

Seth Meyers created led a project that explains #Project2025 in comic book form to break the 900 page document into a digestible format. stopproject2025comic.org

The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination. By @alecmac.bsky.social

CFPB exposed me to the importance and challenge of design and technology's role in public innovation (for good), particularly in developing systems of accountability. Hopefully, this is a short term halt ...

#LosAngeles #LAFire Please consider supporting the Open Air Worker Emergency Fund by donating through their GoFundMe page. This effort is led by a Boyle Heights-based org, and aims to help outdoor workers, such as "street vendors, landscapers, and recyclers" .. www.gofundme.com/f/cash-aid-f... 1/

Special thanks to my colleague, Dr. David Pate, for inviting me to run a two-day workshop with his undergrad, master's, and PhD students on the practice and politics of policy analysis. His class explores the ways policies shape the interiors of family life and livelihood. 1/

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

Massive protest against Trump deportations forms in downtown L.A. causing ‘major gridlock’ ktla.com/news/local-n...

Thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday against President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.

A historian (Dan Bouk) taught me that history doesn’t repeat itself. It simply ripples. This forces you to look for the threads. And the entanglements. And to remember that interventions also create ripples. You can’t simply repeat a previous intervention when you see a connection. Context matters.

This is erasure of people entirely. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Learn more about the program, and if you’re interested in collaborating, get in touch: [email protected]. 4/4 datasociety.net/research/cli...

In the villages of Isaan in northeast Thailand on Thursday, five families hoped that their loved ones were finally being released from Gaza, after 15 months as hostages in a conflict whose contours they do not fully understand.

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

I don’t really have the energy for politics right now. So I will observe without comment: Executive Order 14110 was revoked (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence)

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

The staggeringly prescient essay 'The Fire Boom' by the late US urban geographer Mike Davis on the frontier of LA suburbia with the chapporal fire risk is reproduced here by @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Applications now open for our Web Archiving School. We’re looking for Fellows, Instructors, and Teaching Assistants. Deadline to apply is January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

1/ Special thanks to UCLA's Dept. of Information Studies for inviting me to kick-off this speaker series. In "Critical Memory Work: Re-tooling Design Methods to Re-remember," I discuss two projects that outline how local forms of 'elite capture' shape design practices in public + social innov. (US)