ICE murders good people.

I moved off Canvas this fall, and have set up spring using Box folders with some refinements from my students: organizing everything in weekly folders, & adding a shared calendar they can subscribe to in order to give them the deadline alerts they miss from Canvas.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

Expectant mothers were left so hungry after the U.S. cut foreign food aid that one woman ate clay and charcoal. Her baby struggled to gain weight after being born prematurely. By @annamaria.bsky.social, photos by @storitellah.com & illustrations by Phoebe Ouma

This settlement is the best case scenario for these applications at this point. Pushing back matters but real damage still done by illegal actions by the current NIH leadership. Thanks to everyone who helped make this settlement happen!

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Trump guys on Twitter are using Grok to “hunt” daycares in their nearest city to see if there are kids in them and, if there are, if they’re Somali.

The Trump Admin is wantonly abusing executive power & conducting warrantless spying. But Congressmembers including Dan Goldman handed him the ability to do it by voting against a warrant requirement for using NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens last year. theintercept.com/2025/12/28/f...

KARL: What side of Russia-Ukraine is Trump on? GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace

In any event, a House impeachment on Jan 7/8 would have got dozens of GOP votes, locking in many more of them, and an immediate Senate trial (even if that means only starting Jan 20) would have at least come closer than the Schumer insanity of pushing it off into February.

Underlying this was that Pelosi / Dem leadership immediately gave up on pursuing Jan 6 impeachment as a serious attempt to obtain conviction. No Republican managers was another aspect of that. Delaying the Senate trial was another. Maybe would have failed anyway, but they decided not to really try.

Every single time Trump has a meeting with Zelensky, Putin calls Trump the day before and Trump’s position in the Zelensky meeting then mirrors the Russian position. The talking points are the same, with all the same lies. It’s a simple playbook for Putin and it works every time.

This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command

A few months ago, ICE agents shot a TikToker. The govt then charged him, alleging he tried to ram agents Well guess what? Body-cam footage -- which the gov't delayed disclosing -- shows that's BS. The agent shot by mistake. And a judge just dismissed charges. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

Or a Case Study in An age of (corrupt) Absence of Common-Sense Regulations

Trump is deploying his DOJ in a defensive stance designed to protect him at all costs, while calling the files a Democratic hoax. But really, he could do the survivors a great service by sharing what he knows. joycevance.substack.com/p/he-looks-l...

Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.

What was most chilling about this exchange was the sheer casualness of "because of our homeless population," as if those experiencing homelessness were *obviously* people to be kept out.

A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles. When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies. This is outrageous.

The Epstein Files: My Observations (Free) jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

INBOX: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, an investigative reporter at @miamiherald.com who has covered Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking story for nearly a decade, accuses the Trump Department of Justice for tracking her flight history in 2019 and releasing them partially unredacted in the Epstein files

Trump tells the press as he meets with Zelenskyy, "I think you could sit outside and have some food. Would you like to have food or do you consider that a bribe, and therefore you cannot write honestly? ... Margo, take them outside and tell the chef to serve them good lunch."

Anyone have opsec (activist security / digital safety) questions?

Read Jim's whole thread! I also want to add some historical context. During the 1918 pandemic, there was so much confusion because many scientists still thought that a bacteria, not a virus caused the flu (because, as Jim notes, we couldn't even see viruses under a microscope yet).

When NYC Mayor Mamdani appointed a lesbian to lead the NYC Fire Department, Elon Musk posted his usual bonkers right-wing nonsense. This is your reminder to never listen to anything Elon Musk says and to try and not give his companies any money.

Impeachment is far from the only thing that should happen in the next (or this) Congress, but none of the arguments for why it'd be an unpopular thing to do or politically backfire somehow have any real factual basis or persuasive theory behind them. The whole backlash idea is just flat-out untrue.

More Student Loan Borrowers Are Shedding Debts in Bankruptcy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/b... Important information here. Great work by Jason Iuliano.

The Trump-Putin wrecking ball in full swing.

This isn't even true! A plurality (approx 1/2, within the margin of error) of voters in swing DISTRICTS support impeachment! freespeechforpeople.org/poll-a-plura...

🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...

I’ve seen no serious engagement from senior Dems about what, exactly, they plan to do in terms of reasserting congressional power, as in identifying the available tools and thinking seriously about ways to use them to dig us out of the current state of total constitutional collapse.

How far back depends on exactly how you reckon it, but it’s beyond serious dispute that Trump has raised taxes more than any president in decades.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

More news (not good) from NIH The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied. I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.

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Leqaa Kordia has been held in ICE detention for nearly ten months.

Pretty much anyone is going to be better than Goldman though. Goldman earlier this year literally said Trump had committed dozens of impeachable offenses and then said no one should bother looking into it because the Republicans are mean. Total loser.

Let’s see what he says about impeachment.

Denmark has been one of our best and closest allies for decades. Saying they haven't is a lie and alienates the rest of our friends just so we can steal their land. It's what the Russians do, not us.

Iowa-based journalist Laura Belin compares Bari Weiss' adventures at CBS to Putin's makeover of supposedly independent Russian media, which she covered for RFE-RL twenty years ago. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/25/o...

I want to see an impeachment article against Vance for threatening to invade Greenland and destroy NATO. Fuck that treasonous piece of shit.

Christmas attack on civilians in Kyiv. Sure, the Russians want peace

I understand Will’s hesitancy. This is a really scary moment and it’s even scarier if you’re deviating from the familiar. I don’t want to trivialize that fear. But also a lot of the familiar *isn’t* winning us elections. If it was, we wouldn’t be in this position. So I say let’s try something new.

After reading this I totally understand why people outside America read our politics and think it’s totally batshit. This reads like he made some unusually bad errors but is basically a normal president.

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” (Published Dec. 2022)

There's no way to know who's telling the truth because the U.S. government is a completely unreliable source of information.

This hits so real. In fact, a few weeks ago I recorded a bunch of earnest videos saying almost word for word what @cameronkasky.bsky.social said here. I have been sitting on the videos bc they’re almost too earnest. Bottom line: if you want non-establishment candidates, you have to donate to us.