It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”

the Black Panthers were right

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

I'm revoking the scientific finding that gravity keeps us anchored to the earth. See you losers later; I'm going gliding

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

Uhoh those the were load-bearing witches.

This, I think, was really the point. Inasmuch as he dialed in the intersectional history of colonialism across the Americas (the diversity of performers wasn’t an accident and you can’t convince me otherwise) he REALLY dialed in the history joy as a revolutionary act.

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."

the vibe

Also universities.

The “rules” that local police follow haven’t stopped them from executing Black and Brown folks. Why the fuck would it stop ICE?

Community.

Religion in the U.S. Church and State Violence

alt text: YOU WILL GET AWAY WITH IT lose paperwork make food wrong decaf instead of regular overtighten lug nuts strip spark plugs delete jira tickets IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES YOU CAN FIGHT ICE WITHOUT ANY RISKS everything adds up you have no excuses anymore just do it

Trump would probably have preferred to make the Kennedy Center into some kind of MAGA venue but closing it works just as well, because the important thing isn't for them to win, but for us to lose

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

Spotted while out at local ICE OUT rally:

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

Sign this letter by @heavyredaction.bsky.social and Martha Kinney to support CSUs demands to divest from ChatGPTEdu actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

"The opposite of Artificial Intelligence isn’t the human mind, the opposite of AI is a community"

The "ban whistles" stuff is how you know whistles are working incredibly well

This is amazing.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

This is amazing.

professor and writer Anton Treuer gave us an Ojibwe version of “ICE OUT” ikogaan mikwam=ice, go away!

I'm not celebrating Bovino going under the bus because I think it means this is over. I'm celebrating that we've entered the Shitheads Going Under the Bus era. God I'm so pumped to trip more of them under it.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

“fuck ICE” “and also with you”

Police have arrived. Arrests seem imminent. The crowd chants “let them pray” and “Minnesota nice means prosecute ICE”

I know the Christian Nationalists take up a lot of oxygen in the religion/politics sphere but I've never seen anything like the faith group mobilization going on in Minneapolis. Houses of worship have decades of infrastructure and they're organizing to protect immigrants in the Twin Cities.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Part of this is that thanks to the specific Christianity that evolved in the US over the 20th Century -- which then permeated culture -- is that many Americans are unable to effectively differentiate between shame, guilt, and responsibility.

Deporting children with cancer. Using a 5-year-old as bait. Shooting moms. ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.

Signal boosting this especially for my CSU colleagues (& Californians), but also for anyone who wants to throw a few grains of sand into the gears of generative AI. The California State University's contract with OpenAI is up for renewal in June and that needs to be the end of it.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

Silly string FTW