Here In case you are wondering Congressman, it's nowhere close to $7.50 an hour. The living wage in North Carolina's poorest county a living wage for a single person with no kids is $18.64 an hour. In the richest county it's $26.56. In the Bronx NY it is 29.01 an hour. livingwage.mit.edu

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q: “You’ve said raising the minimum wage is a priority. What’s the floor?” @RepJeffries: “Great question.” (He did not give any specifics. The current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour)

Minnesota voters have been leaving “I Voted” stickers on memorial sites for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, the two US citizens killed by federal immigration ICE officials earlier this year.

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

We released a new report in partnership with @amnesty-usa.bsky.social that analyzes how colleges and universities unconstitutionally targeted pro-Palestinian protestors from 2023 to today, and provides recommendation on ways to protect academic freedom.

Another excellent read is this quick statistical analysis of the Presidential Election vote by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social Bolsonaro Jr. did particularly well in municipalities that are richer, more Evangelical, "white", and not (too) old.

Who Voted for Bolsonaro junior?

Some snazzy graphs on the results of yesterday’s Brazilian election

alexandreafonso.substack.com

We're all being held hostage by this administration.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths apnews.com/article/isra...

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

apnews.com

Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police

“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

buff.ly

Luke Munn, Liam Magee, Vanicka Arora, and Awais Hameed Khan introduce “Unmaking AI,” a framework for critically evaluating generative AI image models beyond surface-level bias metrics, focusing on ecosystems, training data, and outputs in #CriticalAI 3.2. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

OMG, all of "area studies" cut at UNC, this is huge. (The region-based centers like Asia, Middle East, African Studies...and more. The loss of Title VI and the $ that used to go with it taking a toll.

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

We need to flood them with letters now. Write today!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

Sign this letter in support of Sang Hea Kil as she fights for immediate reinstatement.

Dr. Sang Hea Kil - Letter

Subject: Immediate Reinstatement of Dr. Sang Hea Kil Dear President Teniente-Matson and the California State University (CSU) Board of Trustees, We are scholars and educators who are submitting this...

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Sang Hea Kil is the first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to pro-Palestinian advocacy. “All faculty should be able to protest all genocides without targeted punitive actions." - Sang Hea Kil

Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal

Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

theguardian.com

We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...

"Happy Genocide Day" Corrected Thanksgiving mural seen in Pensacola, Florida

"Go Birds, Fuck ICE, Free Palestine" Seen in Philadelphia over the Schuylkill River.

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

daylight craving time@johnperich.com · 12mo ago

To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern

A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.

wpri.com

Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months. Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!

seasonal meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 12mo ago

WILL IS FREE!!!!

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Staggering atrocities in Sudan. Following the mass slaughter of nearly 500 men, women, and children at a maternity hospital, UN officials say: "The situation is simply horrifying... El Fasher, already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering, has descended into an even darker hell."

UN leaders condemn ‘horrifying’ mass killings in Sudan

Emergency security council session criticises killings of civilians in El Fasher and external supply of arms to RSF

theguardian.com

Brown Chapter of the AAUP's Statement Urging the University to Reject the Federal Government's “Compact” www.brownchapteraaup.org/statements

Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪