Aaron Swartz deserves more justice and reconsideration than almost anybody in this century

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1h ago

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

This is like half my feed right now

Big Bad Booty Daddy@bamaslymm.blacksky.app · 3h ago

BRUUUUUHHHH

My daughter's therapist recommended saffron to support ADHD and so her and I both started 30mgish tea in the morning. We're on day 3 and my resting heart rate has dropped lower than it's ever been not on vacation and my heart rate variability has skyrocketed.

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

"Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply..."

Annaliese Paulson@annaliesep.bsky.social · 11h ago

New Working Paper with Micah Baum and Joaquin Endara: Students tend to become more liberal during college. We study whether individual faculty make their students more liberal. We find no evidence that faculty affect student partisanship. Working Paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1538 1/

This is rough but I think it talks about a lot of what is missing from the Cunningham/WNBA discourse. Namely, that trans people are not hypothetical thought experiments. They are real people who are being genocided by our government & any coverage that doesn't center that reality misses the mark.

the answer is always to disavow it

Would you let the Proud Boys march in and sit courtside?

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It's Tuesday and despite being super busy and also not being quite done with my work for the day, I have made real dinner TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW. Tonight polenta with a lentil bolognese. Also, two vegan dinners in a row.

A new year, a new goal! Help us raise $180,000 before Rosh HaShanah for the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medicine to thousands of displaced Palestinians each day.

High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign

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From Beacon Hill to DC, we're tired of the bosses in the halls of power. It’s time to send in the union organizers. We’re part of a national movement fighting for working people and democracy. I’m proud to be running for office alongside fellow @uaw.org member @claireforny.bsky.social

Tomorrow will surely have more hours.

There's a lot of people whose minds would be really blown if they learned that spoon theory is not actually about spoons.

Okay I am begging people to read Nickel and Dimed

Jfc people it's not literally just about boots. It's about the ER when you can't afford copays for the minute clinic. It's about calorie dense food that's cheaper and keeps longer but also lacks nutritional density. I'm not making an argument about planned obsolescence, it's about quality of life.

Dr. Cara Berg Powers@clbergpowers.bsky.social · yesterday

Today's bsky argument about "boots theory" seems to come down, from my perspective, to 2 different ideas of what it says- (1) believe that poor people could make better choices to save themselves out of poverty (2) believe that poverty enacts worse choices, creating cycles of more instability.

Today's bsky argument about "boots theory" seems to come down, from my perspective, to 2 different ideas of what it says- (1) believe that poor people could make better choices to save themselves out of poverty (2) believe that poverty enacts worse choices, creating cycles of more instability.

With all the talk about how badly we're all messed up from Covid, seems like a good day to let people know that we're coming up on the bookiversary of Uncovering Possible, a collection of poems, essays, guides, and stories to help us get back some of the lessons we learned. vernonpress.com/book/2419

Uncovering Possible: Pedagogies for Apocalyptic Times

Educators and activists reflect on learning, justice, and hope amid crisis, reimagining community and pedagogy for apocalyptic times.

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Both threads are true & historically accurate I also think it’s ok in this emergency to draw parallels to the increasingly culturally illiterate average bear wrt what they’re seeing in a way that doesn’t require extensive history lessons Yes the US has been fascist. Yes these are acting like Nazis

Everything A Border@bordered-lands.bsky.social · 2d ago

Perpetually linking ICE activity to mid 20th century Nazism misses over a hundred years of US immigration law based on racial exclusion AND the very real policies of US empire both domestic and abroad. The US held Haitian asylum seekers in detention camps in Cuba for years as recently as the 90s.

My Dad is such a mensch. He doesn't drive anymore so I get deputized to pick up greeting cards and gifts sometimes. Anyway, today he asked me to get an encouragement card and gift card for my brother because it's been 3 yrs since he had a little reality break and had to be hospitalized briefly.

Exactly. This is where theory is so helpful as a lens. (This is adding to not contradicting OP) So if you have a critical feminist lens, you understand that these are both the same project of marginalizing women and maintaining a binary that (white, cis, straight, wealthy) men are in charge of.

Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · 2d ago

12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.

I said this at the time and keep saying it. What is so fing awful and inhumane because it literally is costing the lives of trans people, is that most kids sports are co-ed and players who excel at sports play against the best players regardless for as long as possible.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seth Moulton: "My kids are young. They play co-ed sports." YES, SETH. THAT IS WHY YOUR COMMENTS WERE DUMB AND BIGOTED.

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I just made kasha and bowties for dinner and used the pasta water to make polenta for dinner tomorrow so I'm feeling very accomplished.

Hey #mapoli can we talk about how rightwing @massterlist.com has become that today their faux moderate used its newsletter to ask Republicans to run against @repmcgovern.bsky.social because according to Keller he is too progressive and his district shouldn't be voting for someone with his positions.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Everything is being run by people who have absolutely no curiosity about how the conditions of their reality have come to be whatsoever.

Shayna Moon (she/they)@themoonis.gay · 3d ago

"why can't we find any senior devs to hire" because you fired all the entry level people 5 years ago gerald

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

In case folks have missed it, the running commentary on the right is that Jews are sending Arab migrants to invade Europe. Because Islamaphobia and antisemitism are always nearby to one another. AND because so many of this hateful conspiracies rely on the antisemitic mythology of Jews as puppeteers.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2d ago

Spanish far-right activist María Isabel Peralta has sparked outrage after footage circulated showing her performing a Nazi salute outside the Moroccan Embassy in Madrid.

The conspiracy theories with some of these younger folks are so out of hand. I also learned recently that a ton of people don't think Anne Frank is real and also that Helen Keller could not have actually been blind and deaf. A really huge issue is that we entertain ideas this ludicrous as discourse.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3d ago

The whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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Back in 2021, I wrote that genital exams on children were the next step in the bans on trans athletes & now here we are. Here’s that piece:

Attacks on Transgender Athletes Are Threatening Women’s Sports

A flurry of legislation claims to “protect” women in sports by potentially requiring athletes to prove their gender through invasive exams.

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The Cut@thecut.com · 3d ago

This November, voters in Washington State will weigh in on IL26-638, a ballot measure requiring that girls who want to play sports in K–12 schools undergo sex-verification tests such as genital exams.