ElizabethRDale
@elizabethrdale.bsky.social
Writer, carceral history & disability; part of the struggle for academic freedom. My latest book: https://chicago1919.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/fightforrights/index?path=introductions
If anyone wants a source
Wyoming officials trace rare bacteria back to Meta data center construction
Infection is rare, but it can be dangerous for those who are immunocompromised.
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Mark T. Sneed@marktsneed.bsky.social · yesterdayYikes. Now tell me again how these data centers are going to usher in a great awakening and help humanity.
I think after they've done trans people and neurodivergent people they'll probably stop though, right?
Jack@jackinpogform.bsky.social · 6h agoJust saying, the trans community told everyone that once The Guardian had successfully dragged trans rights into the mud they'd move on to the nuerodivergent. And they were right.
Has Tyler Austin Harper put his money where his mouth is yet, and found work in a K-12 public school, where there are more positions than teachers to fill them? Or will it be the other route, holding onto the unearned patina of a professorship via op-eds and podcasts without doing any of the work?
Can't say gay and bisexual people were killed in the Holocaust in the core curriculum *at an American university* www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
ohhh the human diversity foundation. literally (as the article points out) a rebranded pioneer fund (us eugenics org that began contemporaneous with nazi germany)
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 9h agoI don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
ICE is now recruiting local cops who, of course, will be given insurance… a handy way to circumvent legal scrutiny.
US cops offered new ICE 'insurance' scheme against misconduct charges
ICE is now recruiting local cops who, of course, will be given insurance… a handy way to circumvent legal scrutiny
thecanary.co
UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report
UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report
Food Foundation sounds alarm over supply risks and price shocks as about 40% of Britain’s food is imported The UK is vulnerable to food price shocks because of its dependence on imports of fruit and vegetable from countries even more exposed to the climate crisis, researchers say. Much of Britain has sweltered under a record five heatwaves this year and endured drought and wildfires, with the hot, dry conditions damaging crops and reducing yields of domestic produce. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
The eugenicist rhetoric that’s worked so well for Covid is now being applied to climate change. They want you to believe it won’t impact you. It’ll only hurt those “other” people. The vulnerable. The elderly and disabled. The “useless eaters” society deemed expendable.
Elderly far more at risk from rising heat than thought: study
The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a U.S. modelling study published Tuesday.
ctvnews.ca
Jesus. CNN says Trump "allies and advisers privately speculated that Harp was responsible" for posting that racist video that depicted the Obamas as apes.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h agoAccording to CNN, Natalie Harp once jumped into the trunk of an SUV after getting into a screaming match with other Trump staffers after being denied a seat in the motorcade heading to a Trump trial appearance. www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/p...
If you're not familiar, Ziegler is the relentlessly anti-LGBTQI Mom for Liberty who was seducing women to bring home to her GOP party official husband for threesomes that they would video record. There were allegations that some of the sex and recording were non-consensual. Good riddance, Bridget.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 13h agoFLIP IN FLORIDA: The Democratic-backed slate has flipped the school board of Sarasota County. This is a county of 400K that went for Trump by 18%. It's also where Bridget Ziegler has been on the school board. Dem-backed candidates just flipped 2 seats, adding to the 2 they already had (out of 5).
The 1,200 deportees will include Africans as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean, with the first batch of 20 expected on Thursday. n.pr/4ih3iO6
Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S.
The 1,200 deportees will include Africans as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean, with the first batch of 20 expected on Thursday.
n.pr
Two private jets operated by Journey Aviation just landed in southern Poland. This is how ICE deports people to Ukraine. Using a third country to send people to an unsafe country, which includes countries at war, is called chain refoulement, and it's banned under a US-ratified treaty.
The data center in Saline MI just applied for the permit that would allow them to add water into waterway. The area has seen extensive thoughtful clean up efforts and the added water from the data center will not be purified, it will just filtered to a determined level.
ᴍʀ. ᴍᴏᴠɪᴇғᴏɴᴇ ᴍᴀɴ@chaclo.blacksky.app · 20h agoIf anyone wants a source
I like to say, when people raise the specter of rationing care, that we already ration medical care. It’s just that instead of any process of distributing it according to urgency of need, we ration it by how much money you have.
U.S. Catholic advocates are opposing efforts to put Big Oil above the law. "If the bill passes, it will give legal immunity to oil and gas companies … it will be easier for these corporations to operate however they want," said Kayla Jacobs of @catholicclimate.bsky.social.
US Catholic advocates warn against bill to shield big oil from lawsuits- UCA News
U.S. Catholic advocates oppose a bill that could shield major oil companies from lawsuits, warning it could weaken corporate accountability and environmental protections.
ucanews.com
For those of us on the South Side of #chicago good news! The Hyde Park Used Book Sale is on even though the Hyde Park Bank Building is being sold. Bring your books to the lobby of the building where the boxes are set up. And they'd appreciate any banana boxes you'd like to gather.
But plz try to ensure they actually run every 10 min. Some of these frequent routes do not live up to their promise.
How can a systems-based, justice-centered approach help societies solve multiple crises with the same set of actions? Elizabeth Sawin, Multisolving Institute, discusses here: faculti.net/multisolving...
After my time adjucting I can’t pass up a chance to remind you this is the actual crisis in higher education. “I recently heard about a student who was shocked to discover, upon dropping food off at a local pantry, that their instructor was the one picking it up.”
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 4d agoThere are jobs for college instructors. They do require degrees. But the pay and the benefits are abysmal. Another take on the state of the academy:
Spying on churches. Warrantless union subpoenas. Community care branded a “terrorist conspiracy.” The blueprint to crush dissent is here. @snipy.bsky.social details DHS’s overreach for @atrupar.com’s Public Notice. Everyone needs to read and sound the alarm:👇🏼
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h agoNew in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."
Anyone on here a historian of South Africa? What should I read about the origin and development of the ‘homeland’ (bantustan) strategy under Apartheid? #historysky #southafrica
I was kinda hoping I wouldn’t have to post this clip all the goddamn time.
All The Food is Poison | Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! | Adult Swim
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Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2d agoThe FDA has announced a recall on granola sold nationwide over potential salmonella contamination.
Extractivism. Occupy the thing to be extracted, control it, then sell it back to the people you've dispossessed.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d agoPeople also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...
“The greatest danger that faces higher education,” Ken Burns said, “is this transactional tendency that everything is about an exchange that ultimately is economic.” What is lost in this game is the mission that education should be “transformational.”
Neoliberal Policy Hollowed Out Universities. Now They Are Collapsing.
Administrators treat their universities like businesses — that’s why they’re failing.
truthout.org