Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...
The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’
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Today @victoriascott.bsky.social writes about Juniper Blessing, a University of Washington student who was murdered last week, and worries about the potential loss of a better future for young trans people she had always hoped was coming. www.welcometohellworld.com/this-pain-ha...
This pain has to become foreign and unknowable
In memory of Juniper Blessing
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Volunteer groups have raised thousands of dollars so that families in Minneapolis who are out of work due to fear of being harassed or abducted by ICE can make rent. Put differently, a large number of landlords are so horrendously shitty they will extract wealth at any cost—moral or otherwise.
People are being tortured and murdered in the street. the idea that in addition to this, we have to call our reps and tell them we dont like it seems insane.
I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.
CNN@cnn.com · 7mo agoThe world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX
pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Ten years of Trump going on TV and just fucking saying whatever, and still nothing like an industry set of best practices to deal with it. Put someone on the set with a laptop to look stuff up, pause the interview, whatever. He'd walk off but so what. Amazing to still be at "agree to disagree."
The fact that we colloquially refer to the ongoing illegal gutting of the federal civil service as "firings" and "reductions in force" is an example of successful propaganda
I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours
It’s really strange how Trump figured out that Executive Orders are basically “longer tweets that drive giant media attention” and the media hasn’t figured it’s being played each time they report on these as if it’s Moses coming down the Mount with stone tablets.
Bec Hamilton@bechamilton.bsky.social · last yr.DC is uniquely vulnerable and we really need all of you with State representation to join us in pushing back against what promises to be a ton of cruel and unnecessary actions: www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Closing rural post offices will do the same thing that closing rural schools has done: Empty out rural towns. Why? To sell off farmland for rock bottom prices to the oligarchs. Water and mineral rights and CAFOs polluting with impunity. It’s been the plan for decades.
Chenoweth & Pressman always coming through with invaluable data 👇🏾There’s more protest than it’s easy to observe & more than in Trump term 1.It’s quite proliferated & economic non cooperation is actually pretty significant.Everybody doing something feeling like you don’t know if others are-they are!
Erica Chenoweth@chenoweth.bsky.social · last yr.Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025:
I think it says something about American white supremacy that the calculation here is that the electorate would not be riled up over the racist kidnappings and deportations and this is in part because the Democrats have worked with the GOP to facilitate broad American support for xenophobia
Dave Zirin@edgeofsports.bsky.social · last yr.It says something that, to me, is harrowing that the Dems are finally riled up and it’s over an idiot’s national security breach and not, I dunno, pulling people off the street and sending them to an El Salvadoran slave labor camp without due process and total disregard over innocence or guilt.
I think Musk and Bezos and Zuckerberg, among others, believe their ownership of media companies and newspapers and social media platforms gives them not just influence, but the ability to dictate what American culture *is*, and I think they’re dead fucking wrong.
A survival skill for now and the times to come is strategic rhetoric against Shitty Little Men™️ (they're branded bc they're all the same, mass produced, and utterly owned). Here's the thing. Shitty Little Men (SLM, pronounced "slime"), need and feed on social status and approval. They are cowards.
The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...
Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect
Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
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Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?
During Meta's earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook and Instagram data is used to train the company's AI models.
Zuckerberg's Going to Use Your Instagram Photos to Train His AI Machines
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The most powerful movement in American politics right now is dedicated to making sure that everyone who is not already rich gets dumber, sicker, and poorer in the future. The euphemisms are already by the wayside; it's basically text, not subtext, that kids today are learning way too much stuff.
