We use the assessments we do because they work for lots of reasons. Adopting new ones because they fulfill one function is not a good idea. The best thing university administrators can do for us is to stop enabling the companies that sell cheating aids by embedding them in everything

Some things I've learned about legislative advocacy, and I think my record speaks for itself. 1. Start by asking for everything you want. Stop preemptively negotiating against yourself. The process of passing the bill will whittle it down. Why started with a whittled down product?

If more Americans had union experience, it would be a lot harder to sell the “preemptively meet in the middle” strategy that we’re constantly told is the effective and respectable way to engage in politics.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 4h ago

Some things I've learned about legislative advocacy, and I think my record speaks for itself. 1. Start by asking for everything you want. Stop preemptively negotiating against yourself. The process of passing the bill will whittle it down. Why started with a whittled down product?

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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He also "planned" a working moon mission by 2024 & we're still in the "sometimes it doesn't crash" stage of that process. Stop reporting on any tech bro CEO's claims as if they are facts, especially in outlets connected to our shared collective hallucination called "the economy". CONTEXTUALIZE SHIT.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

Decision makers in federal, state, and local governments, along with the people charged with shepherding your retirement funds, cannot stop giving this guy as much money as they possibly can.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 24h ago

Elon is talking about using robots to build a mass accelerator on the moon in support of an economy 1000x to 1 million times the current earth economy. It's a bad sci fi novel not an earnings call.

On this day in 1985, The Pogues released their second studio album “Rum, Sodomy And The Lash” featuring “A Pair of Brown Eyes" “Sally MacLennane" and “Dirty Old Town"

A day of remembrance and celebration Happy Fade In The Water day

I guess if you kill someone you get qualified immunity, but if you are a whistleblower on misconduct, you get charged with a felony?

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

EA just announced Bonesaw, a game where you play a noble and handsome prince who has no choice but to murder journalists who disagree with him

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

"Together, these bills would allow Trump’s FTC to wipe abortion, sex ed, & LGBTQ resources off the Internet while instating nationwide age verification requirements."

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · yesterday

‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665

6 First Nations, Canada and BC signed off on a marine reserve covering 6,700 km² of the Great Bear Sea. Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon (“Realm of the Salmon”) will be co-governed by the Wuikinuxv, Nuxalk, Kitasoo Xai’xais, Heiltsuk, Gitxaała & Gitga’at Nations. buff.ly/rjQGS1G #ShareGoodNewsToo

Central Coast of BC: Mia-yaltwa Ha’lidzogm hoon National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area

The area is critical for community members’ cultural, spiritual and economic well-being, including food security. The establishment of a national marine conservation area reserve (NMCAR) uplifts the…

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Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

"Happy" "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day, to all who celebrate

i cannot get over how funny the moderation tag on this is

USSR Pictures@ussrpictures.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Prudery is the enemy of art" - Soviet poster, 1980s

pleased to announce that I've been hired by The New York Times. my job is to commission articles written by right-wing politicians, activists, and billionaires where they describe their activities in whatever way they see fit. it's nice because I don't have to edit or fact check anything

Splitting hairs. It wasn't always like that, but it was always and inexorably aimed to being like that. This is very much the future Reagan wanted. The wish of turning back the clock to "sane republicans" is nonsensical, like turning back the clock to where the dynamite fuse is slightly less burnt.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 6d ago

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

🧵This regime is surely guilty of a lot of evil, but there's a special cast to the evil of denying a reality THROUGH WHICH WE ALL LIVED that stole at *least* 1.2 million of us. That's more people than the populations of St. Louis, New Orleans, Boise, & Anchorage, combined. One of them was my mom.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>