Elizabeth Arestyl

All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”

Sidewalk Arrests Seize New Yorkers in ICE’s Latest Surge Activists and legal advocates are tracking seemingly random detentions of immigrants on the streets in what they say is a campaign of ethnic profiling.

“I considered myself a strong person, a resilient person, but I’ve never gone through something like this... Leave your family out of nowhere, the uncertainty of what’s going to happen to you."

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ED Names Five New NACIQI Members The new members of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity include some outspoken conservative voices.

If you're not paying attention to the weakening of accreditation you are missing a huge piece of the reactionary transformation of higher ed. This is how you create structural change that will last for generations.

The implementation of Project 2025 continues apace.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

ByHeart Infant Formula Recalled for Botulism Risk - Consumer Reports All ByHeart infant formula has been recalled after 13 infants fed ByHeart formula were hospitalized with infant botulism across 10 states.

⚠️#Recall Alert: All ByHeart infant formula has been recalled after 15 infants fed ByHeart formula were hospitalized with infant botulism across 12 states. If you have any ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula, stop using immediately.

That’s what it is, what I was getting at about my texts this morning.

Regular people don’t think I’m so crazy now.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

This is an important next step for people who are looking to push Albany. Plug in.

Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.

Additionally you have until midnight to sign up for this library mystery box raffle if you are a NYC resident who has signed this letter: forms.gle/aRJ2ncZaJ6iz...

Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

Art: "The government is hearing speech it does not like and, instead of understanding that it's free speech, the government is calling it a riot. The government is calling it violence. The government is calling it terrorism."

How Trump’s Hatchet Man Is Destroying Consumer Protections Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

Russell Vought’s dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is putting the public at risk in areas ranging from auto loans and digital payments to credit cards and credit reports.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books for Hot Commie Summer - Reactor Tired of the status quo? Try these books featuring revolutionary governments some communal weirdos...

Bringing this post back in celebration of last night's victory. Happy Zohran Mamdani Day New Yorkers! reactormag.com/backlist-bon...

Zohran Mamdani with his mayoral transition team at a press conference on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

Lina Khan — former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission

Maria Torres‑Springer — former First Deputy Mayor of #NYC

Grace Bonilla — nonprofit sector leader

Melanie Hartzog — expert in city budgeting

Elana Leopold — expert political strategist

Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani revealed an all-female transition team led by Elana Leopold as executive director. It also includes co-chairs Maria Torres-Springer, the former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, the former federal trade commission chair...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

The Pentagon believes “they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessel to do the strikes” and that is partly why the administration has not sought to detain or prosecute the survivors of the strikes, “because they could not satisfy the evidentiary burden.” trib.al/nYTqzWK

Someone just purchased our military.

I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.

AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second

journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

Holiday event planning is kinda hectic. Every year.

The team behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘NO OTHER LAND’ is planning to self-release the film on U.S. streaming platforms starting October 20.

Including Apple TV, Amazon, Google Play, and YouTube, with 100% of VOD proceeds going directly to Palestinian communities of Masafer Yatta.

Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Evil Houses - Reactor Houses that try to murder their occupants is one of our favorite horror tropes...

It is officially HAUNTED HOUSE SEASON!! You know The Shining and The Haunting of Hill House, but @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommends 5 underrated stories about houses you'd rather not live in:

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Alaska storm damage so bad many evacuees won’t go home for at least 18 months, governor says Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months.

The storm damage in Alaska is so extreme, many of the over 2,000 evacuees won't go home for at least 18 months, the governor says.

Falkenberg: Mike Miles takes story books from HISD kindergarteners First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

By @houstonchronicle.com columnist Lisa Falkenberg: "Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines, whimsical illustrations, and characters and cliffhangers — are increasingly unwelcome in the land of worksheets and slide shows." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

He KNOWS. 🤭

You have a very pretty cat 🐈

Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago

I didn't have Vic Mensa in the NYT on my BINGO card: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

John Wilson at The Met: A Landmark Exhibition of an American Visionary - Fine Art Globe The Met presents the largest John Wilson exhibition, showcasing over 100 works that illuminate Black life, social justice, and the power of art.

John Wilson was an influential lithographer, sculptor, painter, muralist, and art teacher. He became a powerful voice for social justice and equality in a world wrought with struggle and injustice. His artistic work is on display at the Met Museum in NYC. fineartglobe.com/artists/john...