Dr Blue (she/they)

lol. lmao.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Folks should be very careful on Tuesday to not spread rumors or AI slop. No one should deter voters from showing up.

But if you *do* see something, document it. Take pictures and video. And then lawyers like me can take all necessary steps to protect voters from intimidation.

A B U N D A N C E

Small goal: Legislate the brightness on these stupid headlights

Big goal: ban cars

It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped

Mutual Aid for Tiffany Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...

Mutual aid for Tiffany Willoughby Herard at UC-Irvine American Studies, for defense against disciplinary charges stemming from her participation in protests against the war in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1562...

Mass killings reported in militia attack on Darfur hospital in Sudan The World Health Organization says the attack this week involved gunmen striking in several waves, abducting doctors and nurses, gunning down staff, patients and people sheltering there.

I know folks in the US find it hard to think about the world beyond your borders but there is an absolute horrific situation unfolding in Sudan, and people everywhere need to be aware of this, writing about this, and talking to their politicians about assisting.

Police carrying away and arresting a protestor in Ferguson during the protests (2014).

Militarized police response to Ferguson in 2014 during its demonstrations showing a bunch of police lining up

remember Ferguson (2014). Remember Michael Brown. Black Lives always Matter. None of what is happening today is new, only that the brutality has increased and expanded ever since. abolish ICE. Abolish DHS. Abolish the police.

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

That last hag looks demonic in addition to cliché

THEY CELEBRATE AS COMMUNITIES STARVE.

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

oh lmao well im gonna miss seeing trans people on this site

YES! Honestly, an ideal outcome would be every student in a class getting an A!

Or better yet, every student in a class learns the material deeply and gained a great deal by collaborating on their education in that group.

Teachers should not brag about failing students! An F is a failed teacher!

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs.

Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.

Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.

Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines.

Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously.
It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

Can I apply the "weird Bouie reply guy" Bluesky filter to my email inbox? Because y i k e s

I usually have [intro science] syllabi almost finalized several months ahead of time, and even so I think this is so unreasonable for most disciplines. What if something recent happens and you want to incorporate it into the course material??

And critically, who would still have it if not for a campaign controversy, and who has no record beyond social media videos and his platform on a website with which to evaluate his character and suitability for office.

Do all of the other possible candidates in Maine have two Nazi tattoos or something, making Planter worthy of all this defense?

As his two sons watch and cry, ‘Pa, te amo,’ federal agents arrest man outside of Naperville apartments A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday as his two sons cried and begged for him not to be hurt.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

Pierce Hawthorne's racist dad from the show community

This is educational malpractice.

say it with me: it’s a Kavanaugh Stop

'is nursing blue-collar work' is one of those questions we really need to address because while the education might say not the working conditions and level of unionization is an emphatic yes