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'Lives shattered': Emiliano's vows to reopen after feds seize 16 in immigration raid Federal immigration agents took 16 people into custody Thursday during coordinated raids at Emiliano’s restaurant locations in the North Hills and Butler County. The agents, led by U.S. Immigrat...

Yesterday’s ICE raids at Emiliano’s is just another example of how the Trump admin is terrorizing our communities and ripping families apart.

This violence and cruelty has no place in Western Pennsylvania or anywhere in this country.

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

I wrote on twitter a long time ago that the NYT plainly figures itself as the enemy of contemporary education, just as any editor/content creator at Fox might be. This "ceding" is desirable to them as it is in their interests, as it is in uni leadership interests.

Or how many universities - ASU, GMU - have little agreements with Hoover, AEI, and the like? University presidents love this stuff. No shared governance, no unions, no issues.

I mean how far away from this conversation is somebody like Gov Shapiro

The NYT had university presidents, Dershowitz, and formative Freepers in their little "University Leadership Forum" or whatever something like 8 years ago? Their hatred for uni faculty and students is well-established

Pretty sure the answer is "establish the elimination of faculty governance from the university system as a reasonable centrist policy position" as the NYT and university presidents have been planning since, what, the 1st DT term?

Will New AI Academy Help Teachers or Just Improve Tech’s Bottom Line? AFT says its AI training initiative will modernize teaching, while critics say it’s ‘a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for.’

“…ed-tech critic and AI skeptic Audrey Watters called AFT’s partnership with the tech companies ‘a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for.’”

A bee sits on the yellow bloom of a green-eyed rudbeckia.

Also the Rudbeckia laciniata is up, tall and thuggish as usual #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

The pink and white spires of a pepper bush bloom in front of a privacy fence, about six feet tall. A house is in the background.

Red cardinal flowers bloom in front of a pepper bush

Pepperbush (Clethra) in bloom. My absolute favorite - bees love it, it smells amazing, it looks great, grows like a weed, suckers freely and easy to propagate. Clay, shade, sun, doesn't care. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

Bright red spires of cardinal flower stand between a tall bluestem grass and the pink, fluffy flowers of a joe pye weed. A paw paw tree stands nearby, in a yard.

I don't understand the viral pictures of hummingbirds just chilling in a pool with ten other hummingbirds. Two birds just try to murder each other every day over this cardinal flower. *and we have other cardinal flowers*

Copyright is a form of policing. It’s inherently rooted in censorship and surveillance. Historically, copyright accelerates consolidation of power and extracts creativity for profit.

If we use copyright to fight AI, it consolidates power further. A future where everything is licensed? No thx

Do not let any LLM serve as a form of epistemic grounding for society.

Sam Rose from UNRWA: "Nothing gets into Gaza without the say so of the Israeli authorities. That has been life in Gaza for more than 20 years.. we have 6,000 trucks of aid outside of the Gaza strip. We are not permitted to bring any of those supplies in"

The House subcommittee just PASSED my motion to subpoena the Epstein files.

The DOJ must now release them to the Oversight Committee.

The American people deserve transparency and accountability, and his victims deserve justice. The wealthy and powerful are not above the law.

SPAIN TAKES THE LEAD IN EXTRA TIME!! 🇪🇸👏

WHAT A GOAL BY AITANA BONMATÍ!

🎥 :Foxsoccer via X || #WEURO2025

My favorite Ozzy period was the short-lived "Surprise, no hair!" Ozzy of the early 80s. That and "does Ozzy face while holding baby Jack"

A bright red cardinal flower stands in front of astilbe, coneflower, and phlox

Cardinal flower, echinacea, phlox, some bloomed-out astilbe, pennisetum in the back

Tiny pink and white blooms on a joe pye weed, standing like tiny umbrellas over a four foot tall plant.

A joe pye weed in bloom, with pinkish white flowers, stands between a pawpaw tree and a tall bluestem grass.

A nice spotted joe pye weed sitting with the pawpaw and a big bluestem #bloomscrolling

My baby joe is just starting up too

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A caterpillar with white, yellow, and black stripes crawls up the stem of a milkweed.

This one milkweed has like four caterpillars on it #nativeplants

A cup plant grows to nearly ten feet tall in front of a privacy fence.

Two Silphium grow in front of a fence. The cup plant has yellow aster like blooms at the top. The whorled rosinweed is not yet in bloom.

Yellow blooms on top of a cup plant, whose toothed leaves meet at the stem to form a small cup filled with water.

Silphium update: 1) my god it's huge 2) cup plant (perfoliatum) and whorled rosinweed in front) and then 3) a close up of the aster-like flowers. That miscanthus in the back is one of the many volunteers from our neighbor's yard, I got too much to do to worry about it #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

A hibiscus flowers in front of a fence. The hibiscus has white plate sized blooms fringed by pink. A baptisia grows in front.

A white plate-sized hibiscus bloom with a dark red center alone in a hibiscus plant.

Hibiscus blooming (left_ baptisia in front, with a sheathed choke cherry holding out against the deer who want to eat it; right: a fig companion that honestly I've misplaced) #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #gardening

One Day at a Time was on for *nine years*? Dammit Julie

well I guess that finally worked

wow. Norway just not a good team

The Missouri AG's proxy-voting investigation prob. indicates a broader movement against corporate governance and shareholder activism in general

The point of LLMs is to make rich guys feel like they are also smart guys

the data center overwrites Manhattan, a fantasy