Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Felony Charges against UC Davis Protesters Despite Restorative Justice Offer - Davis Vanguard A judge denied a defense motion to dismiss felony charges against three UC Davis students involved in a pro-Palestinian protest that included the spray-painting of an Egghead sculpture, despite the de...

There is a felony case involving 3 UC Davis protestors who painted an egghead w/ Palestine solidarity messaging.

A UCPD officer *fired his gun* at a student in violation of SOPs.

Now body camera footage reveals the shot was not accidental as UC leaders told us.

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The False Promise of “AI for Social Good” Abeba Birhane refutes industry claims about the technology's potential to solve complex social problems.

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly
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Whole bodies of social science theory and scholarship indisputably proven off that natural experiment

Local Police Departments Are Enabling ICE’s Deportation Machine Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Truthout. Even in cities where police decline to work with ICE, local law enforcement still bolster Trump’s deportation agenda.

A piece I wrote recently on this subject. economichardship.org/2025/06/loca...

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

“The Republic as we knew it is over. The fight now is whether the new one will be a fascistic, competitive authoritarian regime or a pluralist democracy that, we can hope, is better than what came before.”
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

Update: Ald. Fuentes held a presser this afternoon with other local electeds in response to this incident. She said the person the agents were arresting is a ~37 y/o man who broke his leg while being chased by ICE.

Fuentes told press ICE agents blocked attorneys from speaking to the man.

Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague. And if the response from ICE to people exercising their first amendment right is to drive vehicles through them, they should not be an agency in the US.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

The Psychology of Resistance (in violent, repressive contexts) Virtual Meeting Series and network is now here on Blue Sky, please follow for our updates on upcoming talks, recordings from sessions, papers from our presenters, etc.! bsky.app/profile/psyc...

This is what @govpritzker.illinois.gov is protecting

But if we defund this, we won't be safe!

Im going to be obnoxious af about the anti defund ppl and I don't care
Explain why this is worth funding

As Nuclear Tensions Reach New Heights, How Can We Win Global Disarmament? Nuclear deterrence is untenable. We need to pursue anti-colonial disarmament.

Nuclear deterrence is untenable. We need to pursue anti-colonial disarmament.

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

There is a clear logic why the Regents hired Milliken when they did given 1) their interest in reshaping the faculty code of discipline and 2) Milliken’s immediate surrender to rightwing Texas politics in relation to DEI initiatives (which he altogether stopped at UT).

the decline of organized labor in the US is a large problem

I love how every email I get from UC leadership is lIke “we are going to fight like hell for you which is why we’re complying with all of trump’s demands”

Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now?

✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed.

This is a time for courage, not capitulation.
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I was lucky enough to get quoted in this piece on the VP and his "ingratitude" framing with respect to PoC...

Thank you @brittanywong.huffpost.com

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

“ICE detained a sitting elected official while raiding an emergency room. Earlier this afternoon, they deployed tear gas indiscriminately in the middle of a city street.”

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

Yesterday I was thinking about universities that did or didn't sign on to court cases and how that affected where I'd recommend to younger people go to college. "Will the school defend your rights?" is now an essential question on a college tour.

If a school signs on to this, you know the answer.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas. To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

Unlike Khalil and other high-profile activists targeted for deportation, however, Kordia remains in custody despite findings from two different judges — one in immigration court, one in federal district court — that she should be released.

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'? A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

This is an excellent piece from @georgianndavis.bsky.social on the wave of anti-scientific censorship sweeping the country and what it means to teach honestly in the moment.

They basically want to put every elite college under some weird consent decree. They would be foolish to sign, but we know universities and colleges don’t always us the most sound judgment.

“And in this respect, I’m coming to understand the AI hype machine as part and parcel of the fascistic project. That’s not an analogy. I’m not saying AI is similar to fascism, or parallel to it. I’m saying AI is fascism.”