Kristine Nyborg

Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway. This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

Update!

Over 1750 people have signed up for the Resistance Summer School pilot course!

This is the seed to a new movement and parallel education structure.

It won't put participants in lifelong student debt. Or be subject to attacks on diversity.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/columbia-c...

I went with the fam to a climbing gym. It’s in an old church, seems fitting for Easter. Happy Easter to those who celebrate.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

2/ Det er så hakke vilt. Vi har altså folk som hjelper rydde opp i oljebransjens søl. Noen forteller at de har blitt nektet ta bilder eller dele i sosiale medier fra ryddeaksjonen.

Vi hører fra egne frivillige om svært vanskelige værforhold der oljen piskes rundt og langt inn over fugleholmene.

Happy International Women’s Day!

I’m also on the foto app now: Check out Kristine's profile on Foto: the.fotoapp.co/kristine_nyb...

An incredible, incredible thread. Look what people can do.

An image of Nome surrounded by ice in the Arctic. Off to the top right there is a glimpse of sea.

A plane goes down in Alaska and the response of the communities involved is to go to the airports to greet the planes and hug the pilots. Alaska is beautiful. So cold yet so very warm. Thinking of friends in Nome and Unalakleet today. Image of Nome in 2016, on a flight from Unalakleet to Nome.

Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink If there's one universally accepted truth in the modern age, it's that sequels suck. And Trump 2.0 will be no exception. Trump, Vance, and their MAGA minions feel vindicated by the victory of their bi...

Hello new community! I love how fast this place is growing. FYI we released a new Indivisible guide with practical steps that folks in red, blue, & purple states can take to fight back. Don't ask for permission - take it, copy it, make it your own, & start organizing. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Grading a paper on photojournalism for OsloMet University while sitting in a comfy chair with my furry sidekick at my feet. Simple pleasures.

I’ve been talking to my friend about songs and how kids break into song unprompted just because it feels good. I think now is a good time to share small acts of art in our everyday lives. I pick lullabies. I’ll sing those out and about. It’ll calm my central nervous system. Maybe yours too.

And the @nytimes.com by @nypost.com. And @npr.org by Breitbart….

Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…

@mmasnick.bsky.social is on point: "Let’s be crystal clear about what’s happening: A private citizen with zero Constitutional authority is effectively seizing control of critical government functions."

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Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This story is bananas.

"A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20 ... They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency's headquarters, which contains the director's office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort."

There is now a de facto travel ban on trans people in the United States.

A Los Angeles trans woman was denied a passport even with a reverted M marker. She was threatened with arrest. She is being denied a passport in its entirety - not unlike Jews in Nazi Germany.

Video spliced for length, 1/3

A memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Downloaded CDC Data And Where To Find It Journalists and scientists are downloading a bunch of public health data they suspect might be at risk of deletion. Instead of all of us privately reinventing the wheel over and over, what if we share...

If you're a journalist downloading CDC data today, please consider filling out this form so we have a centralized guide to who has what. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Remember how Trump said he "sent the military in and opened up the water flow" in CA? It appears he forced the Army Corps to just drain reservoirs into recently flooded farmland without telling local farmers or leaders. “In 25 years, I’ve never seen anything like this.”
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Deadly Bigotry Friends,

Trump blaming last night's tragic crash on "DEI" isn't just racist nonsense.

It’s part of his divide and conquer strategy.

He wants to get us so riled up against one another that we don’t look upward and see where all the power and wealth have gone.

Clearly. 😂 Too many distractions for people born in another century.

PSA: Take a break from the doom scrolling. One of the most important things you can do today is CALL your elected officials and voice your concerns.

Every call matters as staff keep count of how many care about an issue, which gives officials justification to speak up and fight.

Anyone else on Story Graph? I'm kinepix there too.

Now that we’ve all had a month to digest the year, I want you all to stop and think about whether you really want to throw an April Fool’s Day into this mix

I do them!

Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all

Ink drawing of a group of figures transplanting a tree, with structures and hills in the background

This is a World War II-era ink drawing by artist Chiura Obata of imprisoned Japanese Americans transplanting a tree at the Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah. The piece is now on view in the Brooklyn Museum's permanent collection display; more info here: www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Amazon Closes Operations in Quebec, Laying off 1,700 Workers Unions had gained a foothold in one of the company’s warehouses in the province, though Amazon would not say if there was a connection.

Amazon on Wednesday said it was closing all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and would lay off 1,700 employees.

Flashes is a New Photo Sharing App Powered by Bluesky Can it rival Instagram?

This is getting more exciting! petapixel.com/2025/01/16/f...

i don't have a joke here, i just think it's rad as hell that this guy is making tiny tiny homes that are attached to bikes for people experiencing homelessness in toronto

Hahaha. Sometimes I hear the dog rummaging upstairs and it is often a mystery what she gets up to unsupervised.