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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

This has dire consequences for *all* websites. All someone needs to do is decide that a site has "pornography" on it and that site is now burdened with the infrastructure to age verify. Same sex couple in an RPG story? That site is offering adult content.
Believe it. That's where this is going.

Apple News notification from The Wall Street Journal: Zohran Mamdani promised free juice in his high school campaign for class vice president. He lost, but it was the start of an improbable rise.

When you have absolutely no dirt on someone.

A screenshot from Instagram shows a photo of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman with the quote, “I think we have the opportunity here to kind of completely re-imagine what it means to use a computer”

thinking more and more that maybe the computer should have remained as a big beige box that had to be purposefully connected to the internet via fucked up squealing rather than some 24/7 presence that infiltrates everything we see, hear and create with plagiarised hallucinations

"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean. After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

Realizing I graduated high school a decade ago and now my back hurts

Charl Kleinhaus @charlkleinhaus Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are . Where is the Temple that must be their concern leave us alone we all believe in the God of Abraham , Moses and Jacob ! I almost said something ugly … 🤐

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.

Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

At this point, I think I'm going to have to consider putting the Assassin's Creed: Origins soundtrack in the acknowledgements of my dissertation ... Bayek of Siwa is getting me through grad school, man

AN AMERICAN POPE???? IN THIS ECONOMY????

Inside you are two wolves:
One just wrote a really cheesy and borderline sentimental course eval.
The other is plagued by anxiety that the prof will think you're weird.
Actually, both are plagued by anxiety, but that's beside the point.

Make lungs black again, I guess

I know, ~professionalism~ blah blah blah, but sometimes I wish university admins would just send an email that says "this is fucked up" instead of corporate speak that feels detached from students' incredibly real anxieties.

What I think was *really* beneficial about Hands Off is that people need to see (in real life) that they’re not alone.

In-person events and marches can really fill up people’s fighting tanks, so to speak. And this regime has handed us a really really long, tedious, and difficult fight.

Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position

Dear white folks.. you may feel a way about it but uh yall might have to keep the protests

Because if they don’t send cops to yours?

this is a great way to build momentum

People who actually know a goddamn thing about how social movements work understand that protests can be massively useful not as ends in themselves but as *starting points* for people who are newly mobilized

They are huge opportunities. They matter

1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media.

2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media.

3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media.

4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.

Humanities Open Book Program

If you follow me you may not be
1. in the US
2. an academic

But I want to mention something the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds with its tiny slice of the budget — which was just gutted.

Funding to make scholarly books Open Access — free for the public to read, anywhere.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

Sometimes I just feel like screaming into the void about how much I miss working at Possum Creek.

Republicans want you to hit your kids instead of giving them health care

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.