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LA Times: "'It backfired,' said one senior administrator at UCLA, reflecting the sense of whiplash. .... 'Within hours of announcing our settlement, the DOJ was on our back.'

WHO COULD'VE SEEN THIS COMING

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YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U. Left of Black | Black Anarchism Against an Anti-Black World with Sam C. Tenorio

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I’m so angry about this. This is the teacher’s union taking money from AI companies to push their marketing materials. Massively letting down its members.

Today's quick update [Aug 2]:

- Sudan Doctors Network: 1 woman and 1 child killed by RSF forces while fleeing from Elfashir to Tawila, North Darfur.

- SAF shelling reported in ElObeid, North Kordofan, targeting RSF positions north of the city.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

Day 1

Born Palestinian Born Black by Suheir Hammad

If you are participating in #TheSealeyChallenge, read Palestinian poets and use this space to call for #EndtheGenocide and support The Sameer Project, a Palestinian-led mutual aid fund saving lives in Gaza.

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Poll: Most Israelis fear they won’t be able to travel abroad as global anger mounts As anti-Israel incidents grow, 56% say they fear not being able to go overseas; 67% of Israelis don't feel government represents them, 62% want comprehensive hostage-ceasefire deal

Palestinians worry that they will be be bombed, starved, ethnically cleansed. Israelis worry that they won’t be comfortable on their vacations abroad.

www.timesofisrael.com/poll-most-is...

western countries are talking about whether to recognize a palestinian state, while israel keeps slaughtering dozens of palestinians each and every day

Trump’s Domestic Use of Military Set to Get Worse, Leaked Memo Shows A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by TNR signals top-level discussions about a potential escalation of the Pentagon’s domestic anti-immigration role, and lays out new details.

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
newrepublic.com/article/1987...

can’t believe after all this time, “guerrilla public education to fight science disinfo” is what finally got me to buy printer cartridges 🖨️

I love the ending with cheating on video games just to include the gamers who weren’t drawn in by the Nazi ish

I had a few words at the Tesla Diner protest.

"He's a piece of shit, but let's get the political science stuff out of the way," Steven told me when I asked if he thought support of Tesla could be considered apolitical. "Elon Musk has platformed white supremacists and antisemites on X. He got rid of all the moderation. He put back accounts that were clearly neo-Nazis. He's changed algorithms to promote that type of hate. Him and DOGE did massive cuts in the government, including our civil services. He's cut cancer research. Did I mention he was a giant piece of shit?" "He's cut our aid to Africa, which Will result, without exaggeration, in millions of women and children and innocent people dying. Millions," he said. "I'm not a big fan of people who give the Hitler salute. I mean, I'm kind of fussy like that. He gave it twice at Trump's inauguration," he continued. "He's a Nazi. And he cheats at video games. You have another question?"

lol at this response to a “man on the street” interview with protestors at the Tesla diner

Today's quick update [Aug 1]:

- Sudan Doctors Network: 1 woman killed, 5 men abducted by RSF in Nyala, South Darfur (under RSF control since Oct 2023).

- RSF attacks reported on several villages in North Kordofan yesterday; villages looted, mass displacement.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

Damn, B.

These higher education concessions aren't even reasonable acts of self-preservation because the demands won't end, and their institutions will continue to be targets. Each concession will lead to more demands, and what they try to save will eventually meet the same fate of that which they conceded.

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This paper has 3 more citations than the last time I took a look

I am reading this paper again for some additional coding. So everyone gets a reminder of this supposed “AAVE” given to an LLM

Thanks for the shoutout @jimccasey1.bsky.social and yeah we’ve been thinking on it and have a few things cookin here @hypervisible.bsky.social …need to write more

Have been covering this genocidal war since day one, with deep respect for my sources.

Please reach out, and please share with your networks:

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Districts and states could lose invaluable education data, former NCES leader says It's "impossible" for NCES to fulfill its statutory obligations after the Education Department's gutting, said Peggy Carr in her first public statement.

"States and districts will lose their ability to compare education data as a result of the administration’s decimation of NCES, [Peggy Carr] said. With the lack of data, the nation will also be unable to measure whether education policy changes are effective."

www.k12dive.com/news/peggy-c...

BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq

NYPD Bypassed Facial Recognition Ban to ID Pro-Palestinian Student Protester Barred from using Clearview AI, NYC police relied on a marshal in the fire department to run a search that turned up photos of the student at his high school graduation.

A city fire marshal used FDNY’s access to a facial recognition software to help NYPD detectives identify a pro-Palestinian protester at Columbia University, circumventing policies that tightly restrict the Police Department’s use of the technology.

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

Some places will have to start rationing water - to enable AI slop.

"A data center like Meta’s, which was completed last year, typically guzzles around 500,000 gallons of water a day. New data centers [will] require millions of gallons of water a day"

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

Don’t let this be buried.

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I cannot tell yall how excited I am for the things we have cookin up involving the new Liberatory tech project & crew within @digblk.bsky.social 👀.

Revolutionary Demand For Happiness Writing Residency! For more information see below and here:

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Been off (in an effort for a little healthier use of BlueSky), but glad I came on in time to catch this in the timeline. Good reminder that we don’t always see original versions of talks at these kinds of events