Ian G. Williams

"During the last week of January, 30,000 tenants called in, the most heat complaints ever recorded in a seven-day period, according to city data."

A small but determined protest was held at Rep. Tom Suozzi’s Glen Cove District Office, speaking out against his recent vote for a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.

BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS!

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.”

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This will be a great event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on Wednesday morning, online & in person.

I have some pretty distinct and meaningful memories of ice fishing as a kid in Vermont. Not something we did often, but it was very much part of living seasonally, and I knew people who had their shanties for much of the winter. Though this article is about the Midwest, the changes are wider.

This is a fantastically scathing and thoughtful essay. The kind of critical, close read is a good reminder to slow down and look at the seams and glue holding together a text's worldview (one "...naively yoked to techno-optimism."), to write with and against it.

mRNA tech was not created by billionaires. It was developed by scientists and researchers who were largely funded by US taxpayers through federal grants - funding which has now been drastically cut in large part thanks to Elon, DOGE and RFK Jr. - including funding for mRNA vaccines against cancer.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization.

This is no different.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

I’ve found it fascinating to watch over the past few years, as all humanities + social science disciplines have been forced to grapple with the politics of technology, so many are reinventing arguments media studies and STS have been making for decades :)

ICE is using AI to do its dirty work. Human rights are at stake when we allow tech companies and Donald Trump to dictate how and when AI gets used.

The Means-Testing Industrial Complex As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

Corporations are extracting billions from America’s safety net and their payday is about to be supercharged by new rules.

I lay out how programs like Medicaid have become vulnerable to corporate capture and what we need to build to stop it.

@lpeblog.bsky.social

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Wow, Meta seems like a censorship machine, blocking the distribution & sharing of all news in Canada on FB & IG & now blocking links to ICE list on all its services everywhere. Didn't Zuck say Meta was going back to its free speech roots to justify sidling up to Trump? Serving power on bended knees.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

the attorney general of the united states says that the government will not allow organized protest

When we hold the criminal trials for ICE (and we will), we need to remember to include those who run the social media accounts for their role in gaslighting us and fanning the flames of violence

At a certain moment in the development of fascist government, the aim of the lie is no longer to attempt to deceive; it is to boast of your ability to do and say what you please regardless of the truth that everyone can see. It stops being mendacity and becomes boasting, taunting, crowing.

Visualizations are political. The choice of how you present data isn’t neutral. The @nytimes.com deciding to color-code “been about right” with a neutral tone is sane washing Republicans who are OK with state violence against innocent people.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Social workers should pay attention to this #SWTech #SSWR2026

I suppose that “testing the limits of his presidency” is one way to say “doing blatantly unconstitutional and impeachable shit on a daily basis.”

40+ tech & justice organizations call on Congress to vote NO on funding for ICE’s multi-billion dollar panopticon and to abolish the agency Citing extraordinary abuse of power and of surveillance technologies, a coalition of over 40 tech and justice organizations has issued an urgent letter calling on Congress to vote NO on all funding fo...

40+ tech and justice orgs including @18millionrising.bsky.social @accessnow.org @stopspyingny.bsky.social and @ultraviolet.bsky.social demand lawmakers take swift action to stem the tide on ICE violence and the tech and data spending that help it spread!

www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-01...

Teach In on Data for Police Accountability | January 22, 2026 in Oakland, CA For decades, law enforcement agencies across the United States have operated behind walls of secrecy—particularly when officers abuse their power or use lethal force. That opacity has real consequence...

We are excited to co-sponsor this event on police accountability in Oakland on January 22 with @ucbids.bsky.social, Anti-Police Terror Project (APTP), Community Law Enforcement Accountability Network, & the National Police Index.

hrdag.org/2026/01/13/t...

How do these tech elders forget the story of pets.com and kozmo.com.

“Nice world you have here. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it…” Lutnick, a third-rate minion, demonstrates the mafia logic of the #Trump administration.

ICE will not process medical invoices for third party providers until April 30, 2026, jeopardizing the health of people whom it is continually scooping up with blatant disregard for the rule of law. Yet another reason that the agency should be defunded and eliminated. 5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.

Fascist impunity, in action.

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

Sometimes the Simpsons Meme Facebook group still delivers (Simpsons Bortposting).