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ICYMI: Our socialist-in-office was featured in @cityandstateny.bsky.social last week! Our chapter has never let its small size come in the way of big goals. Sarahana was a MHVDSA leader before she was a candidate, and there's so much more left to win. Read the article (& join DSA!) ➡️ bit.ly/3UnUbOJ

Screenshot of a news article from The Globe and Mail with the headline: "Judge halts deportation of non-binary American in landmark ruling after Trump’s gender edicts." The article is written by Marie Woolf and was published in Ottawa 4 hours ago, with an update 3 hours ago. The website navigation bar includes links to Home, For You, Canada, World, Business, Investing, and Personal Finance.

In a major precedent setting move, a Canadian federal judge blocked the deportation of a nonbinary US citizen because the Canadian immigration office failed to adequately assess the conditions for LGBTQ people since Trump took office.

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Will we habituate to the decline of democracy? The recent attack on science in the US is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining democracy. In a healthy democracy, public policy is guided by evidence, and truth is the shared foundat...

"The diminution and marginalization of science are thus central parts of the erosion of democracy itself."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.

The paper of record in Albany, NY, from where Andrew Cuomo governed for a decade, says that under no circumstances should you put this man's name on your ballot.

This new tool lets artists 'poison' their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works If an artist doesn't want their pieces being used to train AI image generators, a new tool called Nightshade would let them "poison" their artwork.

www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/n...

Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means? Unions in California are different from many in the U.S. because they are predominately people of color and immigrants. The arrest of a union president in L.A. will likely activate these unions to bec...

“Huerta is the something more of these immigration raids — not because he’s a union boss, but because he’s a union organizer with ties to both people in power and people in fear.

The coming months will show what happens when those two groups decide, together, that backing down is not an option.”

Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky The administration is attacking research, health and the environment. We might seem unlikely activists – but we have a duty to dissent

Now is the time for scientists to stand up against Trump’s repressive agenda | Daniel Malinsky

The "Joe Rogan for the left" everyone is looking for isn't a podcast, it's a union.

Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.

❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

As a new wave of student actions ensues, remember that the role of faculty allies is NOT to curb students' radical impulses. If you can't participate because of your own position, that's fine. But students are the radical flank of the movement, and you should absolutely never try to reign them in.

everything is computer and everything is gender...there has never been a better time for Janelle Monáe to drop another weird queer space robot concept album

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/subtitle-A/chapter-II/part-200/subpart-D/subject-group-ECFR86b76dde0e1e9dc/section-200.342

🧪 I just saw a specific NSF grant termination letter and it is FUCKING WILD.

The letter said "not subject to appeal", which is a **blatant** violation of NSF's own policies and broader cross-agency regulations (regulation below): www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

NSF just opened itself up to lawsuit.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Comrade card for 4/15/2025.

On Rubicons Crossed When Governor Gaius Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river and officially entered the territory of Rome at the head of one of his Gallic legions, he officially violated Roman sovereignty, broke the i...

As is becoming habit, I have turned the thread into a CAW post. Today Trump crossed the Rubicon. Are his legions ready?

NY Flips TX The Bird In Medication Abortion Suit - Above the Law It's a bitter pill.

You'll never believe this: I have GOOD NEWS FOR YOU.

We have been carefully watching the municipal and state level trans and reproductive care shield laws to see what happens when they get stress-tested.

This week, New York's shield law held.

abovethelaw.com/2025/03/ny-f...

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I'm a cybersecurity professor and I agree with this.

If your threat model includes the cops confiscating your phone to acquire your sensitive data... Look up "full disk encryption Android/iOS", set it, and lock it with a long PIN/password (no biometrics). And be prepared to lose your phone.

"The cat iss obscene, a creature of pure decadence, in an existence didicated only to leisure and consumption. There is a purity to it that iss horrifying, a singular hunger for [in the most fucked up way imaginable] lasagna that obliterates everysing it touches."

times are trying. I need another stuck boat

One protest at a Tesla dealership and my mom is joining the DSA lol

I've spent the past couple of days in various meetings and convenings. People are in motion everywhere.

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity possible to gather with others (virtually and in person). You will feel more grounded.

This is a very good piece from Paul Musgrave on how academic conferences work, and why they will cease to work as the US becomes perceived as a pariah state. Yes, its a perk for people like me, but real knowledge generation occurs in such spaces. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Biofilm researchers: this small but very neat journal (which I have published in!) is now on the platform. #biofilm #science

Making Luigi Mangione Inevitable There is a deep well of anger and pain in the United States, and a good number of those angry and hurting people know quite well who is causing their pain.

My print column at @theprogressivemag.bsky.social on Luigi Mangione is up, just in time for his court appearance. progressive.org/magazine/mak...