Matt Schneider

They are saying very clearly what they intend to do.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.

Not to be dramatic, but the fact that euro-American banking restrictions and sanctions still persist for Sudan should be considered a war crime. People are dying of starvation and it is so unnecessarily complicated and damn near impossible to move funds from N. America tô Sudan.

a thing I think about, from reading about Chile, is that getting rid of an authoritarian who imposes draconian libertarian austerity is one thing, but building back the things that said authoritarian destroyed, after the fact, is a second and distinct thing and doesn't naturally flow from the first

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

BREAKING NEWS UCLA hired a registered foreign agent of Israel to shape the university's media narrative The firm SKDK registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of February. They crafted UCLA's media reponses to the encampment, strikes, and other demonstrations. July 24 2025 1:00pm poppypress

Documents acquired via the California Public Records Act (CPRA) show that UCLA has been employing the firm SKDK, a registered foreign agent of Israel, to counteract pro-Palestine messaging and discredit students, faculty, and staff fighting the university's support for genocide. Based on a contract UCLA held with a similar firm, it is reasonable to believe UCLA has paid SKDK upwards of $100,000 for their services. SKDK was employed during the encampments, Sukkot protests, UAW strikes, and other demonstrations. They actively provided UCLA with messaging assistance, from contacting news outlets on UCLA's behalf to shaping their response narrative.

SKDK handles media outreach and image for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which forced it to register as a foreign agent at the end of February 2025. 1. Name of Registrant SKDKnickerbocker LLC 3. Primary Address of Registrant 1150 18th Street Nu, Suite 800, washington, DC 20036 2. Registration Number 7552 4. Name of Foreign Principal Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5. Address of Foreign Principal vitzhak Rabin Boulevard Jerusalem, Kiryat HaLeom ISRAEL 9103001 6. Country/Region Represented ISRAEL • Individual-State nationality 8. If the foreign principal is a foreign govemment, state: a) Branch or agency represented by the registrant Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Public Affairs Division b) Name and title of officials) with whom registrant engages Oren Marnorstein 7. Indicate whether the foreign principal is one of the following: 区 Government of a foreign country' • Foreign political party Foreign or domestic organization: If either, check one of the following: • Partnership m Commttee 口 Corporation • Voluntary group 口 Association • Other (specify) According to the document outlining SKDK's registration as a foreign agent of Israel, the firm has pitched to the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, NBC, ABC, and NewsNation, among others, on behalf of Israel's Foreign Ministry.

NEW: UCLA hired a registered foreign agent of Israel to shape the university's media narrative

The firm SKDK registered as a foreign agent for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the end of February. They crafted UCLA's media responses to the encampment, strikes, and other demonstrations.

Hunger crisis deepens in Gaza as 10 more starvation deaths reported Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.

Aid groups warn of ‘mass starvation’ in Gaza amid blockade, while Israeli attacks kill dozens of others across enclave.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

AI is perfect tech for 21st-century capitalism: almost no legitimate use cases, unhelpful even when there is a use case, causes cognitive disability and emotional distress in users, destroys privacy, exploits labor, harvests data, disastrous for the environment, unprofitable – and totally ubiquitous

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

Unspeakable crime.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.

they want to destroy higher education and do as much as they can to segregate what remains. basically, then the clock back to before the 1960s, when university education was reserved for a small slice of the public.

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Wow. Welcome to the streets of Trump's America.
And is this a machine gun mounted on this armored car?
(Photos by Mel Buer, I believe.)

news past week: beef prices hit record high; euro heatwave cracks autobahn, closes eiffel tower, 50k evacuated in turkey; california home-building limited by wildfire risk; crops threatened in China; 50+ dead in TX freak rain event; British baker's stock falls cause no one wants pastries in heat

feeling reminded of this today for quite a few reasons

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...

Almost 200 of the delegates at this week's Global Tipping Points Conference in Exeter endorsed a statement calling for world leaders to take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating #climate tipping points.

@gsiexeter.bsky.social

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Sally Rooney will remain 'committed supporter of Palestine Action', court told The Irish author said in court documents that the ban would prevent her from speaking at future public events as she “could not in good conscience disguise or lie about my principles” if it comes into...

Sally Rooney has told the High Court she is “and will continue to be a committed supporter” of Palestine Action, which failed to secure a temporary block on it being banned as a terrorist group on Friday.
www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

The crackdown on opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza has become the excuse in most western democracies for some of the fiercest repression of speech, assembly, and expression in modern world history. Like watching a global crack down on opposition to the holocaust or the Rwandan genocide.

one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"

it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day

Trump and Elon made massive cuts to all US weather tracking and warning systems in the spring of 2025.

25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting.

It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.

There are only three political positions in America today

1) I like the fascism

2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc)

3) I oppose the fascism

The rest is details

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.

Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists.

This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

In the new world that tech promises, any communicative act can be replaced by a rough fascimile that looks similar but means nothing. This is something we are supposed to be excited about, for some reason.

Step 1: reassure the citizenry that the police state will only target the foreigners.

Step 2: strip all of your enemies of their citizenship so that anyone who opposes the regime is a foreigner.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...