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just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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I'm told that I don't do this enough and it's true. I have written a number of books and zines. You can find some of them here: www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/854-... -scroll down

A news tidbit: This week the D.C. Council will vote on an emergency bill from @cmchenderson.bsky.social that will allow pharmacies to administer the COVID-19 vaccine without a doctor's prescription. Because of changes at the federal level, local pharmacies have been requiring a prescription.

AT 5PM-7:30PM there is a big speakout planned in DC against Trump's federal occupation at 14th and U St NW. ****The flyers say 6pm but due to the fascist madness engulfing us, that would have put those under 18 at risk over the imposed federal curfew.*** Please RT cuz your city is next.

I’d be interested in knowing the difference between this and actual martial law?

Same for a lot of chronically ill kids who may not have the energy to participate in IRL activities.

Today is Day 2 of the public hearing on the EPA’s reconsideration of the 2009 endangerment finding, the key ruling underpinning U.S. greenhouse gas regulations. 🧪

Testimonies start at the top of the hour, and we’re following along: 👇🧵

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

For those interested.

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning.

The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

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Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

"The country faces a larger and more daunting challenge, because this disaster — like the firestorms in Los Angeles and the hurricanes repeatedly pummeling Florida and the southeast — once again raises the question of where people can continue to safely live."

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

Here’s an Inconvenient Truth: Disease Is in the Air | The Tyee We ignored the science of airborne transmission for a century. Carl Zimmer tells us why.

“But air pollution alone kills an estimated 8.1 million people yearly, before we even consider airborne infectious diseases like COVID-19, tuberculosis, measles and flu.”
Such a good read from @thetyee.ca

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Tariffs On Medications Will Make America Sick We might soon see the Trump Administration impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals. U.S. patients will suffer.

⚠️Tariffs On Medications Will Make America Sick

We might soon see Trump WH impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals—patients will suffer and die. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that these tariffs are coming in the “next month or two.”

What will this mean?

New images reveal Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter has nearly doubled its number of polluting, unpermitted gas turbines - Southern Environmental Law Center MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Wednesday, a coalition of conservation and community organizations shared new information with the Shelby County Health Department that clearly shows xAI—a company founded by Elon ...

These turbines spew harmful air pollution (e.g. formaldehyde & nitrogen oxide) into one of the most overburdened communities in the US, which is already struggling with decades of environmental injustice. This isn’t innovation. It’s the same old pattern: private profit, public harm.

THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…

running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…

Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY School of Law barred 31 pro-Palestine law school students from campus facilities and demanded that they sign away their right to protest in exchange for being allowed to return. If the students — deemed “personae non grata,” or PNG — don’t renounce their right to protest on campus, they will be unable to sit for final exams. “You may not participate in any protest activity or disruptive activity on Law School property,” says the so-called “Use of Space Agreement” sent to the students, which explicitly lays out conditions for being allowed to return to key campus buildings during the school’s “exam period.”

NYU School of Law has told 31 pro-Palestine students they must sign away their right to protest if they want to return to campus and sit exams.

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Rafah no longer exists. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently occupy Gaza. Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza’s territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel’s plan to permanently remain in Gaza and ethnically cleanse its people.

Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel's plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/rafa...

People don't seem to have really internalized that all logics of un-personing will eventually be expanded by a regime defending itself.

Whiteness, cisness, heterosexuality--they will place you above above others, but only so long as your uphold the regime. The second you stop being useful ...

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

The important thing here is that some brave people said NO and they WALKED AWAY

This week my doctor dismissed my concerns about getting Covid again, saying, “well, it’s nothing to worry about. It’s not like you can get LONGER Covid” and, I dunno, with all the attacks on science from the government and coordinated astroturfing campaigns, that honestly broke something inside me.

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Rolling stone front page - caption: five years of pain, fatigue, and gaslighting: life with long covid Pictured: activists in respirators protesting with signs in front of White House

Thank you @rollingstone.com for the front page coverage

Make the invisible visible. Long Covid is REAL and a growing crisis

My fear is that the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.

Measles is off the charts contagious. It'll be like, if you have been in this enormous public building during this 14 hour window, congratulations you have measles now.

Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk (Gift Article) Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.

The answer to Trump’s politics of scarcity — he uses scarcity to scapegoat & consolidate power — is the politics of abundance — making it easy & fast to build things that improve people’s lives.

We’ve made it so hard to build — housing, clean energy, transit — & Dems must now pivot & make it easy.