Nathanos (Alfalfa Male)

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

ICE Arrests David Huerta, Beloved Labor Leader and SEIU California President “We all collectively have to object to this madness,” said Huerta after his violent arrest for witnessing an ICE raid.

Have national Dems, who claim to want to "win back" the working class, said anything yet about ICE injuring and arresting the head of the SEIU of California?

truthout.org/articles/ice...

burned up plantation house

Denver has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

"It's time to fight everywhere and all at once" Pritzker says, blasting "the do nothing crowd" of Dems in response to Republicans:

"We have to abandon the culture of incrementalism that has led us to swallow their cruelty and their callousness with barely a cowardly croak."

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Gotta hand it to them, it’s a sick burn

Tangible, direct action from Sen. Schatz. We love to see it.

@schatz.bsky.social

Tweet from @dril with an edit. Original says: “Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Candles $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying” The edit is that the candles line is crossed out and replaced with “Tariffs: $6 trillion”

@corybooker.com thank you! We’re desperate to see dems fight. I hope it moves even more democrats to fight

Yeah, I’m #ANTIFA

a few hours after posting this, Amy Klobuchar voted to confirm another one of Trump's nominees

YouTube video by Human Rights Campaign Illinois Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) Speaks at the 2025 HRC Los Angeles Dinner

I didn't have JB Pritzker overtly calling for mass protest and direct action defending immigrants and trans people on my bingo card but okay, I'll take it. 2025 is weird.

A lot of Democratic electeds should shut up and take notes.

youtu.be/WN1c6mCitIk?...

Zach Wahls too

REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM: How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren Premise Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative Al applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome. We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine—refusing the prompt.”

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

‘No Way’ to Please Everyone: Columbia’s President Confronts Trump’s Ultimatum With Trump intent on making an example of Columbia, Armstrong is at the center of a fight over the future of higher education.

‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

'This is a class war': The Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey on Trump, immigration and Boston "The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America...

"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.

trump just disobeyed a federal court, so Schumer moves the goalposts to say we have to be worried if he disobeys the SUPREME court. anything to avoid being compelled to action.

Democrats—various House members, Tim Walz, etc.—have been engaged in a campaign to highlight Republicans’ fear of their own constituents by holding appearances in their districts. Now, after his epic fold, Schumer is shying away from appearances in NYC, as wall as other blue states.

Attempting to make a teensy concession to fascism is like trying to get a little pregnant. Once people dispense with universal rights and decency to stick it to some disfavored group, protection for everyone becomes contingent and subject to renegotiation.

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Fuck AI

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too?

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NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest

“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”

Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

Glad Senate Democrats spent years not doing things to preserve the filibuster only to decide the savvy move is to not use it and give Republicans exactly what they want

The only way to combat Trump, we are told, is for Democrats to relinquish their power and give Trump exactly what he wants

AOC: “A tremendous mistake… turns the federal government into a slush fund for Trump & Musk and cedes congressional authority… almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free…”

a mythical future fight where there are no risks

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good