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Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

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what the fucking fuck FUCK

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting.

Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters Civil rights and weapons experts cite the consequences of federal agents’ use of crowd control weapons: religious leaders shot with pepper balls and noxious chemicals. A nurse nearly blinded by tear g...

When asked about immigration officers’ misuse of “less lethal” weapons, a DHS spokesperson told ProPublica its officers show “incredible restraint” but sometimes must use force as they “put their lives on the line.”

With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

hi alexis! i’ve worked on this issue as a research & organizer for several years, always happy to chat — two great intro resources are these toolkits (which link to lots of reporting/other resources)
www.kairosfellows.org/fightdatacen...

ainowinstitute.org/publications...

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city."

Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

“the Comet Ping Pong attack was nine years ago today—weeks after Trump’s 2016 win—and inspired by a conspiracy theory promoted by Jack Posobiec, who was recently invited to the White House, demands antifa be designated a terrorist group, and asked questions as “press” at the Pentagon this week”

Evanston church’s Nativity depicts baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/e...

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

chaser: after local outcry against a massive proposed AWS data center near Tucson (yes, in the desert!), developers agreed to use a less water-intensive cooling system.

AWS has now backed out because "its operations aren't compatible" with the less water-intensive option.
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FBI Seeks ‘Seditious Conspiracy’ Probe of Democratic Lawmakers The FBI is pressuring domestic terrorism agents to open a seditious conspiracy investigation into six Democratic lawmakers who advised military service members to defy unlawful orders, according to th...

Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

Toolkit: how we dealt with Border Patrol In November 2025, Border Patrol announced it would be coming to Charlotte, North Carolina. We only had a few days’ notice. Just like in Chicago and Los Angeles, they weren’t coming to “keep the peace....

This is a gift. Thank you to @siembranc.bsky.social for sharing this new toolkit with what they did when Border Patrol showed up in NC: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - share far and wide especially with our comrades in MN and LA (New Orleans esp).

Fuck this. Fuck. This.

I know people spend so much time talking about Jeffries and this bullshit but this man deserves to be primaried, removed from power, and chased out of Washington, D.C.

People like this continuing to hold power will only deliver a fascistic failure of a future.

Tech and data center construction firms are constantly looking for the path of least resistance, so it's great to see so many communities throw up obstacle after obstacle to make things difficult.

They're still being allowed, by our Dem governor, to build one in southern NM, which is also the same kind of desert, in the nation's poorest* state in a 1200-year drought.

*Poorest precisely because of decades of enabling bullshit people- and planet-killing harms like this.

So when Sabrina Carpenter rips the Trump White House for using her song in a disgusting video that glorifies migrant arrests, there's a much bigger story here going on behind it:

Mr. Seligson's long ordeal from being smeared as an anti-Semitic terrorist to having all charges dismissed is one that no one, let alone a journalist, should have to endure. This vindication is a belated but welcome admission by the prosecutors that Sam did not break any laws and conducted himself as a member of the press at all times.

BREAKING: Charges against indie videojournalist Samuel Seligson DROPPED.

First, judge vacated a terrorism charge for lack of grounds, then today dismissed felony charges, with DA offering ACD (impending dismissal) for misdemeanor criminal mischief.

Comment from lawyer Ron Kuby:

I have been thinking a lot about hie we are simultaneously told that the guys behind AI tech are the most brilliant ones to walk the earth — and yet they require the creative output of the rest of humanity to make their product go, and they resort to stealing it, to boot.

one of the heuristics that will basically never steer you wrong with ML or "AI" whatever is "are there humans who can do this task reliably at a high level?" If the answer is no, you almost certainly can't do it automatically either.

I feel like this is getting lost. It was illegal to start randomly blowing up fishermen in the first place.

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.

It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing