Jocelyn Leitzinger

I'm editing a paper draft with my co-author and we're using Google docs, which I hate and try to avoid

Has its grammar and spelling recommendations gotten incredibly bad lately?

I can't believe how many of its "suggested changes" completely miss the meaning of words or create more grammar issues

It is chilling to watch Vance lie like this, to do it while laughing as if the protestors are really just so silly

They abducted a 5 year-old boy and used him as bait to lure more members of his family from their home. There is tons of media coverage

And he just laughs and calls the outrage a bit

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participan...

The people who bought CBS and lurched it into rightwing shit just bought TikTok (a major source of news) and trying to purchase CNN... They're attempting to consolidate the news to favor the right even more...

Ellison was a part of the 2020 coup attempt... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Those prices were at Fresh Thyme. Just tried going to Jewel Osco, thinking a more mainstream grocery store might be cheaper

😆😭

A jar of organic peanut butter was $10.99

A bag of gluten free flour was $12.99

Who can afford to eat anymore?

The House Ethics Committee found that Matt Gaetz did all of the horrible things previously claimed—sex trafficking minors, prostitution (including of minors), drugs, drunk driving, obstruction, the works. The Florida Bulldog has secured and published the House report this evening.

MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 43 Cities Across U.S. At least 43 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike

Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions have spread to at least 43 cities according to our strike tracking

Check our map here.

paydayreport.com/minneap/

For those outside the Twin Cities, the person posting this GoFundMe is a member of Minneapolis city council (and among the many locals doing absolutely heroic resistance to ICE), so it's legit.

I’m a High Schooler. AI Is Demolishing My Education. The end of critical thinking in the classroom

I love this article written by a high school student. It should be read by everyone going into teaching.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The silicon gaze: A typology of biases and inequality in LLMs through the lens of place - Francisco W. Kerche, Matthew Zook, Mark Graham, 2026 This paper introduces the concept of the silicon gaze to explain how large language models (LLMs) reproduce and amplify long-standing spatial inequalities. Draw...

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”.

ht: Dagmar Monett

Thanks for sharing!

ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months

1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees

ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals

Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care

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"Rather, we are arguing that AI’s current core functionality—that is, if it is used according to its design—will progressively exact a toll upon the institutions that support modern democratic life."

And yet, universities continue to run hand-in-hand with gen-AI companies towards their own demise

Google AI overview results of a search for Trump's doctored image showing Canada as part of the US. The results have several errors. Text: "This image captures a meeting in the Oval Office between then-U.S. President Donald Trump and European leaders in February 2020. The meeting involved discussions on trade and other transatlantic issues. Attendees included European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel. A map of North America overlaid with the American flag is visible in the background. The meeting took place shortly before the global COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted international travel and diplomacy."

I threw Trump's pic in google image search, and this is an excellent example of why you should never trust google's "AI" overview

What did it get wrong?

The original image was from August, 2025 and is a meeting including many European leaders

Charles Michel is not in the pic, left that role 2024

Post from Trump on Truth Social. Shows image of Trump sitting at his desk in the oval office, surrounded by 8 European leaders. To the left of Trump on an easel is a large map showing the US, Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela covered in American flags. The image is an AI doctoring of an image from August 2025

Looks like we're back to wanting to "acquire" Canada, too

Note that Venezuela is not just being "managed" by the US, but is flagged as part of the US

If nobody has the guts to remove him from office, somebody should at least take grandpa's phone away at night before he starts WWIII

25th Amendment: How do we decide whether the president is competent? | Brookings What do we do if the American president is senile, unhinged, dangerously impulsive, divorced from reality, suffering from short-term memory loss, likely to start a nuclear war and therefore dangerous ...

2018: "staffers regularly say things like “We’re not at 25th Amendment level yet.”

Trump is threatening to start a war with Denmark to colonize Greenland because an independent committee in Norway didn't give him a trophy

Surely we're at 25th Amendment level now

It’s one thing for Trump to write a tantrum letter to Norway over not getting a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s another thing that everyone around him let him send it. I know the USPS has Operation Santa but those letters don’t actually get mailed to the North Pole, you know what I mean?

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in NYC subways, under the Biden administration's direction, as ordered by Kathy Hochul, both Dems.

The National Guard is in NYC subways supposedly to "fight crime," even though NYC crime is at close to historic lows🤡

1000 troops have been there since March 2024

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

The Origins of the Word "Moron" Are Actually REALLY Sinister It's much more than just a casual insult.

I’m seeing increased use of this word and I just want to gently suggest that if there’s one word you can manage to remove from your vocabulary it should be this one.

It was coined by a eugenicist who used it as a diagnosis to forcibly institutionalize and sterilize mentally disabled people.

EU readies €93bn tariffs in retaliation for Trump’s Greenland threat Europe could also threaten to restrict US companies’ market access in run-up to crunch talks at Davos

Often, EU preference for compromise and joint, diplomatic solutions is confused with weakness. As Putin found out on support for Ukraine, this is a mistake. Trump will find out the same on Greenland:

Thanks. We have folks in our community giving vulnerable students rides to school, and a teacher shared that they were putting small stuffed animals on their dashboards to help kids identify safe cars. ICE picked up on it and started doing the same. Horrifying.

More examples of how protestors opposing the same thing (ICE raids) can adopt very different tactics across locations

I also saw a video of skiers wearing anti-ICE art projects in Minneapolis

Music is another interesting protest difference - Mariachi bands in LA, second lines in New Orleans

Calls for de-escalation training and body cams are just a continuation of their support - "carry on but don't be quite so violent about it"

Actually addressing this moment requires dismantling the current immigration system and building something that gives all humans dignity

Same with policing

Good summary of “don’t give him what he wants” from relatively comfortable white liberals.

I may have to officially treat Black women unemployment news the way I treat Black maternal health news. I already know the gist and reading it will just anger me so much that my blood pressure starts acting up.

Another example of location specific protest tactics. Some tactics spread (e.g. whistles, rapid response teams), while others reflect local culture

In Minneapolis, Native American communities are being targeted by ICE - which really highlights how the ICE raids were never about immigration

Sounds like you have an impressive ape index! Mine is -1, which is often frustrating for climbing

When ICE was in my neighborhood, I heard the whistles and was able to warn my neighbors' lawncare folks that ICE was nearby (they couldn't hear over the leaf blowers)

This is really interesting, thanks for sharing! It'a a good example of how tactics can be quite different across locations. In Chicago, whistles played an important role in protecting immigrants and were distributed by rapid response teams. They had whistle kit packing meetups at Mexican restaurants