Rebecca Zorach

ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical deta...

Source:
www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

In truth, it's quicker

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

HARVARD ALUMS

Construction on Trump’s $200 million White House ballroom to begin in September | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has been envisioning a new ballroom on the White House campus for a decade and a half.

ALERT!

The people's WH is a historic structure. What agency granted the permits specific to historic buildings? The multiple permits would be available to the public as the property is NOT privately owned.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks

www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/p...

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics

Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either

This is why we fight for *everyone*

Wow. A group of top scholars at Harvard just sent a letter to its president, Alan Garber, warning against surrendering to Trump.

Signatories include Steven Levitsky, Dani Rodrik, Ryan Enos, Theda Skocpol, and Steven Walt.

Someone forwarded it to me. Read it here:

LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.

New from me: LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy this week. The company says it's underlying rules have not changed but advocates say it's part of a trend to loosen rules meant to protect vulnerable users.

They colluded in part 1 of this, attacking young people who were just trying to do the right thing.

To point out one particular flaw: it has been documented that students--even female students--evaluate women professors more harshly than they do male professors. The Trump administration could easily harness such asymmetries to limit the number of female professors. (link to study below)

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

I've been involved in academic publishing for 20 years and have never heard of anything like this happening. You can claim that the censorship is all a coincidence, but in the face of repeated censorship on the same issue, it is simply not believable.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

For the far right, the first step is pinning American Jewish identity in the most absolute terms to all the actions of the state of Israel. The next step is condemning Israel's actions. What comes after that? Thanks, Democrats

Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record

The Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B'TSELEM, agonised long (too long in my view) and hard before coming up with this report and its crystal clear verdict: Israel is committing genocide. Nothing more needs to be said www.btselem.org/publications...

Scorching cells How heat threatens lives in America’s prisons

www.reuters.com/graphics/USA... - this is torture

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome.

Love, Allison

Cream ICE?

Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it? Training asks students to attribute the statement ‘every time I read Hitler, I fall in love’ to an ‘anti-Israel activist’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In the cafe having a rousing political conversation with strangers, as one does

Eugenics?

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Based on Chicago's experience, I predict it never happens

Gotta say that climate change religion is a lot more specifically predictive than most

And yet, he's out because he wasn't MAGA enough

People are treating it as a joke. An inappropriate one, but still a joke. Does he mean it as a joke?

Friction and not being touched The journalist Karen Hao – who published an absolutely fantastic book about OpenAI called “Empire of AI” recently – coined (as far as I know) one of the best terms for describing modern “AI” systems: Everything Machines. “AI” systems are not framed as specific tools that solve specific problems in specific ways but just as […]

I wrote about frictionlessness and "AI". The essay is admittedly a bit of a weird ride trying to connect a few very distinct thoughts. I hope it's still worth reading.
https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/

ICE Has Jailed a Green Card Holder for Over a Week, Denied Him Access to Lawyer The scientist was detained without explanation upon returning from his brother’s wedding in South Korea.

When you get chronically ill from Lyme disease remember that you could have had a vaccine for it except for all the winning truthout.org/articles/ice...?

"Actually that child is only dying of an untreated medical condition." Listen to yourself. Record yourself and play it back like Tobias from Arrested Development.