Janet D. Stemwedel

Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women

They really do think they are the only ones adding value to California and its economy.

Seriously, though:
We know billionaires are skilled at using their wealth to shield themselves from any consequences.
Can they use their wealth to expose ICE (or the federal government directing them) to appropriate consequences?

I hope it’s satire, but California billionaires are notoriously bad at reading the room, so … 🤷‍♀️

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Hey folks. All of my kids FAFSA info and applications for next year appear to have been erased. Does anyone know what is going on with the FAFSA website?

A minor traffic jam at the bike ride through Oakland yesterday. Lots of bikes. I covered faces with hearts.

During the anti-ICE ride thru Oakland we kept getting split by cars. At one light, a big dude on a motorcycle in full leathers watched us pass while revving his engine. We waved. He scowled.

20 min later we saw him again, scowling, blocking traffic for us as we turned down Broadway. Solidarity.

there has been no de-escalation.

The young Muslim woman detained in a locked Whipple bathroom with three men said she never thought this could happen to her. She saw America as a land of opportunity after a childhood in a refugee camp. She hopes to become a nurse or a flight attendant. Her criminal record, she said, consists of one speeding ticket. With Whipple's holding facilities filled, the woman said, agents eventually moved her to another locked bathroom by herself. There was an air vent at the door's bottom. When she saw federal agents' footsteps, she banged for help. On her third night of detention, agents took in two new detainees: an African immigrant and her 7-month-old baby girl. She said the immigrant told her they had been detained as the mother took her baby to a doctor to be treated for influenza.

"When the woman arrived, she was screaming and crying and yelling, 'My baby is already sick!' " she recalled. " 'I don't want my baby to die!' " The next morning, she said, the woman and baby were moved from the bathroom. It wasn't until her fourth day of detention when the young woman was allowed to use a phone at the facility. When she heard her mother's voice, she burst into tears. On the fifth day, agents drove her and two other recently released detainees to a light-rail station near Whipple. They took off her handcuffs and told her to call an Uber, even though she didn't have a phone. She borrowed one from another detainee. As they released her into the cold, she recalls their simple words: "You are good to go."

“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!

This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.

Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

This. He was a single-minded gross shameless grifter who relentlessly networked with money, collected overhyped academics and rich people like Hummel figurines, and sex trafficked children to them, w/support from his well-connected amoral helpmeet. Not brilliant but relentlessly focused on evil

I don’t think he was a brilliant mind at all. He was a pretty average mind with ideas that were truly repulsive, which men like Elon Musk—who is also far from brilliant, but shares such repulsive ideas—were attracted to. Few of them are actually that smart. They’re just sick and powerful

From: Robert Trivers To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Trans Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 04:52:10+0000 it is very simple-i will compare male to female with female to male with greater molecular control over development we are increasingly capable of producing novel phenotypes-more feminine men, by blocking testosterone receptors (or castration) and, at the same time, increasing estrogen production the one bocks male features, the second encourages female features more masculine women-heavy testosterone dosage incredible external effects, heavily bearded men, you would never guess they had a female bone in their body first kind male -> female is 4 times more frequent than female -> male the first is attractive he is a woman with a cock, so that if your fantasy is to suck a man's dick, otherwise you are completely heterosexual, it would be much nicer if the rest of the organism is female, then you get the best of both worlds so many transsexual women are very attractive and easily make money which in turn they assert promotes their prostitution since they have to pay hefty fees for injections every week, but they are sexually happy,--once you have reached manhood even castration does not prevent the sensation of organism contrast the poor female to male versions, they are unhappy and lonely they are men with mum-pums, the worst of both worlds if you like smelly masculine men, you want that hard cock that comes with the show you do not want one of nature's more complex and variable structures, the pum-pum-that is an acquired tasted and not with a man there are 100's of female Trans videos and websites, i have never seen a male one BTW we are now pushing the intervention earlier--so you notice your 3-year old son has trans tendencies, so now you intervene with hormones-i would be frightened to do that but who knows?

Please don't do this in alt text. If you're posting a screenshot of text, you need to transcribe the actual text. You can use tools like Google Lens if rereading the text makes you sick.

Essentially, the "it's okay to be thin" opinion pieces aren't about giving people permission to feel how they feel about their bodies. They're about reassuring people that their desire to be thin isn't the result of a profound, ubiquitous cultural bias against fatness & bigotry toward fat people.

Wanting to be thin isn’t a fringe perspective, nor is it edgy. It is the dominant narrative in a profoundly anti-fat culture. And in this particular moment, making media about how it’s okay to want to be thin also acts as de facto advertising for some of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

Have we romanticized the civil rights movement so much to think that the violence imposed on them was some great win? Yes, and that’s partly because there’s still not an understanding of the constant violence that occurred to spur the movement.

I know there are some folks who say it’s crucial to be “civil” when discussing fellow physicians

But if those physicians are senior MAGA/MAHA actors in the Trump regime—a regime that’s terrorizing & killing people—& if the MDs are dismantling public health, which will kill kids, MUST we be civil?

so the guy sharing gross transphobic slop with Epstein here is Robert Trivers, the scientist who invented the specious yet popular "parental investment" theory, in which sperm are cheap so men want to f*ck lots of women, but eggs are expensive so women are looking for a man with "good genes"...

Does anyone know what kind of gas they were using?

I’d sign a bajillion times if I could.

They don’t care at legacy newspapers, they don’t care in media rights orgs and frankly if you’re the wrong kind of Black ?

They don’t care in civil rights orgs

The actual experience of immigrants, Black immigrants and just Black people is something that’s not important or ?

A harm source

The project to distance Epstein’s associates and collaborators from his abuse, a project which has been taken on by the likes of Ezra Klein and people at the elite institutions that enabled Epstein, is a project to prevent fully understanding why abusers get away with it and how they can be stopped

So many states make it as hard as possible for people who fervently want to vote. Pretending otherwise is a huge disservice to them and to the many, MANY organizers working in their communities and supporting each other against a hostile state government.

This is so good to see. And now we have to keep fighting to stop the masked, gunwaving thugs that the administration has hired to commit these disgusting crimes.

Most represented university: Harvard (6 times, 8 if we include those who were in the Harvard Society of Fellows), MIT (4 times).
Most represented alma-mater: Harvard (3 times), U Penn (2 times).
10 out of these 16 scientists have spent some time at Harvard in their career.

U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Evidence Grows That AI Chatbots Are Dunning-Kruger Machines If you want to be even more convinced of your own convictions, talk it out with your favorite, sycophantic AI chatbot.

Interesting, but I suspect that it goes MUCH deeper. 40 years ago, the WORST Dunning-Kruger cases in school were always the computer science majors. futurism.com/future-socie...

Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.

Just to reiterate: loads of academics have fully successful careers without ever having to suck up to pedophiles (or Nazis, or whatever) for money.

I want to push back on the defeatest attitude that says this obsequiousness is required, because that's the surest way to make it *become* required.

If you are a Californian who doesn’t think throwing more money at OpenAI is a good use of state resources (or a useful intervention for learners in a teaching focused university system), add your voice.

Spectrum of Allies The Commons is an online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, organising, advocacy and justice.

I truly believe discourse about voters (especially those who may have voted for Trump) would go better on this app if everyone was using the spectrum of allies as a framework

commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...