Carrie Naughton

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

The underlying logic is that the fascistic version of “protection” is a paternalistic code for “control.”

There is an inherent autonomy violation. And we know what happens once violating someone’s autonomy is normalized.

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them

The latest issue @interruptcrim.bsky.social This Month in Criminalization newsletter is out & chock full of actions you can take in the face of the firehose of horrible flooding your timeline. Just pick 1 thing you can do on Palestine & 1 on another issue you care about

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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for UN food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) is run by Trump evangelicals who are openly killing Palestinians and shouldn’t receive a dime from our government.

dissociation and gay smut books

The last time they did this people got killed from air dropped packages landing on their tents. Also, this is the most degrading way to deliver assistance to people and there are very good reasons why we don’t do food distributions like this anymore as a regular practice.

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest Video from Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 18, puts fresh scrutiny on the harsh tactics used to reach the Trump administration’s ambitious enforcement targets

This is the moment we're in:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I think it’s worth noting this piece generated the most unsubscribes I’ve seen in a while, and the newsletter version had the lowest open rate in many months. These horrors persist in part because too many people go to great pains to avoid them.

Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza

Join any of the upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social is running to benefit the Sameer Project's active, crucial work inside Gaza (linktr.ee/thesameerpro...). Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach one. Learn more: www.workshops4gaza.com/workshops

As a person who protested in front of Cracker Barrel in the early 90s, this is the height of surrealism

Stephen Colbert replies to Trump’s post on Truth Social:

“How dare you sir? Would an untalented man be able to compose the following satirical witticism? Go fuck yourself.”

Start here: Who profits from obscuring the true causes of homelessness? Whose financial interests are served by shifting blame from those driving the crisis to those forced to suffer through it?

I heard a smart person, a guest on a show, asking: what’s the point of these immigration raids and deportations?

The point is white nationalism at any cost. Please stop pretending we don’t know this. You can’t solve a problem if you don’t name it.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

The move to cancel one of television’s last remaining crown jewels of broadcast programming came just days after Colbert publicly criticized CBS’s corporate owner, Paramount, for agreeing to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to settle an outrageous $20 billion lawsuit against the company.

this is getting next to no media attention and it’s horrifying. transphobes weren’t going to stop at bathrooms, no hormones for minors, they are going to keep pushing until it’s entirely illegal and no one is standing up for us other than trans people

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

After promising it wasn't on the chopping block, DOGE moved to kill the IRS free tax filing tool days after meeting with corporate lobbyists.

www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Texas has banned talking on college campuses at night | Opinion Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law a bill will ban speech at night — from study groups to newspaper reporting — at the state's public universities.

Greg Abbott signed a law that bans talking at night because when you gotta stop campus protests over Israel's genocide in Palestine, you gotta whole hog violate people's first amendment rights.

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

For the "nothing matters" crowd, this work does matter. Making life unpleasant for those who contract with violence-makers does make some people stop (if not for moral reasons then because it makes the business unpleasant!)

Infographic showing that most of the 35 births in jails that were documented by news over 10 years took place inside a jail cell.

Among the 35 jail births identified in the news over 10 years, at least two-thirds of them occurred inside jail cells.

Those are horrifying conditions for anyone – let alone someone who is in labor.

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/07...

Every single story you are hearing from the Everglades Concentration Camp has been and is already taking place in hundreds of prisons and jails in the U.S. That's what PIC abolitionists have been trying to get the public to understand for decades.

New York Times guest essay “is it time to stop snubbing your right-wing family?”

Wild that right-wing families somehow aren’t to blame for their longstanding and systematic snubbing of queer and lefty children.

anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately