Timothy Babulski, PhD

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

If your company’s AI can be used to create nude images of nonconsenting people then you should be subject to massive civil liabilities IMO.

Who is doing counter-recruitment organizing for ICE? As the economy worsens, those jobs and the loan forgiveness offer will become more attractive to unpoliticized individuals. There needs to be a clear social cost for even considering joining those ranks.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Columbia's fascist capitulation aligns with its union-busting.

When 2/3 of people teaching in higher ed in the US are contingent or part-time workers, it's not enough to task us with defending our institutions.

Institutions must also defend *us* from political, physical, and economic violence.

lmao this is so good for mamdani

It's an obligation schools across the South (and probably elsewhere) have shirked for decades.

The difference with AR, UT, and TX is that what used to be done by individual teachers/ administrators, often in communities with little tolerance for dissenting views, is now being mandated by state law.

At this point, with SCOTUS poised to scuttle voters' ability to make Section 2 claims, we must *restore* and *expand* the VRA.

We cannot return to the VRA as it was, we have to go further, starting with overturning Shelby (and Citizens United, McCutcheon, and Buckley v. Valeo while we're at it).

Every single issue we see with ICE (lack of accountability, ability to grab whoever they want off the street etc) was all made possible by the precedent set by policies around policing in the US.

There is a root to all authoritarianism. And if it isn't stopped, it gets worse. Simple.

We Dems never quite pull it off,

but if there was EVER a time to make absolutely certain that NO race in America goes without a Dem candidate it is now.

We need literally every drop of margin we can possibly get.

I mean it. Expect major shenanigans, and the more candidates we have, the better

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

Every Blue State must now Gerrymander to protect the Constitution.

80 Years Ago, Nuclear Annihilation Came to Japan

The death, destruction, and suffering endured by the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is unfathomable.

In a matter of days, so many beliefs and ideas were turned upside down.

About the power of science.

About what constitutes just warfare.

About the awful devastation human beings are capable of.

I always found it kind of weird that people who have been warning about fascism, genocide etc are treated as emotional/"hysterical."

It always seemed more to me that those who are afraid to see these things are ruled far more by their emotions than those willing to face the darkness.

We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects.

This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this.

Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal.

"The data were shared with Drop Site by whistleblowers frustrated over Meta’s support for Israel in conducting its genocide in the Gaza Strip. According to the whistleblowers, the data is indicative of Meta’s unethical and potentially illegal business practices more broadly."

UN experts call for immediate dismantling of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation 05 August 2025

41 UN experts call to immediately dismantle the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation."

Says it's "an utterly disturbing example of how humanitarian relief can be exploited for covert military and geopolitical agendas in serious breach of international law."

Calls to hold it & the executives accountable.

tRump wants you DUMB. Sections of the Constitution have been REMOVED from the White House Website.

Don’t be dumb. Fight back!! 🥊🩵🗳️

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Let's not use "hallucinate" or "lie" when we talk about ChatGPT. It can't make decisions, it doesn't have a conscious thought, it's not having a conversation with you.

It's regurgitating false information based on stolen content without context or nuance.

ChatGPT was found to promote self-harm— again.

@aft.org needs to seriously reconsider its embrace of AI. Sorry, @rweingarten.bsky.social, but there is no use getting in the driver's seat of a bus that's barreling straight off a cliff.

AI is anti-human, and teachers need to recognize the danger.

We should have the House right now. Let me say it again: we should have the House.

This ain’t just a Texas problem, it’s a national problem. They’re stealing seats to keep power, and that’s how we ended up with Speaker Johnson instead of Speaker Jeffries.

They can’t win fair, so they cheat.

Texas Democrats refuse to go back to the state as they face threats of arrest and expulsion | CBC Radio Texas Democrats say they're not worried about the bribery allegations, daily fines and arrest warrants being levelled against them as they hunker down in nearby states to delay a vote on a Trump-backe...

The fight for justice and democracy against an authoritarian force often starts this way. The options are few. The odds are long. It looks dicey. The only real path forward is the courageous path. We need more leaders who understand what this moment demands: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...

Now would be a good time to consider the utility of AI to autocracy, polluting the information space by flooding it with slop.

AI is designed to bypass critical and creative thought, relying on people's lack of discernment, actively subjecting its users to the rule of lies.

AI enables fascism.

The Voting Rights Act is 60 years old. Twelve years ago, the Supreme Court began chipping away at it. In months, it may issue the final death blow. Democratic backsliding creeps in until silence becomes complicity. We have an obligation to speak. We have a job to do. www.lwv.org/blog/its-our...

Apparently "some of your children are worthless eaters who deserve to die" is not the populist message the Washington Post and New York Times would have us believe

If you live in a blue state, it’s time to call on your state Democrats to fight fire with fire by readying new congressional maps: www.bluestatedefiance.org/redistrictin...

Dems should fight on every front.

If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts.

We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File.

Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

"HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA" = ☠️ | Matthew Cortland Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

We will all be sicker and poorer and worse off because they are turning biomedical research into a bonfire, lit with the torch of their lies about the COVID vaccines. These people hate us so much they'd rather die of cancer than allow us to live without fear.

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I introduced a motion to subpoena the Epstein files. We got the votes.

Today, we got the subpoena.

The DOJ has 2 weeks to release the Epstein files to the Oversight Committee. Justice must apply to everyone, no matter how rich, powerful, or well-connected they are.