“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”
Every progressive over ~30 is dealing with massive, MASSIVE Iraq and Afghanistan (imperialistic) (invasions) War gaslighting and fatigue right now... along with the horror of yet more blood on our hands.
Some of us were always against this shit. Some of us protested it. And... here we go again. 🤬
Everyone in this country MUST watch Let the Fire Burn. Period.
www.pbs.org/independentl...
But it does loop back to the opening statement about the structural problems - when liberal arts colleges start relying on large lecture courses- you are going to lose the scaffolding assignments.
02.03.2026 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Respectfully many folks in the humanities do this already & don’t need to learn it from STEM
“ask students to submit outlines, drafts, prompt histories,& short decision logs narrating what they tried, where they used tools, & how they verified claims. When process counts, shortcuts lose value”
From Tulsa to Philly, this country has proven that it will bomb its own Black citizenry.
(Need to find that video where two Gen Z progressive influencers recorded their MAGA parents saying they would be fine with Trump bombing LA. 😡 We desperately need a program of denazification in this country.)
We have invented technologies, from axes to helicopters, that boost our physical capabilities; and others, like spreadsheets, that automate complex tasks; but we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence.
And they cite Mollick, “the AI expert and bestselling author of Co-Intelligence,” not once, not twice, but thrice. The same guy who believes that “we have never built a generally applicable technology that can boost our intelligence”…
02.03.2026 17:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Here's your friendly reminder that 81% of Black Americans were against the Iraq invasion in 2003, and we're overrepresented in the military, which is why the % wasn't higher.
For a group the whole world believes is uneducated, we seem to be VERY politically savvy.
progressive.org/op-eds/afric...
From the archives as Ethiopia marks the 130th anniversary of the victory at Adwa.
open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...
My eyebrows just hit the ceiling
02.03.2026 17:09 — 👍 246 🔁 59 💬 5 📌 1Much 1984
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Here's @adambonica.bsky.social on the hilarious ways the NY Times determines who is "moderate" and who is "progressive"
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...
Shoutout to @mattparr.bsky.social for bringing the plan for this collection to me & making it happen at @libraryofamerica.bsky.social!
02.03.2026 17:31 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Since someone was claiming in my mentions this morning that no one is getting kidnapped in Maine anymore, here’s some video from Thursday: www.instagram.com/reel/DVRDgFD...
02.03.2026 17:36 — 👍 45 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 0“Campus left” is usually code for some young person really annoyed with their opinion on politics. It’s as misused as woke and millennial.
02.03.2026 17:40 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
french laundry exterior
I just found a 2024 charge for $1,348.03 to French Laundry - the 3 Michelin star restaurant in California - in Arizona ESA reimbursements.
02.03.2026 17:34 — 👍 33 🔁 17 💬 6 📌 4normal caveats about wealth measures vs GSP aside, we should not be surprised that the elite impunity political environment has been good economically for the people on top, and that all of this is not solely about getting to say slurs during business hours
02.03.2026 17:54 — 👍 651 🔁 152 💬 7 📌 0My comrade @benpassmore.bsky.social explores the Move Bombing & more in his fabulous GN Black Arms to Hold You Up! He & I will be talking about the book & the legacy of armed resistance with John Vasquez Mejias at MoCCA on March 29th at noon.
02.03.2026 18:04 — 👍 21 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2In TVU, I wrote about this as a way of producing a viral underclass (at the time, at the level of US states--now it is at the level of nations). Trans ppl COULD get medical care under medical supervision w sterile tools. Instead, their bodies are opened up to harms & pathogens of the black market
02.03.2026 09:10 — 👍 38 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0For the love of god, please learn to express disagreement on this app without talking like an absolute piece of shit who can’t understand that the person on the other end is a thinking, feeling human too
02.03.2026 13:12 — 👍 1551 🔁 164 💬 17 📌 27Ombre French tip feathers? She's a couture bird, for sure
02.03.2026 14:06 — 👍 375 🔁 46 💬 5 📌 0He’s a community college dropout. Not exactly the person you want to highlight on the dept of education’s building.
02.03.2026 14:28 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Weird that more than one person interprets “don’t dehumanize” to mean “don’t hold responsible” and “don’t demand accountability“
Is dehumanization responsibility and accountability? Are there people who really believe that?
Incarcerated workers are paid so little, it can take thousands of hours to afford filing fees
"I can only hope that the next time indigent prisoners facing this issue raise nearly $1,000 each just for the opportunity to knock on this Court’s door, my colleagues will choose to open it" heartbreaking
I thought that was Jared Leto.
02.03.2026 05:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃
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The emphasis on education in the Black community is very real.
The first HBCU was founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia (now Cheney University). Founded with a Quaker bequest, the faculty were all Black from the start. #HATM
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02.03.2026 03:11 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"
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