Eileen Galvez (she/ella)

Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

This is an embarrassment for Yale. It’s a grime time and things are going to keep getting grimmer if universities jump at shadows from fear of Trumpism.

If you teach at Yale I sure hope ChatGPT doesn’t say you kidnapped the Lindbergh baby or something.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/u...

Los Angeles Times + @Latimes Follow Rents likely to balloon in wake of L.A. wildfires, experts say

Now this, this is looting. Ain’t nobody gonna be arrested for it either.

I once saw a talk about the fact that faculty of color are more likely to have appointments across multiple departments, which can also be predictive of tenure struggles, because 2x service, attending meetings, and showing your face + issues with letter writers. Does anyone know this work?

Graffiti wall art by @Steeke13. Text reads “THANK YOU FIREFIGHTERS”

Seen in Venice Beach today

How the Latino community in Los Angeles is mobilizing to help support fire victims Thousands of firefighters are battling at least four sprawling wildfires spread around the Los Angeles area as of Sunday.

My story for ABC News on how LA’s Latino community is mobilizing to help those impacted by the wildfires #LAStrong #Wildfires

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I’m sorry but the fact that Congress is about to throw immigrants under the bus at the very same time that countless immigrants in California are risking their lives to protect neighborhoods many of them could never aspire live in is breaking my brain in a whole new way.

I’ve been anxious getting updates from my family in LA. Some had to evacuate. My young nephew was scared but distracted himself with his toys. Thankfully they were spared. Back in ‘92 I was 5 and had to escape the fires. We lost everything. Heartbroken to see LA on fire again, this time from afar 💔

I can’t wait to read it

Why do AI profiles need to be made in the first place when the initial point of social media was to connect with REAL people?

Why do digital Black face and make the AI appropriate Black queer women? Just evil.

Anytime I have those feelings I know it’s important. You got this, Doc!

Algorithms of oppression in live AI

For those not paying attention to El Salvador now might be a good time to start. What has Bukele done that Musk says "needs to happen" in the US: Suspension of due process, total militarization of the country, mass arbitrary imprisonment, mass torture and death in custody...

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

For the past year, @propublica.org has been reporting on the toll when a city "sweeps" an encampment. We handed out cards so folks could write in their own words what it meant to have their belongings trashed.

We're publishing dozens of those stories here:

projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

Omg, I love this, congratulations!

The Plaintiff Who Secured Academic Freedom Sees Echoes of ‘Red Scare’ Today - PEN America Keyishian's sacrifice helped make the modern American definition of academic freedom possible.

PEN America's @jeremycyoung.bsky.social talks to Dr. Harry Keyishian, lead plaintiff in Keyishian v. Board of Regents, the landmark case that established academic freedom as a “special consideration” affording professors at least as much freedom of speech as other citizens: pen.org/the-plaintif...

I was part of several media activist campaigns over decades to secure net neutrality, and can't begin to tell you how destructive this will be to journalism, public health, democracy (+art/popcult,etc)

Net neutrality was crucial BEFORE local news died, before disinformation age.

Now? Holy hell.

Between 3 and 4 people a day. Every day.

Today’s must-read, Chris Newfield’s sobering piece on the lack of funding for humanities research and the questions of epistemic injustice it raises, in the first issue of the Public Humanities journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Folks - what are your favorite books/articles on the university? Teaching a course on the theory and politics of the uni next semester. Thanks in advance!

We Demand by Rod Ferguson, Decolonizing the University by George Sefa Dei, Dehumanist Education & the Colonial Uni by Snaza & Singh, a shameless plug for a co-authored piece called (Re)Imagining Anti-Colonial Ethics in Research & Practice, and of course, Refusing the University by yours truly 🙂

The Ida B. Wells Society Summer 2025 Investigative Internship Program is back and bigger than ever!

We're partnering with 17 newsrooms to give talented students and recent grads hands-on journalism experience. HBCU & MSI students are encouraged to apply!
https://buff.ly/49bTkas

Opinion | How Higher Education Can Win America Back Jefferson believed in the egalitarian potential of education, and we should, too.

Michael Roth, "Elite education has lost the trust of many Americans, in no small part because of how it solidifies the advantages of wealth...It doesn't have to be this way."

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/o...

Republicans Have Crashed a National Economy Before To Enable Power Grabs and Privatizations Lessons from Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet

“Pinochet’s son-in-law Julio Ponce, who ran the government agency in charge of those privatizations, was given a chemical company with a $67 million annual profit (a gift that later made him a billionaire), and Jorge Aravena, another son-in-law, got a large insurance agency.”

Multiple LASD deputies taken off job as feds investigate trans man’s beating, alleged cover-up Days after a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy agreed to plead guilty to beating a transgender man for flipping him off, at least eight colleagues have been relieved of duty amid the invest…

Multiple LASD deputies taken off job as feds investigate trans man’s beating, alleged cover-up
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Former Yale president Rick Levin becoming CEO of Coursera, a for-profit org, after his tenure was testing ground to the state we’re in today. In-person, high level of engagement for the “elites” and video recordings for the masses aka MOOCs. Sales of a facade of privileged accessibility.

Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.

Scientists at RAND warn that H5N1 bird flu poses increasing risks in the U.S., with human cases of unknown origin and widespread animal transmission.

They stress the urgent need for nationwide measures to prevent a potential mutation enabling human-to-human transmission.