Stephen Francoeur

Trump admin "disappeared" a gay stylist for propaganda. He hasn't been heard from since Asylum-seeker Andry José Hernández Romero hasn't been heard from in 4 months despite never being accused of a crime.

I wrote about the disappearance of Andry José Hernández Romero, who hasn’t been seen or heard from in more than four months. www.salon.com/2025/07/16/t...

Quote tweeting w alt text because we need to properly communicate emergency messages

National Weather Service flash flood warning for all 5 boroughs of NYC. Spread the word and stay safe!

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h/t @johnhubbard.bsky.social on Library Link of the Day

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

Domestic terrorists…

Ugh, so sorry to hear about your experience there.

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat.

My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

What's the best evidence that free speech is dying in America? That a US Attorney could do this:
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WeaveUX Vol 8, No 1 is now available! Start reading here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/weaveux/issu...

The Great Language Flattening Chatbots learned from human writing. Now it’s their turn to influence us.

Gift link to the Atlantic article about gen AI producing a flattening of language. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Maybe they'll be to my audience a pleasant reassurance that the text was in fact composed by a human, not gen AI. (2/3)

An article about the way gen AI might lead to a flattening of our language made me think twice about my increasingly frequent typos I thoughtlessly insert into all manner of written communication. 1/3

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article) DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.

But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.

My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

And it’s not the only journal getting this inquiry.

Higher Ed, funding agencies, libraries, scholarly journals- even Wikipedia for heaven’s sake. Targeting the entire infrastructure of knowledge making and sharing.

I am assuming that the web address featured in the email is compromised by malware or some phishing scam.

Screenshot of email invite to contribute to a journal called "Cattle Practice."

This librarian who has published on digital reference services and also library history is calling bullshit on this invitation to contribute a paper to Cattle Practice.

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Don’t overthink this.
He’s asking for bribes.

The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech The Secretary of Education Linda McMahon will speak at the ASU+GSV Summit next month. The conference makes no mention in its blurb promoting the Secretary's appearance of what happened last week: Pre...

"Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" -- some thoughts on the dangerous, anti-democratic politics of ed-tech 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-dangerou...

AI bots are destroying Open Access There's a war going on on the Internet. AI companies with billions to burn are hard at work destroying the websites of libraries, archives, ...

C'mon librarians! Please get past the naive excitement about all these gen AI services. The companies behind them are not our friends or allies. "AI Bots Are Destroying Open Access." go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2025/03/ai-b...

It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill.

People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games.

They know exactly what is going on.

Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.

“No students are allowed to bring their own personal or public library copies of any of the state’s banned books onto school campuses. Student freedom to even carry these books to class for their own free reading is against the law.”

Free speech is always about who’s allowed to make a ruckus

H/t Shaakirrah Sanders

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Christian Marclay: The Clock | MoMA Exhibition. Through May 11. Encapsulating 100 years of moving-image history, Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour montage composed from thousands of film and television clips depicting cl...

Don't miss a chance at MoMA to see the Clock, a rarely shown video installation by Christian Marclay. www.moma.org/calendar/exh...

An ECONOMIC BLACKOUT IS HAPPENING ON FEBRUARY 28. AND NEWS OF IT IS SPREADING ACROSS THE BOARD.

The instruction: Don't buy ANYTHING on February 28. If you need something that week, plan ahead.
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What's the difference between firing someone "for DEI" and firing them because they are Black?

Resist List Noncooperation Database DELVE DEEPER WITH MOVEMENT RESEARCHERS’ DATABASES AND COMPILATIONS OF ACTION Researcher Jeremy Pressman is writing semi-regular reports about...

I love the term "hopescrolling," which I learned from this great new site: choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/