Amy Woodson-Boulton

An inflatable elephant and penguin say NO KINGS in front of the Indivisible Westside LA banner in Santa Monica

EMPEROR PENGUIN SAYS NO KINGS!

#NoKingsSantaMonica

Inflatable penguin cheerfully standing in front of line of helpful mounted police in Santa Monica. Sign reads “EMPEROR PENGUIN SAYS NO KINGS”

Emperor penguin says NO KINGS!

#NoKingsSantaMonica
#NoKings

Sign: THIS IS LITERALLY THE PLOT OF ANDOR

Some of our favorite signs at #NoKingsSantaMonica

This is LITERALLY the plot of Andor.

One of our fave call-backs to Season 1, at a protest in LA back in March.

I REALLY DO CARE, DON'T YOU

CARING IS COOL, babes

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?

You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?

Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?

After Darwin Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - After Darwin

This is an (admittedly belated) appreciation post for @doctorwaffle.substack.com & @devo3000.bsky.social & all the amazing essays they put together for their incredible volume AFTER DARWIN. What thoughtful and thought-provoking work. THANK YOU!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Shout out to @cityofsantamonica.bsky.social for closing up a mysterious "high voltage street lighting" cover with dangerous protruding wires after I contacted #311! Thank you for getting on that quickly!

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

YouTube video by SimonGarfunkelVEVO Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer (Audio)

In times of struggle. 💙🫂🌟
The Boxer.

YouTube video by MSNBC Trump admin is like a “cartoon throwing thumbtacks in the road” impeding renewable energy process

I talked about rising electricity bills & the need for clean electrification on #WITHpod with @chrislhayes.bsky.social. AI & data centers are spiking electricity demand, & the Administration is restricting the building of renewable energy. Prices are going up. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f653...

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Start your day right as you conduct a symphony of anti-fascist waving & honking! 🎶📢 💪

Remind your neighbors that WE ARE THE MAJORITY AND WE’RE NOT GIVING UP!!

I cannot emphasize this enough:

The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent.

They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so.

Doomers are not realists.

This is the best start to the day! Join us!

Help us HOLD THE LINE!!

THIS SATURDAY 9/26
10am-12pm

Show up to send the message that CA stands together in peaceful resistance! ❤️✌️

TOGETHER we are going to HOLD THE LINE!

castrongholdtheline.org

After Stephen Miller and others turned a memorial service into a celebration of their own hate, after we showed our power to make Disney back down from canceling Kimmel, let's remind MAGA (again) that CA will Hold the Line for our people and our state.

9/27, 10am to 12 pm

castrongholdtheline.org

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Double Cross NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “superb [and] intensely readable” (The Washington Post) untold story of one of the greatest deceptions of World War II and the extraordinary spies who achieved it - fro...

HOT TIP!! Fascism survival strategy: read (or listen to!) books about fighting Nazis! This week I’ve enjoyed Double Cross, by Ben MacIntyre, and am now onto A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell. Both checked out from my local library! 🙌

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I’m kind of starting to think that any democratic uprising by the people is going to include a full-on rejection of tech and its makers. Just throwing these machines into a river and holding the designers responsible.

So, again, it's worth pointing out that one of the authors of this piece, David Keith, created and then sold the carbon removal company "Carbon Engineering" to Occidental Petroleum, who *VERY EXPLICITLY* intend to use it to expand fossil fuel extraction.........

ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/c...

Omg this

The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.

Many Americans think global warming will harm them, but more think others will be harmed Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication; George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication

ICYMI:

Many Americans think climate change will devastate future generations, the world’s poor, and nature — but far fewer believe it will harm them personally. This “it won’t happen to me” bias delays action, even as climate chaos grows in that country.

Source: climatecommunication...

They are not aware of the energy and water use implications. I’m not always sure they know about the hallucinations or untrustworthiness.

The swift rollout and ubiquity is exactly to make it impossible to root out and normalize as quickly as possible. Same with Waymo, same with e-scooters, etc.

I’m hearing from surprising friends that they are using AI. I am floored. I don’t know how they trust it.

But it is also clear that 1) it is helping them navigate systems that are otherwise too complicated (legal compliance, medical care) and 2) they just think of it as yet another tech tool

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing This fall, the new luddites are rising

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement

against-a-i.com

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Opinion | How We the People Lost Control of Our Lives, and How We Can Get It Back

"constitutional conventions have been abandoned. What if we decided to take tools out of toolbox on the 250th anniversary for 1 purpose: addressing challenges AI poses to fundamental law, consent of the governed, equal rights, life, liberty+the pursuit of happiness?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...