things are terrible, but after a lengthy campaign the bill providing collective bargaining rights to nontenure track faculty at university system of Maryland institutions has passed the state general assembly and is now awaiting the Governor's signature.
mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/L...
Holy schamoly it’s real. That absolute garbage that Microsoft forced down everybody’s throats last year (and illegally charged Office subscribers without asking, then withdrew when threatened with legal action), is now revealed as being ‘for entertainment purposes only.’
*Clippy* was entertaining.
The bottom line is Trump sacrificed 8 American lives (& counting) and more than 1,000 Iranian lives (& counting) for nothing. He hurt the US & global economies, destabilized the Middle East, & will pull out with the same Iranian regime in power. There's no silver lining.
A senseless, criminal waste
Samuel Gerald Collins: Stuck in the Turing Matrix: Inauthenticity, Deception and the Social Life of AI https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11613 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.11613 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.11613
1. These companies continued to advertise on X as Grok generated nonconsensual sexualized images of kids (and adults).
We contacted all of them for comment. All 37 either declined to comment or did not respond.
NFL
Shein
NBA
Outback Steakhouse
Burger King
ESPN
(Con't)
AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”
Y'all, I just got out of the NSF-BIO webinar where they explained changes to peer review. It's not good. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/changes-to-n...
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
Big crowd gathered for No Kings protest in Towson, MD
Huge congratulations to Towson University YDSA for pulling off an amazing #Nokings rally! @ydsa
"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"
The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:
link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
RFK Jr. is an outright danger to this country, and he should resign or be fired. Do we still have the sort of government that does such things? Or have we turned into. . . that other kind. You know the one.
Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise.
📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.
The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism.
The text of the 1970 poem "Fascist States" by Wiktor Woroszylski
A 1970 poem 'Fascist States' by Wiktor Woroszylski (transl. Natalia Osiatynska)
NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.
A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:
An eloquent image:
Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults.
I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.
I am honored to announce the release of groundbreaking @freepress.bsky.social research & analysis with our inaugural "Media Capitulation Index" which examines how major corporate media companies are bending the knee to Trump & those in power. Check out the rankings & @timkarr.bsky.social analysis:
This is a cover up of epic proportions.
é realmente digno o esforço em romper com a dependência das techs estadunidenses
And if you or someone you know plans to exercise your right to protest in the coming days, WIRED has published numerous guides on how to protest safely.
Read one here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
School teachers have to struggle to get supplies for their classrooms and pay out of their own pockets to provide basic items and tools, meanwhile ICE that is of no value to society is given $140 billion of your tax dollars to terrorize school children and communities.
For those who didn't understand what's an injuction is and why it matters. @elienyc.bsky.social explains it in this @thenation.com article. #academicsky
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
Definitely worth the read!!!
