Reposted by Bryan VictorRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 13/08/2025National Guard chatter from the front lines in Georgetown: “You got eyes on this?” “Could be a weapon.” “Hold.” “What are you seeing?” “Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.” “OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.” 34614107
Reposted by Bryan VictorJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist. 718260207060
Reposted by Bryan VictorChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 07/06/2025ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥 If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back. 858144984061
Reposted by Bryan VictorJess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025It's...interesting that the US media is so eager to condemn Biden and his handlers for hiding his aging and not for openly being an accessory to genocide. (Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.) 119810
Reposted by Bryan VictorSocial Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 13/05/2025Alex Lawson: We're outside the Energy & Commerce committee with folks risking arrest to protest the destruction of Medicaid which is what Republicans are doing right now in the committee room. 301355459
Reposted by Bryan VictorAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term! 671155394
Reposted by Bryan VictorLarry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels. 514484
Bryan Victor @bryan-victor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Wrote about the arrival of mental health chatbots with @laurigoldkind.bsky.social and the enduring importance of human practitionerstandfonline.comThe Therapist in the Machine: Confronting AI’s Challenge to Clinical Social WorkPublished in Journal of Technology in Human Services (Ahead of Print, 2025) 010
Bryan Victor @bryan-victor.bsky.social · 06/05/2025I’ll be helping to edit a new speciality series at JSSWR on AI + SW. Would welcome submissions broadly, including those that consider wholesale or targeted prohibition of AI deployment within practice.journals.uchicago.eduIntroducing a New JSSWR Specialty Series on Artificial Intelligence and Social Work | Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research 020
Reposted by Bryan VictorJosh Block @joshablock.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Hopefully this also finally prompts universities to find some backbone to stand up against similar unlawful threats. 08319
Reposted by Bryan VictorAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 21/03/2025Grant cancelled? 👇 3245132
Reposted by Bryan VictorMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on. 774272415568
Reposted by Bryan VictorLiam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 16/03/2025This is good but why is it written by six individual faculty and not by the presidents of 400 US universities 417938
Reposted by Bryan VictorMax Lamparth, Ph.D. @mlamparth.bsky.social · 26/02/2025🚨 New paper! Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making. 🧵 Thread: 2113
Reposted by Bryan VictorJonathan Feingold @jpygold.bsky.social · 21/02/2025We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...app.box.comOGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box 1014754
Reposted by Bryan VictorKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17/02/2025JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 95130372840
Reposted by Bryan VictorBeth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025For a straightforward explanation of the sheer illegality of everything going on, @sbagen.bsky.social has you covered.buttondown.comWhy Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?By Samuel Bagenstos NYU Law professor Noah Rosenblum posted on Bluesky yesterday that “[t]here has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short)... 312747
Bryan Victor @bryan-victor.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Come close out #SSWR2025 by strategizing with us on how to end the harm to our profession caused by the ASWB exams. 0101