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Septima P. Snark

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DisCrit-Critical Educator-Black Asian Feminist exploring intersections, searching for Justice-Yogini-Tweets=mine. She/Her Author-Pedagogy of Pathologization 🍉

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h
I absolutely believe you will see more stories about the kookie left and radical socialists in the coming weeks. And a lot of attention on various kinds of unruly women.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars
Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And it isn’t that they couldn’t figure out a middle ground — it’s that there isn’t one. It’s hard work getting normal people who haven’t signed up for a degree program or similar to rework their entire understanding of themselves just so they can program an ai agent to do a task.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The week’s dinners. <— laughs in woman.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can’t say strongly enough that these are not realistic scenarios for the people I observed and, based on data about family lives, almost anyone else we might consider normal and/or not rich.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Right? AI is a non-consent theft machine built on stolen labor of creators, whose work is fed in, and the global south workers, who train the models. To hear, it is also stealing the unpublished work of those that feed their work into their models isn't surprising. AI is a practice of ethics evasion
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Ethics displacement-or I think of it as Ethics Evasion- is what we need to be centering in many discussions about AI.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 27/09/2026
Midterms are around the corner, and the way local law enforcement collaborates with ICE is on the ballot. New guide by @boltsmag.org outlines the races across the U.S. that could reshape Trump's deportation agenda👇
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a thread about erasure of women's expertise and work in this area. As often happens, erasure comes together with overexposure. >>
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Even if you don't take linguistics & computational linguistics as technical expertise (as Adam points out we should, thank you Adam), Dr. @timnitgebru.blacksky.app has a PhD from Stanford's AI lab, on top of BS & MS degrees from Stanford in EE, and worked as an engineer at Apple. >>
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
People were like no, using genAI doesn't deskill you. And then *all* the CEO's started announcing that not only is deskilling the explicit goal, but then they brag that they don't know how to toast a poptart
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, e.g.: often deciding how much local assistance ICE gets. So I worked all year on whittling down the thousands (!) of these races happening in 2026 to find the ones that matter most. NEW TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal November races.
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The 25 Sheriff and Prosecutor Races Set to Shape Criminal Justice and ICE Collaboration - Bolts
Voters face stark choices for offices with vast powers on policing and punishment. Bolts walks you through key contests to watch across a dozen states.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 25/09/2026
Good morning from the ICE facility in Broadview, IL. As ICE vehicles trickle in and out of the lot, a small group of Chicagoland locals are holding a prayer service for those impacted by deportation efforts. The area around the facility is open, contrasting prior months of "protest zones."
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
This. This. This. Especially the ones that say they care about marginalized communities.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Millionaires and billionaires ain’t gonna save us; if they were, they would’ve done it already. The ones who will help, are going to be regular people. You and me. People with good hearts. Showing up in a million and a billion little ways.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Yes. And This is what I mean when I say that white supremacy + ableism is the foundation of these AI models. There is an assumption of Black inferiority in AI that is then “caught” by AI surveillance tools or even folks trolling Black people for AI usage.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The customer is always wrong, now” is a great way to capture how specialize finance has ruined everything from our favorite store to your political process. Margins are now the only customer. The only voter. We have but one real way to exert power over any of it anymore.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 24/09/2026
Overton is Trump's nominee to be the next head of the FDA. She just said Trump's mandate for her, if confirmed, is to "go fast." As a reminder, the FDA is currently conducting a "review" of the abortion drug mifepristone. Overton has called abortion pills "dangerous."
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FDA Pick Called Abortion Pills ‘Dangerous,’ Texas Abortion Funds Head Back to Court: August 24 News Roundup
Plus, a former federal prosecutor said she was fired for pursuing cases against people who blockaded abortion clinics.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Eugenics=white supremacy + ableism That may feel obvious, but we need to understand that within those who talk about better humans is someone who believes in the inherent superiority of whiteness in learning, thinking & behavior. They've now captured the government & tech to institute their beliefs
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Toni Morrison on book banning: “[Banning] stuck me as a purist yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children. Amputate the problem, band-aid the solution.”
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again? How utterly boring!! The Toni Morrison estate just grows and grows as puny people, with puny minds, drunk on the illusion of their power, give readers continued reason to keep buying this book, which broadens their horizons, expands their consciousness, and secures its legacy and longevity.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
I'm gonna do a recap of this week when I get a breather because the hype DDOS strikes daily 🙄 As for the whole CRISPR Dario "discovery" announcement:
Fome @at_fome

I work in CRISPR discovery research. This is one of the most exaggerated nothing-burgers ever and would be laughed out of the room if a human scientist attempted to publish something like this. (cont.)

quote tweeting Min Choi (@minchoi) 

This is wild.

Claude just found something humans missed.

It spotted a hidden repeat pattern in raw bacteriophage DNA...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
did the AI executive write thi—oh yes, yes, that's exactly who
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
The man is literally prosecuting a sitting US congresswoman for doing her job in trying to inspect a detention center carrying out a monstrous and unpopular policy, like, what do you mean let him save face?
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
“Let Donald Trump save face” is how you got January 6 *and* why faced no consequences for doing it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Austin American-Statesman @statesman.com · 23/09/2026
Austin-area students walked out of class on Tuesday to protest the shooting of Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez by federal immigration officers. www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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Diana Parker-Kafka @dianaparker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They want dead Black babies and we will still not see this admin and the words ‘white supremacist’ together in the msm
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:
Cover of the September-October issue of Mother Jones Magazine: a white background with the words "50 years of fearless journalism" in black print, centered above the name/logo of the magazine in large Bright Red. Below that in black, the words "the southern strategy — jim crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court."

And then, framing those words, there are two sets of robes: to the left, the simple black robes of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government, as a Supreme Court Justice might wear; to the right, the white robes and hood of the KKK.

A white person's hand with cuff of business suit and shirt visible, reaches into the scene from the right, poised to grab the Klan robes.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a 2006 sex crime in New York.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Justice for Nolan Wells.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
I'm up early to work out before I head to campus and teach. Just realized my tights are on backwards! lucky I workout at home. #BlackSkyFitness
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The Rascals Kid: Crush It!
Alt: The Rascals Kid: Crush It!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.
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Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records
Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Catching up on the news at the of the day is traumatic.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
9th Cir. holds that it violated due process to deny bond hearings for asylum seekers who entered without admission/parole, were screened for expedited removal, and who were found to have a credible fear of persecution or torture. Thuraissigiam does not apply. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
In sum, the government’s strictly circumscribed detention authority, a pillar of our common law tradition for almost a millennium, stands in contrast to the political branch’s “plenary authority to decide which aliens to admit.” Thuraissigiam, 591 U.S. at 139. Thuraissigiam was an admission, not a detention, case. For that reason, as well as because it was specifically limited to noncitizens at the “threshold of initial entry,” it has no application here, the government’s fervent pleas for its vast expansion notwithstanding. Id. at 107. Noncitizens who arrive illegally and are found away from the border well after arrival are protected from arbitrary detention in violation of the Due Process Clause.16  III. Conclusion The district court correctly concluded that (1) it has jurisdiction over this dispute and (2) Thuraissigiam does not bar the bond hearing class’s due process claim. The district court’s order denying the government’s motion to dismiss is AFFIRMED.
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