Reposted by yCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Translation: procurement and oversight is for losers and we just want your data and your students’ data to refine our products ok? 317366
Reposted by yBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I knew that the famous "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution" line was a paraphrase. But today I stumbled on this history of how it came to be, from Emma Goldman biographer Alix Kates Shulman. Great story (which includes the full original quote).lilith.orgInvention of a Feminist Sound Bite - Lilith MagazineIn which our informant confesses her involvement in the invention of one of Emma Goldman’s most famous misquotations. 094
Reposted by yAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...npr.orgThey cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICEAfter 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation. 7150662185
y @ydoble.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Also, brain/eye development in very young children is connected to strong primary colors and contrast. 0120
Reposted by yBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We didn't win those fights. Bombs started falling the same day as that October 7th rally. Within a year and a half, the US attacked Iraq--which had no tie to 9/11. Islamophobia rages on. But if anyone claims that the US spoke in one voice for war and bigotry, they're wrong. And that matters. 0546
Reposted by yPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/09/2026The carceral system is a traumatic and deadly place — and it's only gotten worse in recent decades. From 2001 to 2019, deaths by suicide increased in state prisons by 85%. Incarceration is a mental health crisis. 311562
Reposted by yProPublica @propublica.org · 11/09/2026NEW: To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest time finding schools that will accept them.propublica.orgVouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.To give voucher programs a toehold in state legislatures, politicians touted how students with disabilities would gain access to private education. But those students’ families often have the hardest ... 25304124
Reposted by yPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery." gothamist.com/arts-enterta...gothamist.comBrooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft libraryCardholders can borrow tools and kits. 8835285
Reposted by yashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 11/09/2026we don’t teach young people short-term history, so it was weird when i realized that gen z had no idea that so many gen x and millennials spent our high school years protesting george w bush and not just because of the wars, but because mosques were being targeted and sikh men were being attacked 543060787
Reposted by yShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“ChatGPT’s memory feature seemed to build a psychiatric profile, allegedly parsing inputs related to his mental health conditions and then using that sensitive information to maximize his engagement.” jesus h. i know this is how these chatbots work, but jesus h.arstechnica.comMan told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.Man with bipolar disorder sued OpenAI after surviving ChatGPT-linked suicide attempt. 39341
Reposted by yBolts @boltsmag.org · 09/09/2026Do police need a warrant to access your gmail account? What local laws could restrict data tracking? How do other countries protect data privacy? Our Q&A with legal expert Andrew Guthrie Ferguson answers these and other questions on police surveillance:boltsmag.org“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered - BoltsA legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it. 03319
Reposted by yAsinus Pervicax @knownagitator.lol · 09/09/2026one thing organizing for a long time teaches you is that the boss fighting a union is almost never about money, it is almost always about control and power. 010632
Reposted by yNBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 09/09/2026Charlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.nbcwashington.comTurning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impactThis week marks one year since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the nonprofit he created, Turning Point USA, is still working to engage young conservative voters ahead of the m... 31650168
Reposted by yBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026More blood on the Supreme Court's hands ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...ballsandstrikes.orgThe Supreme Court Didn’t End Abortion. It Just Made Pregnancy More DangerousAnti-choice activists argued that the end of Roe v. Wade would make women safer. The data shows that it did not. 21788396
Reposted by yPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"We grieve the worlds we've known and what it felt like to live in them, and people are part of that. We grieve the fact that someone or something that accompanied us through the world will no longer accompany us through whatever comes next." organizingmythoughts.org/grief-is-not... 115549
Reposted by yJulia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026In a new pre-print, researchers identified a policy they estimate could save 114K lives + $1 Trillion per year: Medicare for All 📉 Saves administrative costs (+ time) 🩺 Improves access to care 💊 Reduces cost of meds 🌾 + Keeps rural & children’s hospitals open www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 310047
Reposted by yBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)gothamist.comMount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minorsMount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration. 382362554
y @ydoble.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I made my grading goal and rewarded myself with sushi dinner. More to do, always. 110
Reposted by yDr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"We expect you to double your workload at the whim of the techno fascists but we won't be paying you more." 0255
Reposted by yGirish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes. 111102297
Reposted by yPrison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 05/09/2026For Labor Day, we asked three PJP contributors to write about their jobs in an overlooked sector of the U.S. workforce. Here is what they said.prisonjournalismproject.orgOn Working Behind BarsFor the majority of people behind bars, working a job is not optional. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime. In fact, more than 75% of inc... 15542
Reposted by yPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.organizingmythoughts.orgThe Understory ToolkitCreating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care 513168
Reposted by yDr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026The problem isn't the able-bodied people, the problem is a world organized around them, a world that sees granting accommodations as some how unfair or an unearned advantage. In such a world, concerns about able-bodied people taking advantage of such a system become paramount in ways they shouldn't 246569
Reposted by yMatthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 12/08/2026The Trump regime has finalized a rule ending federal Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care for enrollees under 18 (separate CHIP funding for enrollees under 19). I explain what it does, HHS’s attempts to fabricate a fraudulent evidence base, and the legal challenges that might stop itshouldntneedtobealawyer.comCMS moves to end Medicaid & CHIP gender-affirming care for youth | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew CortlandThe Trump regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized a rule ending federal Medicaid payment for puberty blockers, hormo 07043
Reposted by yInterrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Especially in the era of climate change, A/C in prisons isn't just a nice thing to have; not having it can cause illness and even death. We have a lot of resources on fighting criminalization and prisons, check them out:interruptingcriminalization.comResources — Interrupting Criminalization 01412
y @ydoble.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions" this is beautifully stated. 0190
Reposted by yJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is an excellent primer on the brutal history of post-13th amendment prison labor. As the need for workers to do backbreaking work continues to increase, this is only going to get worse. You better believe this is part of why the administration keeps boasting about new prison construction. 39361
Reposted by yMara 👻 aBOOlish I.C.E. @mauratwit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026CoreCivic is in many pension and 401k portfolios. If you have funds in Vanguard or BlackRock, you are an investor in private prisons. Check with your union leaders or HR about divesting. 12513
Reposted by yElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/08/2026Millions of people rely on anonymous access to lawful online speech. This week, the Senate is looking at four bills that could vastly expand age verification and make anonymous internet use much harder. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...acteff.orgTell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID CheckpointTell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification 114878
Reposted by yKim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/... 8352127
Reposted by ythe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit. 434031826
Reposted by yOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 04/08/2026Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.” 131570402
Reposted by yMartha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 03/08/2026Even if I love you I’m going to hate listening to anything you want to tell me about your great conversations with an LLM And I really would rather NOT. It doesn’t matter how much you mean to me. 1292
Reposted by yGwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It's hard to overstate how ISOLATING and scary it was with a child under 5 waiting for that under 5 vaccine. The world was kind of moving on and you not only couldn't, you had to be scared for your child every day 391611245
Reposted by yFrankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.futurism.comThe Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak. 252137715
Reposted by yJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I am so angry about having to "unsubscribe" from mailing lists TO WHICH I NEVER SUBSCROBE IN THE FIRST PLACE 214914
Reposted by yGeorge S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Amplifying so university colleagues can (1) be aware that there's more than one current story about detained researchers, and (2) be reminded that you probably know/work with people who could be detained at any time. 04144
Reposted by yjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126137999
Reposted by yPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Stressed about this El Niño situation. Our communities aren’t ready. This convo I had in early June could be a place to begin, in terms of considering what collective responses could look like. Please take me seriously when I say that we need more preparedness.truthout.orgNo Abandonment, No Bunkers: Preparing for Disaster Together“Preparedness isn’t just about having stuff,” says Kelly Hayes. 317874
Reposted by yMad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026After Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration fast tracked FEMA help to Alabama and rural Louisiana, which voted Republican, but dragged their feet with New Orleans, a Democratic area where the most severe damage was. Evil pattern of the GOP.. www.facingsouth.org/2005/12/how-...facingsouth.orgHow the White House delayed the military's response to KatrinaOne of the most contentious issues about the failed Hurricane Katrina response is why our country's on-call, always-ready troops didn't arrive in Louisiana to help until September 5, a week after the ... 211040
Reposted by yShepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time. 52340693
Reposted by yProPublica @propublica.org · 27/07/2026The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.projects.propublica.orgWhere Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublicaThe FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports. 4421501221
Reposted by ySeptima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026ok at this point why isn't the messaging from dems: DOGE slashed/stole govt funds to monitor food safety and gave it to ICE, so now we have diarrhea lettuce and poison eggs and also your neighbors are being murdered in the streets & in concentration camps. 12510