NEW:
One of the most progressive institutions in the U.S., The New School, has begun destroying its humanities departments.
They have cancelled one of their most popular classes, "Global Soccer and World Politics."
We are going to teach it anyway.
karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-new-sc...
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity
www.axios.com/local/boulde...
Apparently there *is* video of ICE agents shooting Julio Sosa-Celis in North Minneapolis (the one where they lied about a snow shovel attack). And whatever is on that video is so egregious that Trump’s head of ICE is not only dropping charges against Sosa-Celis, but hinting at prosecuting the agents
Easy ways you can support baristas fighting for a historic first union contract: Stop buying Starbucks and delete the app ✊
Fascinating paper! Scholars who are secular are more likely to believe in secularization & find evidence of it in their research. The opposite pattern is true for scholars who are religious.
This is worth your time to read in full:
sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...
From Stanford to Gallup, nearly every organization that produces good information about anything of importance is in one way or another beholden to federal contracts. They are also deeply connected to elite political and economic networks thorough interlocking directorates and affiliations.
Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
🙏🤘🎸
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
this is an admission that they were illegally kidnapped in the first places
“The full impact of the executive order will take decades to realize, since already-tenured faculty are not affected by the new policy. But its scope is significant: Oklahoma’s regional and community colleges employed more than 900 tenured professors in 2024, according to federal data.“
The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.
Anyone can sign the petition — link below!
=Q ZUashington Examiner Subscribe Noam Chomsky: Antifa is a 'major gift to the Right' By Steven Nelson August 17, 2017 4:00 am
From: Sent: To: Subject: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Monday, August 14, 2017 9:59 PM Valeria Chomsky Re: address of where to meet. ? it is not a ease, it is the condo purchase, in a corporate name. w=ll explain all tomrmorw On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto) › > wrote: Hi Jeffrey, Tomorrow at 1pm wor=s. We have a commitment around 4pm. |= will be great to see you. And please give us some advices. We=found out that the lease of the condo in Cambridge seems to have been put =nder one of the trusts without Noam's authorization or even his knowle=ge (there were lots of papers to sign when we closed the deal). Not =ure yet because the answers are too slow -- something that seems unreasona=le to me. Best, Valeria<=r> =/div> ----- Forwarded message -----F=om: jeffrey E. ‹jeevacation@gmail.c=m› Date: Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 3:40 PM Subject: To:=Valeria Chomsky < ‹mailto
From: Sent: To: Subject: Peter Thiel < Monday, August 14, 2017 3:38 AM jeffrey E. Re: Probably can't get there before Thursday... Ho= long are you in NYC? I may be there later this week... From: jettrey E. <jeevac=tion@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:16:47 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: Re: leave santa fe wed morning, see chomsky and fly to new yok. you should see santa fe, you will I=ke it. tues ? On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 7:14 PM, Peter Thiel < ‹mailto: > > wrote: Are you in Santa Fe until Thursday and then in=NYC? From:=jeffrey E. «=eevacation@gmail.com <mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com>> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2017 6:04:56 PM To: Peter Thiel Subject: im going to meet chomsky in tucson wednesday. =ou are welcome.,
On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville.
On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”.
In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.
The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about putting seven bullet holes in her in text messages is a 23-year-veteran of Border Patrol.
Before Maine, Charles Exum was stationed at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he won a nationwide police shooting contest.
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.
Sign this letter by @heavyredaction.bsky.social and Martha Kinney to support CSUs demands to divest from ChatGPTEdu
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Digging around some thoughtful writing about teachers using AI to help with their course curriculum and materials and no doubt, some of the stuff they've developed is neat, but the question I have is, "is it necessary?" and at least from the outside, the answer for me, is "no."
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
This is fucking appalling. This is university-administrators’-heads-should-roll appalling.
Dear Non-Springfielders,
We are watching, preparing and putting systems into place. We've got a pretty cool community system that's been in the work for months. If you are planning to come help Springfield, Ohio CONTACT US before you show up
#Springfield #Ohio - we aren't a major (cont)
New Noem impeachment co-sponsors today: AOC, Neguse, DelBene, Garcia, Scott (Va.), Horsford, Hayes, Landsman, Peters, Norton, Auchincloss, Latimer, Crow, Soto, Walkinshaw, Meng, Ruiz, Castor, Ross, Levin, Cisneros
It's at 140 — nearly 2/3 of the caucus @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/01/26/k...
Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room
My local bookstore organized a SNAP initiative to donate meals to during the shutdown. They served 2,300 meals, half of which were donated by the bookstore (The Literary) & half by community members who contributed more than $19,000. About $16k remaining was donated to our local foodbank.
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:
I've covered ICE / DHS for about a decade now and more ICE agents are willing to talk now than ever before. The confidence the administration is trying to project is absolutely not reflected internally.
The Senate may choose to vote together on the DHS and LHHS bills. Thus, a filibuster on DHS may mean no funding for NIH. What my colleagues are saying:
“Shut it down, public health will understand. I’ll work without pay again.”
- anonymous NIHer
Photos of Alex Pretti with Sara’s caption: On August 16th at approximately 10:00 pm I received a call from the ICU at the VA saying my Dad had sepsis and needed to be intubated to stay alive so Josh and I headed in. We were greeted by the kindest, most calming and warm soul who helped us understand what was happening and showed deep care for us and my Dad. He continued to show utmost patience and kindness over the next few days as my Dad remained in the ICU and we were there continually. It was Alex Pretti, the man shot today by ICE. If you see this video and don't think it's murder, I don't understand your thinking and ask you to question your heart. He was out there trying to help and protect and from the little we knew of him, it doesn't surprise me he was not afraid to be on the front lines of this horrible scene in our Minneapolis. Weeping for his family and all those at the VA who no longer get to work with him or receive his care.
My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti
Absolutely heartbreaking
Snow is nature's urban planner: It can show us what parts of the roadway drivers don't use — and what can be reclaimed for pedestrians.
Post your photos and videos of all the #sneckdowns you see and tag us and @mayor.nyc.gov so today's winter wonderland can inspire better streets year-round!
