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Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.

there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...

When I talk about the importance of granting students accommodations WITHOUT relying on formal paperwork this is why it matters. It is DANGEROUS for some people to have diagnoses on their medical records. 1/3

A lot of people like to dismiss racism as insubstantial to material realities but we’re watching a nation burn trillions of dollars in wealth to entrench a racial system of domination.

They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Disabled people are not acceptable casualties.

Not during natural disasters.
Not during a pandemic.
Not during climate collapse.
Not for profit.
Not for optics.
Not at protests.
Not at school.
Not for election goals.
Not for personal comfort.

There is no justice without disability justice.

one reason i am pessimistic about what's coming with trump: i've spent the last 2 years watching the political media use propaganda to cover up or apologize for us-funded ethnic cleansing, and i'm not convinced a domestic ethnic cleansing will be covered differently than gaza has been

Will also say, if you're pro public transportation...please consider masking on them! If you support public transit being more accessible, that includes masking.

Training AI takes heavy toll on Kenyans working for $2 an hour | 60 Minutes YouTube video by 60 Minutes

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

"Meeting people where they're at does not mean allowing them to stay there, it means building your arguments from there. Choosing messages that will resonate, but NEVER abandoning the causes and the communities"

Conservatives Are Using Their Anti-Choice Playbook to Attack Trans People, Too Republican lawmakers attacking trans kids are hiding the sex discrimination at the heart of the law, again.

The Supreme Court is hearing oral argument today in US v. Skrmetti

I wrote a piece explaining how conservatives are trying to do the same thing to both pregnant people and trans kids: prohibit healthcare that saves lives and threatens traditional gender ideology

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...

I fundamentally disagree w/ the idea that science is “apolitical.” Any critical thinker can see that what we call “science” is inherently invested with power, that the history of science is highly political, and that its benefits & risks are not distributed equally. It is important to be honest here

between anti-abortion extremists and rfk the trump administration seems to be a targeted effort to increase maternal and early childhood mortality

Starting to wear a mask again can be one of the many ways you resist the impulse to think of other members of your community as less worthy of fighting for #covid #maskup #disability

The disabled community has already felt this devaluation, especially with prominent public health experts saying that we must accept when vulnerable people “fall by the way side” so we can return to “normal”.

In the coming months and years we’re going to be increasingly asked to devalue and turn a blind eye to the suffering of already marginalized members of our community.

Everyone in medicine should unionize. The “business” doesn’t even care about the “customers” so they’re not gonna care about you

Notable they were more worried about the potential legal consequences for harming a fetus and not the legal consequences of the woman dying #reprosky

I worry that AI use in medicine suffers from the "garbage in, garbage out" problem. All the racism, sexism, ableism etc interwoven into medicine helped train the AI model, so that bias is incorporated into the output. Eg AI suggestions for note writing train on notes where women just have "anxiety"