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Organizing with Pacific Media Workers Guild | she/they | dreaming + (un)learning.
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حرية، سلام، عدالة
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Perhaps 2026 will be the year when everyone who thinks they can do something better than what's on offer will just go ahead and do it themselves.
December 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Perhaps 2026 will be the year when everyone who thinks they can do something better than what's on offer will just go ahead and do it themselves.
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If you want to stay home to raise babies, you should be able to do so. But not everyone wants to do that and THAT's THE POINT. Folks should be able to do what they want AND importantly THE RESOURCES should exist to support those choices. That's the part that these ghouls elide.
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If you want to stay home to raise babies, you should be able to do so. But not everyone wants to do that and THAT's THE POINT. Folks should be able to do what they want AND importantly THE RESOURCES should exist to support those choices. That's the part that these ghouls elide.
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This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
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Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy change to support people with disabilities. n.pr/4pWshr5
Disability rights advocate Bob Kafka dead at 79
Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy change to support people with disabilities.
n.pr
December 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Bob Kafka was an organizer with ADAPT (American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today), a group which advocates for policy change to support people with disabilities. n.pr/4pWshr5
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Survivors wait as Gaza’s Civil Defense works to recover the estimated 10,000 bodies that remain buried under rubble.
Inside the Monumental Effort to Retrieve and Bury Gaza’s Dead
Survivors wait as Gaza’s Civil Defense works to recover the estimated 10,000 bodies that remain buried under rubble.
buff.ly
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Survivors wait as Gaza’s Civil Defense works to recover the estimated 10,000 bodies that remain buried under rubble.
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Russia launched a massive attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine Saturday, targeting the Kyiv region’s energy grid and leaving one-third of the capital without heating, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
Russian attack pummels Kyiv as Zelensky prepares to meet Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the attacks make clear Russia does not want to end the war and that the world must do more to pressure Moscow.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Russia launched a massive attack on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine Saturday, targeting the Kyiv region’s energy grid and leaving one-third of the capital without heating, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
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December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Iam Nema, from Gaza a mother of three children.
My daughter Razan is suffering from severe stomach pain, and we are in urgent need of your help and support.
We need 250$ urgently for her treatment 💔
Pls don't let us alone 😭
✅ Verified By Molly Shah
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December 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”
Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.
www.technologyreview.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”
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"Meanwhile, in the world’s largest entertainment industry, video game companies issue private instruments that 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies would envy."
Today, @raulcarrillo.bsky.social explains why existing legal frameworks are inadequate to address the emerging dystopian world of monetary fiefdoms—a world in which private infrastructure governs without the name of government.
Game Over: The End of Financial Regulation as We Knew It
Many on the left continue to view cryptocurrency as little more than a grift. Yet the crypto industry aims to achieve something much more dangerous: functional monetary sovereignty.
lpeproject.org
December 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Meanwhile, in the world’s largest entertainment industry, video game companies issue private instruments that 19th-century canal, railroad, and mining companies would envy."
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story
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WA Dems who voted for the Laken Riley Act:
* Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez
* Kim Schrier
* Dan Newhouse
* Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez
* Kim Schrier
* Dan Newhouse
42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 PM
WA Dems who voted for the Laken Riley Act:
* Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez
* Kim Schrier
* Dan Newhouse
* Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez
* Kim Schrier
* Dan Newhouse
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This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena.
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
New, at Law Dork:
Breaking: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena
The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses.
www.lawdork.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This should be a clear signal that hospitals and other institutions should not capitulate to the administration’s lawless anti-trans demands.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
Foremost, they have obligation to their patients.
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The ai industry gets another win, by which I mean yet another ai company isn’t being sold for actual money and has to do some weird licensing deal. This will be sold as “avoiding regulation” but I think it’s so it can avoid actually owning these toxic assets while draining them of IP and talent
Sources: Nvidia's licensing deal with Groq, which has raised ~$1.8B, includes payouts to Groq's key execs and investors, including BlackRock and Tiger Global (The Information)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
The ai industry gets another win, by which I mean yet another ai company isn’t being sold for actual money and has to do some weird licensing deal. This will be sold as “avoiding regulation” but I think it’s so it can avoid actually owning these toxic assets while draining them of IP and talent
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"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
December 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"We’re monitoring what you do online. Disseminating, writing, or publishing inciting content online is considered a terrorist crime in every sense and may lead to arrest or imprisonment. We have warned you."
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
Israel warns Palestinians that posting about their suffering will be considered terrorism.
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Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.
‘No true sense of celebration' as Israeli bombs drown out Christmas in Gaza
Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.
www.aljazeera.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Many of the remaining churches across Gaza either scaled back or cancelled Christmas activities altogether.
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With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
With Christmas approaching, celebrations in Haifa were met with chaos after Israeli police stormed the Wadi al-Nisnas neighbourhood, arresting and beating Christians in the area.
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Cesar Chavez is greeted by supporters outside Monterey County Jail on Christmas Eve 12/24/70 after CA Supreme Court orders his release for refusing Monterey Co. Superior Court judge’s order to halt UFW boycott of grower struck during the lettuce/ vegetable strike earlier that yr
December 25, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Cesar Chavez is greeted by supporters outside Monterey County Jail on Christmas Eve 12/24/70 after CA Supreme Court orders his release for refusing Monterey Co. Superior Court judge’s order to halt UFW boycott of grower struck during the lettuce/ vegetable strike earlier that yr
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T'IS THE SEASON - PLEASE DON'T BE THE REASON ... that an un-vaxed infant, elderly grandparent, or any other vulnerable person isn't here next year.
💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.
💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.
December 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
T'IS THE SEASON - PLEASE DON'T BE THE REASON ... that an un-vaxed infant, elderly grandparent, or any other vulnerable person isn't here next year.
💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.
💉.. 😷 INDOOR PUBLIC SPACES .. STAY HOME IF YOU'RE SICK.
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Wild to think that "abolish ICE" was ever treated as a radical or fringe position.
WaPo reports that ICE is planning 7 massive human warehouses holding 5,000 to 10,000 people.
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Recalls the acting ICE director 2015 statement that he wanted to see a “business”-oriented approach to deportations, “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings”.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Wild to think that "abolish ICE" was ever treated as a radical or fringe position.
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- Oregon is leading a group of states in suing over RFK Jr.'s efforts to bar any federally-funded medical providers from providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. The case is assigned to Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (Biden).
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
- Oregon is leading a group of states in suing over RFK Jr.'s efforts to bar any federally-funded medical providers from providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors. The case is assigned to Judge Mustafa Kasubhai (Biden).
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
October 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
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2025 has been a shitty, scary, and downright terrible year.
But D.C. is still the same beautiful city, full of resilient, organized, smart, and compassionate people.
Here are five of our favorite stories we published this year, showcasing exactly those people.
But D.C. is still the same beautiful city, full of resilient, organized, smart, and compassionate people.
Here are five of our favorite stories we published this year, showcasing exactly those people.
Our favorite stories we published in 2025
Stories we hope never get lost.
51st.news
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
2025 has been a shitty, scary, and downright terrible year.
But D.C. is still the same beautiful city, full of resilient, organized, smart, and compassionate people.
Here are five of our favorite stories we published this year, showcasing exactly those people.
But D.C. is still the same beautiful city, full of resilient, organized, smart, and compassionate people.
Here are five of our favorite stories we published this year, showcasing exactly those people.