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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 54m

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1h

“Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters the right way”

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 2h

This is less magical thinking than snapping your fingers

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 2h

Have to keep funding the fascism, apparently

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2h

People acting like this is some kind of strategic blunder… it’s the admission of someone who thinks he and his ilk now have power and that there is no level to remove them from power. These people no longer care who knows that there’re Nazis.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3h

An essential task is to decide what your root values are that are at stake and to articulate them clearly.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 11d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Some dispute over journalists "shouting" at protests.

Plaintiff attys bring up a journalist shouting "don't shoot," rather than shouting protest chants.

Govt. atty brings up the issue of presence.

"From our point of view, being at a protest can be construed" as protest activity, he says.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3h

A useful question is ‘what would have to be true for this to make sense?’

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3h

Latter, I’d bet

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

The real news in this is the first sentence. “It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for…”

I would argue that it is very clear. I have, in fact, argued that it is very clear.

John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 14h

“the average percentage of time that all faculty spend on teaching is 28 percent.”

As an adjunct, i spent — let me see, oh yeah — 100 PERCENT of my time on teaching.

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Workload report shows breakdown of time UNC faculty spend teaching, researching

It is not exactly clear what UNC plans to use the faculty workload report for, but some professors are confused about how the data was calculated.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.

if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13h

They haven’t found this one yet they are mad at a different one.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Crime is a completely incoherent and regressive concept. It will not be the basis of digging out way out of this.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 13h

People saying this is true but getting mad over me saying it.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23h

US commentator Van Jones has apologised for making a joke about Palestinian babies killed by Israeli attacks, but he is not alone when it comes to dehumanising comments about Gaza aje.io/33pm5k

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23h

doing this again, in case it helps
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...

Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan Cover)

YouTube video by Rick Astley

www.youtube.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

starting to think much of the “how democracies end”/“how autocracies are born” literature could benefit from considering the actual existence of American law enforcement

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

there is no need to take tactical social movement advice from former fbi agents posting on social media

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 1d

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 3d

Being targeted for police violence constructs people as criminals. Cops beat someone and the news refers to the victim as a suspect.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Crime is a completely incoherent and regressive concept. It will not be the basis of digging out way out of this.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but magic isn’t real so

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