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Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
December 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas.
www.nola.com/news/educati...
www.nola.com/news/educati...
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I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
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Jamelle Bouie posits that "constitutional originalist" just means "we don't think the reconstruction amendments are a real part of the constitution"
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
December 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Jamelle Bouie posits that "constitutional originalist" just means "we don't think the reconstruction amendments are a real part of the constitution"
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
And the evidence just keeps piling up for that, doesn't it
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
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For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official. www.wired.com/story/social...
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
www.wired.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official. www.wired.com/story/social...
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"In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily." prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect
The Senate Democratic leader and his Gang of Eight keep trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. On Thursday, they told their caucus colleagues they had ten votes to reopen the government—i...
prospect.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily." prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...
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NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
NEW: FBI warns that ICE impersonators are harming ICE's image in immigrant communities, quietly urges ICE agents to identify themselves, as revealed in an intelligence document we obtained and shared w/ @dell.bsky.social / @carolinehaskins.bsky.social / @wired.com #FOIA www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
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No words
May 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
No words
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Emmanuel Macron give excellent speeches, but polarisation is way more correlated with economic events than social media use, at least by individuals. Re upping a blogpost I've been updating, as well as esearch I've been doing myself in this area joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2022/02/scie...
Science failing to find correlations between social media use and affective polarisation
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Emmanuel Macron give excellent speeches, but polarisation is way more correlated with economic events than social media use, at least by individuals. Re upping a blogpost I've been updating, as well as esearch I've been doing myself in this area joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2022/02/scie...
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Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
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The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
This is how Trump ends democracy
The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?
www.vox.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.
www.vox.com/politics/462...
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noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
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My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
September 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
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over two years ago the NYT published this piece outlining how the entire anti-trans movement in the US was manufactured by conservative activist groups.
if you're a democrat who repeats these talking points, you are a mark who is doing the GOP's work for them
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/u...
if you're a democrat who repeats these talking points, you are a mark who is doing the GOP's work for them
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/u...
August 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
over two years ago the NYT published this piece outlining how the entire anti-trans movement in the US was manufactured by conservative activist groups.
if you're a democrat who repeats these talking points, you are a mark who is doing the GOP's work for them
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/u...
if you're a democrat who repeats these talking points, you are a mark who is doing the GOP's work for them
www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/u...
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This can’t be something we get used to in America.
Masked men jumped a San Bernardino family in unmarked cars, opened fire, and shattered their truck windows—all while the family was just coming home from work.
The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
The feds later admitted it was CBP, but the family says the agents never showed warrants or IDs.
August 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
This can’t be something we get used to in America.
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Really powerful opinion standing up against Trump's war on dissenting institutions.
“This case presents a straightforward First Amendment violation,” Judge Sooknanan wrote. She added, “It should alarm all Americans when the government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/t...
Judge Blocks F.T.C. Investigation of Media Matters
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Really powerful opinion standing up against Trump's war on dissenting institutions.
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A class dedicated to a plain reading of the Federalist Papers would be interpreted by the Trump regime as an all-out assault on it
So painful to read Federalist 76, which is about the president's appointment power, in 2025.
Hamilton's like, no president would be so degenerate as to appoint only those "personally allied to him," esp since Senate confirmation would 'silently operate' as an "excellent check" on such attempts
Hamilton's like, no president would be so degenerate as to appoint only those "personally allied to him," esp since Senate confirmation would 'silently operate' as an "excellent check" on such attempts
August 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
A class dedicated to a plain reading of the Federalist Papers would be interpreted by the Trump regime as an all-out assault on it
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I feel much safer this morning, knowing that all those sign-wielding Quakers and nuns are behind bars where they belong.
🚨 BREAKING | Police confirm 466 people were arrested for "terrorism" for holding signs at a Palestine demo.
This means more people have been arrested under terrorism legislation in 2025 than **any** other year.
(Source: Home Office)
This means more people have been arrested under terrorism legislation in 2025 than **any** other year.
(Source: Home Office)
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I feel much safer this morning, knowing that all those sign-wielding Quakers and nuns are behind bars where they belong.
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Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump And Miller Compel Colleges Not To Enroll International Students
Trump officials are using rules, policies and agreements to compel and discourage U.S. universities from enrolling international students.
www.forbes.com
August 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective?
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”
August 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”
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someone at a white house press briefing should ask why the president consistently refers to his black american critics as “low IQ”
August 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
someone at a white house press briefing should ask why the president consistently refers to his black american critics as “low IQ”
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goddamn this guy is good
Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.
July 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
goddamn this guy is good
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A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
July 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me:
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”
“Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”