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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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Yes, I AM jealous.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

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The thing is, even this framing is bad. They haven't made $55B in cuts. They're not saving anything at all; they're incurring a net cost for the American public over the long term. We do actually need Dems out there making that point too. This is lost public services.

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The fact that he is declaring himself a nondemocratic ruler is in fact an important piece of context about those actions.

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With alt text

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

What an absolute banger of a judge the Honorable Ana Reyes is.

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Hey, are you eligible for another four free Covid tests? You might want to order in case the Trump admin tries again to destroy them and take down the site. Thanks to these two WaPo reporters for helping to put some brakes on

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Honestly, though. This would be a more effective use of $50 than almost anything I can imagine. Good will, actually helping people, publicity if they have one competent person with a phone and access to social media, and AGAIN: HELPING. PEOPLE.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A useful chart. (I used @alt-text.bsky.social to generate alt text in OP's replies. It's a good bot to follow.)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

It’s an unbelievable framing..

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

submitted 8 days ago • 1910 comments

extremely glad to see media coverage of this because it is monumentally fucked up

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Hard to believe there’s not a single Dem senator or member of Congress willing to go full belligerent dickhead mode to grind their respective chambers to a halt over this. Fuck leadership if they’re not into it. Just do it.

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Erasure. At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

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Our season of intense virus spread continues in the U.S. Some COVID-19 and flu indicators have gone back up this week, suggesting that the current wave of illness may extend into the spring. This week's COVID-19 trends report: bit.ly/3WMcJJX

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This is truth. SO many of you have no idea the sputtering, wild-eyed meltdown you would trigger. Criticism means nothing coming from marginalized person; they've already decided we don't matter. But YOU? You're supposed to be on THEIR side. And I can almost guaranteed they just assume you are.

submitted 19 days ago • 62 comments

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

submitted 19 days ago • 44 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 23 days ago • 3627 comments

I read about how he was known as “the conscience of Congress” and I know he wouldn’t be doing this quiet, tiptoe shit about the Trump Administration. It seems like when Democrats lost him, they also lost their nerve.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

submitted 26 days ago • 57 comments

Would love to understand why every Democrat is not out there every second of the day explaining in plain English that Donald Trump has declared war on cancer patients.

submitted 27 days ago • 182 comments

"[A] democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power." - FDR (1938)

submitted 28 days ago • 65 comments

Now what was the solve rate for violent crime?

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

submitted 28 days ago • 35 comments

I know folks think we're being hysterical about the Laken Riley Act and Trump's EO's but ICE just did a raid in Newark where they detained undocumented residents as well as citizens (including a veteran), without producing a warrant. 1/

submitted 30 days ago • 11 comments

I wonder if they mentioned the Congresswoman who regularly goes viral for just talking about what's going on like we're regular people and she's not trying to bullshit us, or if it was all tuna melts.

submitted 30 days ago • 50 comments

In 1953, Eisenhower signed an order banning queer people from working in the government. Agencies encouraged employees to report colleagues they suspected of being queer based on how they acted, spoke, dressed, or had masculine/feminine characteristics like wide jaws in women or small hands in men

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Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏

submitted 38 days ago • 267 comments

🚨BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom just released a new website to combat misinformation being spread about the wildfires in LA. This is huge. Please rely on this website and its accurate information—not Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

submitted 42 days ago • 23 comments

Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social.

submitted 44 days ago • 193 comments

Everyone is understandably lamenting the orange and yellow seats disappearing from the subway, but what I really miss is pro-public health messaging raising awareness of masks on public transport. Sigh.

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

okay, we're starting with this Step 1. call your own rep if you haven't already! Step 2. sign this (cis women only please! cis guys, you can help by boosting) Step 3. much depends on the success and reach of step 2; lots of options if this blows up actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

submitted 94 days ago • 127 comments