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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know

Tesla Feels the Wrath of Anti-Elon Musk Backlash Sales are plunging in some of the world’s biggest EV markets, and protesters and vandals are targeting the company’s stores.

The NSA has historically been an instrument the US government uses to attack people's civil rights and this is a reminder that none of us should work for them Also, these purges will not stay contained at NSA and that's one reason this story matters. www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

Coca-Cola: maybe this will distract people from the fact we're a BDS target

“But people will eventually accept it, even if it’s unpopular” is a comment I saw so many times this morning. That’s what we call a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is your moment. Galvanize and organize people who are unhappy. Don’t make them feel helpless to stop it by saying no one will stop it.

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

Yes actually bringing people into the movement by organizing them is a major part of how you build a movement’s power

Lots of anticipatory obedience from scientific institutions including ones that are home to astronomers and physicists, like Brookhaven National Lab and Vera Rubin Observatory. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

On day 3 of #BlackHistoryMonth, I am sharing a zine that I made with @netabear.bsky.social titled "Black Photobooth." Put simply, I love this project. Like a lot of my zine projects, I used my personal collection as the basis. issuu.com/projectnia/d...

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

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...

This is hitting my research group as well. NSF postdoc fellow can't get stipend paid in time to pay rent this month.

Here is something you can do right now

UMass has a new webpage to track federal actions as a community resource www.umass.edu/news/federal...

Guess who wrote about this same issue with an IL focus a few weeks ago? ME! open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Why is Homan on CNN crying about being thwarted in Chicago? Because Chicagoans HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING against deportations for decades.

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... They need to hear from you.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

You’re all about to be gaslit about that Nazi salute and I’m begging you to spend no time on it. You know what you saw.

Hey friends, general reminder that this is happening!!! We've made and will keep making these annoying announcements to hopefully prep y'all for the inevitable confusion when our name and logo on this account switch over this week. PREPARE YOURSELVES

i'm back. what did i miss and more importantly are u mad at me

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Last week to grab a spot in my upcoming workshops! If you want to up your presentation/public speaking game, check out Give An Amazing Talk! Makes a great professional development gift for students or mentees who need help presenting: https://notnotrocketscience.com/products/give-an-amazing-talk

Rising right-wing star Richard Hanania, championed by tech moguls Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie, exposed as a nazi sympathizer and self-described "race realist" who advocated for the forced sterilization of Black people under a pen name. @letsgomathias.bsky.social

I'm about to be demolished, 1 share =1 hp lol but fr my main gig was socials on Twitter & that's gone & all my freelance invoices are overdue + unpaid so I'm drowning, any help is appreciated🙏🏿 http://www.paypal.me/ThatJayJustice https://www.venmo.com/ThatJayJustice https://cash.me/$ThatJayJustice

Worth a read if you want some insight into ideas floating around the echo-chamber minds of "visionary" tech-bro billionaires. Thanks to @notnotrocketscience.com for making this publicly available.

Today I wrote about Nauru, the island that Gabe Bankman-Fried wanted to buy to build and apocalypse bunker for "effective altruists" https://www.patreon.com/posts/nauru-and-of-86457999

==The Bluesky Breeze (v2.4)== What's Trending every 10 mins ==Analysis== Posts: 1,719 Words: 869 Emojis: 11 ⚠️🌀 CAT. 1: mid ⚠️🌀 CAT. 1: 🏳️‍⚧️ In solidarity, words I believe SHOULD still trend: APOLOGY APOLOGIZE @bsky.app @jay.bsky.team response Black voices minority antiblackness racist

Still like this space weather piece I wrote a while ago! https://www.vox.com/2016/9/12/12882066/space-weather-solar-flare-internet-dangers

Like this isn’t even just the race , it’s how the disregard of moderation makes completely unworkable systems and them making sais overworked dev explain sais coding after 12 hours Instead of handing it out to someone to report out understandably

We keep going until zero tolerance of antiblackness on Black users is enacted. Like you can’t cuss in your handle but you can use multiple racial slurs bc those aren’t on the list of disallowed words??? COME ON