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tobybartels.bsky.social
Probably the only anglophone Toby Bartels. They/them. Mathematics instructor at a community college in Nebraska. 🏴🚩🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ https://mathstodon.xyz/@TobyBartels/
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Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 15 hours ago • 371 comments

Today we received a stop work order on the services we provide to detained immigrant children, including Know Your Rights presentations and legal education.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: Associated Press is suing the Trump administration for violating the First Amendment. This is what needs done at every turn. Resist. Fight back. Well done AP👏

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

Inordinately pleased with this. Code on left produces image on right. This is what happens when you have a morning sat waiting for an MOT and service. #mathsky

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Please take this continuous nowhere differentiable* function with you wherever you go today and remember that the world we inhabit is stranger than any of us will ever comprehend. www.desmos.com/calculator/a... *in the N→∞ limit

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

WIRED: “The director of data science and engineering for USDS—which Musk rebranded as DOGE— resigned… ‘I do not believe DOGE can continue to deliver the work of USDS’… even DOGE employees don’t know who is legally running it…” 🤷🏻 www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review. Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Sometimes I like to check if free LLMs have reached the level of mathematical sophistication of a high-memory four-function calculator. I thought that this response from DeepSeek was interesting, because it says to work from right to left but it's clearly working from left to right.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

DHS has removed manual guidance barring investigations solely based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This is a prerequisite to targeting the LGBTQ community with criminal investigations solely based on being LGBTQ. news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

As the promised MAGA-lomaniac assault on “DEI” rolls out, it’s important to understand what Trump is signaling to his base, the wedge he is trying to drive in the progressive coalition, & why we need to fight back. /1

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Most of the people quoted here *are Republicans* afraid of death threats *from their own party leader.* www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 298 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Scoop: The IRS is preparing to conduct mass firings of 6,700 employees beginning Thursday. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

The Trump administration is using loopholes to maintain spending freezes despite court orders, with political appointees invoking legal authority to justify the pauses while distancing them from Trump’s directives.

submitted 2 days ago • 96 comments

New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me.

submitted 2 days ago • 195 comments

All of these dumb fucks need to be primaried. They're literally trying to give Trump and his cronies a new tool to crush us just to spite big tech companies (who don't mind b/c it'll crush their competitors harder and they have Dear Leader paid up to save them is things go wrong).

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Canada announces avian flu vaccine buy as USDA confirms first H5N1 detections in rats Also, Canada's vaccine advisors issued preliminary guidance on use of the vaccine in high-risk groups. www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 3 days ago • 322 comments