David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

The most recent gun manufacturer to relocate to Tennessee has direct ties to a military that a growing number of experts, a UN commission and other international groups have said is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

Don't forget your ballot questions this year, New York!

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Sorry, took a while to look up original poster, she deserves the credit for the video

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

called @booker.senate.gov to say that if Republicans shut down the government everyone is going to blame them, if Democrats cave on trans rights they are going to further cement in the minds of voters that they're wimps who believe in nothing and they will lose an entire generation of voters

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log.

This tells me two things:

1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day.

(212) 486-4430

scully still treating the new guy like a weirdly noisy pile of clean laundry

Thanks for posting, Senator. It's hard to do. Too bad you have no power to do anything. Maybe next time.

Reactions like this to brians story show why it's valuable to keep talking about. As artists we are living the situation and assume others are aware, but the truth is most people do not know

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat.

He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime.

Trump is murdering people in international waters.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Why is this horrible for Universities?

Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card.

This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

Lots of different protests happening in NYC next week including protests at the UN and an anti-ICE protest on 9.25.

UPDATE: According to the @healthvermont.bsky.social, Vermont is officially part of the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. They weren't part of the official announcement today, as they were busy issuing their state's own standing order to protect COVID vaccine access.

One of the first actions the Northeast Public Health Collaborative has taken is to issue their own COVID vaccination recommendations, based on professional medical societies.

coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

The Hepatitis B vaccine, given at birth, is done so for a very clear medical reason: to protect babies from exposure to a virus that can cause devastating chronic liver disease.

Screening first was tried years ago and didn’t work - it’s why we vaccinate, so we don’t miss anyone.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.