Spark
@shelleypark.bsky.social
Anti-racist, anti-fascist, pro-labor, queer, feminist philosopher. AI skeptic. Views my own.
FFS. And these are the sort of men we deem today's geniuses.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
FFS. And these are the sort of men we deem today's geniuses.
Remember to shop at small businesses this holiday season (and in general).
🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"
December 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Remember to shop at small businesses this holiday season (and in general).
Btwn this guy and Kennedy, folk are going to die unnecessarily and suffer chronically debilitating conditions unnecessarily. Who benefits?(real question; i dont believe it's just an unhappy accident that these morons are in charge of public health. Somebody stands to benefit from the fallout)
TAPPER: Hepatitis A, whooping cough, & chickenpox cases are rising in Florida. Before you made this decision to lift vaccine mandates, did your dept do any analysis of how many new cases there will be?
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
LADAPO: Absolutely not
T: You didn't even do a projection?
L: It's an issue of right & wrong
September 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Btwn this guy and Kennedy, folk are going to die unnecessarily and suffer chronically debilitating conditions unnecessarily. Who benefits?(real question; i dont believe it's just an unhappy accident that these morons are in charge of public health. Somebody stands to benefit from the fallout)
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
August 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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General Milley Monday: On the same day Trump said "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator," here's a reminder from General Mark Milley that "we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator." The oath is to the Constitution.
Share this widely.
Share this widely.
August 26, 2025 at 4:00 AM
General Milley Monday: On the same day Trump said "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator," here's a reminder from General Mark Milley that "we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator." The oath is to the Constitution.
Share this widely.
Share this widely.
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NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
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How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.
Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting.
lataco.com/agents-shoot...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
lataco.com/agents-shoot...
By @afroxander.bsky.social
Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
How is anyone supposed to reasonably believe these people are law enforcement? They're masked, anyone can buy a CBP hat and a POLICE patch, and why would a real gov't agent wear insignia suggesting they're both federal border patrol AND state/local police? They're dressed like amateur carjackers.
I'm attending ACLU Florida's event, “Know Your Rights for Immigrants: University Faculty/Staff” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/aclufl/event...
Know Your Rights for Immigrants: University Faculty/Staff · ACLU Florida
Florida's public universities are entering into unprecedented partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the 287(g) program. Join us as we discuss the rights that university fac...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm attending ACLU Florida's event, “Know Your Rights for Immigrants: University Faculty/Staff” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/aclufl/event...
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Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
August 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Absolute worst part, imo, is the pressure from school administrators to "welcome our new overlords" by adopting AI. It's also happening in elite universities, to my utter bafflement & horror. Anyone who calls bullshit on AI is treated as if only ignorance could explain their perspective.
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UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.
We are over the cliff.
We are over the cliff.
August 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
UPDATE: Governor Abbott just threatened to REMOVE THE TEXAS DEMS FROM THEIR SEATS if they don’t return by 3pm Monday (so Republicans can steal 5 seats in Congress using a special session about the flooding as cover) — and charge them with FELONIES.
We are over the cliff.
We are over the cliff.
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Now reprinted at Persuasion: my essay on the “Manhattan Statement” and the calculated marching plan it lays out for doing away with academic freedom, all while making pleasant sounds about campus free speech.
A Troubling Right-Wing Manifesto on Universities
The Manhattan Institute’s recent statement sells a naked ideological agenda as a defense of campus free speech.
www.persuasion.community
July 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Now reprinted at Persuasion: my essay on the “Manhattan Statement” and the calculated marching plan it lays out for doing away with academic freedom, all while making pleasant sounds about campus free speech.
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Palestinian American Dr. Tariq Haddad has lost more than 200 members of his extended family during the nearly two-year long genocide in Gaza.
He says his family members send messages of the “dystopian nightmare” they are enduring in Gaza.
He says his family members send messages of the “dystopian nightmare” they are enduring in Gaza.
July 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Palestinian American Dr. Tariq Haddad has lost more than 200 members of his extended family during the nearly two-year long genocide in Gaza.
He says his family members send messages of the “dystopian nightmare” they are enduring in Gaza.
He says his family members send messages of the “dystopian nightmare” they are enduring in Gaza.
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She urged Democrats to form a widely inclusive “movement” and find “candidates who can get people excited – not necessarily the same old faces they have been seeing all the time that they don’t really trust that much, but visionary leaders … who are part of a community, who are being persecuted.”
Hungary opposition figures urge Democrats to organize against autocratic takeover by Trump
Forum speakers said Donald Trump’s second term resembles strongman Viktor Orbán’s first years in power
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
She urged Democrats to form a widely inclusive “movement” and find “candidates who can get people excited – not necessarily the same old faces they have been seeing all the time that they don’t really trust that much, but visionary leaders … who are part of a community, who are being persecuted.”
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this would be active duty US troops deployed indefinitely on US streets?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
July 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
this would be active duty US troops deployed indefinitely on US streets?
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
It was God's fault . . .
Leavitt: "The alerts imminently were sent out before the flood when people were sleeping because the flood hit in the very early hours of the morning. People were sleeping in the middle of the night when this flood came. This was an act of God, it is not the admin's fault the flood hit when it did."
July 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It was God's fault . . .
Or decide not to have a baby.
July 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Or decide not to have a baby.
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ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
July 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
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2025 feels like being awake during surgery
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
2025 feels like being awake during surgery
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Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
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They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
June 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
This is not deportation.
This is ethnic cleansing.
Unbelievable that such a bill is even being discussed. .
. Throws the last remnants of human care AND fiscal conservatism out the window.
. Throws the last remnants of human care AND fiscal conservatism out the window.
June 29, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Unbelievable that such a bill is even being discussed. .
. Throws the last remnants of human care AND fiscal conservatism out the window.
. Throws the last remnants of human care AND fiscal conservatism out the window.
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Here's a great quick segment by Ali Velshi who is an excellent journalist and caring human being.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJC...
The people’s guide to beating back authoritarianism with noodles, satire, and more
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Here's a great quick segment by Ali Velshi who is an excellent journalist and caring human being.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjJC...
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FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
Meeting the Moment Together
We are returning from the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver reinvigorated and with a deep appreciation for all that scholars and higher education leaders are holding in this moment. Rapid shifts in fed...
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May 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...
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The only way there could be worse signs coming out of the US would be if Trump had constructed a skull throne.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang ties
www.theguardian.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The only way there could be worse signs coming out of the US would be if Trump had constructed a skull throne.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...