David A. Banks

📌I wrote a book about why your city looks like every other city while everyone in the city pretends their city is authentic and unique. 📌 davidabanks.online/thecityauthentic

With 80% counted, Folha de São Paulo (Brazil’s WSJ) calls it.

BREAKING: Andrei Roman, CEO of AtlasIntel — one of Brazil's major political polling companies — says President Lula has won the presidential run off.

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

I haven’t read past the headline and I already hate it

Since ICE agents took @uupinfo.bsky.social member German Machado, the SUNY Brockport community has come together and taken action to demand his release. German Machado is a valued member of the campus community and has authorization to work in the U.S. He should be freed. 13wham.com/news/local/s...

It has pages! One step closer to publication.

Solidarity with @seiu1199nw.bsky.social

Now is a great time to be watching battlestar galactica

Michele the frog

I have a book chapter coming out next year about this episode! solongdentalplan.com

Teachers were paid less than other college graduates in every state, with relative teacher pay gaps ranging from 10.4% in Rhode Island to 40.7% in Colorado. 👉 The teacher pay penalty was at least 25% in 25 states. Visit the report for an interactive map (Figure D) to see your state's gap. 3/4

Hate to do this but my dept lost a remote adjunct and need someone to last-minute cover an online undergrad intro-level course titled “China: People and Places.” Pays $6k. DMs are open. Please share.

which way, fair ferengi clothed daughter or faggy son

This is gonna be a banger!

I would say “stop falling for this!” but I think what is actually happening is oil majors and governments trying desperately to keep prices within a range that doesn’t obliterate the global economy. Seems like they’re delaying the inevitable though.

Hey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.

At long last, my much anticipated art newsletter post on sci-fi frogs is here! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/frogs/ Artists credits: Terry Oakes, Dave Trampier, Hajime Sorayama, and Eddie Jones.

I am now automatically and completely negatively polarized against anything named after something in the Lord of the Rings www.wired.com/story/reflec...

On the bonus feed, we're examining the hellmouth that John Hickenlooper opened in Denver with @davidabanks.online: nogodsnomayors.com

I really tried to like this site but it just doesn’t provide the info it needs to. People on here are more concerned with media personalities’ reputations than the actual content of news (I.e. the most consequential geopolitical events of this century)

Me at work trying to use web services, to the tune of Bush's Machinehead: Login, logout, login, logout, login, logout

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

New in Academe: "The Underclass Is in Session" by David Banks: www.aaup.org/issue/winter... @davidabanks.online

Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law

This is by no means a criticism but... man. I used to go to The Verge for escapist tech reviews. Now everything is AI garbage or something to protect yourself from the gestapo.

The Turk Oz is coming for the Armenians!

"co-working is once again one of the fastest-growing segments of the office market. Economic uncertainty and the rise of artificial intelligence are compelling more companies to embrace flexibility for their workspace." www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

can you imagine being the federal agent assigned to bluesky, just getting scolded by deep space nine experts while all your buddies get like challenge coins

It's worth noting that the killer this morning was not a freshly minted ICE officer but a veteran Border Patrol agent who has theoretically been through years of "training."

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Correcting how I do the dishes is neoliberalism

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

At my parents’ house and found a 20-year-old newspaper. How things have changed!

BREAKING: Nearly 15,000 New York City nurses are now on strike at Mount Sinai, Montefiore, and New York Presbyterian. It's the largest nurses' strike in NYC history.

lol drill baby drill! (WSJ)

Feel like it shld be front page, 34-sized font headline news that the person who gave ~$250 million to Trump campaign and then was co-president for a few months, dismantling agencies and stealing Americans' data, built an AI tool that is being used for child porn. This Sept. piece is instructive

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

Seth Harp: 'The unit that abducted President Nicolas Maduro was Delta Force, an organization filled with cokeheads and pervaded by drug trafficking. You can bet that the only narcotics involved were the ones that they were on.'