🍓 Meredith Alberta Palmer 🍓

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

Is it possible that Bluesky is even more reactive and angry than Twitter ever was? Yikes on bikes.

I record every single lecture in my large anonymous undergrad classes. I know it's not Texas but I keep my receipts anyway. I speak carefully but factually.

“We must be very aware of the future that we portray in English. I think of English as a strange wing that sprouted, not grounded in the old thinking about the land, but one that we must learn to soar in.” – Dian Million, PhD, Tanana Athabascan.

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

From @witchytwitchy.bsky.social on IG

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I desperately want historians of sci to step up & remind us how complicit we scientists were for decades, all in the hope of keeping that sweet money coming. I've watched scis ruin activist & labor movements on uni campuses all from the fear of appearing political. Time for a reckoning, and repair.

“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

Honestly, just let the Marxist bros have their highfalutin debates about Settler Colonialism. Give them some Capital Vol. III and snacks and they'll keep themselves busy.

External camps. Internal camps. Where are the women?

Job Garcia’s kidnapping by the Trump administration is the top story on the LA Times website right now. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Watch this. Let their bravery fill you up. We should be fighting tooth and nail alongside these people. If we don't, we're just telling capitalists that they can do this to our communities and no one will stand up for us. Solidarity is hope—the people united will never be defeated!

If you're NDN and want to have a wild night, put your Nations name in the bluesky search bar and see how yt ppl on here are invoking your histories/governance etc for their various arguments about whatever.

Though AI helps, does it dull us over time? A study from MIT found that regular ChatGPT use weakens memory, focus, and brain activity. 83% couldn't quote their own text. Essays became repetitive. Researchers call it "cognitive debt"—a slow erosion of independent thinking. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

I finally experienced that toxic male bullsht of old Twitter again. I really didn't miss that lol.

Two Palestinians legally visiting the US with visas, invited by local Jewish leaders to speak on human rights, are being held at SFO to be sent to West Bank.

“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

This took a while to get done, but I've chronicled my day among the protesters in Los Angeles, and the idea that this is anything but a celebration of cultural heritage and a firm, nonviolent demand to protect family, friends and neighbors is totally ridiculous. prospect.org/justice/crie...

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

Hey all! I am trying to get an elder access to pay-walled scholarly journal articles, so she can work on her next book. Does anyone know the best way to do this? Feel free to message or text.

Theory: the new masked ICE raid and patrol teams are made up of Pr0ud Boys and 0ath Keepers. To be willing and ready to use these tactics we see takes preexisting dedication, goals, and vision.

if you were still hoping to die from bird flu, I've got some good news for you... HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m... via @statnews.com

I don’t want to “streamline” my writing. I don’t want to “increase my output.” I don’t want to “write a novel with one click.” I want to write stuff only I can write. I want to read and write novels with soul and heart and a unique voice. Fuck AI. Long live real writers.

I've seen the same. I was discussing the content and breadth of DEI programs with a student - a bright, inquisitive student interested in social justice. Even THEY thought DEI meant "giving jobs to less-qualified POC over white people." They HAD NO IDEA this is a lie. The BASICS.

Don't look away, don't normalize: this is the virtually unconstrained leader of the world's most powerful country ambushing the president of South Africa with conspiracy-fueled racist propaganda promoted by his unelected billionaire maybe-appointee who has caused the deaths of children through DOGE.

“I am sorry I don’t have a plane for you” The President of South Africa deftly reminds us that he has a lot of experience in dealing with White Supremacists and autocrats.

“Sesame Street” has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday. This gives the children’s show a much needed-boost as it battles a financial crisis. nyti.ms/3Zswh7l

I still cant believe we raised $11,282.93 in 19 days Y’all are all we have in terms of support to restart our Mother’s Day 365 program. With the loss of TWO recurring grants due to Trump, we need your help providing baby formula & housing relief to moms! Donate @ tpfwoman2woman.funraise.org

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Bravo for Above The Law. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Did we ever get to hear Luigi's "why"? What was his personal story that led him to do it?

Let's add: Dr Brandeis Marshall, Aerica Shimizu Banks, Dr Emily Bender, Dr Sasha Luccioni, Dr Ruha Benjamin, Dr Sasha Costanza-Chock, Adrienne Williams, Tawana Petty

Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South www.selc.org/topic/data-c...