Fund Public Goods Not State Violence

While this is in a thread about a specific incident, it’s a great distillation of how we should all approach any reporting we read these days

Also: Maryam Mirzakhani 🇮🇷: Fields Medal 2014. I've not included Nobel Peace Prizes cos they are ludicrous anyway. But let's not forget the history either. Al-Kindi, Al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Rushd. Actual numbers that we use. etc.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

no amnesty

Demand action from our elected leaders at aclu.org/get-flock_out

I want everyone to internalize that these fucking "A.i." companies are inflicting this shit on us KNOWINGLY. They're doing this to us. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS. No bailout for these creeps, ever. Let their companies and their wealth and reputation evaporate forever.

🧵 of photos from today's press conference in Flatbush demanding ICE release Roberto Lamour so he can be reunited with his daughter in Brooklyn. If you're moved by these photos, please consider donating to help Lamour's family via the cashapp account in the screenshot.

A summary of the unethical Guinea-Bissau trial of the birth dose of HepB vaccine that RFK Jr. funded: -It was first reported in January and public backlash got it canceled -Or not, because it reemerged this month -It got ethics approval from a Danish review board, resulting in 4 people resigning

Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign responds to the horrific ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged, abusive mother. They don't deny playing a part in it. It's hard to imagine Acton's estranged mom wasn't paid for this, and the payment wouldn't have had to come from Vivek's campaign directly.

This is how scared they are of accountability.

I feel shame, sometimes, at what pushes me over the edge. I fell in love with Mahmoud Darwish’s descriptions of coffee in Memory for Forgetfulness, but this was not what got me into a morning coffee ritual. No, it was Ryan Coogler carefully brewing pour-over in an interview w Maggie Gyllenhaal

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

What’s the DNC’s compromise position to win over the “centrist” snuff flick enthusiasts?

Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

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Since when were we referring to placements (internships) as “jobs” (particularly 4-week ones)? Also, I wonder if this subsidized low wage hospitality worker effort’s connected to hospitality labor getting organized (as I was just learning about on @trashfuture.bsky.social’s recent ep w/ Unite’s Jay)

Fishbone Thugs-n-Harmony

This thread illustrates, in horrifying detail, that when the media uncritically reports statements of the Trump administration, it's not just failing in its job, it's actively contributing to the evils the administration propagates.

Holding the Trump admin accountable for its crimes can seem distant, but there are meaningful steps both US domestic opposition & the international community can take, including supporting the ICC, enabling international investigations into disappearances & civilian deaths, & refunding foreign aid

That they're even taking this is a huge red flag. The fact that this is the same court that granted the president immunity may mean that the outcome is already written

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

Christa Pike’s attorneys have just released an update on her condition. Full release here:

EMERGENCY PROTEST IN NEW YORK TONIGHT 5:30PM FOLEY SQUARE. ICE shot a man with his 5 year old in the backseat. We cannot let this be normal. Be there.

This is such a key point. Please get involved in your community in whatever way you can. Taking risk also means building community w neighbors who are targets of ICE, building networks, accompanying folks to court, childcare, fundraising for legal fees, sharing know your rights info w local shops &c

Press conference in the Bronx after the ICE shooting - - @cndelarosa.bsky.social speaking

The US government had the jurisdiction to prosecute members of the GWB administration for torture and chose not to hold them accountable, but it does _not_ have the same jurisdiction for prosecuting foreign heads of state. Maybe the ICC does, but the US is sanctioning them

I fear that any midterm “mandate” angry voters give them will be squandered on dinner party invites instead of building the accountability regime people are desperate for and are putting their bodies and lives on the line to get.

Such a great encapsulation of the difference between optimism and hope right here. Also, check out the preceding post for more context

God everything is so DUMB.

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Honored to speak on behalf of @standupforyale.bsky.social at the Democratize Yale protest on 10/2 on Yale's Beinecke Plaza - and huge thanks to Kyo Lee for the photo! Yale president Maurie McInnis is currently trying to cut a deal with the white supremacists in the Trump administration...

I’m really late to the game, but if you’ve got something you can pitch in, please help me raise some money for UNRWA’s children’s mental health programs in Palestine. The NYC Gaza 5k is this weekend & I’ll be mad grateful for anything you can give getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/7...

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

never the wrong time for this classic

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

Best part of this muddled article by one of Bloomberg's money guys is that two of the charts make a compelling case that knee-jerk opposition to AI is wholly justified because technological progress doesn't increase productivity, it just enables greater income extraction by capital. Oops!

“If these types of hacks were unforeseeable, maybe these companies could be forgiven—but they aren’t […] It is not ChatGPT and Claude going rogue, but OpenAI and Anthropic.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...