Andrew Israel Ross
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Andrew Israel Ross
@aiross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️‍🌈
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The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 
www.thedartmouth.com
January 29, 2026 at 10:40 PM
I mean, it is a scoop since noone else was doing it.
Tuesday morning:
New CBS boss promises “huge emphasis on scoops.”

Tuesday evening:
CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom.

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
‘CBS Evening News’: Tony Dokoupil Under Fire for Interviewing His Own Mom
Viewers accuse CBS News of 'dumbing down.'
www.yahoo.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry.

It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.
Like many of you, I have seen this video, and I'm demanding answers.

My team has reached out to ICE repeatedly and have yet to get clear answers.

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January 27, 2026 at 4:42 PM
For years I have used the recipe and meal planner app "Plan to Eat." For some reason they have added a new "feature" called "beginner mode" which runs recipes through generative AI. It's baffling why anyone would risk taking a real recipe, written by a human, and churn it through a tool like this.
January 22, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
January 22, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Curious about what motivates someone to stan for Jeffries and Schumer
January 21, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Baltimore freaks out when flurries are in the forecast so just imagine what people are saying about this weekend forecast www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...
January 21, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Saw a couple posts recently expressing shock that professors might ban the use of AI for brainstorming and considering that gen ai tools don't have brains I wonder how one might do otherwise?
January 18, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Politico knows where to go to get the perspective it wants www.politico.com/news/magazin...
January 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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So she had a pulse. That’s what the doctor on the scene wanted to check. She wasn’t breathing, but she had a pulse. He could have started CPR right away.

Instead ICE barred the doctor from attending her and waited 15 mins for EMT to get to her.
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
One day I'm going to go back and try to find the email the university of Southern Mississippi sent to all employees touting the building of Brett favres volleyball stadium
The Trump admin, which says it was investigating fraud in Democratic-led states, quietly shelved a massive welfare fraud investigation in Mississippi involving public funds funneled to Brett Favre and others
Trump Admin Went Easy On A Red State After Punishing Blue States For The Same Exact Thing
Mississippi caught a break on an embezzlement scandal that funneled money to Brett Favre and others.
www.huffpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-all-...
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Never forget
January 12, 2026 at 6:37 PM
In a free country, respect is earned, not simply granted. This is as true of myself as it is the president (media, take not).
January 12, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Their dog was in the car
January 9, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Transfer to a different school if you want a real education.
An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Lol. Even the Times was able to go farther than "raises questions"
Breaking news: A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage from a deadly encounter in Minneapolis between ICE agents and a 37-year-old woman raises questions about accounts from officials like Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem.
Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him
A frame-by-frame analysis of video footage raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem.
wapo.st
January 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I cannot for the life of me figure out how to turn off suggested text in Outlook for Mac. Help says to go to the "autocorrect" option under settings, but this doesn't appear in my version. Anyone have any tips?
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
When the guy says "inmates running the asylum" what he means is "faculty teaching their research expertise". Also, there is no such thing as "gender ideology" except in the minds of reactionaries and fascists.
January 8, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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When you read Paxton's Anatomy of Fascism, this is basically the central point: it's not coherant. This is why he doesn't offer a definition until then end. Because you have to look at what fascists do, not what they say, to understand it. There is no ur-text of fascism.
there is strange insistence — an implicit one — that fascism must be a coherent system
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 PM