Emily Williams
@emilyw00.bsky.social
Book lover. Rights & publishing geek. Director, IP & content services at EL Education. All views expressed are my own. Vivo en inglés y español. pronoun.is/she
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This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.
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JUST IN: The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
The Georgia election interference case against Trump and others has been dropped
The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
JUST IN: The historic Georgia election interference case against President Trump and allies for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election is no more.
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The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
Court demands end to unjustified warrantless arrests, restricting a tool ICE frequently uses to detain immigrants
Unless reversed on appeal, it is likely to place a severe restriction on ICE’s operations in Colorado.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm deeply skeptical of mainstream disinformation discourse, and it's pretty clear that most of the foreign X accounts are just engagment farming. But to the extent they're politically important, it's to X's gathered elites, not the masses nymag.com/intelligence...
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People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
Turns out Mamdani's controversial proposal for government-run supermarkets isn't so novel. Other cities also are toying with the idea to bring fresh, affordable food to communities that do not have easy access to it. Good WSJ read (gift link)
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...
Inside Atlanta’s First Government-Funded Supermarket
The goal is for the store to become profitable without any government subsidy within three years.
www.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.
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“… a major percentage of these skilled and essential workers are immigrants, many of whom lack legal immigration status.
In fact, of the roughly 2.4 million farmworkers who help feed our nation from coast to coast, at least half are undocumented.” In CA, this number could be as high as 75% 👇🏽
In fact, of the roughly 2.4 million farmworkers who help feed our nation from coast to coast, at least half are undocumented.” In CA, this number could be as high as 75% 👇🏽
So much of Thanksgiving happens long before any of us sit down at the table. Long before the turkey hits the oven or the pie is sliced, immigrant farmworkers and meatpacking workers have already put in the labor that makes these traditions possible.
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This Year, Remember To Thank The Unseen Guests At Our Thanksgiving Table
Thank you for feeding us.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
“… a major percentage of these skilled and essential workers are immigrants, many of whom lack legal immigration status.
In fact, of the roughly 2.4 million farmworkers who help feed our nation from coast to coast, at least half are undocumented.” In CA, this number could be as high as 75% 👇🏽
In fact, of the roughly 2.4 million farmworkers who help feed our nation from coast to coast, at least half are undocumented.” In CA, this number could be as high as 75% 👇🏽
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if you did this 200 years ago they’d drown you in a lake
November 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
if you did this 200 years ago they’d drown you in a lake
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Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
Is education a lost cause?
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.
Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Grateful for those who refuse to give up.
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"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"All of this, food bloggers say, erodes the simple promise of a recipe: that someone has actually cooked it before you have."
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tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM
tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
November 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I'm good.
I'm good.
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Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
November 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Oddly enough, in media coverage of Dems' video warning against carrying out illegal orders, there's very little discussion of *whether it's actually reasonable to fear Trump is giving illegal commands or not.*
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he is. Media should say so:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
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News coverage of DOGE’s creation earlier this year was practically wall-to-wall — for weeks. “$2 trillion in savings, $5000 dividend checks, an entirely new model of government.” And now that it’s gone, it’s like eh.
@techcrunch.com
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DOGE days are over as Trump disbands Elon Musk's team of federal cost-cutters | TechCrunch
DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
News coverage of DOGE’s creation earlier this year was practically wall-to-wall — for weeks. “$2 trillion in savings, $5000 dividend checks, an entirely new model of government.” And now that it’s gone, it’s like eh.
@techcrunch.com
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@techcrunch.com
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between this and Kavanaugh stops, Irish America not providing a shining example at present
“Halligan’d” about to be a word to describe maximum incompetence
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
between this and Kavanaugh stops, Irish America not providing a shining example at present
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“The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley who have helped build, invest in, or cheerlead for these companies have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word.”
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley who have helped build, invest in, or cheerlead for these companies have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word.”
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BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.
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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
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Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
November 23, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience".
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.
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detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:23 PM
detailed WashPost account of how Trump and Stephen Miller sidelined serious lawyers so they could fabricate a justification for committing murder
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
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Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
Love all, help all.
Go Jackets.
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The Ballad of Lola the Pug
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Ballad of Lola the Pug
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The Democratic Party’s rival factions might actually have managed to find an economic message they can agree on, Rogé Karma argues:
Democrats Finally Realize It Isn’t 2016 Anymore
Members of the left and the center seem to have concluded that, to win elections, each side needs to become more like the other.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Democratic Party’s rival factions might actually have managed to find an economic message they can agree on, Rogé Karma argues: