Tam J Guy (they/them)
@tamjguy.bsky.social
Trans on Transit
Urban Planning doc student -- UCLA
Just a neurospicy trans masc genderqueer out here trying to leave things better than they were awhile ago.
Urban Planning doc student -- UCLA
Just a neurospicy trans masc genderqueer out here trying to leave things better than they were awhile ago.
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Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism.
A year of hell for immigrants
In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
www.motherjones.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism.
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I haven't looked via my library yet, but has anyone done similar work on the California speed camera pilots? @calbike.bsky.social I know you are supporting a new bill on this right? Can you please point me to any evals you've seen? Working on a grant app related to speed, speeding, and attitudes
December 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I haven't looked via my library yet, but has anyone done similar work on the California speed camera pilots? @calbike.bsky.social I know you are supporting a new bill on this right? Can you please point me to any evals you've seen? Working on a grant app related to speed, speeding, and attitudes
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The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization
The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.
gothamist.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
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At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.
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increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult
Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
www.aaup.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult
Well this is disgusting
We know you’ve seen the designs for the 2026 America the Beautiful pass, aka the “national parks pass.” Gross, right? 🤢
Know what’s even more gross? Asking rangers to determine who is “American enough” to pay the lower cost to enter the parks.
Know what’s even more gross? Asking rangers to determine who is “American enough” to pay the lower cost to enter the parks.
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Well this is disgusting
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Reminder: All Haymarket print books come with a free, bundled ebook (where available)—so you can buy the paperback for someone on your holiday shopping list, and start reading the ebook yourself right away!
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Reminder: All Haymarket print books come with a free, bundled ebook (where available)—so you can buy the paperback for someone on your holiday shopping list, and start reading the ebook yourself right away!
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This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
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Such an important story. It shows how, with an army of MAGA ditto-heads, Trump's evil intentions can permeate down from an executive order and a few appointments at a congressional agency to the state level, to court cases, and all the way into the bathroom at your workplace.
The EEOC, the main federal agency in charge of protecting American workers' rights, has abandoned trans, nonbinary, and other gender non-conforming workers, leaving them with little ability to get justice www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
December 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Israel is still bombing Gaza
The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening
The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Israel is still bombing Gaza
The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening
The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening
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The president’s obsession with the Somali community and me is really unhealthy and creepy. He is trying to deflect from his failures and sinking approval ratings. Sorry, Trump, we all see through your attempts to hide from your broken promises.
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The president’s obsession with the Somali community and me is really unhealthy and creepy. He is trying to deflect from his failures and sinking approval ratings. Sorry, Trump, we all see through your attempts to hide from your broken promises.
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If you are in the Bay Area check this even out:
#translivesmatter
I recently saw Dan speak at Tulane and it was a great event--I was surprised how much I learned. Also, should the Kinsey scale be called the Hirschfeld scale?
#translivesmatter
I recently saw Dan speak at Tulane and it was a great event--I was surprised how much I learned. Also, should the Kinsey scale be called the Hirschfeld scale?
Author Talk | The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin — GLBT Historical Society
LOCATION GLBT Historical Society Museum 4127 18th Street San Francisco, CA 94114 ADMISSION $10 admission; Free for GLBT Historical Society Members RSVP and reserve tickets here More than a c...
www.glbthistory.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If you are in the Bay Area check this even out:
#translivesmatter
I recently saw Dan speak at Tulane and it was a great event--I was surprised how much I learned. Also, should the Kinsey scale be called the Hirschfeld scale?
#translivesmatter
I recently saw Dan speak at Tulane and it was a great event--I was surprised how much I learned. Also, should the Kinsey scale be called the Hirschfeld scale?
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We have lived in a world where government data was... good. And we no longer live in that world. Where I could pull up a government website and be like yes this many people live in this country, this many people got sick from this disease this year and so on, and know that info was pretty good
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We have lived in a world where government data was... good. And we no longer live in that world. Where I could pull up a government website and be like yes this many people live in this country, this many people got sick from this disease this year and so on, and know that info was pretty good
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The awfulness of the northwestern/Trump deal, described on NPR yesterday will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...
Breaking down Northwestern University’s $75 million settlement with the Trump administration | Illinois Public Media
Northwestern University will pay $75 million to the federal government, and make commitments to comply with Trump preferences in admissions, hiring, campus protests policies, and trans health care. In...
will.illinois.edu
December 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The awfulness of the northwestern/Trump deal, described on NPR yesterday will.illinois.edu/21stshow/sto...
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This UCLA CA freeway project devastation study is very clear and informative... and the harms are very deep and awful. Worth at least a few minutes of your time.
An amazing amount of work went into this bsky.app/profile/ucla... study/report/infomaps, etc on the damaging legacy of racist highway construction in communities and cities up and down the state.
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/u...
cal.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/u...
UCLA Report Shows How Freeway Construction Last Century Was Used to Destroy and Divide Communities of Color. - Streetsblog California
“Understanding the history of racism in freeway development can inform restorative justice in these areas.”
cal.streetsblog.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This UCLA CA freeway project devastation study is very clear and informative... and the harms are very deep and awful. Worth at least a few minutes of your time.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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The difference between the people Trump is turning on us from ICE vs the Nat Guard is that the Nat Guard signed a contract during very different times & are obligated to obey orders.
Those motherfuckers in ICE voluntarily chose THIS job, THIS year, precisely knowing it would demand violent cruelty.
Those motherfuckers in ICE voluntarily chose THIS job, THIS year, precisely knowing it would demand violent cruelty.
December 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The difference between the people Trump is turning on us from ICE vs the Nat Guard is that the Nat Guard signed a contract during very different times & are obligated to obey orders.
Those motherfuckers in ICE voluntarily chose THIS job, THIS year, precisely knowing it would demand violent cruelty.
Those motherfuckers in ICE voluntarily chose THIS job, THIS year, precisely knowing it would demand violent cruelty.
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When we say the AAUP and accreditors like SACS could be doing more, this is what we mean
(From Jim Crow Campus by Williamson-Lott)
(From Jim Crow Campus by Williamson-Lott)
December 3, 2025 at 4:08 AM
When we say the AAUP and accreditors like SACS could be doing more, this is what we mean
(From Jim Crow Campus by Williamson-Lott)
(From Jim Crow Campus by Williamson-Lott)
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Wrote this piece for @newrepublic.com with Professor Brandon Marshall about how the overdose crisis is driven by poverty and how harm reduction measures get the blame for larger structural problems they aren't designed to fix. We need economic populism and economic justice.
Collective members Professor Brandon Marshall and Abdullah Shihipar write about viewing the overdose crisis as one driven by material suffering and explain that pursuing economic justice can have a real impact in reducing overdose deaths.
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
The Populist Approach to the Opioid Crisis Can Save Millions of Lives
The overdose epidemic is often framed as a public health concern. But what if we treated it as an economic crisis, which policy can alleviate?
newrepublic.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Wrote this piece for @newrepublic.com with Professor Brandon Marshall about how the overdose crisis is driven by poverty and how harm reduction measures get the blame for larger structural problems they aren't designed to fix. We need economic populism and economic justice.
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🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
🚨🚨🚨Senator Mark Kelly with a special announcement. 1/2
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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
Ilhan Omar denounces Donald Trump for calling Somali immigrants ‘garbage’
Congresswoman Omar calls Trump's comments about her 'creepy' after the US president launches into an anti-Somali tirade.
bit.ly
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???
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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
NEW: Republican-led states, in a new filing at the D.C. Circuit, say D.C. residents are irrelevant, D.C. belongs to everyone else. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
The filing is led by the South Carolina and West Virginia attorneys general. Both states sent troops to DC.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.
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As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
As the mom of a five-year-old reading this and imagining what this family is going through made me physically ill. Unimaginable evil is being perpetrated before our eyes and with our tax dollars.
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America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.
Rand Paul just posted this letter from the Coast Guard confirming that 1/4 of the boats they stop carry no contraband. The likelihood that Hegseth & Bradley ordered the murder of innocent civilians is very high.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 AM
America does not have capital punishment for selling or smuggling drugs and none of these people were arrested or tried. There could have been mountains of cocaine in open view on the deck of the boats and it still would have been murder of unarmed civilians.