The introductory classes that all Utah college students must take will get a major rewrite — starting with Utah State — to focus on Western civilization, under a bill Gov. Spencer Cox signed into law.

We need to talk about Trump’s threat to defund universities unless they arrest and expel protesters.

We’re watching classic fascistic institutional capture in real time and if this continues unabated we’re going to look up and live in a world without escape. The time to fight is now.

The 28th is one day.
You can make it many.
This can be a practice.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

In a tweet announcing his attack on the Climate Justice Alliance, EPA head Lee Zeldin linked it to the group’s protected speech about Palestine.

The directive announced Jan. 21 reversed policy that for more than a decade restricted both ICE and CBP officers in these previously protected “sensitive areas,” which includes schools, churches and hospitals.

More than a thousand union members and supporters packed the Utah State Capitol rotunda Friday afternoon to protest the anti-union HB267 and urge Gov. Spencer Cox to veto it.
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ICE agents told Unified officers they wanted the man to get a ticket. When a Unified officer asked if the agents were going to file charges, the agents said they “would take care of it on their end."

“This was also concerning to me,” the Unified officer wrote.

This violence against Palestinians and the land is unfathomable. Free Palestine means the people AND the land. The two are always together.

Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology.

A trans veteran unalived themselves at the Syracuse VA medical center garage while wrapped in a trans flag.

The way this administration is creating the exact conditions for this to happen is soul crushing.

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New — USAID staff received an email just a few minutes ago letting them know HQ would be closed to all personnel Monday. It’s likely some employees will miss the overnight email, show up and be turned away.

It was sent by Gavin Kliger, one of the young guys at DOGE doing Musk’s bidding.

The way we fight for (and against) bathrooms affects the whole panoply of trans issues. If one is a specter, a ghoul incapable of using public space, one is much easier to banish to the margins.

Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Turkey and its militias have cut off the Kurdish city of Kobane, which pursued a radical social revolution, from the rest of Syria.

Our reporters were there.

At a protest called to decry NYU Langone’s cancellation of medical appointments for young trans patients, now filling St. Vartan Park in Manhattan.

US President Donald Trump says he would like to “just clean out” Gaza, urging Egypt and Jordan to take in more Palestinians from the coastal enclave aje.io/zp2iaa

I teach folks about how we can use tech to help and not harm, fighting surveillance culture, and collective liberation.

I set up a site here to folks can keep updated on resisting facial recognition, biometric theft, how to demand AI accountability and more.

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