Jason Buel 🇵🇸
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A Cal State faculty member was arrested for protesting ICE.
The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:
The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 AM
A Cal State faculty member was arrested for protesting ICE.
The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:
The Faculty Association is still trying to figure out where he is:
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This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Mining capitalists and their bought and sold police in Bisbee, Arizona and politicians rounded up anyone they thought might be an IWW member (or if they looked Mexican) and deported them in one of the worst civil rights violations in American history!!!!!
July 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This Day in Labor History: July 12, 1917. Mining capitalists and their bought and sold police in Bisbee, Arizona and politicians rounded up anyone they thought might be an IWW member (or if they looked Mexican) and deported them in one of the worst civil rights violations in American history!!!!!
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Bezos is considering purchasing Conde Nast as a present to his now wife. Conde Nast owns not just Vogue but also Wired. Apparently, purchasing media to turn it into a propaganda organ is now the latest nuptial gift among the oligarchs.
I'm going to become the joker.
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
I'm going to become the joker.
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Jeff Bezos Rumored To Buy Vogue as Wedding Gift to Lauren Sanchez, ‘Source’ Claims
One of the final steps in Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez‘s wedding could be the billionaire buying Vogue as a gift for his wife. After Sanchez’s big feature on the fashion magazine’s cover, sources cla...
www.yahoo.com
July 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Bezos is considering purchasing Conde Nast as a present to his now wife. Conde Nast owns not just Vogue but also Wired. Apparently, purchasing media to turn it into a propaganda organ is now the latest nuptial gift among the oligarchs.
I'm going to become the joker.
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
I'm going to become the joker.
www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
Our staff is on the ground supporting families. Many workers-including US citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for 8 hours or more. US citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones. 4/
July 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence
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That there’s a police state.
Homan: "People need to understand ICE officers and Border Patrol don't need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain them, and question them ... based on their physical appearance."
July 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
That there’s a police state.
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freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave
www.nytimes.com
July 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
July 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
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"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve."
www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI
The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...
www.thedissident.news
July 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve."
www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...
feels like a matter of, what, maybe days before this becomes an actual headline?
Elon Musk Scrubs X Of Jewish Users Who Made Grok Mad
Elon Musk Scrubs X Of Jewish Users Who Made Grok Mad
BASTROP, TX—After news broke that the company’s AI tool had shared several antisemitic posts to X, Elon Musk announced Wednesday that he’d scrubbed the social media platform of the Jewish users who ma...
theonion.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:48 PM
feels like a matter of, what, maybe days before this becomes an actual headline?
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten, kicked and subject to psychological abuse after being wrongfully deported to an El Salvador megaprison
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Describes Being Tortured At CECOT
In a filing from his attorneys, Abrego Garcia alleges being beaten, kicked and subject to psychological abuse after being wrongfully deported to the Salvadoran megaprison.
www.huffpost.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Kilmar Abrego Garcia says he was beaten, kicked and subject to psychological abuse after being wrongfully deported to an El Salvador megaprison
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I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
The Grand Opening of an American Concentration Camp
The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
newrepublic.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:
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"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
I know the media is going to unthinkingly start using “Alligator Alcatraz,” but it’s disgusting and sadistic and I intend to call it what it is, a fucking concentration camp, and fuck those people who are doing this and giving it a cutesy name.
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"Alligator Alcatraz" is wrong and media should not use it. It's propaganda. Alcatraz held people convicted of crimes, particularly violent crimes.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
The Florida camp holds people *not* convicted of any crime. If they had been, they'd be in prison elsewhere.
The site is a textbook concentration camp.
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Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
Hmm, let’s see… mass detention of civilians without trial or traditional legal protections on the basis of identity (race, religion, ethnicity, political affiliation) rather than any criminal act, often for an indefinite period and done principally to expand political power. Check.
July 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.
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They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.
Ron DeSantis on his new camp for migrants: "We've got showers. There you see the shower and bath facilities."
June 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
They're just televising the construction of concentration camps like it's a good thing. This is unimaginably dark.
marilyn monroe!
June 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
marilyn monroe!
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I put together a short document for those wary of the AI mania in schools. Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools and introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed--with thoughts and rebuttals and links to sources. Hope it's helpful.
drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
![Argument: “AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and improve their effectiveness.”
Adding edtech does not necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that learning management systems sold to schools over the past decade-plus as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier. Instead, they found this tech (e.g. Google Classroom, Canvas) is often burdensome and contributes to burnout. As one teacher put it, it “just adds layers to tasks.”
“Extra time” is rarely returned to teachers. AI proponents argue that if teachers use AI tools to grade, prepare lessons, or differentiate materials, they’ll have more time to work with students. But there are always new initiatives, duties, or committee assignments—the unpaid work districts rely on—to suck up that time. In a culture of austerity and with a USDOE that is cutting spending, teachers are likely to be assigned more students. When class sizes grow, students get less attention, and positions can be cut.
AI can’t replace what teachers do, but that doesn’t mean teachers won’t be replaced. Schools are already doing it: Arizona approved a charter school in which students spend mornings working with AI and the role of teacher is reduced to “guide.” Ed tech expert Neil Selwyn argues those in “industry and policy circles…hostile to the idea of expensively trained expert professional educators who have [tenure], pension rights and union protection… [welcome] AI replacement as a way of undermining the status of the professional teacher.”
Tech firms have been selling schools on untested products for years. Technophilia has led to students being on screens for hours in school each week even when their phones are banned. Writer Jess Grose explains, “Companies never had to prove that devices or software, broadly speaking, helped students learn before those devices had wormed their way into America’s public schools.” AI products appear to be no different.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I put together a short document for those wary of the AI mania in schools. Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools and introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed--with thoughts and rebuttals and links to sources. Hope it's helpful.
drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
drive.google.com/file/d/1urCM...
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New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops
A free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number.
www.404media.co
June 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...
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if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
The FTC confirms our scoop about an extraordinary political condition on this ad merger, aimed at preventing "collusion or coordination to direct advertising away from media publishers based on the publishers’ political or ideological viewpoints." www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
June 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
if you don’t want your ads to run next to nazi social media posts, the government says “too bad,” you have to.
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a death camp outside the scope of the federal government
“The project is sure to appeal to President Trump, who talked repeatedly during his first term about building a moat along the southern border filled with alligators or snakes.”
archive.ph/2025.06.23-2...
“The project is sure to appeal to President Trump, who talked repeatedly during his first term about building a moat along the southern border filled with alligators or snakes.”
archive.ph/2025.06.23-2...
Florida Builds ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Center for Migrants in Everglades
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 10:50 PM
a death camp outside the scope of the federal government
“The project is sure to appeal to President Trump, who talked repeatedly during his first term about building a moat along the southern border filled with alligators or snakes.”
archive.ph/2025.06.23-2...
“The project is sure to appeal to President Trump, who talked repeatedly during his first term about building a moat along the southern border filled with alligators or snakes.”
archive.ph/2025.06.23-2...
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still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
June 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made
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I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic
No such luck
No such luck
June 22, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic
No such luck
No such luck