Louise Seamster
debt, development, infrastructure, the economics of racial inequality, and the myth of racial progress. I express my own views
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThey’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThe amount of observers that have been detained today in the city already that I’ve seen videos of is really spooky.It’s very clear that ice is now just straight up targeting observers in an effort to quash people watching them. It’s also clear that they are absolutely keeping databases of observers
- @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app came through! bsky.app/profile/nana...
- Reposted by Louise Seamster"Over the past year, Delaware’s largest university has been quietly reacting to pressure under a second Trump administration, while fine-tuning a “long-term strategy” to review campus practices on diversity and inclusion." Blue states! archive.is/lSvIn
- Today, in local news (paywalled alas) Kelly Powers, “UD Removes Student Research on Slavery, Newark History amid Federal Pressure,” The News Journal, February 3, 2026, www.delawareonline.com/story/news/e...
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- I am trying and failing to find the article from 2 months ago that adds one more terrifying layer: about the successful altering of a facial recognition database such that the photos no longer “read” as someone’s face to a computer, although they look unchanged to a person.
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- Reposted by Louise Seamster6. I worked in this column while also finishing the final stages of our documentary on the Black Panther Party. It wasn’t hard to imagine COINTELPRO with an algorithm in a post citizens united landscape. Hoover would be vibrating at this kind of power.
- Reposted by Louise Seamster4. I’ve spent some time tracking and attending local populist responses to ai data centers. Despite some critiques from left that it’s all repackaged “nimby bullshit” (as I’ve been told), I have seen organic multiracial coalitions on this issue. Esp. in places with strong environmental racism orgs
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...
- “You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterSuch an important read from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social as she describes how all of this goes beyond protecting one’s data; it’s about protecting your rights from an authoritarian regime hellbent to demolish democracy.
- “You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
- Reposted by Louise Seamster“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThis is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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- this racist claim is part of a long history of blaming declining infrastructure on local black officials’ poor decisionmaking and overspending. in many cases the perceptions “overspending” or “corruption” have hinged on local/Black hiring and contracting requirements.
- and while doing that, please also explore whether any board or governing body of a university that signs the “compact”will have breached same, by agreeing that any public funding (or private gift!) could be retroactively withdrawn if the university’s found "out of compliance" re compact
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThere is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThis is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
- Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterDo you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
- Attention Iowa folks interested in public schools!! You won’t want to miss this, @schooldaves.bsky.social brings so much expertise and interesting ideas to school finance.
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterLiam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterFinally. Liam and his father “boarded a plane home on Sunday after a judge ordered the government to release them.” abcnews.go.com/US/5-year-li...
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThis race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterA manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterAcademics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
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- on top of which: -Epstein was managing the purchase of a place in Cambridge for the Chomskys, under a corporate name, apparently as well as some number of trusts?? -Epstein was meeting with Chomsky *and* Summers as a favor to Peter Thiel? I’m not trying to go down any of these rabbit holes but
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- Reposted by Louise SeamsterIn solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
- Reposted by Louise SeamsterThis right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
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