leonie haimson
@leoniehaimson
Exec Director of Class Size Matters, co-chair Parent Coalition for Student Privacy, & host of podcast & WBAI show, "Talk out of School"
The Economist’s cover hyping AI is incredible. It acknowledges that AI could severely limit wages and heighten inequality, but offers as consolation super-low prices for everything! Never mind that our identities, dignity, and sense of self-worth comes largely from our jobs.
War criminals offen lie to justify their crimes. They also hide or cover up incriminating evidence to evade accountability. Stopping Israel’s genocidal war isn’t only a moral imperative but solid legal obligation with consequences. #NeverAgain never been so desecrated.
The crude denialism Weiss was publishing just a few months ago now risks reputational damage. That she's scrambling to cover for this is a sign of how even elite opinion now can't ignore the monstrous reality of what Israel is doing.
The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands of protesters have gathered in Edinburgh, Scotland to protest against Donald Trump
The United States is abetting a world-historic atrocity nytimes.com/2025/07/24/wor…
We're paying ICE agents six-figure salaries and $50,000 bonuses — with 10,000 new hires coming. Meanwhile, we're defunding public schools while teachers quit en masse due to unlivable pay. If you follow the money, the MAGA agenda is, quite literally, violence and ignorance.
232 journalists killed in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. It’s a massacre of truth. When those who hold the camera become the target, it’s not just genocide it’s the erasure of evidence. #Gaza
If only someone could invent a device that stores electricity. Maybe we could call it a "battery" or something like that. Thoughts?
Thiessen: Just so people understand wind and solar only work when there is wind and sun. We don't have technology to store the energy from wind and solar…
NEW—Trump's State Dept is "a ghost town..people wake up & don’t want to come in to work" As Gaza starves, there's no Israel-Palestine director. Economic experts were fired amid the trade war. And in the long run, the agency may be "Heritage Foundation 2.0" huffpost.com/entry/trump-st…
To the AIPAC social media manager: You can see the writing on the wall. You know now that what you've been doing, what you've been defending is a heinous and lengthy campaign of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. You know this, but you've been so deep in this world for…
AIPAC accused Bernie Sanders, a man who lost family in the Holocaust, of “blood libel” because he wants to prevent children from being starved to death in Gaza. What a disgraceful thing to say. Why would elected official associate with a group like this?
Despicable blood libel from @SenSanders. Shocking but not surprising that Sanders doesn’t even mention Hamas in this hate-filled rant. Why is @BernieSanders so afraid to call out Hamas for rejecting ceasefire offers that would stop the fighting, free hostages, and surge aid?
It's insane that people who make tens of millions a year (even billions!) pay the same amount into Social Security as someone who makes $176,000. Our country could easily keep its promises and fund Social Security for generations if we unrigged the system and fixed this.
Kennedy plans to dismiss all 16 members of Preventive Services Task Force as he sees them as too “woke”. ACA gave panel power to determine which screenings & preventive meds insurers must cover at no cost. A recent essay in American Conservative mag called for their removal.
Read more here: wsj.com/health/healthc…
Imagine teaching children to starve children.
Israeli children were seen trampling on humanitarian aid intended for Gaza, obstructing the delivery of food to its residents.
Today I’m calling clearly and simply: Mr. Netanyahu, let in the food. Mr. Netanyahu, stop blocking humanitarian aid and causing a man-made starvation in Gaza. The times of the United States providing you a blank check are over.
The food, medicine and aid are IN Gaza. The @UN won’t distribute it. Hundreds of truckloads are sitting there. The trucks are loaded. Demand they deliver. Yesterday, Hamas again rejected a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal that Israel accepted. Where’s your unequivocal condemnation?
🚨NEW: Former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says he routinely witnessed Israeli forces (IDF) firing artillery tank rounds and mortar rounds into crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinians at GHF aid sites in Gaza. “I witnessed war crimes,” the GHF security contractor told the…
On the importance of human rather than AI generated writing. This specifically refers to science writing but applies to all fields - and for all ages & professions, including teachers & students. nature.com/articles/s4422…
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Propagandists who have spent years printing disinfo to justify Israel's genocide are desperately trying to pivot, as their beloved Israeli colonial regime starves Palestinians to death. Bari Weiss published this propaganda in May. Media publishers were tried at Nuremberg, btw.
The price of flour shows the growing hunger crisis in Gaza. Important from @AmitSegal in @TheFP: thefp.com/p/the-price-of…