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Trying to live a contemplative life, which is hard for a news junkie. Anti-capitalist abolitionist anti-racist for a free Palestine. Cis-gender dyke.
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I love us! Shoutout to #WSSU
So this wasn’t actually a political assassination?
Loved watching Pete throwing darts
Wow! Well done Judge Merryday!
The best thing you can do today to fight fascism in the US is share this video everywhere.
From the article: “The top 10 percent have been increasing their overall share of consumer spending for the past three decades, from a little over 35 percent in 1994 to 49.2 percent in the most recent quarter, a new record high according to Moody’s analyst Mark Zandi.” Holy smokes.
Well, you know, “most transparent administration in history” amirite. Lots of people did yeoman work saving online gov docs before Jan 20, with limited assistance and server space. EVERYTHING is kind of a lot.
Hoopla and Libro.fm, too. Internet Archive also has audio books.
Gov docs librarians everywhere gotta be beside themselves God bless the Internet Archive, everybody should be a monthly donor
I downloaded a pdf from the Internet Archive, dm me if you want a copy. This report was published in the NIJ Journal, issue #285, June 2024: nij.ojp.gov/nij-journal/... The report is missing from the contents list on that page, and the entire issue cannot be downloaded, unlike issue 286
What is described here are plainly war crimes: theconversation.com/israeli-doct...
I saw Downhill Racer when it came out and thought I had never seen such a gorgeous man. RIP Robert Redford.
Public Service Loan Forgiveness was always tricky because you had to be a full-time employee to qualify. Those of us who were only able to get part-time public service positions--and I tried more than once to get a full-time position with my former employer!--could go kick rocks.
Forgot to add South Korea
Hope this is enough to bring me to the attention of those gathering names of people not mourning Kirk’s death, and to the attention of Marco Rubio’s thought police
And, US foreign policy is a giant clusterf**k, especially in regard to Israel, Russia, India, Brazil, Venezuela, and NATO allies; the end of USAID is appalling, but of a piece with our disinterest in human suffering around the world
Charlie Kirk was a raging bigot who made a living turning young people into raging bigots, and it’s actually pretty apt that he was killed by a Groyper
On the off chance that DSA membership isn’t enough to bring me to the attention of the thought police, let me just say:
Confident he’ll be fired any minute now
Ah, a Buddhist already
Action (Jay Mohr and Illeana Douglas). I may have been the only person who saw this. One season, 1999-2000.
"the suggestion — voiced by Newsom, Klein, and others — that my humanity is a fair topic for debate, or that racism is merely an “alternative viewpoint,” is something I will never concede. Shame on all those who have granted quarter to such a hateful ideology” Precisely.
And invented family separation at squalid, dangerous border facilities
So “the presence of undocumented workers might have contributed to workplace safety culture issues, if people were not free to make complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration out of fear of deportation” led to an ICE raid? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Are state violence and political violence the same thing?
You know what’s a really big news story? That Trump and the far right declared war on the left last night. presswatchers.org/2025/09/top-...
Loved Clive in this
We had a resident skunk in Isham Park in Inwood
Uh, Croupier. Too obvious?
Thanks, Conor, joined the Capital District (NY) chapter back in March or April, whenever the Democrats’ utter inability to meet this moment became glaringly obvious. Wasn’t a Democrat for the past twenty years and needed to join with the people who actually get things done.
Adopted a cat, Hans, joined my local DSA chapter and got on the political education committee, and started a bee and butterfly garden in my front yard
What a horror show www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Hyundai should shut down this plant and any others in the US
I can't take any "fascism experts" seriously who spent the past 2 decades ragging on abolitionists who said plainly that fascism was both already embedded in the criminal punishment system AND that criminalization is the fuel for fascism.
Imagine wasting fentanyl on a gas station’s door handle
"These seeds … were living libraries of Palestinian agricultural knowledge, carrying genetic traits for drought resistance, soil adaptation, and nutritional density. .. The destruction of seed banks eliminates not just current agricultural capacity, but future possibilities for food sovereignty ..."
Library-style borrowing. I’m a big fan of all things Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive has several of Trollope’s books on audio
They don't want to offer a legalistic argument about why it was somehow justified. They want this to be obviously and undeniably an act of wanton murder so they can flaunt their lawless impunity. Rubio doesn't want you to think it was legal, he wants you to think it doesn't matter it was illegal.
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
Absolutely www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who’s gonna primary this weak-ass tool?
So. Much. Eugenics.
Seriously not voting for any presidential candidate who doesn’t pledge to use the vastly expanded executive power to disband ICE, forgive all student debt, make Medicare available to all, and end arms sales to, and diplomatic relations with, Israel. Among other things.
It’s beautiful, congratulations!
Is it a philosophy class? I wish had taken this up with my white, middle-class students when teaching environmental justice.
Delightful to watch
I understand Sinner is talented, but his game leaves me cold
State-sponsored violence in which this dude is delighted to participate
Said it before, will say it again: any data center in NY must be required to generate it’s own power, 100% from renewable sources and excluding nuclear
When I was in library school 40 years ago, it seemed generally accepted that libraries and recreation were funded roughly equally in municipal budgets, wondering if that’s true today (or if it ever was)
Same
Just refuse. He has zero authority to order this.
Mind boggling corruption
Same, and I love him, but it’s a little annoying when I have a book in my lap and he weighs fourteen pounds
Like, really a lot
I wonder how much longer any of us will be willing to pay federal taxes when we and our neighbors are getting no federal services
Guess those things are “Other”
Former federal judiciary employee here: our IT staff were the least competent employees, at every level, in the court. And they were mean and rude.
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
Just wrote that right into Title 18 of the US Code by executive order, what a genius
Finally got to my email from last Friday and read that the Internet Archive now is part of the Federal Depository Library Program, that’s great news!
My NYC relatives with grown children traveling in Europe had to remind them that not every city is as safe as New York
Read Careless People if you want to see monsters in their natural environment
Hard agree
Is “we shall not be moved” secular enough? Some of us sang it in Glens Falls (NY) during the Stop the Trump Takeover demo last weekend. (I know it’s derived from a hymn, but it was great to sing.)
lol From the Daily Beast:
People have got to stop calling this shit a distraction. It’s tyranny.
For big fun, Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders, then the Thursday Murder Club books
Been telling everyone to read it. So many appalling stories, but the chapter on Myanmar is just awful. What terrible people they are.
I’m suddenly very hungry
What a terrible question, good grief
What a great story!
Flabbergasted to see she was the only one to refuse this outrageous demand, and to see the utter lack of solidarity from her colleagues
FFS
Great thread
Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.
AP and the Guardian, my two sources of news since canceling NYT and WaPo, both covered it extensively
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
R.F. Kuang, Babel
In Asheville for a post-Helene Economic Recovery and Resilience panel and struck (again) that cuts to programs like @nws.noaa.gov may lead to gaps and degradation in data quality when we need it more than ever due to climate change. We need accurate Probable Maximim Precipitation modeling.
If you haven’t read _Careless People_yet, now is the time. Not clear that he’s ever had anyone who could tell him anything.
Refuse to sit on panels with him
A law school classmate sits on the Third Circuit, would love to know what she thinks of this horror show
Like asking Jeffries, Schumer, and Gillibrand to endorse Mamdani, just a waste of breathe
Labor leaders who get on their knees and lovingly lick the boots of Donald Trump are not just humiliating, immoral, and foolish. They are also ineffective. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/is-kissing...
Federal LEO testilying, imagine that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hans wishes everyone a happy Caturday
So fun to watch
New College alum here and…yeah
NEW DOCTORAL RESEARCH ALERT: Please consider participating and spreading the word about this research on climate justice and migration being conducted by my doctoral student, Chetna Khandelwal @chetkay.bsky.social.
NEW: EOIR implements new minimum fees in the OBBBA on immigration court request for relief. As we worried, they're stacked on TOP of current fees: - Appeals and motions to reopen will cost $1,010 - Applying for a green card will cost $2,940 - Applying for cancellation of removal will cost $1,600
Any Pasadenans up for picketing?
Terrific article on crime data and abolitionism
See who?
Re trade agreements: a relative was a GATT negotiator for the Commerce Department. He and his family lived in Geneva for six and a half years while negotiations were ongoing; this round of negotiations lasted eight years.
The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news