It sounds like it’s time to express that horror, then. We DESPERATELY need people to tell it like it is, horror and all.
If I had ever wrote, I should be a true proficient.
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It sounds like it’s time to express that horror, then. We DESPERATELY need people to tell it like it is, horror and all.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Happy Papa Was A Rolling Stone to all those who observe. Don’t forget to watermark pics of your kids and don’t answer the door if there’s a strangely familiar looking old dude knocking.
Here's a callout: Do you drive your kid to school, but would you prefer to be able to put them on a school bus? If so, I'd love to chat with you.
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I have just TWO questions: 1. Who’s actually behind this? 2. What taxes are they trying to avoid paying?
We’re buying from Palestinian owned businesses where we can, right? But can we direct some of that energy towards locating and supporting anti-Zionist Jewish owned businesses, too?
To be fair, a white Brit heading to another country and labeling everyone as oversexed brutes is very much on brand. But the fact that Gilbert tried this mess on the 21st century US makes me very worried.
openai promises a chatgpt model with 'research grade intelligence' (if you pay them $200 a month). what they don't tell you is that it's the "research" capability of a 4th grader
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private citizens have no standing to sue for disability-based violations of the Voting Rights Act—the landmark federal statute that protects, among other things, the right to voting assistance for disabled people.
More than likely eleven innocent civilians in legitimate transit somewhere were murdered with the Western press immediately broadcasting the U.S. slur about "gangs" and "drugs" to legitimate a straight out war crime.
If you are an American service member and you believe you have been given an illegal or immoral order by your superiors, the GI Rights Hotline can help you to know your options. 877-447-4487
man. if Eric Schmitt's speech to NatCon isn't a sign of the times, i don't know what is
Shop update: removing a couple things now that have been sold, here's what's still for sale in my knitting shop! Details in thread below. I'm working on more things, too, so look out for those! #BSNM #Knitsky #ShopSmall #Pride ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
The ICE agent with a "SEND ME" patch who was reportedly racially profiling drivers in Washington DC is Jason Christopher Perez of Austin, Texas. Additional footage I received matches pictures from social media of his arm tattoos. And an ICE email address with his name appears in a data breach.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Big Cartel shop? A sale or two would be a colossal help. Here's a pic of who I currently have available. All of my creations are designed, sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Each takes many hours to make. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com
This sure takes its time with the fact that he was specifically encouraging people to assault anyone they believe to be trans using the women's room
I hope every health-related profession that does this is sued into oblivion and that therapists, in particular, are walked into a public square to have hard socks thrown at them. technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?...
Soooo there’s literal military in the streets of US cities and we got centrists still lecturing about ‘you shouldn’t have tried to defund the police.’ Mmkay.
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I will never understand why more people aren't disgusted by the rightwing's obsession with children's genitals. It's creepy. It's weird. It's disturbing. It's the kind of political stance that should make a party anathema to any voter who isn't pro-pedophilia.
Seems bad
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
I remember in late 2023 I pointed this obvious fact out and there were abled leftists deriding me for saying the obvious.
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
It’s really odd to see people commenting “tall women exist” as if tall women don’t get called 50 kinds of men every day. That being said, I don’t think this skeet did what the OP intended.
Some of us also eat duck bacon, which has got to be much better than pork at any rate.
Please talk to some Black people before dismissing the psychological impact of having Feds running around the neighborhood hemming people up en masse.
And what gets me is that men believe this because they live lives completely devoid of historical context. If it was 1725, they'd be the hired farm hand (and still single) It if was 1890, they'd be the factory workers sleeping in coffins at night (and still single) Just detached from reality
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
Oh honey, lemme put you on game of ALL our current Black tennis players inspired by the Williams sisters ☺️ AND Venus is still playing. I think I’m missing a couple too
Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!
I feel like we’re in a constant struggle to maintain what we have, but a fight that we all need to contribute to however we can is the rights of incarcerated workers.
happy #laborday! today we honor workers, their grit, their struggles, and their victories. we also remember the fight isn’t finished. labor day is a reminder: worker rights were won by organizing, and they’ll be protected the same way. here’s a ten question thread to start the day! #questionsky 🧵
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
If that’s not feasible, I found some cheap tray tables that could be glued to a plank. Glue the bowl to the table, and they’ll have a rather awkward time hauling the whole thing off.
As a Black American, it’s been really interesting watching Brits rightly drag an American for being racist while pretending that being considered British while Asian does not come with a whole lot of terms and conditions.
Sigh. "The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator." craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Britain suspends refugees' family reunion applications to toughen rules reut.rs/4naxklZ
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I’ve been asked many times if I would ever write a follow up to my novella, “Buffalo Soldier.” Well, I finally did. It’s called “Soul Rebel” and it is coming out in the next issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION (edited by the legendary Sheree Renee Thomas)!
Happy Labor Day! I see & respect the past accomplishments of the labor movement and raise u full communism
Working people have fought for and died for the workplace rights we enjoy today. How will you be honoring them on Workers’ Labor Day? Join America’s unions today at an event near you: WorkersLaborDay.org
I’m now wondering what Bill would say of red rice (jollof’s long lost cousin in the US), but I think I’d rather just mute him and have a better day.
This is a clip from Hell, not just an explosion. Beirut literally the world turns into a volcano of red, then in seconds the ground shakes beneath you, your body trembles, and you’re too embarrassed to hope it will stop. You feel as if your heart jumped outside your body, your ears ruptured!! Help 🙏🏽
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Amidst devastating floods, #Afghanistan just had a horrible earthquake near the same region. May G-D have mercy on my poor people. www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...
Folks are on here either trying to get us in the same terrible electoral position we were in for ‘16, ‘20 & ‘24 (among others), when we could be identifying good policies and candidates and moving us and them into a space where their candidacy could do some good.
If the majority of a nation wants their representatives to stop arming a genocide but those representatives refuse, it means they are not afraid to lose votes. By voting for the "lesser evil" for decades you didn't honor the right to vote so many fought for, you devalued the only currency you had.
Aalaa is in the final stretch of a long and arduous journey that started with evacuating her family and getting them critical medical treatment. Please help her close out this campaign! gofund.me/332481ed #KeepEyesOnSudan
And ingrown pubic hair.
Tangential but it’s notable that when California does things it gets reported as “Newsom” and when Illinois does things it gets reported as “Illinois”
GLOBAL ECONOMY Asia factory activity shrinks as US tariffs bite, China bucks trend reut.rs/3JE7FUi
Neither Claude nor ChatGPT could come up with anything as wild as the stuff you say on the regular. AI would become “ay, idek” the day it tried to recreate you.
considering republicans are trying to traffic children literally as we speak, “we will protect your children from republicans” is a broadly applicable goal that seems easy to sell but i guess we don’t talk about child safety at the kitchen table?
I know I’m relentlessly harping on this eugenics thing and I’m gonna take a break from it but I’m just so tired of watching ableds discover eugenics for the first time and drawing all the wrong conclusions when literally many of us disabled folks RIGHT HERE explaining it and have been for YEARS
Short 🧵 When I taught South African history a couple of years ago, I spent a week talking about mining and labor struggles. One of the main features of the initial stages of both gold and diamond mining there (this is pre-Rhodes) was that anyone could own a claim, regardless of race.
Jasmine farmers in Egypt struggle as climate change cuts harvests Jasmine Farmers in Egypt are struggling as the country’s increasingly hot summers cause jasmine harvests to fall dramatically. Many farming families, who have worked in the industry for decades, are now leaving their fields as…
Kallas: EU member states still have no agreement to suspend free trade with Israel. National positions are a secret so this is open to correction, is partial and speculative. For Israel’s genocide: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czechs, Italy. Against: Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Denmark, Portugal.
I’ve been hearing this mess since 2016. It got us Trump and it didn’t stop the people working to end American democracy— it barely slowed them down. So *maybe* we should walk away from the football no matter what Lucy says this time.
i feel like the lot of the country stopped paying attention after the stories about how they're all just wandering the Mall harmlessly and then lost the thread from there like the oafishness here is truly very funny but also... they're just breaking into an apartment complex???
Look if people insist on electing 80 year olds with bad McDonalds habits as President, we will all have to play the very silly game of “dead or not dead” on the regular.
Them eggs are going to send you to the angels.
For 157 days, Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation by the United States government for writing an op-ed it didn’t like, and for 76 days, Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest.
Full story at: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
“As Al Qaeda seeks to empty out the World Trade Center towers…”
New York’s hottest club is Blame Zohran Mamdani for Crimes Committed While Eric Adams Is Mayor Under Laws Signed by Andrew Cuomo. It’s got everything—corrections officers who aren’t registered to vote in New York City, etc etc etc
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
Some friends asked me how I could immediately recognise an image as AI, and we're going to have to bring back the phrase "I can tell from some of the pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time"
I’ve thought for a while that the US has way too much sway over the UN. You can’t have an impartial body that has to play nice with one particularly biased party to do business.
Thank you for the reminder, as I want a pair of fall boots.
Cool to see this federal agency schedule an important workshop for early career people to overlap perfectly with Rosh Hashanah This, actually, is the antisemitism problem, not people who oppose genocide
btw my GoFundMe is still active and I haven't received any donations there yet: gofund.me/ba5af905
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I find that some of the nicest things happen when everyone is anxiously awaiting something but I go to bed. So good night, and you’re welcome.
And then they hop on forums and say “oh, we’re not doing enforcement against the kids,” but then I get off at Anacostia and there’s like 15 cops taking pictures of a kid. I ask them what they’re doing all of a sudden it’s “gun investigation” no disrespect to the kid but there’s no way his square ass
Fun fact: Florida's orange harvest is now only 8% of what it was 20 years of global warming ago. Increasing hurricane activity and more hospitable environment for disease and pests, has *already* destroyed the Florida orange industry. citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/f...
I had to wait until they opened it to those who didn’t have a .edu account, because my college reserved those for faculty.
Okay, tonight's inventory selections. Today's feature [shown below] is 4 pairs of Wings's newest earrings, all at lower price points than most of his work. And I really, REALLY need to sell some this weekend. For tonight? We also have 4 pairs of floral conchas.
A third previously AIPAC-backed Democratic member of Congress has renounced ties with the organization and sworn off future affiliation or fundraising with it. Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, making her the 2nd one from North Carolina.
House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints Congress has absolutely zero constitutional authority to investigate a private website for its editorial decisions. Zero. None. This is First Amendment 101. Yet House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and…
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
How have we not developed dozens of ways to do this in the past nine years? Outshallah remains my favorite, though.
NEW figures show that 61,226 people are currently in ICE detention — the highest number ever in US history. According to ICE data, 70% of these people have no criminal conviction.
Avian influenza being a virus that's killed between 50-99% of people who've caught it in outbreaks in other countries, mind you.
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Updates on the pharmacy vaccine situation today: CVS is now requiring a prescription in 13 states and not offering shots at all in three others; Walgreens appears to be requiring prescriptions in 16 states, but not all the same ones as CVS. The lists of states are in the article. Gift link:
This is why you let this man out to do what he’s been tasked with and then IMMEDIATELY put the muzzle back on. He’s an attack dog— you don’t let him play with the kids.
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
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