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It's official. The books that I wrote arrived. I am an author y'all. I AM AN AUTHOR. A childhood dream I never thought could happen is happening!!!!!! 🥹 In 15 days, #TheDoubleTax is coming to a doorstep, bookstore, and library near you. Please pre-order by 9/16: annagifty.com! #booksky #blacksky
It's worse than this! These people do not like Newsom and have resigned themselves to supporting him simply because he is getting media attention. It's only 2025, and these people are acting like the primary is over and they just need to coalition build now.
Oh, and PSA for #LabourDay: sex work is work and sex workers are workers. Sex work is a form of labour, and sex workers deserve the same working and safety rights as everyone else ☂️
Folks, @justdetention.bsky.social has started their Words of Hope campaign which sends holiday cards to survivors of prison rape. You can request cards here: justdetention.org/woh/
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
as folks know, conditions are still pretty brutal and Mohamed is still seeking help. please share/boost 🙏🏾
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This Sudanese refugee and student is in a race against time, being $1800 away from securing her next year’s tuition. She has only 15 days left to make the deadline. Please help with whatever you can: www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-si... #KeepEyesOnSudan #mutualaid
I’ve needed to make this for a bit- but here’s a thread of people who are being forced out of Gaza City- a lot of people living in Gaza City have been in bombed out buildings so they don’t have tents and also they need transportation. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
In Punjab province, all three major rivers overflowed simultaneously, for the first time in the country’s history.
heh. I did for a few of them
thank you 🥰🥰🥰
If you are wondering what I mean by a lot of work: 1. We need to get 51 members of the City Council on record re: our demand. 2. We need to organize our neighbors to pressure the members who do not support the demand. 3. We need to continue to be vigilant to ensure that it's not a 1 year thing.
thank you!!
aw thank you! 🥰
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amazing what hiding in pain sight can do haha
thank you!!
look what I found while pruning the cucumber plant this morning! 🌱 pleasant surprise
haha I meant the location. I could maybe see the US leaving, but I doubt it. it's a useful tool for bullying other countries
I've heard people say they're considering about moving to Nairobi. interesting to see the US slowly destroy its hegemony
the UN is sooo going to leave the US
I did a practice of Perplexity in 2023 due to educators insisting it was good for searching. While it gave me links to real webpages, the sites were just from the top 10 or so from a standard google search. The images it cited were not related to my query topic. The hallucination rate was about 80%.
and fwiw I've been watching with sisters bf who hasn't watched dexter og and has loved this series so far
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not that much. if you know the basics you should be fine.
it's really well done. I say give it a shot
dexter: resurrection is so good. I can't wait for the finale but I also don't want the season to end 😅
“I call it the patience of the poor. I grew up that way. You learn to wait. When you’re poor in America, you’re not free. And when you’re poor, you learn to wait. You lose choices when you’re poor. You don’t pick where your kids go to school or where you live or your doctor.” WHEW!!!
so, like... if he scapegoats minority groups like Trump, hangs out with right-wing influencers like Trump, tweets like Trump, and mobilizes cops in the name of a moral panic about crime like Trump...
good to hear!
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YESSSSSSSS
are notification filters here broken? I have my settings set that I only see posts and tags from people I follow, but like two days ago I noticed the filtering stopped?
definitely
No paywall archive.md/2025.08.28-1...
If you just DM'd me @support.bsky.team has locked me, an international humanitarian aid worker, out of my DMs. Why? Because my international phone plan is routing traffic thru the UK. Even tho I'm in the Balkans. I tried to verify by card which didn't work. I'm not willing to verify by face scan.
if you’re going to talk about constraints placed on the CIA by Congress you might want to note that the CIA has been found to be hiding operations from Congress and also spying on Congress
A reminder that this is what the path to a full ban on vaccines looks like. No one is banning vaccines for everyone overnight. Just like with abortion, they will carve off one group at a time and hope the those still eligible respond with gratitude and self-interest instead of anger and solidarity.
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holy shit
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The other thing about this is it’s going to create distrust because how the fuck can I trust what people are saying if maybe they are just repeating things they are being paid to repeat??? bsky.app/profile/chan...
They exist to violate and erode consent. Any other use is incidental.
![Opal Nelson, a 22-year-old in New York, said the more she learns about smart glasses, the angrier she becomes. Meta Ray-Bans have a light that turns on when the gadget is recording video, but she said it doesn’t seem to protect people from being recorded without consent. She worries about her retail job at a Manhattan tourist destination — if a customer is taking pictures with a phone, she can step out of the frame, she said, but glasses make it impossible to avoid the shot. She also frequently sees videos on social media of men approaching women on the street and recording them without permission using smart glasses. “All these girls are coming on [TikTok] saying, ‘I didn’t know that I was being posted. I didn’t know I was being recorded.’ And now there’s more and more tutorials showing people how to cover up the [warning light] and still allow you to record,” Nelson said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hakzua5btcgcfjye2yujlhos/bafkreicfvfecsx4op5vtnh4qvffilrsfzk2jxfz4xie3pvbsrvexxq7bcq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
y'know what, that's a fair point ...I hope I have the opportunity to see a jury say fuck off to legally-reasonable-but-otherwise-shitty charges 😈
seriously. I'm very glad it's here on bsky
lol oh
Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social Gift 🔗
Hala is a Sudanese war survivor who has been raising money for her family & education for over a yr. When she finally met her goal, the money was stolen by the person running her GFM. She now has to start all over. Please help if you can — and share ANYWHERE! #mutualaid chuffed.org/project/hala
due to funding cuts, foodnet is no longer requiring state-level monitoring for campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersinia. the 10 foodnet states can still do that, but they’ll need funding to replace CDC’s
What a terrific choice!
Does laborsky know about this? A local of @opeiu.org is seeking management pay cuts at an Ohio Planned Parenthood before it lays off any union members Cc @banditelli.org
It's important to understand that he singles out Black women because there are few negative consequences for him when he does. It's his most frictionless lane for bullying. The broader public has shown him few, if any, will step up to defend us, and it's only ramped up since his first term.
as a former young organizer, I totally agree.
Given it’s the first week of class for many of us, I want to shout out the #Blackademics feed! It’s a community of Black Academics, researchers & grad students hosted on the #Blacksky servers & moderated by me. Like the feed & pin it to your profile to join the conversation!!
Reformists: What's wrong with reforms? After all, abolition is so unpopular and unimaginable to implement Reforms: LB530 would lower the age a juvenile offender can be detained in Nebraska from 13 to 11 years old
Sources and docs: Microsoft worked with the FBI to track anti-Israel protests, flagged internal emails with words like "Gaza", deleted posts, and fired staff (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Drive the care out of large hospitals and then laden small providers with increasingly expensive and unnecessary equipment regulations. Welcome to the anti abortion playbook.
"Newsom is a Democrat and Trump is a Republican, and while both have been very vocal about each other’s differences, Jehl (R) and Myers (R) note in the letter that when it comes to homelessness strategy, their approaches to a solution are similar." www.wane.com/top-stories/...
Folks who enjoyed K-pop Demon Hunters, which is an allegory built on biracial heritage experiences in Korean society but does not include any people of biracial heritage in it, should read about Insooni, a Black Korean whose career began with the Hee Sisters, and push for KPDH2 to do better!
A word to the wise: This is broadly applicable in life, and on this site. Black women know when someone is condescending to us and it is deeply disrespectful. Especially when they're doing it for clout.
if you have spare money to help a disabled Indigenous person with immediate essentials, see links below bsky.app/profile/word...
I've gotten them, too. it's disgusting.
"My feeling is that many progressives / small-l liberals focus heavily on language issues because it (a) reduces the focus on the structures and systems that are beneficial to them but detrimental to others, and (b) minimises the amount of work they have to do to claim to be an ’ally’."
surprise, surprise
i think this is actually in the counterinsurgency manual
Correct: language policing is often itself also a way to influence agenda setting w/o saying so overtly. Stop caring about the gays is too direct, so instead it is “don’t say LGBTQ”
When i was still at the airplane factory, reporting ethics issues, i was constantly told “while everything you are saying is right, the way you are saying it is offputting”. When id ask the right way to say it, they would have no answers. This is always a stall.
anyone who doesn’t support throwing vulnerable minorities under the bus is now a wrecker according to newsom-loving libs and that is just one more reason electoralism cannot save us from fascism but instead serves as a overton window shifter that normalizes fascist lurches rightward
when people don't want to DO anything they just fret about language
the thing about Third Way's list is that people love to focus on language to distract from actually doing anything to address the problems the language aims to solve
You can’t build a coalition of people you’re sacrificing.
A good thread on the fall of UChicago. I'd add that they leaned harder into speech panic than perhaps any other major institution. It turns out, if you can believe it, that there were more pressing issues on campus.
"Most [immigrant] parents' biggest concern is that something will happen to them on the way to school in front of their children." "D.C. school system [..] [is] discouraging organizers from providing guidance to families on school grounds." #WashingtonDC #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
I hate this status update, but I need to give it: We are working to deploy an update to our location detection that we hope will solve some inaccuracies. It should roll out in the next couple hours.
You know why I get angry when I hear the "Black women will save us!" Our friend Tinu, an incredible organizer and teacher who did the saving, died of Covid a year ago. A YEAR AGO. Hundreds of us have been trying to get the fundraiser for her family to reach its goal. Still unmet. 1/n
I strongly think more people need to be writing about the culture shift toward anti-autonomy and anti-humanism and how that plays out in the entwined cultures of technology, fascism, and the religious right, but also its cultivation in popular culture more broadly
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We have to make it so “gang member” isn’t an easy way to dehumanize people.
let's help Andrea keep her room!
This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow. This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky
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Ben Rhodes said something on All In last night that I've been saying for years. The reason US fascism is qualitatively different than in other countries is that the U.S. has every possible weapon AND mass surveillance ALREADY. No other country on earth can surveil its population like this one.+
Finally, I said years ago, and folks who have followed me for a long time know this is true, that defunding the police was a moderate demand that is actually the basement in terms of what's needed. I said that liberals will be deeply sorry that they turned that demand into some kind of bogeyman.
WHO’S AFRAID OF GENDER?
the point of lists like these is always to get dem politicians to stop caring about the issues--poverty, racism, LGBT discrimination--that these words are stands ins for
Here’s news article. It’s some bullshit www.wsbtv.com/news/local/f...
Excellent thread (reflects my own limited experience in this industry), and it gets to the problem with calling mainstream journalism “liberal,” at least in terms of values treated as habitus. Much like higher ed, it is a deeply conservative institution that benefits from a false liberal label.
I spent the 2010's arguing with my white colleagues that we were facing a crisis in newsroom diversity. The smart, dedicated, talented cis white journalists I thought of as my friends didn't want to hear it. Most of them ignored me. At least one of them told me to go to hell.
#OtD 22 Aug 1972 16 left-wing political prisoners were murdered and 3 injured in the Trelew army base in Argentina by the right-wing military dictatorship. One of the army officers responsible was given refuge in the US, which refused extradition More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7862...
Most of the critics writing about FIT FOR TV were not subjected to the culture of cruelty toward fat people affirmed and encouraged by THE BIGGEST LOSER. But I was. So I wrote about it. www.slashfilm.com/1945855/netf...
had the same thought
"Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality" is a sentence I can immediately recognize as something that will be seared into my brain forever
James Dobson's family: He went home to be with the Lord. The Lord: