The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, including the United States, Israel and Ukraine. The vote came as Cuba was battered by Hurricane Melissa, causing widespread damage.

NYC friends: DR*G USER DEFENSE COLLECTIVE is hosting a few harm reduction zine foldings at Come Forever, a mask nonoptional space, this fall/winter. DM me if you want to come by and hang! truthout.org/audio/making...

so funny to read this story the week I'm trying to decide how to discuss Critique of Reason in my book lol I constantly just want to time travel and tell these guys that the universe of possibilities is way bigger than they think it is

I've read all three and at least two of them are great!!! #BookSky The other one can be picked up here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Destroying public infrastructure, healthcare systems, educational institutions, criminalizing existence are ALL mechanisms of colonial domination, the same mechanisms that were used to initiate the genocide against Indigenous Africans & Turtle Island.

I would’ve lit my blunt & had a cook out with the flames at the Nottoway Plantation in Louisiana

NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website www.404media.co/globalx-airl...

new for @starledger.bsky.social, health reporter Jackie Roman and I spent a couple of months speaking with former and current inmates about what they called unsafe and “dirty” water quality at #NewJersey prisons. Activists, including @cleanwaternj.bsky.social, are calling for an investigation

Good god. Meta is using their AI licensing deals with John Cena, Disney, and others to peddle sex chat bots to kids. Burn this company to the fucking ground. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

“The military’s carbon footprint is driven by several key factors, the most significant being the consumption of fossil fuels. Militaries, particularly those of the United States and its allies, use vast amounts of oil, gas, and other forms of dirty energy, both in peacetime and wartime.”

On Gaza & LA fires: "The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of >20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations" #FreePalestine #AbolishZionism #DismantleWhiteness www.theguardian.com/world/2024/j...

- In 2022 there was a leak from the EHRC that said they were planning to exclude all trans people from public bathrooms - I sent "Baroness" Falkner an admittedly quit distressed email confronting her on it - She responded saying it was all fake news - Today she admitted that's what they want

Update: Note that Head Start was born out of the Civil Rights Movement, a federal investment in America' promise of equal opportunity & in our children from the most disadvantaged communities & families. bsky.app/profile/emil...

Segregated Science is Mediocre Science But the Trump Admin is moving to make it as mediocre as possible -- "Six percent of White males who serve on [nih review] boards were fired, compared with half of Black and Hispanic females and a quarter of all females," www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Going to gut Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts

Transphobes are sore losers

The GOP COVID Committee report is wild. The virus is a Chinese bioweapon designed by Fauci ... and it was so mild that the US should have taken zero precautions ... and Democratic governors didn't take enough precautions ... and we should have let everyone get it. oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

I hope when you’re all done discussing Musk, you’ll start talking about Peter Thiel.

“They were killed by Israeli forces while trying to save lives.”

Gutting Section 230 won't punish Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. It will just kill Bluesky and Wikipedia

🧪 since race =/= biology & race = social construct, it's time to (re-)read @bioanth.org statement on race & racism, by Rebecca Ackermann, @sathreya.bsky.social, Deborah Bolnick, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @tinalasisi.bsky.social, Sang-Hee Lee, @thehoodbiologist.bsky.social @robingnelson.bsky.social

Destroying public infrastructure, healthcare systems, educational institutions, criminalizing existence are ALL mechanisms of colonial domination, the same mechanisms that were used to initiate the genocide against Indigenous Africans & Turtle Island.

The idea that race is a biological reality is the cornerstone of the belief that some races are immutably better than others. I don't know how you have a Smithsonian of African American history that explains the motivations of slavers consistent with this EO.

“Decolonization is asking yourself every day if what you think something “is” &/or “ought to be” is yours or colonialism’s. Decolonization is not a metaphor. How do your words & actions seek to address what has been stolen, lost, & how we can heal?” decolonizeallthethings.com/2017/05/30/w...

Should be very clear: all this Democratic talk (and action) of abandoning trans people is a totally elite driven phenomenon. It is absolutely not something voters are demanding.

The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far. Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Dr. Hunter apparently did not think my teaching was "inadequate," nor that students' weren't being served well: "Developing, teaching, and reteaching such topics and courses is a mighty feat, underscored by the overwhelming appreciation and praise in student letters and evaluations."

Steven Thrasher is one of the finest scholars & writers working today, and one of the most extraordinary alumni of the same doctoral program I graduated from. He deserves better, and this new red scare bullshit is an affront to what our profession is supposed to stand for.

Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.

Meg (@megstampede.bsky.social) & I are going to have more of these posters than we can reasonably stock with seeds around the city, so we're making a limited number available for sale to help us pay for the seeds we're distributing & more projects like this! Get 'em here: Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

Anti-porn, anti-sex work, “sex negative” feminists are fash, not your friends. Pornophobe feminists have a long history of using the cops and the state against other women to maintain the ever-imagined moral panics and grievances of the white middle class.

Lambda Legal is doing a Virtual Info Session on Passports for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming People in the afternoon of Wednesday, February 26th, 12-1 PST. support.lambdalegal.org/site/SSurvey...

NY City Council speaker Adrienne Adams: "With the resignation of deputy mayors, it has become clear that Mayor Adams has now lost the confidence and trust of his own staff, his colleagues in government, and New Yorkers. He now must prioritize New York City and New Yorkers, step aside and resign."

NEW: Anti-abortion groups want to enforce a 150-year-old law to ban abortion pills, which would be deeply unpopular. Now they're trying to rebrand the Comstock Act as an anti-drug trafficking statute, a move one expert compared to Nixon's manufactured War on Drugs. Me in @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social:

Trump's Executive Order defines “female” as someone who produces eggs & “male” as someone who produces sperm. "My intersex body, like the bodies of many intersex people, does not produce either gametes, arguably leaving us in legal limbo." @xoxykz.bsky.social www.washingtonblade.com/2025/02/04/m...

@reproaction.bsky.social has a great guide for supporting loved ones through self-managed abortions! Check it out: reproaction.org/resource/bei...

I think it’s important to analyze this activity in terms of power: 1. They are threatening current & future federal employees about what happens if they don’t follow orders 2. Creating openings for loyalists 3. Creating opportunities for privatization 4. Raiding for resources, money and info Etc

It is actually a problem that scientists keep marching for science though instead of against fascism and for humanity

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

"The only way to survive is to take care of one another." -Grace Lee Boggs My first attempt at a color lithophane piece - artists have a place leading the way for revolution, and sometimes the message is just that simple

A leading DOGE wrecker — Kliger is right at the top — declaring he was converted to the cause by Ron Unz, an open white supremacist who says Jews drink non-Jewish blood.

“Delays in data create dangerous situations on the front line,” said an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area. truthout.org/articles/urg...

Just in time for Valentine's Day, a reminder from Riley Black -- a recent recipient of NCSE's Friend of Darwin award -- that dinosaurs had sex. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu... @restingdinoface.bsky.social #animalsex #vday