Every time we see this kind of capitalist propaganda I want to post a photo of a regular tax-payer. This is Bob. Bob gives 20-40% of his income to paying for schools, hospitals, welfare programs and more. Bob can't afford his rent, much less a private jet, but Bob's still doing his part for society

Today 4 Jul is US Independence Day, which was declared after the revolution of 1776. But despite rhetoric about men being "equal" and "inalienable rights", slavery continued for nearly a century and the genocide of Native Americans accelerated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

What makes the idea that the world’s problems could be solved by the creation of an artificial superintelligence such obvious BS is that we’ve already had the tech to solve the world’s problems for a long time but it’s been gatekept by capitalists just as any ostensible salvation by way of AI would.

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

The arc of the moral universe only bends towards justice if we bend it. There's no karmic comeuppance for fascists. There's just us. Community and hard work and a willingness to to take risks and fail.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Brandon Alderson, from Sunderland, UK, was travelling to work when he noticed a man in distress in a layby. He pulled over and saw that the man was suffocating. Brandon performed the Heimlich manoeuvre six times and saved the man's life. Original post

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

IF YOU BUILD A BIKE LANE THAT DOESN'T CONNECT TO ANOTHER BIKE LANE THEN YOU DIDN'T BUILD A BIKE LANE

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

Your taxes are due tomorrow. These guys? Not so much. I helped @boblord.bsky.social hone this fine piece, with a h/t to @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al for oligarchic data.

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

I miss Alice. She was so fucking funny and unbelievably chill. She was so warm and fun, and always ready to take something on. I wish we had more time to be friends. I also miss having someone we can all rely on to fight back and help us work together — and now that's up to us. /10

This has been an issue the military avoided confronting for decades. It was asked in the 70s. "What if I believe the person issuing a command to use nuclear weapons is not sane?" The answer was to drum the questioner from the service. slate.com/human-intere...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Yes, I am tired of wearing a respirator mask every single I I leave the house. No, I will not stop wearing one. I am adult enough to be able to be tired, honest, and responsible all at the same time. It is not that hard, really.

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990". www.mcri.edu.au/news/insight...

One thing that's been frustrating me INTENSELY this last few years is a pattern of brilliant Autistic autism researchers, doing important & fascinating work, struggling to get jobs in academia, or being pushed out of jobs they had before. Most universities seem unable to see how valuable they are.

I recommend reading the ProPublica article about ICE's practice of detaining children. This little section plus some data I've been working with recently has me thinking about how accountability looks given immigration enforcement devolution. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I think this is a symptom of the white people thing where the collective delusion that is engrained in us by society is that all white people are inherently good and so if you can try and understand why they are bigots then you can talk them out of it. You can’t. And trying to honestly does harm.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Long COVID can affect anyone — regardless of age, health status, or how mild their initial infection seemed. Preventing infection and reinfection of COVID-19 is the best way to avoid Long COVID.

Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent. And now?

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights. Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers. Speak up before it's too late

This is what it really comes down to. Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over. 🔹COVID is airborne 🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk 🔹Long COVID has no cure 🔹The pandemic isn’t over 🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others Stay informed. Stay safe.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Text excerpt of H.R.7661 on Congress.gov, ending its definition of "sexually oriented material" with: “(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.”. Legislation can be seen in full, including a link to contact your member of congress at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... (Alt text added)

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Crime against humanity level shit.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

His name is Nazgul :)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"I think ultimately we’re a subculture, but instead of being centered around a style of clothing or music, we’re centered on anti-ableism, and it makes our commitment more powerful" -- Camille Mai, Rebirth Canal

Farm workers pruning apple trees in WA state tell us, "The fog makes everything wet. This makes the work more difficult and dangerous. It also means we can't meet our minimum quota. They pay 45 cents per tree." #WeFeedYou

"Ariana" shares, "After a day of picking lemons, I come home super tired with back pain and bruises around my neck from carrying a full bag. I go up and down a ladder all day long. I earned $35 per 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou

I asked my friend who avoids getting sick why she does it, and she said: because I believe humans are worth protecting. And I asked my friend who avoids artificial intelligence why she does it, and she said: because I believe humanity is worth protecting.