At Grand Amry Plaza in Brooklyn, @naomiaklein.bsky.social says that Mamdani’s volunteer army is 100,000 strong, bigger than the standing army of her country Canada.

“While this administration funds ballrooms, federal workers are fighting to feed the people.” @fedworkersunited.bsky.social

Since the drive opened 2 days ago, we've raised over $10,000! Volunteers now aim to raise at least $15,000 for food aid in Maryland & Virginia. This has sparked similar mutual-aid efforts across the country. Join us! #supportfederalworkers

Meta is planning to issue 40-year corporate bonds at a 1.4% premium to U.S. Treasuries to pay for all its AI spending…all as AI has yet to find a consumer use case that can turn a profit. At what point do investors say “no, thanks”? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Do some of you remember how I said a few months ago that the fascists aren't having fun? They still aren't, lol. Their parties [when they have them] SUCK. They make bad art. They aren't funny. They CRAVE Leftist popular culture & resent the fact that they do. They aren't actually having fun

I was on the ground earlier today at the Petworth Metro Station after I received troubling reports from neighbors about IRS Criminal Investigation agents working with Transit Police to interrogate riders on WMATA buses.

On-prem infrastructure specialists when AWS and Azure faceplant: OPEN THE CAGE DOOR GET ON THE FLOOR EVERYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR

Join us in DC Thursday @ USDA building from 3-5 PM, rally @ 3:30. As the Trump Administration blocks emergency SNAP funds & dismantles public services, federal workers are living their oath to serve — by feeding the families & neighbors that have been abandoned. #savefederalservices #WeTookAnOath

That “working class” is a transparently race and gender coded term tells you who pundits view as low and middle income workers and what type of work they believe “counts” among this group. Reality: the working class is predominantly White women and racial minorities in the low wage service sector.

there was way way more going on in Chicago this last week than I could have anticipated or planned for—I would be heading back from one neighborhood ICE watch on the train and get notifications of an ICE sighting and then a protest and another protest. so many people really have each other.

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!

If you travel around your city using public transit, why not print out copies of Megan's "How to Report ICE" in your city and hand those out? It's a simple way to inform people. drive.google.com/drive/folder... - I distributed some to folks on the bus today and they were all grateful to receive them

Jawdropping.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Normal people: We want affordable appliances that make doing annoying tasks like dishwashing easier. Tech: Perfect, here's a toaster that spies on you and a dishwasher that talks. NP: What? Tech: Also a bed that's also spying on you & only works via internet connection. NP: Stop.

My quote of the day Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Maya Angelou

On their first day, all federal workers swear an oath, and that oath is to *the people.* Today in Washington DC, NTEU 335 members led a huge group of federal workers in reaffirming our oath to the people. ❤️✋

“Saturday’s #NoKings events are very likely the biggest single-day protest event since 1970, surpassing even the 2017 Women’s March demonstrations against Trump.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Thank you FUNners and federal worker allies who came out today - from coast to coast - to stand against a would-be dictator. Federal workers take our oath to the American people seriously, and we will not be divided from the public we serve. #NoKings #NotPawns #WeTookAnOath ❌👑 ❌♟️

If you think something doesn't matter, you don't respond to it. He responded. The people have the upper hand.

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

Listen, over 300+ people showed up for a No Kings protest in ANGOLA, INDIANA. There is a whole part of Indiana waiting to be activated. We have never been all red. So what are we going to do with that information? I wish I could say. But I have Hope.

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys. "I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man." It's a must-read:

Justice Brandeis wrote “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” He championed creating the SEC after the 1929 crash. Now, SEC is doing its work in secrecy. Read this @bettermarkets.bsky.social brief: bettermarkets.substack.com/p/the-secret...

"Where do you find hope? What transformations have you witnessed - transformations that have stuck? Maybe this is one way we can move beyond our thought loops." - @mayaschenwar.bsky.social

I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

Refuse to be traumatized and ready to fight back!

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Two new FTP resources that were shared this evening: 1. Friends of the Library 101 - www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources#fo... - created by FTP volunteers and designed by FTP steering committee member @kruttika.bsky.social - learn about from Friends of the Library groups are and do.

"I am a proud woman of faith, and I know that faith and fear cannot share the same space. And so today I am not fearful, I am fearless, and as my faith teaches me, no weapon formed against me shall prosper." - @newyorkstateag.bsky.social

"We're just very hamstrung. We're like frozen in an ice cube." -- CFPB worker and NTEU 335 member Alexis Goldstein helping to explain to @npr.org that the shutdown has been happening since Feb. at the CFPB. Listen beginning at 6:28.

Federal Workers in DC met with Senate offices today to say “No Bad Budget in Our Name.” Our communities need a budget that protects critical public services and healthcare. We’re calling on Congress to hold out against Trump’s illegal power grab. #supportfederalworkers #wetookanoath

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control: Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

It's crazy to see both stocks and gold booming in the same decade This has never happened before in modern times

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

Debt Collective, the nation’s first union of debtors, has a long history of participating in the private sector to purchase student loan debt. In 2023, the Debt Collective’s Rolling Jubilee Fund purchased nearly $10M of student loan debt directly from Morehouse College.

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out. Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces. Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Great piece from @emmavj.bsky.social who is calling Peak Vibe www.ft.com/content/14ef...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Here’s a quick roundup from last week of just a few of the ways federal workers reminded Congress that the “shutdown” started in January: /1 cfpbunion.shop/products/hol...

We're one of 35 labor unions who signed the "No Bad Budget in Our Name" letter from federal workers telling Dems in Congress to do their damn jobs and FIGHT! #SaveOurServices #TrumpShutdown

JD Vance’s demand for “gratitude” reminds me of @joyannreid.bsky.social’s passage in “Medgar & Myrlie” on reactions to the 1963 clemency of Clyde Kennard: “The white southern press typically presented black life as a constant exercise in gratitude at the undeserved blessings of white beneficence”

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."