sand in every MFing gear

They don't build prisons to keep them empty.

This week, Nora and I sat down with Ijeoma Oluo for a conversation about movement work, harm, belonging, and the radical choice to stay. We talk about the cost of speaking truth, and why the world we’re fighting for has to be built through how we live, love, and show up for each other now.

Man, @donmoyn.bsky.social's substack remains one of the best places to get concrete political science insights into our authoritarian consolidation. His guest authors today talk about secret police. I will definitely be getting their book open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

Comrade Public Library 🫡

Why is @jamellebouie.net so good at this? He's a frustratingly competent political analyst. Just extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXZv...

Shot in the back, then left to die as a white cop having a “mild anxiety attack” took the ambulance meant for him.

Life Hack: I was on the phone w/ an AI customer service agent that was insisting: (a) it couldn't fix the error the company had made, and (b) no live person could speak w/ me. I then said I'd file a complaint w/ my state's consumer protection office, and I was connected to a human in <1 minute.

SPD Claims "300% Increase In Justice" Due to Surveillance Camera HQ; Judge Rules Against Activists in Press Pass Case Today's Afternoon Fizz. publicola.com/2026/03/11/s...

Ok I decided to pull the video.

Hear that #WALeg Senate? As soon as you concur in the House amendments, Gov Ferguson is ready to sign it into law! Let's get this done!

Been thinking about this thread a lot recently. It is one of the most correct reads of what’s unfolded. The Trump admin is doing untold damage and every step of it has been an unforced error on their part

This marathon defense - all night!- of a new progressive tax is still happening in WA legislature. Thank you ! stay strong !

NEW STORY // Labor Leader Sabio-Howell Launches Bid Challenging State Senator Jamie Pedersen By @amysundberg.bsky.social, via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2026/03/09/l...

I am so excited for Hannah running and winning this seat. Watch this intro from her and I bet you will be too!

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

The Global Casino (must-read) #Book Review The Global Casino @annpettifor.bsky.social How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet, January 2026 @versobooks.bsky.social London. acemaxxanalytics.substack.com/p/the-global...

I talked with @lewispants.bsky.social about the art and science of transformation, how people *really* let go of harmful beliefs, and how we can cultivate the conditions that make unlearning possible.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime

OP ED: Lawmakers want progressives to clap for their corporate-friendly income tax, but with the House striking the bill's $550 million corporate handout, Tech4Taxes activist Fatema Boxwala urges you to tell your reps to pick the people over big biz www.theburnerseattle.com/post/the-mil...

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Another one by Olly: ollycostello.com/portfolio

“the Department of *War* displayed a deep respect for safety” according to the guy who is being sued eleventy times because his product tells children to kill themselves War is fundamentally unsafe and so is your piece of shit chatbot but COOL STORY BRO

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

Excuse me? This is *incredible*!

BREAKING: A group of WA House Democrats is FINALLY taking a stand against the half billionaire corporate giveaway in the millionaires tax. They urge the House Finance committee to pass the tax WITHOUT a sweetner for big business on Friday www.theburnerseattle.com/post/group-o...

“The middle class already pays taxes on its wealth in the form of property taxes. The wealthy don’t, since most of their wealth consists of financial assets, which are exempt from property tax. In the 19th century, by contrast, property taxes of most states fell on all assets, real and financial.”

The cops control municipal government and have essentially done so since the 70s. Once you understand this, everything else gets clearer.

Something I think about often is, if a Democrat said this today, it would've been a hot mic moment and they'd have to apologize and say it was out of context. FDR said it at Madison Square Garden, 3 days before a presidential election

The reason I’ll be proposing an amendment to remove the $550M corporate giveaway in the income tax bill is simple: To avoid these cuts to K12 and other crucial services. Washington’s working families can’t afford to hand half a billion dollars to businesses that already got a tax break via HR 1.

Hey today is the day to sign in PRO to the Millionaire’s Tax in WA House! #TaxTheRich Let’s send overwhelming roar of support and get one step closer to a more sane tax system

Hey today is the day to sign in PRO to the Millionaire’s Tax in WA House! #TaxTheRich Let’s send overwhelming roar of support and get one step closer to a more sane tax system

WA could pay for all these edu programs they plan to cut and MORE if they just didn't repeal the 2025 estate tax expansion...

The literal face of fascism

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

I just wrote a letter to Seattle City Council and Mayor Wilson to divest from surveillance cameras and fund true and effective community safety instead. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/fund...

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I think heat pumps are a far more important technology than AI. Yep. You heard me.

“Conditions are substandard, and are not even in compliance with the National Detention Standards, much less international human rights law,” the report reads. We need to be clear about what this place is: a concentration camp.

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

In State of the City, Wilson Punts on Key Issues—Including Sweeps and Police Surveillance The new mayor reiterated some campaign promises, including 1,000 new shelter beds this year, but offered few new specifics. publicola.com/2026/02/18/i...

Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.

You can't call every step of creeping fascism a distraction from kitchen-table issues and then punt whenever you have a chance to address the kitchen-table issues.

Deep down they are terrified of women seeing how small they are katemanne.substack.com/p/the-id-of-...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory