Nurses in Iowa are up against a massive anti-union campaign from UnityPoint Health, which is spending $34,000 a day to stop the union. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

Hey y’all! We are OFFICIALLY set to face off with our ex-landlord in CIRCUIT COURT in December. In the meantime, it would mean the world to me if you would continue to donate and/or repost this fund. Our current goal is $500 - $1000.

Affirmations from today~ Solidarity: Together, we are building the world our ancestors dreamed and our children deserve.

We spoke with @chicagoreader.com @thetriibe.com and @unraveledpress.com about the lessons and strategies they learned from media in L.A. and D.C. for their coverage. By @afroxander.bsky.social Find the story (sans paywall) here: lataco.com/chicago-ice-...

Platform BIPOC organizers. Platform disabled organizers. Platform housing rights organizers. Platform immigrant rights organizers. Platform incarcerated organizers, current or formerly. Platform LGBTQ+ organizers. Platform reproductive justice organizers. Platform sex workers.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

These are the real ones out in the tear gas making sure protesters aren't disappeared. Please support today:

Vivian Wilson talks about how accessing gender affirming care as a teen was lifesaving at the Teen Vogue Summit.

I went from getting nonstop transphobic comments in my replies and multiple death threats a week to none after moving from Twitter to bluesky.

Our enemies are cowards, and we are going to defeat them.

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HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

📍 Chicago, IL @ Assembly of Black Possibilities (Eban symbol spotted)

Meanwhile, Black women commentators who have no public or private record of journalistic misconduct are struggling to find jobs or actively getting fired

D.C. doesn’t have its own prison, so its residents are sent to federal facilities all over the country. This is a bad system that serves no one, Askia Afrika-Ber writes. This writer is a D.C. resident currently incarcerated at USP Hazelton in West Virginia, published here via More Than Our Crimes:

New_ Public Fellow Miriam Tinberg breaks down the case for social media protocols vs platforms. As @rude1.blacksky.team said in our recent Substack post, ATProtocol works like traffic laws: Protocol = what's underneath (traffic laws) Platform = what’s built on top (roads)

It's a journalist's job to ask questions of government officials, no matter which party is in power. That often means respectfully knocking on doors to get answers people deserve to know. Tips and evidence are essential to our nonpartisan work: www.propublica.org/tips/

Good morning! Today is the first day of early voting for Virginia's state elections. 🗳️ #VAGOV #VALTGOV #VAAG

Participant: @rude1.blacksky.team With Blacksky he's building a new Black internet not owned or controlled by a single company or entity. With Papertree he's providing community organizations and nonprofits with tools to collectively manage a shared pool of funds.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

“We deserve to live here. She deserves to live here. No trans person is asking for more rights. Just stop picking on us.” @oriion.bsky.social spoke to five local families about their experience raising trans kids right now in the D.C. area. In partnership with @19thnews.org:

Families in and around Washington, D.C., are navigating the White House’s crackdown on gender-affirming care and a growing assertion of federal power. This story was produced in partnership with @51st.news, a worker-led local news source for D.C.

everyday, i am thankful virginia yeeted the death penalty to the andromeda galaxy.

We're not shutting up. Help us continue to hold the powerful accountable. Join us today with a gift of any amount: https://propub.li/4gaGTz3

Trans rights are human rights.

👀 biiiiiiiiiiig shout out to Hush

Ghost is also a pretty alright alternative 👍

During these tumultuous times, please stay safe, be mindful, be kind, keep your head up, and support independent, worker-owned, reader-funded media.

Reminding folks once again to ditch Substack for @leaflet.pub.

Please support @thetriibe.com today. They are doing critical reporting right now threading together updates on ICE in the area:

In a time of shrinking newsrooms and rising disinformation, ProPublica is providing deeply researched investigative reporting — and making it free for everyone. Power this public service: https://propub.li/4mQ1jQv

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

As trans people are under attack during these times, remember to: 🏳️‍⚧️Platform Black trans women and femmes 🏳️‍⚧️Fight for trans affirming spaces everywhere 🏳️‍⚧️Promote transformative justice practices 🏳️‍⚧️Abolish solitary confinement and cash bail 🏳️‍⚧️Decriminalize self-defense 🏳️‍⚧️Fight back against ICE and CBP

You might think it should be a non-controversial belief among Democrats that "DC should be able to self-govern. But 31 House Democrats just voted to give Trump and Congressional Republicans full control over DC's sentencing laws. Shameful, heinous behavior from Vichy Democrats

Life update: stars are out. So are bugs. 35 minutes till milky way core.

Here’s a copy of the 123-page lawsuit UC faculty associations and unions filed against President Trump today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

reporter whose whole Thing is covering protests: no it’s not, it’s a very basic safety recommendation as we see an increase in nonprofits/501c3s using signups to add people to email lists which can easily be subpoenaed or seized by the state. this take scans as pretty manipulative tbh

Larry Ellison will control tiktok and through his son control CBS News and CNN by next year. The oligarchs are seizing control of all the media and platforms.

My ideal world: ✅Agroecology ✅Community land trusts ✅Energy democracy ✅Inclusive education ✅Mass public transit ✅Liberation of marginalized ✅Participatory budgeting ✅People's assemblies ✅Pluralism ✅Public banks & credit unions ✅Universal citizenship ✅Universal healthcare ✅Worker-owned cooperatives

very instructive article here. you don't repair a broken democracy with timid rules-bound proceduralism www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem...

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Northern Virginians seeing this news:

BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

Mark Zuckerberg is Elon Musk with slightly better manners.

The problem with the political journalist class is that they've prioritized superficial and cynical horse race odds making as wisdom rather than knowledge of actual political theory. They lack any self awareness of their own roles in the current moment.

I think all companies should be worker-owned and run. The employees should vote every year or two for a new CEO, and candidates should include anyone who's worked at the company for at least three years. The CEO should be the person with a plan to keep the company profitable, ethical and humane.

Make sure you follow @thetriibe.com. None of us have the resources we need but we are jumping in where big newsrooms can't/won't to try to keep you informed:

You love to see people protecting their neighbors like this