🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

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🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

We have SIX DAYS to get this out of the Washington State Senate. NEXT TUESDAY is the legislative deadline to get bills out their house of origin. If it doesn't pass by then, it likely dies till 2027. Since farmworkers were written out of labor laws in 1937, we have to win at the state level.

What a holy honor to be with 500+ Jews against ICE today. Let me be clear: ICE and its brutal policies are counter to the Torah. If you are Jewish, you have a moral obligation to fight this, in your own unique way. #JewsAgainstICE @bendthearc.bsky.social @truahrabbis.bsky.social

STRIIIIIKE! While Starbucks spends millions on Super Bowl promotions & private plane flights for CEO Brian Niccol, stores continue to be neglected. Understaffing, low hours, partner safety, & inaccessible benefits continue to be a major issue, and union baristas are standing together to demand more!

𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭, 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. #BlackHistoryMonth

Also, the third paragraph provides updates on when private accounts will happen on here.

we need to take a moment to celebrate when a good thing happens. it is fuel for the work. feel the joy. take a big breath in. let yourself cry. we will win because we've got us.

This is Minneapolis:

No. What people on the left need to see is journalists informing the public rather than performing press release as a service.

Analilia Mejia was doing ICE Watch trainings at her campaign events. She was preparing future constituents for encounters with immigration agents. And she won. In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, one of her big priorities: end ICE's mass surveillance. prospect.org/2026/02/11/p...

Still here mentally

🧵 1/ It’s hard to find hope amidst so much collapse. But in the wreckage of today’s crises, people are also powering solutions — and The 51st, backed by the community of D.C., is one of them. Will you help us build a local newsroom that a billionaire can’t break?

NEW: Roughly 5,000 North Carolina homeowners affected by Hurricane Helene are awaiting help from the state. But records show problems like rigid rules and insufficient staffing, which occurred in a previous rebuilding program, are starting to surface.

Brad Lander commits to cosponsoring the Block The Bombs Act if elected, which would ban the US government from transferring cluster bombs, JDAMs, artillery and tank shells, and other munitions to the Israeli government.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

This is absolutely insane.

As we've said for years: The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherness; it breeds resentment. It doesn’t keep out predators; it gives them badges and guns. crimethinc.com/stickers/imm...

Hell yes. Protest the hell out of Eloy. The place broke me and I wasn't even detained there, just visiting my clients

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

One of our goals as a newsroom is to make living in the District easier for the residents who call it home. We want the regular explainers we publish to serve you, so... what do you want explained? Let us know — and see some examples — here: forms.gle/LNfsAMsndiT6...

We're highlighting reporting from @inthesetimes.com on the recent abduction of worker organizer and NewsGuild-CWA member, Eustaquio Orozco Verdusco. We ask that you please sign the petition demanding his release: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...

.....................shit.

a Republican running for governor in Minnesota just dropped out because his daughter was murdered, apparently by her husband www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The blacksky.community web app has been updated to support OAuth login. This means we have gotten rid of the "Hosting Provider" field when signing into our app, making it more straightforward to use our app even if you aren't yet hosted on our PDS (e.g. if you have a *.bsky.social handle)

That flag will not only come back, but will be even better. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

JUST IN: Tom Malinowski has conceded the #NJ11 primary to Analilia Mejia, who was the left's candidate in this crowded race. Next up: Mejia faces a general election in April.

BIG NEWS FROM NJ-11: former Rep. Tom Malinowski concedes, congratulates Analilia Mejia on a positive and well-run campaign, blames AIPAC for his loss, and promises to vigorously oppose anyone AIPAC backs against Mejia in June

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

i want big things: global peace ecological restoration everybody eats a bike helmet engineered for afros

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

I saw a funny video of a Spanish TV judge saying a person who speaks two languages is bilingual, a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and a person who speaks one language is an Americano

Taco Bell workers in El Dorado Hills, CA are ON STRIKE today against, racism, physical violence, as well as verbal and sexual harassment. It goes beyond worker abuse: there are rats and roaches in the kitchen and lobby. The situation at the store has become a nightmare. We won't allow it 🧵

The New Jersey Globe reports there's a total of 4,673 ballots that have not yet been counted in #NJ11: newjerseyglobe.com/campaigns/me... Some won't count in the Dem primary because they were cast by Republicans, or because they're provisionals that won't be accepted. Mejia's lead stands at 889.

Big fucking day for union power.

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Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job

Incredible Condor pictures taken in *LA COUNTY*

So many friends popping up all over

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

What I like about independent, worker-owned, reader-funded, and COMMUNITY-ACCOUNTABLE media is not just the willingness to show solidarity with journalists elsewhere, but transforming the practice of journalism as a grassroots effort juxtaposed to "every man for himself" competition and profits.

Today, our newsletter will be in your inbox later than usual. We're standing in solidarity with the journalists at The Washington Post. We hope to see you out there. Here are some other ways you can show support:

I hired an engineer last year who snickered when I told him the atproto community uses discord instead of having built a discord alternative.

BREAKING: San Francisco public school teachers, counselors, and nurses have walked out on strike. 6,000 members of the United Educators of San Francisco are striking to fight for fully funded health care for their families and a raise to keep up with the Bay Area cost of living.