Maybe the other thing that some people will get through their THICK SKULLS is that most people who live & work in the US are WORKING CLASS. Teachers are WORKING CLASS. NURSES are WORKING CLASS. Social workers are WORKING CLASS. SO ARE STARBUCKS BARISTAS (who some seem to despise)....

ICE murdered a person who fought with US troops.

Platner vowing to stay in unless he approves replacement is him insisting that losing as an alleged rapist wld be more important than allowing a lib the possibility of winning. That’s not leftism. It’s the same poisonous, masculinist vanity that took him to war & then to crime & then to lies.

People dying in Cuba due to the U.S. oil blockade

Looking for adult creators who are going to / have been to ComicCon for a potential story. DM me.

CHAT CONTROL IS BACK → Today the urgent procedure for Chat Control 1.0 was passed. Next up: EU Parliament is voting on Thursday. If Chat Control passes your messages, pictures, videos will all be scanned because the law will require it - this removes privacy & welcomes mass surveillance in the EU.

They want women to die of toxic shock syndrome

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.

“We created this platform, the Palestine Museum Digital Archive, which is an unlootable archive,” Shomali explains.

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45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Spotted this Great Grey Owl in Sunriver, Oregon yesterday. #ForestFriday

NCOSE, one of the main groups pushing KOSA, has been caught citing fake cases in an attempt to shut down legal sex work. Why are Dems like @blumenthal.senate.gov still treating the faith-based, anti-porn group as respectable, reliable legislative partner?

Absolution just made GoodReads' top 50 most popular SF novels of the past three years! Thanks very effin much to readers, booksellers, and libraries!

Reminder: Fireworks are stupid.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

ICE arrested a nun. WTF!

KNOXVILLE: “The University of Tennessee System Board of Trustees approved a settlement with ex assistant professor Tamar Shirinian, agreeing to pay $1.9 million (after firing her for a Charlie Kirk comment) .” www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

ohhhhyes it's A Lot tom lehrer got a song out of it, at least

I'm reading The German Wife by Kelly Rimmer and am just learning about Operation Paperclip. 😲😬😡

This is literally why there's a bipartisan effort to remove internet access from young people. It's an attack on queer people, leftists, and anyone who questions authority. They don't want our children finding out that MLK and Frida Kahlo were socialists or that Stonewall was a riot.

The House has passed KOSA. It now heads to the Senate, where this version, at least, faces an uphill battle. That said, get on the horn and call your legislators. NOW.

There's so much that needs to be done. And this is what they come up with. These goddamn wankers.

This is a tactic police used to flag young people as "gang members" in Los Angeles, so probably they are keeping some kind of database. (Cops forced teens to sign it without explaining what it is.)

I took a trip to Warm Springs to see a new exhibition by the legend Lillian Pitt. As always, she does not disappoint.

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

Others have made this point, but I will underscore: if we are talking about how to power & cool enormous data centres yet letting out vulnerable neighbours die of heat our values & priorities are a tragedy.

This week, eight Texas activists were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in prison — one for attempted murder, but most for supposedly belonging to an insurrectionary “Antifa cell,” including one sentenced to 30 years in part for moving a box of zines. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social:

Happy to say that Theo Ellsworth and I are working on a little mini-project, part of the proceeds going to anti-AI efforts. More details soonish.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

The sex worker support organization she co-founded, Aileen's, has a GoFundMe going to continue and expand their operations Please consider supporting them www.gofundme.com/f/support-ai...

Not every massage parlor is a trafficking op. In fact, it's very rare. Worker-led organizations, like Canary Song, have long warned that conflating massage work with trafficking fuels stigma, which harms and kills people. Be skeptical. Question this 👇

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde received $4M from the EPA to help pay for the demolition of the old paper mill buildings at Willamette Falls. www.oregonlive.com/native-ameri...

A lot of shaking going on the last couple of days!

This is what we get when we let care trickle down, rather than making it a public good: Families can't afford to pay a living wage for care for their loved ones, so they either have to do that work themselves or hire someone whose marginalization leaves no choice but to work for insufficient pay. 1/

Hospitals in England are declaring critical incidents with radiotherapy machines, MRI scanners, cooling units and IT systems failing owing to the extreme heat. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Just close your eyes and listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=orux...

New documents revealed about the Spokane 9 case. 13 phones were hacked with cellebrite under the guise of "conspiracy charges." 12 of the 13 people were never indicted. But the govt got all their data anyway.

No, no they just mean the transes, not respectable gays like meeee 🙃 Welcome to a train that is never late

Must read from Portland's Heretic Coffee. They just ripped up a donation from the Jewish Federation, and here's why. www.threads.com/@hereticcoff...

Damning reports about abuse and neglect in ICE jails are nothing new, but I've never seen so many die. So ICE decides to stop counting. You can wait 6 months to see a judge and have a heart attack in an ICE camp, but if you're released and die at hospital, ICE won't report it to Congress anymore.

Really hoping someone files a FOIA into this and gets some investigatory material, because there is not a single shred of doubt that her post is protected free speech under the First Amendment and agents SHOULD know that. She literally identified the source of her information as a newspaper!

This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...

Shout out to the Yakama Nation Fisheries who had a really interesting booth set up, including the petting tank and teeth bottles (above) and also the specimen jars of lamprey eggs and ammocoetes (larva)

Shots were fired into the Aylo building in Montreal, allegedly by an incel with a violent manifesto calling for a new order to curtail the economic and sexual freedoms of women. montrealgazette.com/news/local-c...

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

The earth is shaking today!🫨