NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

party rock being in the house tonight implies the existence of party ska being in another house this very same night

You knowe how yn legendes someone doth fynde a cursed sworde that bringeth ruin upon them but thei do not cast it asyde by cause *part of the curse* ys that thei believe it ys a powirful magic sworde that ys helpinge ynstead of hurtinge? Anywaye, Gen AI...

beale *is* an unhinged maniac. depressed, alienated and antisocial. and his rant, critically, is inchoate, apolitical, reactionary rage, packaged in a bow for advertisers. what the movie gets absolutely right is the way that alienation is just another product.

One thing you learn in life is that "speaking truth to power" and practicing integrity is easy when your job, your money, your fame, or your office is not on the line. The hard is speaking truth and practicing integrity when any one of those is on the line. That is the test of who you are.

As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.

“Who me? As a tripod fish, I deal with stress and fear by transforming into an eyeless abyssal predatory elder god. What about you?” 🎥 Huge thanks to @frida.yolotzin for letting me use the baby tripod fish video, and @schmidtocean for permission to share the adult video.

4/? community has been deliberately severed here by funding cuts to social programs while police funding has ballooned. There are some local family festivals, but they're very intentionally aligned with pro-policing and consumerism while pushing unhoused community members out of their own spaces.

Happy 3²/4²/5² day

"Hulk Hogan should be remembered as a living expression of our national decay: a hero exposed as a fraud, a fraud exposed as a coward, and finally a coward who cried with joy upon finding an authoritarian monster to tell him that his sins were in fact virtues." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

An hour after #GoodTroubleLivesOn scheduled to end, protester vibe is not only resilient but uplifting outside of Metropolitan Detention Center in Downtown Los Angeles. Literally dancing in the streets. Some of the most enthusiastic/supportive honking is from passing bus drivers and garbage trucks.

Thanks for the props. 🥰

whoever convinced journalists their job was just color commentary on opinion polls has done incalculable damage to the world

Y-you- you’re thinking about this all wrong, as if I had the Epstein files back in a safe. The Epstein files aren’t here — the Epstein files are in Joe’s house, and Mrs. Menklin’s house, and a hundred others

In presidential precedents, Nixon went down over Watergate, not the genocidal carpet bombing of Cambodia.

Liam O’Brien was diagnosed with HIV in 2000 and had to quit his dream job on Broadway. He had two options, he says: “You either win the lottery, or go make yourself really poor. So I went and made myself really poor.” That’s how he turned to butterflies. missionlocal.org/2025/07/liam...

The R word is not a funny, edgy word to throw at people who annoy you on the Internet. It is a medical diagnosis created during the eugenics era that people with intellectual disabilities and families have literally spent years trying to stamp out from polite conversation and public life.

Someone needs to bear witness as masked agents of the government brutalize members of our community. It doesn’t surprise me that a Philosophy professor would do so. Be at least as brave as a Philosophy professor. (And demand that ICE release Prof. Caravello.)

they have pictures of you guys in here

I attended this hearing in the courtroom, so no electronic devices. I'm driving home and processing; I'd like to post thoughts soon.

totally non-insane way to serve pasta

I’m out here in Camarillo, CA, with @acatwithnews.bsky.social, where hundreds of demonstrators have gathered to protests today’s raids. As we walk up, you can hear hundreds chanting. Lots of press here as well

#Bluesky seems to take issue with Black women with opinions and I think that needs to be addressed. Yesterday.

At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.

Want some good news? Look at these union wins from just this week alone! Every month HUNDREDS of Starbucks workers join our union the fight for a fair first contract.

I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...

In times like these I look to ideas like those from @victorpickard.bsky.social and so many others in the field who push us to dream ... we need to "decommodify, deprivatize, de-commercialize" and pursue more "radical projects and even utopian visions" for the internet, social media, and AI.

The only purpose of these NYT stories is to depoliticize by making a certain kind of reader feel things. The human-interest-story-as-news isn’t reportage; it’s vicarious sanctimony. Most NYT readers will say ICE is bad, but the lingering *vibe* will be antipathy to yokels they can feel good about.

More press shot by feds. KABC7's Leo Stallworth at ICE raid in Camarillo says on air, "My photographer got hit twice by less [] lethal rounds, and he's got blood on one of his arms. And we just took off running with the entire crowd. It was absolutely chaotic." abc7.com/post/federal...

BREAKING: Massive ICE raid ongoing at a farm in Camarillo, Ventura County, CA. Local news reports that an unknown number of workers have been detained. Almost 20% of US strawberries come from the county. US food supply at risk from Trump’s fascist thugs & Stephen Miller’s quota.

A local NYC baseball coach says he fended off ICE agents during a recent practice. Youman Wilder said caught feds questioning youth about where they're from & country of origin, so, he told feds to back off & kids to not answer! Shoutout all of our local heroes!

The Trump administration is now regularly raiding churches to deport Christians www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One very basic issue is that many people on the left (myself very extremely included) think the correct response to some lefties being annoying and aggro online is, you know, anything other than burning democracy down; whereas a number of people on the right and centre at least wanna consider that.

“This is a significant victory for the trans+ community because it shows gender critics are not invincible.” Midlands Rainbow #WeDontNeedCigars #WeDontNeedChampagne midlandsrainbow.wixsite.com/lgbtq/post/t... Tribunal judgment marks win for trans+ community

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I would once again like to take this opportunity to remind you all to support billionaire free, local, and/or worker run news. if you're in the DMV area: @washingtoninformer.com @51st.news @wcp.bsky.social @streetsensedc.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

Honestly, once you look up 'fecal / urinal / toilet aerosols', you will never enter a public washroom without a mask ever again. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Literally in the middle of writing an academic article right now talking about the death of medical privacy for trans patients. The government dropped charges on someone who leaked medical records to Chris Rufo. Tennessee got access to therapy notes and pre and post op nude photos. It's really bad.

I get why we do this: People who traffic in words and theory want words and theory to contend with. At that level, the Trump era has been weirdly boring for writers. There’s a lot of horrifying action to catalogue, but nothing of any real interest to argue with.

Our full story on this: missionlocal.org/2025/07/vide...

Empathy also rests on counterfactual reasoning, which is why there is such a strong correlation between conservative / libertarian politics and the inability to understand stories at any level deeper than plot

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

Contrarian hot take here- I do not actually think that having stronger norms on "decorum" would have prevented the current reactionary turn, or indeed have made it any less foul and ugly. The South has decorum norms so strong you can *still* end up in a duel over someone's honor.

No state requires voters to have a traditional residence to vote: Unhoused voters can often use a shelter address or cross streets to register. But this is easier said than done, Bolts reports: boltsmag.org/los-ang...

so something that's been helpful for me is the @xblock.aendra.dev labeler, bc it labels social (mostly twitter / bsky) screenshots, so I'd have to actively click it open when people post those. In case you are looking for something to minimize twitter dunking on your skyline.

Greetings! I’m here at a noise demonstration situated at both Marriotts in Pasadena. It is *extremely* loud. In one spot, several people are blaring multiple Spanish language songs at once; the only one I can identify is La Chona. Also some screams.

It’s honestly so disrespectful and irresponsible that the national media has mostly ignored the DC33 city worker strike in Philly so far. It’s a huge story with massive implications for the 6th biggest city in the country. Hell, I’ll write about it for ya! Email me! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

HILARIOUS Possibly the most inept vandal in history climbs over a fence to disable a weather radar (of course) and unwittingly FLASHES HIS BALLS to the security camera (News9 blur the film of his crotch!). www.news9.com/story/686c14...