Sometime around late September people began talking about it. It has only grown since then. This month Blackout the System began to take hold. A national call to boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

How many upgrades do we have left? Let’s end fast tech.

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

such a great turnout in the catskills, in red sullivan county!! lots of good signs and creative props! so amazing to see the community out raising their voices for democracy. (new to me rallying on the side of the road, but we had much supportive honking and only some magas cursing at us lol)

The second annual Global Tipping Points Report, with contributions from 160 scientists in 23 countries, finds that Earth has already crossed its first catastrophic tipping point: coral reef die-off. By @readfearn.bsky.social for The Guardian…

We have frogs everywhere. #NoKings

With Forbes warning the Gen AI bubble bursting will wipe $40 trillion off global markets, I wrote about the foundational lies the industry tells about the usefulness, durability, accuracy and - yes - intelligence of its products All of which are weapons-grade horseshit medium.com/@patchgaley/...

No matter where you live or if you’ve never protested before, there’s a local No Kings Day event for you. Join a peaceful protest to make it clear that We The People will never bow down to a wannabe king: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.

José Gualinga talked with ICN about his people's Living Forest Declaration, an explanation of how Sarayaku people have always understood their Amazonian territory: as a living, intelligent forest—not a collection of resources for humans to exploit insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...

This woman's husband was a social worker in a nyc nursing home in 2020. She reads texts from her husband during that time to explain why her family won't be voting for Cuomo. Warning, there's a lot of death references (she says rank but it's a recent post)

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

‘Less and less sea ice’: Brazil woman sails solo through Arctic

no AI ‼️

For those of you taking notes, the man staring at the eugenicist Kennedy talking about your children's sperm is a rapist who, at best, is defending pedophile child rapists with the full force of the Presidental Seal and, in the worst case scenario, is one. Just so we are clear what is happening.

Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly

Indigenous artists transform works at Metropolitan Museum in unsanctioned "augmented reality" project. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/13/i...

I’m at a loss for words, and it’s not because I’m surprised; rather, I’m in near despair at the sheer level of coarseness and vulgarity to which large swathes of our polity have sunk. There is an entire portion of our population with absolutely no urge to decency, and it’s heartbreaking.

Inspired by Northwestern students protesting EdTech-delivered loyalty oaths, by the student-led Luddite Renaissance, by Matthew Josephson, Connie Bruck & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, I tried to track how kleptocratic antitrust policy enables a surveillance megalith. open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

"Climate change could intensify favorable conditions for the species throughout the year and expand its geographic range. " Good thing we're not doing anything about that either

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

"Microplastics have been detected in the brains of dementia patients, and in arterial plaques from people with heart disease" And the response of the plastics industry is...... ....to massively ramp up plastic production www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That fire comes from love, but sometimes, we need a moment to self-regulate, so we don't lose ourselves in it. If this moment is stretching you out or burning you up, please take care of yourself. Fortify yourself, honor your needs, and maintain your relationships. There's a lot more of this ahead.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

thiiiis

What we should be asking is why somebody like Thiel, whose fortune was subsidized by massive public investments at University of Illinois, & humanities granting organizations at Stanford, wants to dismantle that educational infrastructure now that he’s rich.

Do you like Zohran's goals of universal childcare + free buses? That means you want New York State to tax the rich. It also means you disagree with Governor Kathy Hochul, who's telling state agencies to reduce services. Hochul is facing a primary next year; let us make #TaxTheRich the main issue.

University of Iowa researcher Silvia Secchi argues that the current Census of Agriculture is neither complete nor accurate, and could skew federal research and investment. In a Q&A with Civil Eats, Secchi discusses the importance of understanding who counts as a farmer in U.S. agriculture. ⬇️

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Peace Nobel Prize goes to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her "tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" share.google/slEstTt7TFhN...

I love when celebrities use their FU money like this. Not only is it the right thing to do, but it's messy (in a good way) and entertaining.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

You should read @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the utter vindictiveness of the Tish James indictment www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW). The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

loooove

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified. kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

everyone pls see this film, then promptly read this; the best essay i have read in so long

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is a massive, riveting, funny, and complex epic about the absurd world today - with a personal family story about generational divide nestled right inside. In that way, it's Anderson's most personal and provoking work to date. www.patreon.com/posts/140773...

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use: www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

We need agriculture, because we need to eat. But the biggest problem with agriculture is that it’s eating the earth. Two of every five acres of land are now farms or pastures. We’re losing a soccer field worth of forest to agriculture every six seconds.

Hanging in my office is a framed display of various WPA murals from Post Offices that were built during the Great Depression. Truly treasures that should be preserved. I desperately hope that if an iconoclastic Federal government is happy to let this art decay that we can find some way to save it.

It’s not that misogyny has ever been unacceptable in public. But ten years ago there was discursive room for feminists to discuss the injustice of all the ways women’s dignity and safety are eroded by men’s sexual entitlement. Not we have to be like, “No, women’s minds are not ruled by the moon.”

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

"In an era when we often purchase food grown halfway across the world, community canneries are hanging on, allowing people to eat from sources closer to home.” Read the op-ed by UC Santa Barbara student Jillian Fischer. 🥫⬇️

New York state helped hundreds of asylum-seeker families leave crowded New York City shelters to find housing and jobs upstate. Now, some of them have been swept up in Trump’s immigration dragnet. nysfocus.com/2025/09/29/m...

Ira Glass gonna tell you about **THIS** American Life.

A new report on the state of the world’s oceans paints a grim picture. The ninth annual Copernicus Ocean State Report finds “No part of the ocean is untouched by the triple planetary crisis, as pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change are putting pressure on the ocean worldwide.”

Last summer, before Jessica Knurick started writing and making videos about MAHA, she had about 150,000 Instagram followers. Today, the research scientist and nutritionist has 1.3 million and is a leading fact-checker in a fraught national conversation.

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1