this reminds me of the way i’ve seen susan bro speak about her daughter, heather heyer. when a fascist murders your child, you aren’t allowed to just grieve. you have to defend their memory, even their very grave.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

There's also been a shift in character in activism. In Trump's first term, the big actions were symbolic protests designed to make a narrative impact. In Trump's second term, we are seeing actions designed to practically frustrate an authoritarian crackdown on civil liberties.

“fuck ICE” “and also with you”

This entire thread pisses me off. Not because it's wrong, but because it highlights how fucked up it is to lecture individuals about financial responsibility and being prepared for the unexpected, while highlighting that our whole economy at an institutional level patently refuses those ideals.

The photo of the camera flying through the air is such a powerful symbol of the efforts to document the atrocities. I usually am dim on sofa activism. But when you share people's efforts to document the Minneapolis situation, you are helping. Share. Widely.

Go throw money at my friend! They make amazing art.

ICE confirms 5th in-custody death of 2026. www.ice.gov/news/release...

ICE appears to be staging en masse at parking lot of Arboretum office park lot in North Chesterfield, just south of Richmond, VA. CCPD and state police claiming they know nothing about it, but *someone's* police car was on scene about an hour ago.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

No new pictures. Where are you mentally?

ProPublica identified 17 people who each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the so-called Net Investment Income Tax. Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes. (Published Dec. 2024)

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

Good thing to remember when signing book contracts. Esp. since for most academic presses this doesn’t directly affect their bottom line at all so they’re likely to say yes w/o much pushback. (They make their money by selling off the rights to a foreign publisher who is commissioning the translation)

“Don’t speak ill of the dead” is fine for people who didn’t spend their time on earth promoting illness and death. I have no problem holding “wow a horrible way to go” and “he used his platform to encourage others to go that horrible way” at the same time.

If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

i am absolutely empathetic to a man whose lost his daughter. however, there is at least one other person who is an obvious participant in this child's life. and as a lesbian it is difficult not to consider the underscoring that is suggested here

Being arrested and even spending one or two days waiting to get released can ruin someone's entire life. People are that tight up on bills, life responsibilities, etc. You just kidnapped someone to punish them. You should never get to wear a badge again at minimum, and serve a nice solid sentence.

Roberts’ 2024 opinion without textual or historical legitimacy, granted Trump immunity for virtually all crimes ushered in reign of domestic terror, and now an unconstitutional and shameful war for oil. No one has done more to destroy the “rule of law” than Roberts. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

This is how you maintain your honesty and integrity as news publishers while refusing to put out other people's propaganda.

Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Can we all stop pretending that the current regime has any plans beyond the end of the new ls cycle that ended 45 minutes ago?

Night fell like the curtains of a community theater production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the night the cast discovers that the actor who plays Bottom has been robbing banks in the Ass’s mask and Puck is his getaway driver. #BadNoir

Democrats: We have not yet begun to fight! Voters: Why the hell not? What the fuck are you waiting for?

You know things are bad when I'm on the same side as the Cato institute these days.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

Written by Biden, signed by Bill Clinton, with Hilary campaigning for it across the country, warning about (black) children turning into "super predators" that world require extreme measures to hold in prison. And they never stepped away from it for a second. They love sending people to prison.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

I'm a biomedical scientist. I love how much potential pattern recognition "AIs" have for histology and protein folding and drug screening. That is not the same as the plagiarism machines that are running rampant in our society. Fuck GenAI

A heavy metal Tolkien cover band called Dagor Bandollach

Life goal: find a life partner who knows when it's time to go.

This is why I'm really starting to hate the data bros. Matty Y: "Dems should focus less on climate change/renewable energy, it's a losing issue." Sean Casten (an actual Congressman): "I won a purple district multiple times by focusing on those issues" Lakshya: "YEAH BUT YOU DIDN'T OVERPERFORM"

This is terrible. For so many reasons, but in particular is that this will hamper the use of open access course syllabi. Most versions of CC4.0 licencing requires some form of share and share alike clause. How does that now interact with the University claiming IP ownership of the syllabi?

YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME. I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center. People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.

Wait. It's real? I assumed it was satire. I ASSUMED IT WAS SATIRE! Is life... satire now?

Want to underscore and underline this. In tech especially, this has been that playbook to try to fight back from a position of paying pretty well for a wide range of jobs. Cut the roles, create an oversight role, hire 10-20% of folks back to manage the same workload. AI is just one more tool for it

1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

I disagree, Larian is being made an example out of, it’s like putting a head on a pike. The message? “We don’t care if you made BG3. We will not forgive any use of AI”

I have been re-reading Codex Alera and I have decided that so need to look for any fanfics out there that put Antillar Maximus in the same room with Mat Cauthon and/or Wayne Terrisborn.

I showed this to my 14-year-old tonight so that she knows that there are trans adults who are fighting for kids like her. It was a hard and scary day but we both shed some tears of gratitude for @mcbride.house.gov’s clarity, grace and courage.

Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP. ALWAYS. WITHOUT FAIL.

I don’t know who’s needs to hear this, but Humble Bundle has the entire Wheel of Time series on sale to benefit the ACLU for the next 24 hrs. Make sure to check out the Adjust Donation dropdown to customize how your donation is split. www.humblebundle.com/books/robert...

I can be emotionally attached to my culture and community, of course, but saying they should be politically or morally prioritized is another matter entirely.

🎯 "The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."