So happy for Michael B. Jordan.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN #Oscars #ftw

For a while they had to hide out in “period pieces,” but it looks like the #OscarsSoWhite again!

This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

Father Pierre el-Rahi told his parish three days before his death: "We carry only the weapons of peace." An Israeli Merkava tank fired twice at the same home in Qlayaa. He ran toward the wounded after the first shell. The second one killed him. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-x...

The other morning I woke up thinking about receiving an aerogramme

1 2 3 4 We don’t want your fuckin war 5 6 7 8 Act against this fascist state 9 10 11 12 Warmongers can go to hell

Right, it’s valuable that the US had to jump through so many hoops to get this data There’s no perfect security but there is slowing them down

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

20% of ocean life in a year is crazy work

Has anyone said or done as many cancelable things as this dude? I’m not talking about worstness, but in terms of volume and diversity of cancelable offenses. Yet he always slithers back.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

It’s been a long five years since last July!

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

This is what I need cis folks to understand. It's been a decade. Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”

Has anyone said or done as many cancelable things as this dude? I’m not talking about worstness, but in terms of volume and diversity of cancelable offenses. Yet he always slithers back.

The City of Tucson is considering regulations on large-scale data centers. The first draft is bad. We need mayor and council to redirect staff to write regulations that make it impossible to build large-scale data centers in our community. Here's more info and how you can help.

Has "lofi" always been put-enough-of-a-chorus-effect-on-it-to-noticeably-change-the-pitch?

Oh no things about to get super performative here

I’m sure every university and institution that complied in advance will promptly reinstate their DEI programs 🙄

I am somebody! This is one of Jesse Jackson's greatest gifts to me.

More and more communities are winning, and it’s not just about AI (although that’s a big part of it). We need more people to understand these hyperscale data centers as the infrastructure of the cruelty industry: surveillance, genocide, imprisonment, deportation…

New profile pic: @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social. Since June I’ve been a part of @nodesertdatacenter.com, fighting the construction of hyperscale data centers in Southern Arizona and supporting communities everywhere fight back against these monsters. Please follow and support our work!

I hate the fact that as a matter of policy, there’s no major aging fund in this country that isn’t tied up to employment or invested in the stock market.

Too many. Today I'll choose a country lyric: "I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday" - Covered by the great Willie Nelson.

2/17 6pm Surprise City Council meeting! #Surprise #iceout

New profile pic: @bluerobedcrone.bsky.social. Since June I’ve been a part of @nodesertdatacenter.com, fighting the construction of hyperscale data centers in Southern Arizona and supporting communities everywhere fight back against these monsters. Please follow and support our work!

Save the dates, Tucson! More info about Thursday’s meeting coming soon (Tuesday or Wednesday). #NotOneDrop! Register here: www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/...

No seriously who has this?

In this new environment of censorship and cowardice, the New School cancelled this popular course. But we'll teach it anyway! I'm so excited to team up with @seanjacobs.bsky.social and @tonykaron.bsky.social to bring "World Cup and the Politics of Football" to @resistanceschool.bsky.social!

anyway, i’m at the point where people starting new substacks/remaining on substack really bums me out but can’t spend a ton of energy getting mad about it. bigger fish to fry and all. it just confuses me how so many continue to ignore the evidence of how much they suck.

The people of Marana will decide.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

This is a very minor quibble in the grand scheme of things, but I've been percolating on it for over a year, so here goes. I don't think we are using "imperial boomerang" correctly. Controversial take, perhaps but here is why.

Letters from the children imprisoned in the Dilley concentration camp. Both children just want out, whether it’s in the US or not. Notably, they both really want to go back to school. Truly, there is no path forward without accountability from top to bottom for this atrocity.

I too have cured many people of their racism by proving my individual worth to them. #SuperBowlAds

Yuuuup. Our use of the internet simply does not scale in proportion to the proliferation of hyperscale data centers. Netflix doesn’t have a billion new movies. We’re not uploading 1000x as many cat videos.

What does explain it? The largest transfer and consolidation of wealth in recent human history in the form of land grabs, water grabs, repackaged debt, surveillance contracts for Palantir, Flock, et al, a full resurgence of the fossil fuel industry and corresponding climate death…

Oh no I couldn’t afford to pay my power bills after the latest data center-caused rate hike and now I can’t access my AI healthcare!!

We have enough material at this point about the absurdity of hyperscale data centers for an entire Bill Hader as Stefon special.

After the petitions are verified, Marana voters will have a chance to reverse the town council’s decision to rezone 600 acres of farmland for data centers.

We got fascism and AI instead of replicators and flying cars. I will never forgive technocrats for this