Happy May Day y’all There’s #bloodinthemachine

Using Kalyn’s likeness without her consent (when there’s no way not one person in the chain didn’t know who she is) is gross tokenism. And their statement about “recently” learning about it is unacceptable. Accountability NOW RTD.

A big thank you to @brittashoot.com for this lovely story about the small team of volunteers working to rephotograph all 500,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Pro tip: have tissues handy. www.kqed.org/arts/1398904...

This is amazing.

One important thing about Iris Long is that she started with Michael Callen and Joe Sonnabend—an activist/doctor combo who had started community research that could exist outside of academia. Callen was an author of the Denver Principles—a statement of the power of people with AIDS themselves.

Found it! it was Joseph Weizenbaum, of ELIZA fame

On this #LongCOVID Awareness Day, I invite you to peruse our online exhibit of “It Comes in Waves: Living with Long COVID in Colorado” www.stitchingthesituation.org/en/exhibitio...

Our local badass Kalyn teaming up with Brit badass James Acaster at a fave local record store (and more) is everything I love about our indie scene. Art, music, comedy, community, the resistance is both serious and fun here.

To say “I don’t do politics” is to say “I don’t do power.” Politics is another word for power. To say “I don’t do power” is to say “dominate me.” Meaning, to say “I don’t do politics” is to consent to being dominated. Precisely what these authoritarian regimes want.

This is intentional, while they flood the courts in MN they are moving illegally detained people and families to TX, to pressure them to leave the country without due process or explaining any kind of rights, let alone access to lawyers (or humane facility conditions) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

So, the charges are conspiracy against 1st amendment rights (initially invoked to protect Black ppl from KKK, election interference, Hate Crime prosecution and Law Enforcement misconduct) and the FACE Act (protects abortion clinic access & houses of worship)? Just WOW. apnews.com/article/just...

ICE Begins Warehouse-Buying Spree in Small Towns To use as detention centers. This is alarming! I gifted this so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Curious why ICE and CBP agents are so brutal? Here's a useful explainer I wrote last week, before Saturday's outrageous murder, about how uniquely unsuited ICE and CBP are for this moment—and why they were so corruptible into Trump's own fascist secret police: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

So which politician is calling for the dismantling of the probably illegal database that ice & this government is collecting biometric data of protesters?

Nothing happening in this moment is new…it’s just new to white folks whose solidarities have been fickle & disappear when the political climate is safe & favorable for their whiteness. Fascism strips away safety so folks are genuinely shocked bc what has long happened to us is now happening to them.

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

Trust your eyes. Not the lies.

WIRED talks to a postal worker, a teacher, two US citizens detained by federal agents, and six more Minnesota residents about life in an occupied American city. www.wired.com/story/how-ic...

I am in the midst of assisting a family member return an employee back home after they were wrongfully detained and transported to another state, and now have no identifying documents with them. This expansion will mean more situations like this, and we need to have a safe transport network ready.

welcome to Ferrix

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

**content warning** 1- the “bystander” is Renee Nicole Good’s WIFE 2- she was filming the murderer, up close, as he was moving in front of her car right before shooting 3- that asshole didn’t offer any assistance, just told others to call 911 4- he then fled the scene before medics arrived

Add this to the list of horrific decisions. NCAR is a beacon on the hill above my neighborhood, and it is an essential part of our society, and ability to be informed. @colorado.gov we need to move to save NCAR.

The recording of our exhibition talk is up! Six Coloradans living with Long COVID who are featured in the show shared some of their experiences and hopes with us. #LongCOVID #LongCOVIDAwareness #COVID19 #DisabilityVisibility m.youtube.com/watch?v=txRf...

Tonight! 5-8 MST, The People’s Building, 9995 E Colfax. Masks REQUIRED and are provided on site. Join virtually via Zoom 6 PM MST: us06web.zoom.us/j/8975492335... Recording will be available on our website. Accessibility info in comments

6 years ago today: A man in Wuhan, China starts feeling ill, becoming the first confirmed case of COVID-19

If you don’t know Alice Wong’s work and tenacious spirit, honor her life by listening, reading, learning, and applying her wisdom.

Come see our work in person at The People’s Building through Dec 10

Over Boulder tonight! @bianchiweather.bsky.social

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Very excited to share our exhibition, ‘It Comes in Waves’ opens this Friday, Nov 7, happy hour from 5-7 pm, at The People’s Building, 9995 E Colfax in Aurora (just a couple blocks east of “official” Denver). We have limited public hours, but I am happy to schedule additional viewings.

This is a great resource in precarious times. Tried it for my city and it pulled up all the things I know about + more I didn’t. It finds food pantries, but also stuff like legal help and housing assistance. For those of us more fortunate, great way to find volunteer and donation opportunities.

BREAKING: Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

Just WOW

I cannot recommend this convo enough. Both enlightening about the policy that is enabling so many of our systems shittier, AND hopeful with actual steps toward making things better. Well worth the time. @adamconover.net podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

Soooo excited for this reboot, with a lovely new host. RR was a central part of my childhood.

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

A country is real estate. A nation is a brand. Governance is deal-making. Diplomacy is franchising. Services yield profit. Everything is zero-sum. All relations are transactional. This admin is what happens when everyone majors in business or econ… or runs a car dealership.

I am sounding the alarm on the real crisis we face today. Donald Trump’s overreach is what our founders warned against – it is unprecedented, unwarranted, and un-American. There’s no emergency here that calls for military intervention.

There's a point Arendt makes in Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship that people who convince themselves to cooperate with the regime in pursuit of "the lesser evil" end up conditioning themselves to accept evil, which the regime then ratchets up. A similar story with the press here.

Pyrocumulonimbus spotted on my flight into Denver. I believe it’s the Little Gerry’s fire in WY. @bianchiweather.bsky.social thought you might enjoy!

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.