Tech workers at the heart of Microsoft are waging one of the most significant and under-covered labor battles in the US right now. Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social!

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further. Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

ACTION ITEM: Here's your Monday reminder! Please call and/or email your democratic representatives to stand up for trans rights! Deadline is Sept. 30th! In 8 days!! Step-by-step instruction below!

ART CONTEST!!! It's the Charlie Kirk Remembrance Day ART CONTEST brought to you by Assigned Media!! That's right, you heard us.

Have you done your dailies? Make sure to call your card company, payment processors, and representatives to protect free speech and artistic expression!

Historic: Italy is on strike, disrupting business as usual & protesting complicity in Israel’s genocide & apartheid against Palestinians, bringing major cities to a halt. Hundreds of thousands are demonstrating across 80 cities & towns, from south to north, blocking roads, ports & railway stations.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

This is very good from E. Tammy Kim, the god. As annoying as folks may think we are online, it doesn’t change the fact that disabled people *are* one of the many groups routinely being fucked over by our current administration and political moment. www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

📣 “The administration is using military secrecy to cover for what is basically a law enforcement function,” an activist flight tracker who goes by JJ in DC told Rolling Stone. “If this is being done in our interest, we have a right to know where these deportation flights are going.”

Remember, kids You can't trust what capitalism teaches you about socialism #SocialistSunday

social media platforms can only thrive when they allow sex workers, furries, and freaks to build an audience and i’m so serious

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

Sci fi / horror conventions are requiring masks in 2025 while disability related conferences continue to refuse to consider masks & some even refuse to have virtual options If you refuse to accommodate #immunocompromised people, you’re not as “inclusive” or “accessible” as you think you are

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

"centrist democrats" are generally in support of killing marginalized people, it's pretty much what defines them as such

this is also true of opposing trans rights and of supporting rollbacks on trans rights

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

NEW: In an investigation for @realchangenews.bsky.social, I found that Seattle’s UCT storage program rarely returns belongings collected at sweeps to homeless people. Only 1 in 15 instances, or 7% of the time, led to property going back to its original owners. Most was disposed of after 70 days.

It’s very interesting how upset white moderate men are getting about being told it’s dangerous to sign up for counter regime actions under fascism. It’s Even more interesting how some of them have decided that they need to discount all of it as fake news and hysteria in their minds.

Today is the last day to comment on proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule! The 58 million acres of forest protected by the Roadless Rule store vast amounts of carbon, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife species, and are more resilient to wildfire (despite false claims). Comment here 👇🏼

Hidden Heart Damage: How COVID Continues Haunting Millions "5 million people worldwide may be walking around with cardiac long COVID, their hearts silently struggling months or years after their initial infection cleared" Report: academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan...

We hear a lot about boys getting radicalized online, and not enough about how to stop it. This is good video with 5 specific things parents/adults can do:

Final ACIP update for the Covid vaccine: 1) Covid vaccines for all ages will be based on individual decision-making (no recc). 2) 65+ can just go and get it. 3) 6 mos-65yr, vaccine informed consent will be required to be discussed prior to receipt with 6 points of mandated misinformation 1/2

Friends! Outsider Comics is Seattle's local alternative comics shop, owned by a trans woman of color, and prioritizing covid consciousness. They are moving, and things have gotten expensive. Please stop by the shop if you're local, or buy things online if you're not! 💜

to everyone who didn't press her to oppose the genocide, this is on you actually. you defended genocide for this

The fascists are winning because there’s no vision of post fascism. The things you claim to want are not enunciated or illuminated as materially different from the fascists You still want to be able to drain a subcategory of human dry with NO responsibility And they KNOW this about you

Unanimous senate vote to honor a guy who said Black women are subhuman & that gay people should be killed with rocks. Man. It’s almost a shame I won’t even get a chance to never support this party again.

remember when people wearing masks actually made a strain of the flu go extinct

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

This is a WILD example of poor governance not mathing 1. Sound Transit fares are $42M, 1.4% of the annual ST budget 2. Lost fares are ~$5-14M 3. Fare gates cost >$104M or 7-20 years of unpaid Fares 4. Fare enforcement is $33.6M per year, 2-6 times higher than lost fares Free Link: archive.is/MYHOx

In case you’re wondering, it’s barely fall & our children’s hospital is already almost always full with kids boarding in the ER. And the pediatric workforce is stretched thin. Our system does not have the capacity to care for the influx of vaccine preventable diseases that is coming.

I say this with my whole entire chest, as the mom of a toddler: THIS IS BULLSHIT. This will make lifesaving vaccines less available, confuse ppl, decrease vaccine uptake, and KILL CHILDREN. Everyone who supposed this has the blood of children on their hands. SEND SKEET.

‘Forgive us, Palestinian brothers, sisters’. The US vetoed a crucial UNSC resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, as Israel expands its invasion of Gaza City.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

522,000 children starved to death in Sudan since April 2023

This is what remains of Beit Hanoun, a city in the north of the Gaza Strip which has been under full Israel control since July. It has been completely bulldozed by the IDF. A similar fate awaits Gaza City, once the Israelis take full control there. Depopulated for the first time in 5,000 years.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Time to re-up this book because reasons. Get it here: bookshop.org/a/106297/978...

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

Socialist Revolution is that "critical" point where the liberals immediately side with the fascists because they gotta protect their capitalist interests and ambitions. It's basically, liberalism 101: "Always side with the fascists when the Socialists threaten your capitalist privileges."

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

For 9 years, folks are told we can’t build more housing because it’s not in the comp plan. Now we’re doing the comp plan, and they’re saying we can’t add housing to the plan because it’s not in some other document. It’s BS.

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