doing community organizing can be such a brutal task sometimes. you volunteer your time freely and people still demand more and more without ever giving thanks for what you've done. it doesn't matter that you get nothing out of it, for some people your best is never enough

“...MPAs co-managers have to date received over BZD $7 million of the BZD $26 million approved for distribution, just over a ¼ of all funds distributed by the Belize Fund..." To learn more about why MPAs have received 26% of the money to support Belize's Blue Bond goals, read the story at the link.

My latest investigation goes deep on what it takes to support the expansion of Belize's marine protected areas as part of the 2021 Blue Bond. It looks at the work and innovations taking place as the country aims to protect 30% by 2026. climatespotlight.com/marine-prote...

Cigarettes used to be cheap enough that you could give a whole pack out to each trick or treater instead of just one or two loosies. Failed fucking empire

What’s draining tax dollars isn’t SNAP, it’s corporate welfare and billionaire tax breaks. FACT: Even people working two jobs still need SNAP. Where’s the outrage about that?!

The image of the US as a beacon of democracy and freedom was always a myth but this video shows how quickly people will normalize the kidnapping of others because intervening would be inconvenient. Mustn’t miss one’s flight.

I was using #facebook for marketing research for my day job when I got a request to submit a video to prove I’m human. With m reluctance, I went through with it so I can finish my work. now Meta is telling me they gotta review the info. AI sucks. Corporate control of social media too

So glad for felled-Martin getting all this love. I first read her writing in the intro for mirror mirror 2. It led me to her film criticism (the Akira essay being one of my favorites), and now she’s writing acclaimed novels. On top of all that, she curates the best online biweekly film club.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Not all heroes wear capes. Please support local, independent, and student journalists. “𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘧 13, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 @loyolachicago.bsky.social 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘹 𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘱…” www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immi...

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

Cake is always good, but post submission cake? Divine.

4 in slacks, 8 in shorts when they see my cyclist calves 🦵

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Eminem warned us all about white America way back when and now we live to sow its unwillingness to be anything but mediocre Nazi boyz.

I have to stress how highly unusual it is for the most powerful military on the planet to be blowing up random boats in international waters. I can’t help but feel that several criminal charges will ultimately come from these strikes. It makes far more sense to interdict them.

US imports tonnes of fish from the Caribbean and Central/South America. Do they think people will continue to risk their lives to fish as these extrajudicial murders continue? This is not normal. Our region doesn’t deserve this, especially at a time when climate change is harming our frontlines.

I asked a source for an upcoming story who was benefiting from a recent program for frontline communities. He replied saying one of the major hotels in the old capital. I wake up today to read of another ‘workshop’ that took place there. Those $5 Johnny cakes won’t eat themselves.

Love, all love, is very wonderful. Waking up to your partner sharing thoughts on their reading of Ursula K. Le Guin was once a dream I now get to live. ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Must try

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

This news has been fucking with my head since announced Friday, less than one month after Belize’s Independence Day when the foreign minister made a speech alluding to strengthening BRICS ties. Instead, we are pandering to this evil shit. Note that Belizeans weren’t consulted on this. At all

There's no reason for non-US citizens to come to study in the U.S. at this time. This is especially true for college-aged young people. Why would you take that risk? It's unnecessary. If you're already here, you do what you need to do and then you head for the exits.

In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on. So it is particularly shocking that the share of car loan borrowers missing payments has soared to levels last seen during the financial crisis.

the degree to which the NYT has become an institution not just uninterested in reality but actively antagonistic to it still manages to shock me every once in a while

Cancel SPOTIFY. They are running ICE ads. F them. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Watched lotr: return of the king and glad to spend more time in middle earth, but also theatrical is truly superior. I did not need 10 minutes of faramir and eowyn coupling up as the 2 single royals.

the reason you can't say "sexual assault" or "rape" on so many major platforms is because the christofascists demanding this censorship from tech companies want to keep wielding sexual violence in the dark as a tool of power

In today’s news, Israel’s stupid fucking genocidal rapists ran over an unexploded ordnance from their own evil carpet bombing campaign, blamed Hamas, started fucking bombing Gaza again, killed scores of civilians, and then quietly backed down on urging from Washington.

Not a single mention of this across the Sunday shows as far as I could tell

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Had a great interaction with an acquaintance where we both acknowledged that the great reveal of your 30’s is that most adults, regardless of age, are idiots proud of their ignorance.

Can’t wait to tell this person at the Farmers market that my spouse reverse-engineered her pickled mango recipe so now we’ll never need to buy hers again. Muahahaha

My partner has gotten big into fermentation, and learned how to replicate a recipe another person didn’t want to share (family secret they say). I’m so excited to get through today’s writing and home to try it now that it’s ready. My home life feels much richer than it ever has.

I love his public transport plan but honestly what I still like most about Mamdani is that he’s the son of Mira Nair, director of Mississippi Masala and that movie has too much humanity for it to skip a generation.

Anyone buying into the war propaganda about Venezuela is a fucking moron. The lies are dumb even by usual US warmongering standards, and US regime change interventionism is consistently disastrous. People who say they want Trump to remove Maduro are admitting they never grew up.

Average Americans being called terrorists by their own government: 😱 Muslim Americans:

If we want a world without police and prisons, we cannot demand perfection from one another. Only that we try, and never stop trying, even though we will not succeed.

All of us, every single one of us, are fuckups. We all do shitty things. We try not to, and we fail. We've spent too much our energy learning all of the ways everything we do is bad and wrong, and not enough of our time identifying what is good and worth nurturing in each of us.

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose" margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.