In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

Covid reminded people that health is contingent and many were so pissed off by that, they embraced eugenics.

I don't remember who I first learned it from, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social or @prisonculture.bsky.social, but ever since, I celebrate Mother’s Day by giving to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to reunite Black mamas & caregivers with their families Join in to #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2026!

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

jodi melamed's represent and destroy continues to slap

It’s really…something that when we organize to help the university defend itself against this massive- scale destruction, we’re treated from within like we’re the enemy.

all the eid fits on this first day of spring😍🌸🌷🍉

The tenth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live! This issue features 18 stories that offer our readers insights into a wide range of prescient political and cultural topics, from the community resistance in Minnesota and Ohio to the enduring legacy of D'Angelo and more. Read here: hammerandhope.org

"I suffer from communism's delay." — Jean François Vilar

Rest in power Breonna Taylor. Today, we mourn six years without her, and six years without justice or accountability.

A few years ago I started replacing every "we should" with "I should" and this really helps me to stay grounded.

me, a virgo, 5 minutes into trying to make a lamp out of wire and mulberry paper in the middle of an organizing call: ugh why is it so hard to make lamp

“What are we pretending not to know today?” —Toni Cade Bambara

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.

Mary's dismissal by Harvard should be a scandal across US public health and medicine. This is obvious suppression of principled free speech, a betrayal of the universalism that's supposed to underwrite public health, and a sign of capitulation to fascist pressure. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

The MoMA’s Wilfredo Lam retrospective shines in underscoring how inseparable the artist’s work was from questions of Black identity and what he himself called “mental decolonization.”

learned about this AI tool for “the neurospicy” and asked it how long it would take to write a dissertation chapter and it turns out 1-4 hours! can’t imagine how fast the ableds are doing it!

Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s youngest mayor in over a century and the city’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor. He has twice defeated Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor in the face of sexual harassment allegations. https://bit.ly/47pa8LH

i am a conversation vampire i need to be invited in :3

the light brown cookie piece in the milk jawn’s milk & cookies flavor iykyk 🤤

cobblers go so hard

Save 50% on #NewBook Indigenomicon by Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social, which brings video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. buff.ly/FBknSYW

taking off a resistance band at the gym is so humbling

Well, surprise, surprise, it turns out that Otterman is a paid mentor in an Israeli information war. www.dropsitenews.com/p/karsh-fell...

NYers:: This is going to be an amazing event. Don't miss it. @benchansfield.bsky.social

at a cafe in sf and they give free avocado in a cup for kids