This rocks

Incredibly proud of James, for winning this award and even moreso for his relentless reporting AND volunteering at the border, helping to tell the stories of and provide aid too the most desperate people on earth

Q: What do Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Alex Jones, and Marjorie Taylor Greene all have in common? A: They have all turned against Donald Trump for reasons other than him raping children.

If this guy doesn’t like us gerrymandering to take down an authoritarian govt he’s gonna hate my less compromising suggestions

one of my favorite Gloranthan things is I Fought We Won, and it is not coincidental that I got really into Glorantha during covid.

NYT & Atlantic tell US that the greatest threat to free speech is elite university students not wanting to be forced to listen to right-wing extremists, meanwhile Republicans are banning Plato & Shakespeare & any mention of history of racism in across public university systems for being too woke.

Collectively, according to many officials and experts, if the war’s strangling of commercial traffic through the Middle East lasts for even a few more weeks, and uncertainty lingers, shortages could push several countries into convulsions of unrest, followed by recession.-NYT

This is how Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos avoids paying a personal income tax - For the last 20 years he's had the same salary, $82,000

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Invisibility shield YT: youtu.be/G93bju1qCSl

John Leguizamo explained of his performance that: "I kind of based mine on Steven Seagal. I had a bad run-in with him. We did a movie together. It was Executive Decision. He's kind of a horrible human." #TheMenu #HATM

True, and also this is basically verbatim US foreign policy and mainstream American thought for over 50 years so people shouldn’t act so surprised

Really important piece in the Guardian, on Harvard’s slow-walking and stone-walling of its historical complicity with the slave trade, featuring testimony from amazing scholars @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and @carladmartin.bsky.social 🗃️

I see what you are doing

tbh none of them deserve your attention or vote

These are incredible and you should buy them

What people dont understand about Thomas is that he is culturally a Maoist

When I got in trouble in middle school in Texas, it was either get paddled by the dean 10 times or write 20 pages on a book of the bible. I chose to write

As the commandment goes "We take care of our own"

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

Where I live, people complained it brought more people there

Tomorrow, one of us will be participating in an online presentation featuring the mysterious author of Another War Is Possible, a memoir recounting what anarchists did in the mass movements of the turn of the century. You can read our introduction to the book here: crimethinc.com/anotherwar

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The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.

All of these things are just series of tubes

Yea, so this not how democracy is supposed to work

There’s a partridge on my land, do I eat it?

Just found out my cousin married a white south aftrican refugee... He's a yacht captain...

RETVRN

Yea

FDR literally had the president of Montgomery Ward arrested and the company seized for not negotiating with his workers

Same

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

So this is where he plans to hide out when he refuses to leave office, huh?

hard-boiled, gay, noir detective novel... set in the future

HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: THE STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND just debuted at #4 on the New York Times bestseller list

bit of a reach but anyone have any good books on psychology or philosophy that specifically focus on what it is like to exist in the digital age and the specific experience of being observed by potentially millions of strangers?

This is *fantastic* and absolutely critical work.

Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself

It is especially important that we all stand up for our public lands right now, as so many of them are in danger. bsky.app/profile/bwca...

Leo is very deft at this

Well fuck

Does your boss work less than you but take home a bigger paycheck? Is someone flying around in a private jet at your expense? If they profit while you struggle to make ends meet, they’re not paying you the full value of your labor. So if you need something in the workplace—take it. You earned it!

April 15 is Steal Something from Work Day! Bosses, landlords, and billionaires steal from us continuously. It's not just wage theft—they've robbed us of the entire world, reducing everything to private property, commodities, or wreckage. Let's snatch back what we can. stealfromwork.crimethinc.com

I don’t like knowing there are so many of theses guys out there but I do like learning who they are via something terrible happening to them

Sometimes you have to be in public, when not in the Nazi bar singing Nazi songs with Nazi friends.