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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

We're reopening the case as to whether the Triborough Bridge needs a Kennedy name slapped on it (it doesn't): nygroove.nyc/rfk-bridge-t...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

I had a couple quibbles with what they coded “left-wing” but ultimately the study does touch on something real: we’ve seen a little bit more violence from the left side of the pitch lately (the previous stats were near zero, though, so anything is an “increase”).

The way terrorism is defined is a high bar (and it should be, given the legal implications). But it ends up excluding so much from the picture that I’d consider it a big mistake to think it reflects much on the state of this country’s political violence problem overall.

Quoted here sharing my reservations about a study that says right-wing terror attacks are down — the frameworks of terrorism aren’t well suited to size up the threat of political violence and can give people the wrong impression if they don’t understand how they work www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

update about the cartoonists of color, queer cartoonists, and disabled cartoonists databases tldr: i am shuttering the databases and i am sad. www.patreon.com/posts/139743...

Maybe it's the horrible vibes, but I feel like dusting off my trilogy of essays discussing the Galerians psychic survival horror series Here's Drowning in Halcyon, about the 1999 PlayStation game, Y2K, failed parents, dead gods, and children left at the end of the world

The new argument from surveillance companies building extremely powerful technology for the government is that it is not their business or interest how it is deployed or what it is used for: www.404media.co/how-surveill...

BREAKING: Elon Musk's xAI has signed a deal with the federal government to allow the integration of its Grok AI with federal agencies.

The Puerto Rican band blends bomba, plena and salsa into its sound, trading ocean blues and sunset pinks for playful jazz breaks and tasteful synthesizer effects.

Could geothermal technology cool steamy subway platforms as temperatures rise? The MTA is trying to find out.

Baltimore food pantry is experiencing critically-low supply, seeks donations

"EU to start rolling out biometrics entry system for non-EU visitors---EU entry exit system, involving fingerprinting and facial recognition, being introduced from 12 October for non-EU citizens" HT @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

New free post! Everyone should know about the Haitian Revolution - here are five resources for learning more or for classroom use 🗺️🗃️ #histodons www.liberatingnarratives.com/...

New Skyvein page is up! The negotiating continues.... Read it here: www.skyveincomic.com

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This is huge: new legislation would expand Head Start so millions more kids from working-class families can access early education & vital services—while ensuring Head Start educators earn the wages they deserve. @cftunion.bsky.social www.padilla.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

no way that's so random

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

on this day in 1868, El Grito de Lares occurred in Puerto Rico, which saw Puerto Rican freedom fighters revolting against Spanish colonial rule. El Grito is an enduring legacy in the continuous fight for independence.

Writers! apply today for 2-6 weeks in @banffcentre.bsky.social's Leighton Studios; a great chance to finish that manuscript, start new thoughts, and gain some solitude and brain-space: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/int...

where jorts were born through the removal of their jongs

Wepa!!!!

September 20th, we celebrate the birthday of Jean Jacques Dessalines—the revolutionary father of Haiti & leader of the world’s first successful slave revolt—we honor his audacity, courage & belief in Black liberation. His triumph inspired oppressed peoples everywhere.

“With a single post or video, we can influence thousands of guests to try a food, drink, or experience in the parks,” she says. “I couldn’t, in good conscience, keep giving them free publicity knowing they don’t support free speech and are willing to bow to fascism."

we have to try

Got a new (used) phone because apparently the 6a is gonna explode at some point and finally moving into the new phone...and uuuuugh. Ugh.

Can anyone foster or adopt a sweet stray cat in SoCal?

This right here.

Reminder for my fellow accumulators of stationery (pens, stickers, washi, etc.) that Halloween is a great time to destash. Kids love cool pens, markers and use stickers with wild abandon.

this is why it always feels really REALLY disingenuous when people complain that artists aren't tagging their NSFW art. I don't know maybe tittydrawr69 isn't tagging their drawing because y'all keep threatening them with losing their entire livelihood if they do.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

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Never burn yourself out to make any institution brighter.

ftr this isn't the first time bluesky has done stupid as fuck shit. I was here in the trenches in 2023 watching them pull dumb moves and get yelled down by everyone to back down, successfully. the people running this place are not on your side but they are hilariously easy to bully. go hard.

You know. Maybe it was a bad idea to let a felon who can't stop declaring bankruptcy and engaging in shady business practices be the president.

Cancel whatever services you want and throw the money at artists you like. I promise you they need it more than these massive companies, and you can grab some cool art.

And we're announced! The Killing Stone, a folk horror card-based strategy game from the team at Question (The Magic Circle, The Blackout Club), is coming soon to Steam. This has been one of the most exciting and unusual games I've worked on in my career! store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

you should read the whole article (i want to also read the book!) but i want to highlight this first question, because so often you hear that solitary is bad, BUT it's a necessary way to protect the vulnerable (whether bc queer or mentally ill or something else). that's not true. it is never that

Today in consummately American things, the California legislature just passed a law that, when your power company burns down your house and you sue them, you don't have to pay taxes on the settlement.

We're looking for streamers interested in receiving a free Steam code for Red Thread; a single player RPG strategy game where you create a character and work through multiple scenarios to determine the ending. Please email us at [email protected] for details! #indiegame #streamers

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

🪡 To play Dollsweat, it is recommended that you use your favorite pen and a strawberry-scented stationery pad to log your responses to journal prompts. But any combination of pen and paper — or Google Docs — will suffice. PLEASE let me know if you would like to playtest, and i'll send you a PDF!!

despite everything ☝🏼 i made a solo ttrpg called DOLLSWEAT — now in the playtesting stage W(`0`)W 🪡 Dollsweat is a horror journaling "experience," documenting your transformation into a doll. It requires nothing from you other than patience, introspection, and the raw pink essence of your soul.