"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them

every neoliberal policy analyst wants to "trim the fat" of society until the lean times come. community level resilience, redundancies, etc are good actually

Yup, the 2006 Berger Commission closed a bunch of community hospitals, mostly in areas with communities of color and lower income folks. They calculated there were too many beds in NYC. Then when Hurricane Sandy hit, there weren't enough. They nvr accounted for if no crossing bridges+tunnels

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Not knowing WHY he got an MRI is not the flex he thinks it is…

It's trivially clear that the liberal march from the stadium would not have meant or affected anything and it was the (largely anarchist driven) lockdowns that disrupted the ministerial. The bloc was a minority of anarchists present, but no less heroic for that. c4ss.org/content/52517

I’m tired of human rights violations, atrocities, colonial crimes being framed as “forgotten” or “unknown”. They’re not, there’s testimonies, documented evidence, survivors still alive. That you who is member of the perpetrators’ country were not taught that does not mean no one else knew about it.

Government actors who refuse to be bound by the rule of law are not morally entitled to its protection.

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle voiced serious concerns over the weekend over reports on a follow-up strike that killed survivors on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean, as the Senate and House armed services panels pledged to conduct “vigorous oversight": https://cnn.it/441xbKu

Earlier this month @interruptcrim.bsky.social and Just Practice brought together groups that have been engaged in community-based crisis response to share lessons & to assess the current landscape. It was a really fruitful convening. We're sharing some resources today. mailchi.mp/interrupting...

If you are looking for ways to disrupt the abduction detention & deportation machine check out the new mini-toolkit from @interruptcrim.bsky.social gathering opportunities for action from orgs like @detentionwatchnetwork.org @siembranc.bsky.social BAJI + www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it

Neat!

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Sun 11/23: “Born in Flames” (1983) + “Stranger Inside” (2001) Lizzie Borden’s “Born in Flames” is a radical vision of feminist revolt set in a dystopian NY. Followed by Cheryl Dunye’s “Stranger Inside,” a women’s prison drama centering a young Black lesbian. Borden in person! Free: ucla.in/3LUEYU1

A comic by Nathan Gelgud showcases Black feminist writer June Jordan and her never-realized “Skyrise for Harlem” project, created in collaboration with Buckminster Fuller.

Medical Billing AI: Hey there — I know it can be hard out there, but it looks like you owe us $10,000. ME: fiddle de dah/fiddle de dee/ it’s $10,000 dollars you owe to me!/cash or Venmo in my name/this rhyme commands you, your code’s to blame! AI: Absolutely, we’ll get that to you ASAP.

On Joe Sacco's 'The Once and Future Riot', about the deadly 2013 Muzaffarnagar clashes: "an analysis of how people in conflict refashion facts, indulge in ersatz nostalgia, and create stories that serve their worldviews..." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

The Once and Future Riot by Joe Sacco review – a masterclass in visual reportage The author of Palestine turns his attention to the legacies of Indian partition in this brilliant portrait of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots Joe Sacco is one of a very small number of graphic novelists who have...

Disabled people were one of the first groups targeted by the Nazis. They coined the term “useless eaters”. They tested the gas chambers on us. They knew most people wouldn’t fight to save our lives. That’s why the President using the R slur is so dangerous. We’re not expendable

Many such cases… 😵‍💫

Siempre que, en un foro, alguien dice "eduquemos a los pobres para que no delincan" --obviamente, lxs académicxs lo dicen de una forma más enredada-- siempre pienso que quizá habría que mejor empezar a educar a la gente que fue a la escuela y aprendió a ser estructuralmente racista y clasista.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

WW1 toxic compound sprayed on Georgian protesters, BBC evidence suggests

Any actual benefits that digital ID could have (and those benefits are QUESTIONABLE), is being steam rolled by mandatory age verification. People are speed running safety nets against the problematic deployments in real time.

Enshitification will continue until morale improves

Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of killing a health insurance company executive in a brazen attack that sparked a national debate, is set to appear in court. https://cnn.it/43YB4zP

The NYC Dept of Consumer and Worker Protection found most Starbucks employees never got regular schedules and routinely had their hours reduced by 15% or more, making it difficult for them to count on their income.

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended

I'm gonna need every single person admonishing us to participate in ICE watch & document "non-violently" to read this by a definitely NOT radical org "Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has said that revealing the identities of agents and videotaping them on operations constitutes “violence”

And to understand that when they say that shit and talk about "criminals" vs "normal people" & ICE as distinct from "regular police" they are fueling the very project they are being extremely well funded to supposedly train people to oppose. (yes, this is absolutely a cranky Friday afternoon post)

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

"The story of women’s liberation isn’t a straight line; the state of women’s rights is blurry and contradictory." the always great @rtraister.bsky.social writes for @nymag.com www.thecut.com/article/why-...

COP30 isn’t a failure — it’s a farce. writes @petergelderloos.bsky.social as he unpacks the glossy PR of “Indigenous inclusion,” and the climate summit doing nothing to halt emissions or deforestation.

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“We already learned that nonviolence doesn’t work in 2020. The learning got erased. We already learned it in 2014. Erased again. We learned it in 2009. Then lost it. Learned it in 2003. Erased. Learned it in 1991. Gone. Learned it in 1968. Erased. Learned it in 1939. See the pattern?”

President Trump's promise to pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, serving 45 years in U.S. prison for drug trafficking, is part of a "shocking" effort to interfere in Honduran politics, says Rodolfo Pastor with the ruling left-wing LIBRE party. "It's a blow to Honduran dignity and democracy."

At the COP30, they couldn't even agree to *mention fossil fuels in their closing statement. Check out @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social to hear about movements across Brazil that are actually getting sh!t done thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/tag/cop...

‌We need your help to publish this thrilling 1st-person account of the 2001 uprising in Argentina, narrated by a participant in the siege to the presidential palace and forced the president to resign and flee by helicopter. Preorder a discount copy here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

The news has entirely failed to grasp the unprecedented scope of the ICE and DHS budgets. Nothing like it in modern history. A galaxy of public/private surveillance and caging institutions for $100,000,000,000s unleashed on a public that will be forever changed. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before. It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it. Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nebal's hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-... #Palestine #Israel

The nation’s immigration courts are ground zero for the mass deportations that Trump says are necessary to remove dangerous criminals from the US. They're also one of the few places where those targeted can fight back.

Audley “Queen Mother” Moore was a civil rights icon, Pan Africanist and pioneer of the reparations movement. Eleanor J. Bader on the new biography uncovering the legacy of a leader who shaped Black liberation for nearly a century. inthesetimes.com/article/quee...

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.