This is just solid gender-agnostic advice, by the way If you're feeling isolated or alienated, get into an Art or Craft as best you are able and join a community dedicated to it Look to your local library for resources! You will be surprised by what's available

They can lean on underpaid frontline staff to smile as much as they want, but as long as they're still spending millions surveilling their customers and locking hygeine products and socks up in display cases, the stores are still going to feel unfriendly. They can keep losing money. 🤷

In Italy labor unions helped start a network of left-leaning news/music radio stations that have become some of the staples of public information in much of the country. They now run on a donation / ads model, but initial investment was from labor. I think about this often.

Giving a bully your lunch money doesn't make them leave you alone. It shows them you're an easy mark and encourages them to demand more. Appeasing fascists doesn't make them less fascist. It shows them you're weak and encourages them to demand more. It's only ONE OF THE MOST REPEATED LESSONS EVER!

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

Jeff the Opsec Opossum says be aware of surveillance cameras and other devices that could record your activities! Thanks, Jeff! :V

This is probably the most feral I've drawn Natty #drawings #art #furry #possum #doodle

Now that the high has worn off a bit, let's get back to work. We won this round, but there's a whole lotta game left to play. The gov is still shut down, airports are starting to cancel flights, SNAP still isn't funded. Call your critters and demand action.

Lmao, not a Republican saying "how does it feel to vote for someone else to pay your bills?" I dunno buddy, you tell me, we have a list of which states take more in federal money than they pay in federal taxes.

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.

Imagine if even 1/4 of the money spent on Democratic campaign consultants and advertising was just given directly to local news upstarts around the country…………

A new deal program where people get employment to help build their communities would solve so many problems in our society I am not joking.

Nancy Pelosi secretly being queen of the stock market and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vocally opposing elected officials profiting off the stock market feel like intrinsically connected facts that quietly explain their instant bad blood the minute they became House colleagues

What a queen

RFK Jr's response to wHAT NOW?!

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

If you see this, post your favorite animal crossing villagers! Vesta, you were one of the first villagers in my first town, you and your sewing machine will live in my heart forever

Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry. Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.

I will also note that these filters, as seems inevitable, wind up only filtering liberal leaning content. I have seen plenty of violent videos of ICE agents kidnapping people, despite pretty much every filter being on when I checked my settings. Apparently conservative violence doesn't count. 🙄

This means if you are in the habit of saying things like "fuck Trump" or "I hope Cheney burns in hell", probably a good amount of your feed isn't seeing those posts because, unbeknownst to them, Bsky has shielded grown adults from "rude" "threats" like this.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has released a resume portal via his transition site, offering jobs for people of all skill levels “to help build an administration of public servants that will drive down costs and keep all New Yorkers safe.” www.transition2025.com/apply

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

Chuck Schumer should follow in Nancy Pelosi’s footsteps

Mamdani was unwilling to run PR for an apartheid state committing genocide, so Schumer refused to endorse him.

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Pilot had a massive ad spread in a jp newspaper with "make AI jealous" and "write what AI can't touch" written on it Anyway I think everyone should own a Pilot kakuno pen

Follow people and organizations on social media who you see in the real world doing real work. Share and post *and show up.* The anonymous Instagram- and X-based wreckers aren't trying to help, they're trying to get more eyeballs.

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

wild to encounter Waymo evangelists arguing that their fuckass snitch car is safer than normal cars because if safety was their main issue then they should want NO cars and for public transit to be massively expanded 🤷

I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

Man, I Love Fall

Figures from Louisville, Kentucky UPS plane crash: - 9 dead - 15 patients transported to hospitals; 13 discharged, 2 in critical condition - 16 unaccounted for

I doubt the people currently trying to poke holes in last night's gains are actually putting any effort into organizing their neighborhoods, but I'll extend temporary benefit of the doubt to say: Organizing is dependent on your willingness to work w/other people and their willingness to work w/you.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

If you're learning about Eugene Debs today and want to know more, @haymarketbooks.org has an amazing collection of books for you! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

I like how Krasner winning an almost unprecedented third term as Philly DA by stomping the walrus mustached city court judge who quit the bench to try to take him out first in the primary and again as a Republican in the general isn’t even folded into the national Dem sweep coverage.

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are and use that as motivation to keep going we are going to win

This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad. inthesetimes.com/article/publ...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

pls pls pls I wanna see giuliani crashout has he heard the news yet

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

you guys have GOT to watch the whole thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...