!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!! A report from @eff.org , @justjournalism.bsky.social, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. 🧵

btw, this project and projects like it are funded by t-shirts like this one (and you should buy one at SquidFacts.net, they're super cute)

This is my favorite thing we've done in a while

if your hobby is touched in any way by electronic components needed by the hyperscalars, AI is coming for it, gaming most of all shortages everywhere as far as the eye can see

Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

One of the lessons I hope people take away from Jesse Jackson’s life and the outpouring of remembrances small and large is that progress is made and measured in every act and utterance against oppression and not measured solely in legislative or electoral victories.

"Over the latest machines — DDR SuperNova, Pump it Up Pro — we unraveled the mysteries of how to navigate transitions: of teen to young adult, of gender expressions, of outer expectations versus our inner truths." - from Amanda Lynn's first story for Mothership ⬇️🖱️ www.mothership.blog/love-letter-...

Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.

Here's a link to Abby's book. Rev. Jackson was one of the most famous people in the world for much of my life and yet I still learned so much from her work here.

Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

Story of my life for the last 20 years.

"Many of us are struggling with the mental aspects of what we are asked to do, who we are needed to be in this moment; I won’t deny the night terrors, the cracked molars, the irritability that grows from the need to continue doing capitalism while children are being caged."

“We’re not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race.” Jessie Jackson REST IN PEACE

I wrote about the cowardly lions of corporate America under Trump and their decades-long push to shape the country’s political life and democracy, no matter their protestations to the contrary now. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We just hit $100k raised for the WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund! But we've got HOURS to go still, and next up, Jack, Keith, Sylvi and I are going to play some CK3: All Under Heaven at the top of the hour! twitch.tv/friendsatthetable to watch! tiltify.com/@friendsatth... to donate!!

Need to pick another milestone celebration shoe, and could barely believe Nike is actually making their WNBA signature shoes in my size??? Dunno if I'm pulling the trigger, but it's amazing that I could get a pair of size 17 Aja's www.nike.com/t/aone-blue-...

"Many of us are struggling with the mental aspects of what we are asked to do, who we are needed to be in this moment; I won’t deny the night terrors, the cracked molars, the irritability that grows from the need to continue doing capitalism while children are being caged."

Soft-launching this today, because Michaels has some exceptionally good weekend coupons - Help me rebuild the arts & crafts room at Park Slope Women's Shelter! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

I watched last night and these are three of the smartest people on the planet from whom I have learned a lot. If you listen, you'll learn too.

Delightful story by Ace Want one more BQD stat for good measure? During Big Ten play, Michigan is ~*16.8 points* better with Quarles Daniels on the floor (+11.2 to +27.9 with some weird rounding)

A long delayed newsletter update! Still being waylaid by migraines, but wanted to write up some of what I've been up to as ICE patrols and community work have ramped up in Washtenaw County. #a2council creating.care/p/surviving-...

what’s with the eyeball | patreon.com/lubchansky

I know $$ is tight, & many groups need support rn. But I think the kids at H.A. Brown up in Kensington should have a school covered in art just like the Fishtown kids do, & we could all use a joyful project rn. Learn more about the project, and support us here: givebutter.com/KenzoMural

Is it just me or are the metaphors continuing to be really heavy handed

and once again: student-run papers are the free press now www.michigandaily.com/news/former-...

well...

Everyone after Wemby kept blocking all their shots

one of the greatest tweet threads of all time

a truly Aspirational performance from Kawhi Leonard

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

Third entry in the Mossa and Pleiti series and maybe my favorite so far? Great book. It’s probably reductive to describe it as “what if Sherlock Holmes and Watson were lesbians in space” but that’s my elevator pitch for it I guess. Maybe your local library will have them too

HERE IT IS: Last year a vermilion flycatcher setup a nest about 9 feet in the air, allowing me put my camera on a tripod a safe distance away and use a trigger. 🪶 🐣 For 40 hours during a work week. I waited. Taking tens of thousands of videos/pictures Then, finally, first flight:

Idk if you heard but the pistons just beat the world

this SNL sketch was a documentary and you can't tell me different

fundraiser merch is UP 👇 friendsatthetable.shop

Join us tonight at 7pmET for a mass call to get ICE out of schools. The webinar is led by the AAUP, the AFT, the Sunrise Movement, and others. You’ll leave with tools to map your university’s ties, link up with allies & run a campaign that forces decision-makers to drop ICE’s billionaire partners.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Counted and bagged another 1,000 whistles - feeling like I've got enough for local distribution, and maybe start contributing to the broader requests again soon?

Going live in 30 minutes!!

Couldn't be more thrilled to share that the paperback launch of There Is No Place for Us will be hosted by Charis Books at the Auburn Avenue Research Library on Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm. I'll be in conversation with the brilliant @jduffyrice.bsky.social—truly a gift—and I'd love to see you there.

Learning that Platner covered his Nazi tattoo with some “norse-celtic” bullshit is not convincing me that he was ever getting any tattoos “accidentally”

‼️‼️‼️ read it twice

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Gum Gum ICE Breaker

"Impossibly, despite its attempts to pacify the ensuing outcry by issuing a clarification that merely some users will be required to submit to its child detection matrix, Discord has managed to make the rollout of its global age assurance policy seem even grimier."

When he claps, I can almost hear the Marvel 3 super flash before he launches the hook

If you’re in Detroit. A Valentine’s Day Black Romance Writers Panel Saturday, 2/14/26, 2-4pm EST Main Branch Detroit Public Library 5201 Woodward Ave, Detroit ✍🏾📚💕 www.eventbrite.com/e/author-tal... #Romancelandia #Detroit #DetroitPublicLibrary #BookSky #BlackBookSky