Some of us just don't like getting colds

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

maybe the most well-esteemed White House correspondent of all time had her career ended instantly over something that would be trite now www.npr.org/2010/06/07/1...

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

The implication that this means Gen Z is doing something right and we did something wrong rather than the economy failed us/ the greed of previous generations ruined our futures, is getting my hackles up.

IT IS 2026 AND THE SAME PEOPLE INVOLVED IN GAMERGATE ARE HAVING CRASHOUTS ABOUT ANITA SARKEESIAN BEING INVOLVED WITH SLAY THE SPIRE 2. Apologies for the all caps but also. Seriously!? That isn't even the most politically relevant Gamergate thing in relation to today. And these people-

Six months ago, the federal government indicted me, my friend Andre, and four others for protesting ICE. Our trial is this month and we are facing up to $250k in legal debt. Please help us win our case and protect all of our rights by donating to our legal defense: tinyurl.com/katandre

Hey so as someone actually representing people arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE and doing it pro bono, if you think @katmabu.bsky.social is exaggerating about the cost, you have absolutely no idea. I literally maxed out every credit card I have just on expenses. And that's for STATE court.

I’m not sure people are wondering if the clothes were art. They are wondering why celebrities crossed a picket line to hobnob with a couple making billions of dollars from things like AI which is essentially the antithesis of creating art. He is also anti-worker, the people you say are the artists.

Both *can* be true but they aren't in this case! The text of "The Body Keeps The Score" is fundamentally unscientific and reactionary. If you've taken something good from it I'm happy for you, but that's despite the message of the book, not because of it.

Also on a purely practical level bitching about this of all things is just stupid politics. Arabs will wear what they wear, but also sympathy with Palestinians is at an all time high and will continue to rise and so this just makes you look unhinged because it is unhinged and also batshit racist.

The newly-founded leading opposition party in Israel has explicitly stated that they will never coalition with any of the Palestinian political parties, who represent 20% of Israel's enfranchised population.

Guy who posts constantly about how he wants every single Palestinian dead and loves genocide: The thing about Hasan Piker though is, he refuses to condemn Hamas, which actually makes him worse then me!

We’re all so thankful that Vox has found the moral clarity to challenge a twitch streamer who is popular for his opposition to genocide, this is the article these times need

It's also a bizarre non sequitur to me as a Palestinian as well because it doesn't matter to me at all if Jews feel or don't feel a sort of connection to historic Palestine— connection isn't the issue but rather the political formation that Zionism has and is establishing on top of Palestinian life.

Spot on. “Steyer or Porter would move the state to the left, Mahan to the center and Hilton or Bianco to the right. Becerra would keep things right where they are.” Top candidates for California governor spar over wealth, experience and race in fiery debate. www.latimes.com/california/s...

apple has tons of problems but they're also the only major tech company that does literally anything for privacy

The boys who worship greece and rome as Western Glory gloss over these being fundamentally slaver states. They would have you think all ancient societies were, but they were't. Cyrus the great for example, banned slavery in Persia. They'll conflate civic conscription with enslavement which its not

Outrageous. @chiosse.bsky.social was protecting one of his neighbors from eviction, as a result of deed theft — a plague in Central Brooklyn right now. There was no reason for NYPD officers to roughly throw him to the ground. It sure doesn’t make anyone safer. Release him now.

Everyone who became rich, powerful, and culturally dominant in the last decade savaging this country Will now wake up, one by one, claiming they’ve been in a mysterious ten‑year coma They’ll describe how it felt to them, how terrible it was for them, and ask for understanding as they heal

principal skinner voice “Am I so out of touch?? No, it’s the 1/3 of a million users on the ‘AI Haters’ blocklist that are wrong”

Arguing about Ronald Reagan with people whose entire careers, areas of expertise, and intellectual authority are based on Reagan's time in office and a view that the policies he implemented are wholly good doesn't seem like a really great use of anyone's time.

Funded in large part by Elect Chicago Women super PAC, which was AIPAC's shell group in #IL09, and the same group of donors that helped fund that dark money super PAC (Also ran ads against Junaid Ahmed in IL8) Background: evanstonnow.com/aipac-funded...

Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

💥 KAPOW 💥 community events are alive and active! Join us for everything from park cleanups to movie nights this week:

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

Terrible answer from Beshear www.politico.com/news/magazin...

If you struggle sometimes with self-doubt, I unironically recommend following and reading people like Ezra Klein and Matty Yglesias. They’re wrong on almost every consequential issue nearly 100% of the time. It’s like an anti-compass that gets you back pointing due North.

In 1985 - The Jewish Defense League bombed the ADC office & assassinated Alex Odeh in Santa Ana. The killers immediately fled to Israel & were never charged. Today - JDL member Alexander Heifler planned to flee to Israel following the assassination attempt on Nerdeen Kiswani Solidarity w/ Nerdeen!

New: Wikipedia has officially banned AI-generated content. After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of LLMs, volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

I just don't GET people who can't let stuff go. Sean Connery was my ultimate favourite actor growing up and then I found out he did a Barbara Walters interview where he talked about the importance of hitting his wife to keep her in line and I never watched anything with him again. It's not hard

oh so TSA agents are being pieces of shit FOR FREE

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

not only are they not good people, this performative courting of nonexistent integrity is a bizarre waste of everybody's time

look, things suck, everybody is allowed to feel hopeless once in a while, but I do think you have some responsibility to limit the contagion caused by offgas from your personal slough of despond

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

That the KKK went away is one of the biggest lies you've been sold. All southerners & plenty in other parts in the country know they never stopped their terror for one second.

One of the big reasons I'm so down on AI is because I remember a time when tech companies provided products and services that were useful. Gmail was great! Now Google is using The Robot That Answers Questions Wrong to mangle news headlines. No one needed this. No one wants it. It's shit.

As a Gen Xer, I can tell you boomers and even my own generation comparing their 20s to today’s 20-30 year-olds needs to stop. I paid $600 for a West Hollywood apartment at 23. Today it’s $3500. Burgers weren’t $20, they were $6 to $8 in a nice restaurant. Life is not comparable.

Yeah man I’d actually take you and your critiques of the sunrise movement talking about aipac a tad more seriously if you were involved in any organization working to fight climate change instead of being king of yapville USA

Another social worker has been killed while doing their job. This time it's a VA social worker in Georgia. Tragically, it's a lesson that keeps being taught over and over. Social work can be dangerous. It's a side of social work that we don’t like to talk about.

wake up comrades they're going after my big beautiful turk again

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

For the first time in 60 years, Palestinians are being barred from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. This morning, Palestinians tried to pray Eid right outside and were brutally attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces.

So... when do all the gun dipshits stop fascism?

I'm kind of tired of people complaining about how wearied they are hearing the news. Hearing of events doesn't weary you like being impacted by them. You shouldn't be thinking of anything in the news as abstract. You should get that it can touch you. Some have no choice but to get it, they feel it.

I think we can be against all political action committees that support settler colonial occupation