Happy Calling in Sick to Work Day to all those who celebrate ⚓️

albanese having his 'fair suck of the sauce bottle' moment

Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets. Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."

i'm not a philosopher but my general attitude toward paradoxes is that logic and reality don't always align, and i basically just treat them all like zeno's paradoxes with, that's interesting but nevertheless things actually do move

Honestly for the most part knowledge is actually justified true belief and you can sorta not worry about the counter-examples. It's fine.

What this underlines for me: we cannot frame "identity" in opposition to "the material" in politics when identity defines who belongs, and therefore who can engage in collective struggle for common material gains.

olbermann responding to the "excessive gifts" charge is like a reverse-skinner describing his vietnam prison diet

1/ Seeing lots of posts saying Larry Summers was still at Harvard while a Black woman, Claudine Gay, was pushed out. Not true. Both Summers and Gay are still (as of rn) teaching at Harvard. I write about Gay in The Overseer Class because she was no friend of Palestine activists or Black students.

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Women aren’t safe anywhere. Think about that. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

idk if it helps to think of it this way, but capital is not just in opposition to labor but fully radicalized against labor. they'll suffer if they think labor will suffer more. it's not about money. it's about winning.

The last time I wrote about this I copped the biggest whinge fest from the then (Labor) minister’s office about how they weren’t cutting the budget lol

yeah everything that trusted Cloudflare is fucked "There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network." Cloudflare wanted a chokehold on the internet, and this is what that looks like status: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

BREAKING: Israeli forces have shot and wounded an Al Jazeera journalist in Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/z68e2t

If you wouldn’t want a random stranger in the street chatting intimately with your child, don’t give your child an AI toy

For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.

After the man who threatened her life via email was sentenced in court earlier this week, Senator Fatima Payman is being targeted by online abuse.

the way I am putting every single author I know in a headlock over the next few months.

Former UN special rapporteurs Richard Falk and Hilal Elver were detained and interrogated by Canadian authorities while on their way to an event examining Canada’s role in the genocide in Gaza. Falk, who turned 95 that day, said that officials said he and his wife posed a “national security threat.”

Happenings.

The thing these "suck up to everyone except minority groups in case they'll vote for you" people can't seem to understand is that the Democratic party is not weak because of its failure to kiss Nazi ass, it's weak because of its failure to have any principles at all, let alone take a stand on them.

you cannot make me read that trash they're calling "good writing"

tolerance can't tolerate intolerance just as intolerance can't tolerate greater intolerance: intolerance is like acid or antimatter: it eats away at anything less intolerant than itself

Country and jazz have been having a conversation with each other from the beginning. Charlie Parker loved Hank Williams. Every time Willie Cantu went to play up in New York with Buck Owens, he’d go to the Village Vanguard. The relationship between these two art forms has always been there."

We're like five generations into modern feminism and women still have to assume that when you ask a colleague for feedback on a project, there's a good chance that he and a sex criminal will snigger about how it's evidence that you want his dick Also they have made up a racist nickname for you

A smart govt - or even one with a PM who had a desire to do anything - would be using the LNP rabble to put in place every fucking thing they wanted. Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.

A hill I will die on is that you cannot be pro-Black and anti-queer at the same time. Because queerness is more of an affirmation of our humanity than whatever bullshit colonizers violently enforced globally.

She ran as a moderate. Maybe you think that’s good and maybe you think that’s bad. All I am arguing is that the endless takes about how Democrats should pivot to the center should explain why it didn’t work in this election (there are good reasons!) rather than pretending she didn’t.

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

NEW: I have obtained, under FOI, a secret Department report that initially recommended the Targeted Compliance Framework - aka, the unlawful "mutual obligations" scheme It reveals that, like Robodebt, they recklessly built this thing to punish "entitled" frauds who never existed

*quizzically cocks head like that dog in the little rascals, thinking of a'lee frost and red scare, or virgil texas teaming up with gray for bad faith*

new from me this morning www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

if the screenshot you're reposting is so low-res we can't read the text, and you can't be bothered to transcribe it in the alt text, don't repost the screenshot

Witch lantern.

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

Joe Sacco's drawing of Gaza from 2005 showing how it was already a prison. This is from Footnotes in Gaza where he seeks to recover testimony about massacres of Palestinians in 1956.

Makes sense that no matter what happens, the messaging that Democrats push is always a retreat from ‘identity’ since recognition & understanding of one’s identity is the largest indicator that one possesses a set of core beliefs and this party continues to lose because they are largely valueless.

ah well, nevertheless

Yaphet Kotto was born this day in 1939 and sadly passed away in 2021. He always understood the assignment.

Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.

these people are pathetic and we should crush them

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

these people are a clear and present danger to australia and they chose to show their faces. the more we know about who they are the better.

i never paid much attention to moldy peaches but having just discovered the uncluded i will be rectifying that - and doing a deep dive into the aesop rock catalogue www.youtube.com/watch?v=Armp...

These people always pitch themselves as savvy Real America Whisperers but constantly talking about how Republicans are right and Democrats are annoying is abysmal electoral strategy. Talk about how minorities aren't a threat, billionaires are!

This is a straightforward Republican attack line, what the fuck is he doing

25/ 'Reactive lawmaking & off-the-cuff ideas won’t deal with the problem, says Andy Fleming, Some Guy. "In the absence of a strategy – a social movement strategy – to respond, then we wind up with kind of piecemeal reaction that risks exacerbating the problem.”' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...