the energy with which i am wishing you all a happy new year

HUGE no on this. Make your phone calls. They are trying to use the SAVE Act to do an end run around court rulings blocking them from accessing state voter rolls:

Mardi Gras Mubarak Fa Cai for all who celebrate a bunch of overlapping holidays this week! (That's Fat Tuesday Kareem Fat Choy if you prefer other language variants)

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but bc of what I believe it can become.' -Grace Lee Boggs

I’ve been thinking of these words from Grace Lee Boggs, as I see how my neighbors and my community, and neighbors and communities across the U.S. have been showing their love “for people and place” with their whole, brave selves. Happy revolutionary Valentines to Minnesotans, to folks all over -

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

This is why local elections matter more than ever. It’s really the last bulwark protecting us from a corrupt federal government. Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.

Before we start the new lunar year, lemme brush up on how to write horse in Traditional and Simplified Chinese. ...ah I see, in Simplified the horse gets a haircut and rides a hoverboard instead of running on its legs.

You can help build billionaire-free local news. Repost this -> I give $1 Follow @51st.news -> I give $1 Follow me -> I give $1 Donate -> I match your gift Let's fight misinformation, help good journalists to make a decent living, and stick a big ol' finger in Jeff Bezos' eye.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT. So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Frankly, Star Trek has the opportunity to include a bunch of people with different disabilities (via both alien metaphor AND real human experiences) and then imagine a bunch of cool assistive technologies, inclusive practices, and just what 32nd century curb-cut effects could look like!

This is just unconscionable man

You can say no at any time to anyone about anything. What Is Security Culture: crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/w...

Anyways, you can fund @thexylom.com investigative reporting into how Trump and friends are making the world poorer, sicker, and dirtier starting at $2/month: bsky.app/profile/thex...

If you live in Seattle, 140 years ago to the month in Feb 1886, a mob started forcibly rounding up and violently deporting Chinese migrants. This is immediately after a similar mob did the same in Tacoma a few month before. Remind you of anything? www.historylink.org/File/2745

This is the normal that so many people are hoping we can simply revert to Acceptance of this is part of how we got here lataco.com/lapd-fn303-j...

Good luck next week to anyone trying to do Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and Ramadan's start in the same couple of days.

Oh! Just what the world needs! Another centrist think tank whose purpose is to prevent the Democrats from moving even a tiny bit to the left! 🤪🫠

Today's story takes place in a magical liminal space where you can get a drink at Toñita's and tacos from Villa's within mere steps of each other.

The Washington Post’s management slashed their international teams and their Books section and I’d just like to take the opportunity to say that at @mekongreview.com we love reviewing books and bringing you Asian perspectives and don’t run editorials about how it’s a bad idea to tax billionaires

Since #AEW has once again broken containment into non-fans: Your assumptions about the education level, gender, and political leanings of professional wrestling fans are rooted in your own biases. Listen to the fans who have always been here when they tell you this. You may learn something. 🤼🤼‍♀️

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

they don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it "oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go

Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop: bsky.app/profile/alex...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Look for the helpers in this great story from @bcrodriguez.bsky.social

THIS! We’re talking about Liam because he was in the news and we know enough to be able to talk about him, but we also hope to use his story to help raise awareness of all 3800+ kids who have been detained by ICE during this presidential administration. They all deserve love, care, and liberty.

Important to understand that: Normal people hate Trump. Normal people hate ICE. Normal people hate fascists. Normal people hate secret police executing people in the street, shooting priests in the head with pepper balls, and kidnapping little kids with Spider-Man backpacks and bunny hats.

ahhh honors for fresh start!! 😭 mega shoutouts to star colorist @charmgardens.com, designer @shecallsmecdawg.bsky.social, consultant @quincetessence.bsky.social, editor cassandra, the scholastic team, & so much love for librarians and libraries! you have changed so many lives, including mine. ilu

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

🤦‍♂️ this was such an obvious fix to ULA and we can’t even manage that. God I hate LA local politics so much.

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

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according to bluesky, working for ice is a protected class against discrimination lol

If you work for Palantir and have concerns about its role in US federal immigration enforcement, please reach out. You can remain anonymous. Signal: makenakelly.32

have i told y'all about the documentary i am working on? It's about the capture of civil rights and language to end civil rights law and language. to capture and turn in on itself the meaning of anti hate, and free speech, and freedom itself.

PSA

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Paul Bunyan sez FUCK ICE.

I thought I would be more demoralized, but no I’m mad as hell.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.