This by Josh Marshall is insightful analysis (as always). Of course, I see Barzai.com ‘s mission in it (then again, I would). These are the “sin of empathy” shitheels. We can’t treat adults as a lost cause: we don’t need debate. At all. We need to teach adults real empathy, with real facts.

Gaza today.

On this day in 1913, the Baltimore City Council passed an ordinance requiring Black and white residents to live on separate blocks. The law was part of the first city-wide effort in the country to create legally segregated neighborhoods.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Every U.S. state incarcerates women at a higher rate than most of our closest international allies. How does women's incarceration in your state compare to the rest of the world? Find out in our new report 👇 www.prisonpolicy.org/global/women...

QTNA... and the silence speaks volumes.

My favorite Antifa propaganda that radicalized me as a child

This by Josh Marshall is insightful analysis (as always). Of course, I see Barzai.com ‘s mission in it (then again, I would). These are the “sin of empathy” shitheels. We can’t treat adults as a lost cause: we don’t need debate. At all. We need to teach adults real empathy, with real facts.

Solidarity!! ⬇️

This is our greatest fear.

with gratitude for @gswrites.bsky.social @jillianscudder.com @jdunkley.bsky.social @dreochapman.bsky.social @chanda.bsky.social @astrokatie.com @jannalevinastro.bsky.social - reading their works set the stage for planning this chapter! (And then tons more reading to work it all out...)

“And that is what happens when you soak one child in shame and give permission to another to hate.” —Hannah Gadsby, Nanette

SOLIDARITY is the first and most important thing every white ally needs to learn. KEEP FIGHTING for the hundreds of thousands of Black women who have been (disproportionately!! 🤔🤔) bumped out of the workforce in the past eight months.

Good morning everyone. I wrote a bit about abolition, imagination and the toyery event that I organized in August. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

The Fall/Autumnal Equinox is TODAY at 2:19 PM EDT. That's the time at which our Sun is directly over the Earth's equator, signaling the start of Northern Hemisphere astronomical fall. The Earth’s northern hemisphere will continue to tilt further from the sun through the Winter Solstice on Dec 21.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

BREAKING: Canada, the U.K. and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state.

Reading the novel Dracula, while listening to music. But what 🎼…? From wherever I got it on BlueSky, I am now shuffling back into…NIGHT ARBY’S music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

The famous Greek axiom Γνῶθι σαυτόν (Know thyself) is best translated, in the 21st century, as Go To Therapy. Go take care of yourself. Go learn who YOU are — including your weaknesses and blind spots and knee jerk reflexes and shit selfish attitudes. Never stop working on yourself.

Likewise in Higher Education. The administrative class, as we’ve seen at Columbia and even at SLACs, don’t stand for anything. The C-suite, boardroom and consulting class of this country has cravenly and abjectly failed to stand for anything, in every sector I can think of.

Post a female character whom you love!

Federal agents did this in front of the news cameras and helicopters. They did this in front of elected officials and political hopefuls. They did this in a tucked-off industrial park in Broadview, an otherwise quiet suburb just 12 miles west of Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...

Crowd out here is chanting, "say his name! Silverio!" ICE agents shot and killed Mexican immigrant Silverio Villegas González during a jump out traffic stop a few miles up the road in Franklin Park last Friday.

I like people who do stuff.

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

The Late Shift 2: Donald Goes Bananas”

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

the history will continue until morale improves

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

My buddy @toddalcott.bsky.social is an incredible graphic artist (and a damn good writer too). Most of his works are in the spirit of old pulp novels and LP covers. Lately, they’ve taken a turn toward current events. Stay loud—and never stop talking about the Epstein files.

BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

A woman spoke at a community rally near me who looked like any other person in my office, who described being unable, on her one income, to pay rent and eat AND take care of her health. She had an office job, but her best housing option was to rent a vermin infested basement studio of a house.

Shai-Hulud #Dune

It’s crazy the marker below for Harry Kissell, his development of the modern suburb (1914, in Springfield, Ohio), and his giant role in national housing policy leaves out a critical word: redlining. That was his thing. This marker was placed in 2014, so they knew better. youtu.be/898HcUloqbs?...

They never complete the sentence, ie "...educators and students must face ideas we find offensive, such as the claim that Black women lack the brain processing power to fly planes or serve on the Supreme Court or that gay people should be stoned to death." Pretty telling that they don't!

Organizers are exhausted. More people are needed so you should also be organizing.

J’adore ce poème I love this poem

Political Violence. The Three Fifths Compromise was a political decision by white people that let slavers claim the Africans they held in bondage were human beings only when it suited them. It was later superseded by the Fourteenth Amendment.

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

Barzai did our first Away Team trip out yesterday. I’m thrilled with how it went, and also thrilled with another milestone in place. The monthly Trip programming is now running, so it’s on to the next part — getting the Small Group project up and running. Step by step, piece by piece.

Star Trek belongs on Apple TV.

I wish more cis men in particular understood this. Simply seeing a cis man stand up to support me literally brings tears to my eyes. That’s how rare it is.

Romans used gladiatorial spectacle to make sure that people were *entertained* by bloodshed.

Oop.

If you haven’t already read Catch-22, this would be a pretty good week to give it a try.

^ it was just one pepper ball, allegedly We're off the ground. A man bled to death on the street today because of ICE. Whatever the true narrative of events turns out to be, it never would have happened if they weren't here.

If you can believe it, it’s Friday ONCE AGAIN