They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

Mike, Joel, Cambot, Gypsy, Tom Servo, Crooooooooow

I love black people

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The legal definition of a concentration camp is a facility where civilians are held without due process. That is what these are and we must tell the truth about them to marshal the outrage needed to demand they cease to exist.

"To the folks at CBS, in the words of the great Ed Murrow, good night and good luck, motherf* kers."

What. The fuck.

You guys requested it, so now you get it. This week we are talking about a 90s film that eerily predicted the surveillance state. Join Historians At The Movies on Prime Video this Sunday, May 17 at 8pm for SNEAKERS. If you don't want #HATM to be a secret, make sure to share this post

The All Roads Lead to the South Day of Action on Saturday will bring communities together through peaceful, nonpartisan civic engagement focused on democracy and voting rights. Can't make it to Alabama? Find an event near you, including at The Embrace in Boston www.mobilize.us/blackvotersm...

They think that you’ll just move on after they dodged your question once or twice cause you have limited time. I’m more than happy to spend my entire time getting the answer to my damn question.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.

Yes I did just add the task I just completed to my list so I could cross it off AND I WILL DO IT AGAIN

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

Reminder that Romancing the Vote is about to pop off!

The frame for 2028 and all future elections is The American People vs The Billionaires

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

This might be my hottest take. Every state should have higher population than the nation’s capital district & if any state falls below that threshold they have 10 years to add the necessary population or merge with an adjacent state in order to comply.

Yeah. I’m watching this hantavirus outbreak with its 40% death rate, wondering if that’s high enough to override the discomfort and refusal to wear respirators in healthcare settings to protect the vulnerable. What happens when 40% become vulnerable? I’m afraid to find out because I think I know.

Anybody else notice the guys who say it's "inevitable" Goodwife Putnam hang as a witch "so get used to it" are the same bros who only a few months ago were saying Sarah Browne the scullery maid hath spake bedeviling words in a tomcat's ear to make him walk on two legs in mockery of Christian man?

Thread for my CA friends

If they don't have a chance, drop out. To stay in for pride and false hope is to elect Republicans. @katieporterca.bsky.social girl, drop out now. Your ego isn't as important as your state and our country

Taking a 1st step against authoritarianism is hard for lots of people. Peeing on a cartoon ICE agent is an easy 1st step, and primes people for a 2nd step for whatever's needed in their community. Help activate new people against this government! Get free urinal stickers here:

Book banning seems so crazy and unlikely--until you see it. Until you notice the book just...isn't there. Until you get your first threatening letter. Until you see the well-funded Moms for Liberty member at the school board talking about taking the books. Until you see the fired librarians.

Dear @katieporterca.bsky.social

“Cotton-picking hands” is not a figure of speech. It is a direct invocation of slavery — designed to remind a Black man of his place. Rep Jen Kiggans heard it used against Hakeem Jeffries and said THAT’S RIGHT. If that doesn’t make your blood boil, check your pulse. #JimCrowJen

If you are a special edition person, the Kickstarter for the Historical Trailblazers collection is open! Features me with The Magpie Lord, along with all time greats Beverly Jenkins, Jeannie Lin, Loretta Chase and Lisa Kleypas.

Every time someone states what ought to be, people rush to the mentions to explain that it won't happen, and now I am talking to those people, and I want to be very clear: YOU are the reason it won't happen. Every time you say that you are taking energy away from "should" and reinforcing "is."

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

A reminder of why the fascist oligarchs are buying social media sites to ruin them. Timely knowledge transfer and organizing are the real value in “online town squares”. Also for finding your people when you’re a cygnet hatched by ducks.

A direct letter from @drtedros.who.int to the people of Tenerife, Canary Islands in light of the MV Hondius’ arrival. This is thoughtful and compassionate, and correctly describes the legal framework, but more importantly the solidarity that underpins it.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

If this survives a SCOTUS challenge, we will all need to say “mahalo“

I think sometimes ppl forget that before he was a war hero and a president Zelensky was arguably the biggest and most popular comedian in Ukrainian history

We don't ordinarily publish posts at [checks watch] 8:51 PM on a Friday night, but state constitutional law expert Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social has an outside-the-box idea for reversing the VA Supreme Court that is very much worth taking seriously: Dems can simply lower the retirement age.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Stop Bankrolling Cruelty: Demo May 8th 430-630 Outside Café Escadrille (26 Cambridge St. Burlington, MA) The owner, Robert Murray, also owns the ICE Prison/Field Office at 1000 District Ave For additional details on Murray's involvement, check out this page. burnresilience.network/Actions/ICEc...

Happening again today: Friday May 8th 1:30-3:00pm Join a peaceful protest with the goal of eliminating ICE transport flights from Hanscom Field. deicehanscom.org At the Hanscom Rotary (intersection of Hanscom Dr. and Old Bedford Rd. in Lincoln, MA.)

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This is not even a hot take in my corner of #Romancelandia because it is THE ONLY TAKE. If you disagree, sorry but you are wrong.

Give me your favourite Non-Trek performance from a Star Trek actor. Nearly 50 years ago, I saw Leonard Nimoy on Broadway in Equus and I still clearly remember his charisma and powerful performance.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Long COVID is not pale poets dying beautifully. It is unread emails, shower stools, heart-rate alerts, brain fog, canceled plans, disability forms, compression socks, and people who "look fine".

Welp, just deleted Google Chrome from all my devices. Which took some doing on the Macs because of the hidden 5Gb LLM model it had sneakily installed without permission, which is *why* I'm yeeting this malware browser for good.