The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

I've said za in better towns than this

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical. You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

Autocorrect has become our worst enema.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

Larry Summers Announces He Will Step Down From Chair With Belt Around Neck

Question: Is there anyone out here that has done any research or scholarship on Black Baby Boomers? If you know of someone, or you are that person, please drop me a line. Thanks in advance!

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Here's Lauren's podcast "The 13th Step" which exposed both the horrific abuses of the man who ran the biggest system of recovery centers in NH, and the ways in which he tried, and failed, to intimidate her. www.13thsteppodcast.org

Honestly got a little triggered reading this and I’m still thinking about it 2 hours later. What a good accounting of the chemical weapon aspect of what they did to our neighbors.

what.

may I make a suggestion

When I was six, my babysitter once invited her bf over, but he just spent the entire time showing me the infinite lives trick in Super Mario Bros. And for years when I'd see the "babysitter sneaks her boyfriend over" trope in media I'd go "what are they doing, when is he gonna drop Megaman strats"

I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

hey remember that bit in the movie Prometheus where the godlike alien beats the corporate founder to death with the head of his own robot?

The emergency brake on this train says "FINE FOR MISUSE" so I guess it's okay if you want to mess with it

Calling ICE on your neighbors is a hate crime

Do not take birth control advice from the “we are scared about low birth rates” party!!!!!

For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

he left his gun out on the sink in the ladies' room. when a woman told him he was in the wrong place, he ignored her and hit on her instead but please, tell me how trans people in public restrooms are the real threat

He is to underage sex trafficking what Mario is to Nintendo

I don't think you can un-pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the public mind, that's just not going to happen

You've got to give it to Capitalism in how efficiently hell has been commoditized to make it more accessible to everyone

the fear that you're not good enough to realize the thing on paper as it is in your imagination is real! they're selling a product that takes that fear away, BUT it also removes the soul-growing joy on the other side of *doing it anyway.* It's stealing your development and handing you a bauble.

to beat a dead horse deader, there's no way the prompt->gen AI thing will ever release the special magic chemical of "I love this drawing that I did that is both wrong and also perfecter due to its wrongness"--the joy of being humbled by yourself!

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Rip and tear until it is done? No, shred and grind until it is fun, dude 🙂🤙

The BBC, quite consciously, sets out to demean and belittle trans people. This is both morally contemptible and in breach of its Charter obligations. We've made it super easy for you to write to the BBC and tell it to stop. Please use - and share with your networks. goodlaw.social/2j5q

outside of individual donations to gofundmes and such, one helpful destination for your money right now is this bond fund. everyone being released from broadview needs to pay $1500 bond, which is obviously insane. it's going to cost like $925k to successfully spring 615 people linktr.ee/mw_bondfund

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

killing the planet for useless bullshit

Oreoboros

Trump isn't taking questions on Epstein. Look, he's the President of the United States. He's got a lot on his plate. He doesn't have time to reminisce about all those times in his life when he raped children. He's a busy man.

My latest for the Reader, a story about how Chicagoans made it really, really rough on out-of-town goons who tried to abduct Black folks off their streets. chicagoreader.com/city-life/ch...

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Standing up in a beret and black rollneck at the next local poetry event, reading this and bringing the house down.

sure sex is great but have you ever supported your artist friends during the holidays by buying their lovely work?

In Sept, @homelandgov.bsky.social raided a Chicago complex and took dozens of immigrants — under the cover of darkness. Officials called it a victory against terrorism. A team @propublica.org set out to check the claims, and find and talk with the Venezuelans: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Russiagate was real; sorry libs, our bad

“Maybe this is the risk of being married,” suggested the defense attorney for a man who was acquitted on trial in 1979 for raping his wife (and who later was sentenced for another rape.) No paywall:

🚨 New @therealnews.com "We're done": Starbucks workers across prepare for indefinite national strike that will begin TOMORROW if Starbucks doesn't make serious movement at the bargaining table. I spoke w/ Michelle Eisen of @sbworkersunited.org about the strike therealnews.com/starbucks-is...

Here's a thread I brought over from the Nazi bar from 2019. Totally worth reposting: bsky.app/profile/gaff...

US science is under assault like never before, but in response the scientific community can build an alliance for independent science--that can fill gaps left by the decimation of Federal science and reimagine the role of science in policy and society. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/genna-reed/u...

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

Come join with others to stand against Trump's political prosecutions, against ICE's attacks on our communities, and for freedom of speech and the right to protest. See you tomorrow.