you’re okay, it’s okay to be scared, truly! we live in terrifying times! but it’s not over yet and nothing is certain for any of us

Please keep watching for the Prairieland defendants' state trials. 20 people have state charges related to this case. While today's federal sentences are horrific, they are not the end. Texas also seeks to make examples of the Prairieland defendants, but we cannot let them. This fight is not over.

Through the years, immigrants have been essential players helping American sports teams thrive and win. “In the 1950 #WorldCup, the U.S. team won an improbable victory over England on a goal by Haitian-born forward Joe Gaetjens”👇🏽

What will you do in this time of great failures and great injustices? What will you do? How will you help each other? How will you help yourselves?

It is Bookshop's Anti-Prime sale which means shipping on EVERYTHING is FREE. You can support indie bookstores and load up on reads for your summer. This includes my novel, THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS, which drops in three weeks. I want to thread some other book recs, though!

The UAW, a union with some 400,000 active members across the U.S., has voted to divest its estimated $400,000 from Israel bonds. The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.

FREE THEM ALL

The Guardian telling readers that the Prairieland trial was a a fucking farce in journalist speak: "Even though many of the protesters did not know each other, or were loosely affiliated, prosecutors said the attack on the officer was premeditated and part of a conspiracy." 1/2

"This is the latest turn of the ratchet in criminalizing resistance to ICE. If you thought the convictions of the anti-ICE demonstrators in Prairieland, Texas were egregious, this time, the Justice Department isn't even alleging any actual act of violence. " www.forever-wars.com/the-next-ste...

Today, 8 anti-ICE activists facing decades in prison go up for sentencing. Most are only loosely connected to the offense at the heart of their terrorism convictions. Many observers point to the Prairieland case as a template for Trump's crackdown on dissent. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Keep your eyes on Texas today! Eight defendants in the landmark Prairieland "antifa" trial are being sentenced—likely to decades in prison—after what can only be described as a farce of justice overseen by a notorious Trump-appointed judge.

the Prairieland case means the criminalization of all dissent, even just the distribution of information and opinion

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

Solidarity to the Prairieland activists being sentenced today.

Federal sentencing has started. Zachary Evetts was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Maricela Rueda was just sentenced to 840 months / 70 years by Judge Mark Pittman.

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Skoden!

One of the faculty at the "anti-woke" Christian Nationalist school is Adam James. He's also running for WA St Rep.

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To my darlings whose fathers are absent, you are loved. Be kind to yourself today. I love my dad, but he didn't make it easy. Gone 25 years now, half my life. Baffling that I have existed longer without him than with him, now.

Happy solstice! May summer be kind to you.

THINGS ARE TERRIBLE BUT feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

My good friend Darryl came over for friendsgiving & started to prepare his delicious beer batter for chicken. Couldn't find a jar, so he figured a plastic margarine tub would do, so in it went flour, stout, select herbs & spices, & he gave it a vigorous shake 1/2

My beloved uncle came to visit and I tried to warn him, but he scoffed in his old Native biker way. Later that night we had to get take out because he could barely walk he was so high I respect my elders but my dude, you've been smoking Oklahoma ditch weed since 1972 and the game has indeed changed

Smoking Brightleaf tobacco, grown by Black hands, on a Black homestead, in honor of the enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas. I gather with friends and family, and laugh with ALL my teeth in their honor.

welcome to seattle, our weed is very strong www.seattletimes.com/sports/world...

We beat back the worst of their nazi fantasies. They tried to change the narrative w/ "quick victory" in Iran, only shedded more and more of their base over gas prices and achieved a humiliating and worthless defeat. They are going to lose. Dont afraid. Stay fighting. We got each other, we got this

"Look... duck, look" 😆

BREAKING NEWS: Seattle hotel workers organized with UNITEHERE Local 8 are on strike at Embassy Suites Pioneer Square, just steps from where the US v. Australia World Cup game will kick off Friday. Workers are fighting for fair pay, year-round healthcare, and protections from ICE.

As of 6:30 this morning, unionized hotel workers at Hilton’s Embassy Suites in Pioneer Square are on strike. With the World Cup in full swing, UNITE HERE Local 8 union members are fighting for fair wages, workplace protections from ICE, improved staffing, and more consistent health benefits:

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Naasii is a fun, fast game that is quick to learn and has great Indigenous roots. Check it out!

Daveigh Chase. Gone at 35. This business just chews people up. What a nightmare.

The Luddites weren't anti-technology. They were anti-human exploitation. And so am I.

The whole segment, about the Gen Z backlash to Silicon Valley, is pretty great though, and I am pleased to be included—it includes an interview with an organizer with New York's Luddite club speaking through a robot trash puppet

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

It's Refugee Week this week, and for #buyastrangerabook day I'd like to offer out "When Stars are Scattered" by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed. It's a brilliant graphic novel depicting a child's life in a refugee camp. If you'd like it, get in touch. UK only

Oh wow, goodnight to a titan of the 206 music scene. Thanks for everything, Wall of Sound www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/06/end-...

My inside mocs are elk skin and beaver fur, made by an unknown Alaska Native artist 30 years ago. They're howlin' wolf motif and I only ever wear them with socks, I want them to last forever. But they were made to be used, so gently I use them

We aren’t our govt, we hate those clowns, have some fried chicken, good weed and unlimited refills 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Minnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among 15 people indicted by the federal government today, as part of a crackdown on organizing in opposition to ICE. The indictment cited participation in worker assemblies as evidence of criminal conspiracy. By me & @radicalamy.bsky.social

I always thought Calliope Hollar as a stage name or band had a great balance of circusy/folksy/nerdy/goofy. So if you're looking to launch a troupe of punk Americana acrobats you can have that one for free.

Hey folks, If you're an Atthis author and can get your rights back, there are folks willing to help with formatting and uploading to Draft2Digital free of charge. DM me and I can connect you privately. Also, Skyla has a free "how to self pub and work with freelancers" guide payhip.com/b/QbnY6

The vibes are rancid fam, let's go birding

What's starting in Minneapolis today is going to be just like the Broadview 6 case. A desperate attempt at a show trial pursued by dumb, vicious prosecutors performing for an audience of one. An attempt to discourage and scare people from fighting back. It's not going to work.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

Federal officials are targeting members of Signal group chats who tracked the movements and actions of agents during Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, a person familiar with the arrests said.

I learned to bake successfully before I learned to cook well, which is why it took me forever to loosen up enough to cook food I liked. My brain always short-circuted to THE RECIPE! THE RECIPE MUST BE OBEYED Samin Nosrat's SALT ACID FAT HEAT was pretty critical in unlocking cooking for me, too

Thousands protest as Trump, other world leaders set to meet for G7 summit https://aje.news/xsh3tb

Actually this is my last link: I wrote about how difficult it is for all sides - climate activists & the government - to invoke the memory of the suffragettes in this debate two years ago, when this law was being pushed through. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6024...