This post from the folks at @apexmag.bsky.social is great, it's a tricky time and we want nothing more than a fair deal from management, we are not asking for a boycott. Let management know directly how this impacts you, and join us on the virtual picket line in the following days

I can't sigh like this, NYT, it's bad for my back

It took SIX YEARS but Disney workers finally won this backpay fight.

One year ago the people of this area faced the disaster of Helene. While government officials disappeared, locals banded together to keep each other safe. They saved countless lives and prevented untold misery. Today we still face a crisis after the crisis. It is a surreal anniversary... #avlnews

Let me try that w/out pettiness: there will always be Taibbis, Blumenthals; the temptation is to follow writers who punch loudest. But there always *lots* of writers doing greater precision work. Less dopamine, more truth, & yr less likely to end up with a fascist apologists on your shelves.

This might be the most cynical ploy I've seen from RFK Jr. There are people who are, actually, genuinely, injured by a vaccine (e.g. they get Guillain-Barré Syndrome), this would deplete the vaccine injury compensation fund so there wouldn't be any money for those people.

It is beyond disgusting that Israel controls not just the flow of material aid, but also who is allowed to enter and provide that aid, into Gaza and the West Bank.

We *know* this is bad for public health, editors do it anyway!

Other people have mentioned it is uncool and childish, but I think beyond the pathetic loser vibes of the government making this video themselves, there is a propaganda thing going on as well -- children aren't safe, your childhood memories aren't safe, they intend to possess and destroy all media.

*incredibly slow, patient voice* Elon Musk went MAGA because NHTSA was actually investigating Autopilot safety, having been shamed into it by NTSB, and DOJ was pursuing fraud charges over "Full Self-Driving" the EV summit snub was a sideshow, how are you falling for this???

saying 'the shootings were anti-ice in nature' and when someone asks how you know that going 'well-' and pulling out bullet casings with 'anti-ice' hastily scribbled on them is honestly hilarious

The right-wing pipeline for Gen Z teen girls is subtle, insidious, & paved by “clean girl” morning routines & “what I eat in a day” vlogs, Kenneal Patterson reports. It wasn’t just orgs like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA that prompted young women to become right-wing influencers.

🤯 People magazine! It doesn’t get more mainstream than that. It really helps to have “celebrity” advocates. “Violet then criticized adults for "the relentless beat of back to normal, ignoring downplaying, and concealing both the prevalence of airborne transmission and the threat of long COVID…”

"I think the kind of terrifying reality is that he [Adams] has no idea what he's talking about. He clearly has no idea that these protections exist and that they're backed by state and city human rights laws."

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

More than ten years since gamergate, and gaming communities are a bigger right wing cesspool than ever. I wish anyone other than those of us directly targeted had learned anything from gamergate.

Do I know whether we've made progress on getting folks to sign up if they are represented by any of these 25 City Council members yet? No I do not. Do I still want people to sign up? YES. I'll bother my comrade who has access to the form later this week to get info. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pretty sure that callous, crude, and controversial speech is almost all entirely First Amendment protected.

rat czar leaves sinking ship

They were almost certainly sent to Libya or South Sudan on unrecorded ghost-flights. Or they were put on a boat out to sea and droned. Pinochet's Chile was far more competent than this poisonously stupid regime of con artists and Prager University dullards. But just as criminal, just as cruel.

"The Lefts can't get their act together..." Bitch they've been killing, imprisoning, and targeting leftists and leftist orgs FOR GENERATIONS.

Guess what? SJP's 2026 calendar is now available for pre-orders here: sojourners4justice.press/calendar/

still waiting for a profile that highlights Mr. Beast was so thirsty for fame he'd say racist slurs on camera for money

🤖 I work in a field where neuroatypicalities abound — autism included — and I’ve come to understand this as a feature, not a bug, of the tech industry. It’s quite hard to warp my mind to see autism *writ large* as a problem that needs to be “fixed”. 🧵1/ www.politico.com/news/magazin...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

on a cuntier note, I can’t wait to be left behind after tomorrow’s Rapture with you party at noon? I think the Catholics are bringing the beer and the atheists are grilling if you guys want to figure out sides

I would wager a lot of them always fancied themselves the brave journalists on the right side of history. Waking up knowing you just lovingly eulogized a Nazi in service of your country's governing fascist regime can't feel great.

Tech workers at the heart of Microsoft are waging one of the most significant and under-covered labor battles in the US right now. Listen to the latest Working People Podcast with @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social!

feels like a reallllly good time to repost this piece. It's specific to vaccine misinfo, but applicable to all of the nonsense from today.

Pregnant people have almost no options for pain relief. Ibuprofen, and other NSAIDs are off-limits, so is aspirin. Tylenol is it, for all the headaches, backaches, and joint pain that come along with almost all pregnancies. This isn't about autism, this is about making pregnant people suffer.

Ableist bullshit, incoming

Maybe it’s capitalism that causes autism

My son is autistic, largely nonverbal. He reads a lot, is smitten with all things Lego. He excels in school. He finds his ways to communicate. There’s nothing wrong with autism. The rhetoric drives me mad. It’s on us to make the world easier for neurodiverse folks, not to push them to conform.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

"You can’t eradicate autism without eradicating autistic people. It’s genocidal rhetoric against us that’s justified by 'autism destroys families. It destroys children.' No, it doesn’t. It’s bias against autistic people." From an interview at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

Jesus: it even applies to LOCAL crime questions, where the general "crime as a metaphor for broader fears" shouldn't play so big a role. This one is really striking, and deeply concerning.

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a stateless Palestinian woman, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” Published in partnership with @thebarbedwire.com:

"You can thank the Supreme Court and Andrew Cuomo's former top aide for substantially lowering the bar on public corruption charges." Just FYI ^

No food shaming includes no shaming people who are vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, kosher, or halal. Come on, people.

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

Live at New York, billionaires must pay rally www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUe...

If you want a better, different world - HELP PEOPLE. HELP PEOPLE Donate to and boost mutual aid requests. Kill the cop in your head. Stop gate-keeping personally & professionally. Throw your respectability politics out. Do no harm and take no shit. Support people made vulnerable. HELP. PEOPLE.

"That surge of support allowed us to move quickly: solar panels in consistently impacted areas, water treatment education and systems development, the establishment of work crew tool libraries, and survival supplies...into impacted communities..." mutualaiddisasterrelief.org/infinite-gra...

I'm currently blocking a stunning, if I do say so, shawlette I made for a sweet friend's birthday. I made a DK version of @xandypeters.bsky.social's Feather Flame pattern, using @isasaxonists.bsky.social's Republic of Yarnia Wintery Muse yarn from last year's Antiracist Craft Club. 🧶

"The incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology."

Years ago on Twitter I offered some questions for consideration: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive? Think they still work.