I am glad she's not going to prison. It's worth noting that much was made here of her criminal actions being a brief deviation from an otherwise law-abiding life. But literally no one should go to jail or prison for obstructing ICE. I don't care how many times they've broken the law.

A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?

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If you run people of color who are not openly contemptuous of Black people then Black voters will give you a fair hearing. The online so called dirtbag Left, however, will always repel most Black people but they aren't the ones running so...

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we do note the alacrity, intensity, velocity with which these consultant-pickled jagoffs can fight their own colleagues yet never ever fight as an opposition party

Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read

Disappointing but not surprising. Good scholarship on the the construction, racialization, and limits of religious freedom includes: @mccraryc.bsky.social’ *Sincerely Held: Secularism and its Believers* and @tisawenger.bsky.social’s *Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal.*

The Prairieland defendants are political prisoners being held captive by a fascist regime There are raids, subpoenas, indictments targeting anarchists, abolitionists, & anti ICE activists all over the country right now Take this moment seriously. Understand how the state will continue to escalate.

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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wow, yeah, sure sounds like these people are apolitical conspiracists! imagine thinking a data center might give you cancer

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

"We analyzed state SNAP laws and applications in all 50 states and found that 39 states have some kind of probation violation-related disqualifications for SNAP benefits ... [T]he number of people on probation in the [US] (2.9 million) is even bigger than the total number of people behind bars."

This is true, but also two key points: * it's nobody's fucking business what's in some kid's pants * they made up this entire bullshit fake panic to demonize innocent people, and the people responsible for the panic are actual child sexual predators Free healthcare for all, all the goddamn time.

Far from being the crime ridden hell holes that conservatives want everyone to fear, cities are nexuses of thousands upon thousands of anonymous acts of compassion and kindness every day, like a steady stream of prayers for a better world.

A farmer in Texas donated his land to a town to be turned into a public park. After he died, the city took the land and sold it for $10 million to a company building a data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

I had to read these garbage sentences three times to make sure I wasn’t not hallucinating his argument. “Which isn’t all bad”?????????

off topic but the standard-englishization of what dude said is making me cry lolol my mayor muslim ≠ my mayor’s muslim my bagels jewish ≠ my bagels are jewish

storytime (warning: about “nice” homophobia): in 2007, i’d graduated from seminary and had no job prospects, so i ended up moving back home with my parents, sleeping on my childhood twin bed. my father is a COGIC pastor and district superintendent; my mother is a evangelist missionary.

storytime (warning: about “nice” homophobia): in 2007, i’d graduated from seminary and had no job prospects, so i ended up moving back home with my parents, sleeping on my childhood twin bed. my father is a COGIC pastor and district superintendent; my mother is a evangelist missionary.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

i am grateful that black queerness, black feminism, and abolition ground my ethics.

"I've made a discovery!" says a scientist. I place a single finger on their lips. "Didn't you forget to ask Candy Crush businessman Mel Morris?"

I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service.

With drones’ limited range, what enemy do you think Trump plans to use these against?

A quiet provision in the new FY2027 defense bill could permanently fuse the U.S. and Israeli military sectors. Foreign policy experts warn that by controlling manufacturing facilities on American soil, Israel could gain unprecedented leverage over local jobs and members of Congress.

Not lost on me this is the only visual I’m finding when searching for more news on Bluesky re: Congress seeking to integrate the US military with Israel.

Every single new thing I see about Jasmine Crockett supports what I've thought of her for years.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Many of his voters are fine with this as long the people they hate are suffering. It's actually important to understand this.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Israel uses sexual assault as a weapon of war.

excellent.

evidently the kids are starting to say "that's AI" as slang for "that's bullshit" and I could not be happier

Israel has kidnapped the sister of the president of Ireland.

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

We are now into the second white reactionary “Redemption.” Let’s make sure we really understand what that means, what the country has lost. The struggle is not over. But the battle for democratic freedom will now have to be waged under far more difficult and unfair conditions.

I started this thread yesterday on Coretta Scott King for her 99th birthday. Every day I'll continue it. “Not enough attention has been focused on the roles that women have played in the struggle." she told a reporter in 1966, "Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement.”

Starting with my favorite from a 1968 welfare rights march, Coretta Scott King stressed, “I must remind you that starving a child is violence….Punishing a mother & her family is violence….Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.”

“I am made to sound like an attachment to a vacuum cleaner,” CSK explained, “the wife of Martin, then the widow…all of which I was proud to be. But I was never just a wife, nor a widow. I was always more than a label.” So every day for the next year, I’m going to post a quote or fact about her.

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

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feels a lot like we're building toward a Summer Of Finding Out

I haven't seen the actual executive budget but it sounds like the Mayor is holding the budget flat. So maybe close to the FY26 actual budget. So no actual increase in funding. Not close to 0.5% and perhaps not keeping up with inflation either. Once we see the actual budget, we'll see what's what.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

There were no fatalities after powerful storms brought tornadoes to at least five Mississippi counties, destroying 500 homes and injuring 17 people.

“Critically, Cavanaugh confirmed that they did not examine any of the applications or underlying materials that had been submitted when applying for the grants or any materials generated by NEH staff when those applications were reviewed.” DIDN’T DO THE READING AGAIN