I am sitting here fantasy story-boarding a lush tv series about the abolitionist movement that’s set in the late 1830s and called Vigilance.

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.

I am sitting here fantasy story-boarding a lush tv series about the abolitionist movement that’s set in the late 1830s and called Vigilance.

organizing gets the goods

I too, have a lot of space in my heart for the people on here whose dogs are cats. That’s how they were born, it can’t be helped.

hell yeah, time to pass & sign this shit, then it’s time for some class-action suits baaaaaaby

Insofar as there has been a negative effect on the left’s influence with media and pols, that effect is from the demise of Twitter not the creation of Bsky. X is intentionally rigged right. All the fight in the world would not have preserved the pre 2022 level of congregation/visibility/influence.

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

part of me believes that if every American could have a gap year in which they experience functional mass transit, including high speed trains, it would transform the way we get around in this country inside a generation

one in five. about 3 million people www.notus.org/healthcare/a...

Ok....*now* you can say real wages are falling.

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Lessons from the educators: The most valuable conversations around education begin with realizing you want the students to learn how to think for themselves, not outsource it to a mediocrity machine.

I envy whoever's been camped out in a remote cabin in Montana without any access to the outside world since like 2015.

Unexpected!

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

“Anyone who has been following the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence over the last two decades knows that we are looking at a deliberate, devastating approach to the infrastructure of the civil rights movement.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw trib.al/aD0HcAw

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are no good, clean hands options when the basic fairness & reciprocity of a democratic system have been undermined by a fascist movement in power

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

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

Amanda Jones has a great interview here about her soundtrack for Murderbot.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

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The Supreme Court of VA invalidates the state's new pro-D gerrymander (www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...), which (with new maps in FL and TN this week) updates the redistricting playing field to something like: D +5 R +14 Net R+9 Will do some math on the impact to the pop vote threshold and blog it

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s not being treated as bigger news because it’s being framed as a vendor breach. The story is structural: 9,000 schools share a single point of failure they don’t control. Educational infrastructure has been quietly privatized, and the failure mode is now an active extortion crew.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The ascendancy of the “white moderate” to the place of eminent reasonableness in discourse&politics was always going to lead here, as King told us plainly in 1963. We’ll just keep walking this road until we decide to unmake white supremacy - even the polite kind.

And even then whether those elections mean anything is...up in the air ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

We are living through a Jim Crow-ification moment in Black representation, but it's happening much faster than it took to consolidate actual Jim Crow. For the democratic backsliding observers out there, race was always the beating heart of American authoritarianism—this was always how it'd go here.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

All archived information is now uploaded on to a searchable public repository for at-risk government data hosted by the University of Michigan - DataLumos. Data Rescue Project - www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-r... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

Last week, the 22 members of the National Science Board — which oversees the 76-year-old National Science Foundation and helps allocate federal science grants in an independent, nonpartisan manner — were all fired on short notice, despite each of them being appointed for staggered six-year terms.

Let us never talk about economic anxiety again.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I dunno guys, the internet has very few joy laws but reposting this whenever it comes across your feed is one 🤷🏾‍♀️ It’s not just nostalgia, it’s as good as you remember.

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

We are delighted to share news of our first special issue with Cambridge University Press. Profs Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser have curated and edited a remarkable collection on earthborn democratic theory and practice. All articles are open access & no APC for authors. We❤️CUP

Years ago, I told the children that they could take their birthday off school if they had straight A’s. I forgot. It’s my son’s birthday today. He remembered. 😊

Segregating all care into the family and onto moms/daughters/sisters/wives/cousins/aunts

The best thing John Roberts has ever done is prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Supreme Court is a political institution and we should dramatically reduce its power over our government.

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

This is how desperate Republicans are to steal representation from Black voters

This makes me sad. It’s hubris, not strategy.The desire to play in the space where they perceive the heavy hitters are rather than building a party base in mayorships, state legislatures & governorships that would actually make them heavy hitters. Everybody wants to be famous, but fame is not power.

Those calling for plain talk ought to talk plainly themselves.