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Lately I've been telling people who pay me for talks to donate my fee to the St Louis Food Bank. These are hard times. In 2025, St Louis had a horrific tornado, a loss of federal aid, and now new SNAP cuts. Help St Louis folks eat and donate here: stlfoodbank.org/give-funds/

THIS is how you do it

Block Club Chicago offers an extensive list of ways that you can support immigrant neighbors and families through rapid response and mutual aid.

#knitting since it is Spooky season, here is a throwback to ¡Anticraft! Back in the stitch n bitch 00's knitting days, this was one of a few alternatives craft pattern sites I enjoyed. theanticraft.com/archive.htm

Cigna stop sending me LLM services without identifying them as such challenge

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine. You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Eman talked about why she was taking the risks involved with attending these protests here.

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

I’m told ICE attacked us—despite us being off the street, courtesy of the state police—to create a spectacle because Kristi Noem was present today. Here’s some footage of her and her team on the roof of Broadview. Everything is content creation to these fascists.

VERY IMPORTANT NEWS #nutmegsky www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This is a clever concept - I love the fact that the 'd' is dropping down to land at the end of 'ground' in the final line. Bloody brilliant! #BookSky 💙📚

I grew up in rural Nebraska with electricity from Nebraska REA, but hadn't known it's beginnings

Was introduced today to the work of Olia Fedorova, who makes striking embroidered textile maps (among other pieces) about Ukraine. Adding this to my list of examples for the Data Visualization with Textiles class. #DHmakes

I didn't read the story, I am reposting this to complain that when your state actually has a city called Texas City, you should not use that descriptor in the headline. Just tell us what fucking city.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, why are they tryin' to cut ya down??

Always remember: pay enough attention to what's happening in the world so that you can get scared. Only the scared can be brave, and everything is better when you're brave.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

"In addition to being an existential threat to our future, climate change is preventing us from enjoying the simple pleasures of the present. We're seeing the impact on our ecosystem, physical and mental health." In this week's Microtones, @stinadale.bsky.social reflects on the confined summer.

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

😍 love these!!

about two months ago, i reached out to @boringstein.bsky.social to ask if they'd be open to talking about the incredible videos they were making for Zohran Mamdani's election campaign it turned into a much bigger story than i expected

album covers but with muppets: thread

Today marks the anniversary of the first IWW Little Red Songbook, published in 1909 to inspire workers with songs like “Solidarity Forever” by Joe Hill. A labor history classic. Get a copy of the 19th Edition here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Mayor Bowser on Trump’s takeover—“How we got here or what we think about the circumstances—right now we have more police, and we want to make sure we use them”—is such a perfect summary of how such an embrace of policing is exactly how we got here, while refusing to consider that.

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City. "He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent." It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

Read the entire thread for the complete cycle of ginned-up reactionary backlash

In 1956 some of this scene was already mainly memory in England, Corncrake had become rare with horse drawn mechanical reaper. Corncockle was a seed contaminant, better seed cleaning it was gone, Cornflower and other arable weeds like poppy started to be eradicated by 2,4-D introduced in 1946.

Current international frameworks for heritage are products of nationalist logic— archaeology is absorbed by nations as part of their validation among their peers. In colonized countries, this perpetuates the violence of dispossession of colonial “conquest”. 1/

Hey fam, my new book, Read This When Things Fall Apart, comes out in three months. That means now is the critical window for preorders, which help get books on shelves, in libraries, and into the hands of the people who need them most. www.pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/vCQt68D...

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

A link to save: The Archaeologist's Guide to Good Practice: archgoodpractice.com The best and perhaps the only post-excavation stratigraphic analysis--principle developer is York's James Taylor, Keith May, Kenneth Aitchison, & Doug Rocks-Macqueen, funded by AHRC.

I set a goal this year to pull back from using a lot of big tech services and look outside the US. Happy to see a lot of my moves are mirrored here. The close noting to take stock of what you actually use and just drop software/apps was great too. I dropped a bunch of stuff and have 0 regrets.

Kill the fascist within you.

I’m cynical enough to think one of the reasons they picked Noem for that job besides her highly appealing sadism is so they could do the conservative cowboy gaslight theater of protecting a woman whenever anyone tries to challenge her

You’re at a protest and saw someone do something that you don’t approve of, that might get them in trouble with the cops? No you didn’t. Mind your business.

Free ebooks from @haymarketbooks.org, including Border and Rule by @harshawalia.bsky.social, which is one of the most important books I've ever read. Download and read, fam.

I have always been committed to nonviolence but the way a lot of people are talking about nonviolence right now has really been bothering me, and I realized it was reminding me of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social’s She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything: www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...

We could just house people instead.

I don't understand a lot of the Trump/Musk discourse. Trump's commitment to Musk was always bound up in Musk's financial investment in Trump's interests. If Elon comes through with the $100 million he promised to protect Trump's interests in the midterms, none of this will matter. If he doesn't...

AI SUCKING AND COMPANIES HAVE NO CLUE BUT KEEP EATING PIZZA WITH CHEESE STUCK WITH GLUE

This is such a great discussion. I really loved how Hayes discussed a direct action that was inescapable for both an elected official to see and the public to know about.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fawaz. Fawaz was studying technology and computer science before all this began. He lost his home, university and is struggling to keep his young siblings alive. He has a new fundraiser which can be very hard to raise on. ❤️