You folks did change my world. Your bundle of free ebooks that you offered at the start of covid fundamentally reshaped my thinking, and you're the main reason I became a leftist.

This year, we‘re celebrating 25 years of publishing books for changing the world! 🌻 We’re so grateful to @ollycostello.bsky.social for this beautiful new illustration. Another world is possible if we fight for it.

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

We promised “40 acres and a mule” to some freed slaves, confiscated land, and then backed out of the deal. A thriving black economy in the South would have prevented all of this from happening. The North did NOT win the civil war—we won the military battles only. It was sheer stupidity on our part.

This is how you do it

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

‘Stuck In The Globosphere’, an upcoming animated series by Anya Butler, has officially launched on Kickstarter (link below ⬇️). The story follows two unlucky teens trapped inside a mysterious snow globe.

Realfood.gov's AI just told me to go eat Snickers and Tostitos.

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

here's the source with actual alt text in case you give a shit about that bsky.app/profile/katb...

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

Activism is about helping people in your community and not about building a huge online following about being an activist

very telling how normal people in MN really came together and risk life and limb for each other even when they're technically "strangers" but in the fallout of the epstein files all these rich fucking ghouls are happy to backstab and throw each other under the bus even tho they're all "friends"

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

"I worry that soon we’ll see homeschooling parents and their kids hop online to lament the years they wasted not teaching their kids how to read, write, or do basic math." "Soon"? Homeschool alumni have been speaking up for a decade and a half.

This is what the quoted post was showing, before it blocked

Interesting from someone who swept homeless camps because the next verse is : “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” – James 2:15-16

At the end of the day, humans are social creatures. People want to feel loved and appreciated. They crave it, which is why conservatives play victim when people correctly ostracize them. I firmly believe resisting this starts with levying social penalties on people.

The problem with a lot of folks who get touchy about American History is that they don’t actually study it . And they mistake being precious and condescending about it as being respectful And it’s usually minimizing and misunderstanding of the Acts and Statutes

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

it would be cool if we didn't memory wipe the fact that elon musk was happy to get someone he would later accuse of being a pedophile elected. i know this is an unrealistic hope

please stand and salute the flag 🫡

everything that's happening now is the predictable result of this gargantuan mistake.

The irony of podcasters and media personalities accusing immigrants from the “third world” of not doing useful work.

It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.

Yup, that is exactly what a liberal insurrection would look like. Useless, performative, and celebrity obsessed. We will NEVER beat facism as long as we let people with this mindset be the alternative.

Primary these jabronis

If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today "I don't know what the big deal is."

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 48 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

ICE posted—and then deleted—this advertisement on the fascist-owned platform X/Twitter announcing themselves as the thought police stopping ideas from entering the United States. It's not just about attacking undocumented people, or immigrants, or dissidents. They aim to prevent thought itself.

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

This should be setting a fire under every citizen of this country. Where are they? You will NEVER get back what you lose. They won’t “fix” it and say here is your newly renovated health insurance and Social Security. Remember that.

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

This is a really good thread about liberal complicity in mass incarceration.

Drawn. By. Hand.

We should hook him up to a generator and use social progress as a renewable energy source.

#bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers #plants #flowerpower

Excited for the "Milo must be allowed to incite violence and name trans students on campus because of the slippery slope" Harpers letter signatories to get on this one

There is no cure for measles and no vitamin or supplement that prevents measles or its complications. There is a vaccine that is up to 99% effective at preventing measles infection, though.

You don't have to "craft" anything, you let trans people use the bathroom they want and you ban creep behavior. That's already the policy in most public bathrooms in the US and has been for decades. Cis men pretending to be trans so they can assault women in bathrooms is vanishingly rare.

The same way we keep women safe from female sexual predators. These types of questions NEVER seem to grapple with the reality of female sexual predators, or the actual facts about how to protect against sexual harassment (give people more privacy and ways to refuse/leave)

It took seeing adult bullies to understand that my childhood bullies didn’t even really want to hurt me, they just wanted to feel powerful and how I felt about it wasn’t even in the equation. I can’t imagine someone not outgrowing that, but apparently it happens quite a lot!

Credit to @sarahneff.art on Instagram

Can we please stop with the "why aren't Americans doing anything" Discourse that I keep seeing? I'm not even talking about people in other countries. I'm talking about my fellow USians who I see every day On Here bemoaning how we aren't protesting. 1. PROTESTS ARE LITERALLY HAPPENING EVERY DAY.