With alt text. Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

There's just the stink of sexism around the assumption that women past like college age are all mumsy figures who don't really understand all this complicated politics stuff but want everything to be nicer.

How the NYT and the Democratic establishment screwed up on Zohran Mamdani: An absolutely blistering, genuinely big-picture essay from Frank Rich, who still has plenty of heat left over for Cuomo, Trump, Ackman, Hegseth, et al. nymag.com/intelligence...

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack. This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

I don't think folks have any conception of how radicalized a lot of moms are becoming as they go through shit like "will my babysitter get kidnapped" and "will my child be able to get the measles vaccine"

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

I found Cohost graffiti under Elliott Bridge in Boston

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Re-reading The Well-Played Game, for the first time in *decades,* and the safety notes in it are HELLA interesting. The author suggests having players devise specific rules for their safety - and doing it as, basically, a group trust and self-advocacy exercise for committing to safety *together*.

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One of the speeches at the Boston #NoKings rally. I don't know who the speaker is, but his energy is amazing. He talks about how dissent is patriotic. archive.org/details/inte...

"Transsexuality is bourgeois" reflects the common belief that medicine, technology, and any improvements to quality of life are owed to capitalism. The reality is that capitalism holds these improvements hostage for the sake of wealth.

Restating my opinion that 99% of Protest Discourse is because people don't know there are two broadly different kinds of protest (rallies and direct action) and they have different requirements to be effective (and "don't be cringe" is not a requirement for either, actually)

so the idea is the inversion of the magic circle. to talk about this i have to define what the magic circle is so please be kind to me and my cursory definition. when you play a game, you enter a space where certain rules apply and others are suspended. it is not a wall, it is a soft demarcation.

if you're going to a protest today I wish you luck. The only specific thing I will beg of you is this: don't use milk to wash out tear gas or mace. if you see a street medic with milk, yell at them until they throw it out. do not continue to spread lies about emergency medicine.

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Michelle Wu’s address at No Kings was basically “We are actually awesome, cities like this and LA and Chicago are what make America great and that bothers some people” lol

folks can complain about the effectiveness of scheduled orderly mass protest but to think about it another way its the closest thing we have to the opening scene of A Muppet Christmas Carol where all the muppets sing "there goes Mr. Dipshit, there goes Mr. Ass" to Scrooge and it clearly bothered him

also. i don't know if there are any younger transmascs following me, but a word to those who might be waffling on hormones: testosterone does not "destroy" your body. if you don't love being a woman, you don't have to pretend to be one for anyone else's sake. you deserve peace in your heart.

Not that Israel needs an excuse to continue bombing Gaza and restricting aid, but the fact that media (even outside the constant-Zionist-propaganda sphere) keeps repeating "Hamas won't return all the dead hostages" drives me up a wall. They CAN'T FIND THEIR REMAINS because Israel BLEW THEM UP.

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Not one, not two, but thousands of HISD teachers have lost their jobs under Miles's authoritarian "leadership" because they have dared to buck his requirement to teach the district-created, NES curriculum "with fidelity." How, you ask? Well, they've had the audacity to read real books, sing, draw 🧵

As children of the 70's and 80’s, Schoolhouse Rock was part of our Saturday mornings. I never dreamed people would have to take to the streets to reject authoritarianism in America again. #NoKings www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1t...

The Trump administration is once again seeking to meddle with our streets to make buses slower, worsen congestion and pollute our air.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

The chambermaids you play in The Girls of the Genziana Hotel serve at the bottom of a patriarchal hierarchy. This puts them in a vulnerable position when they try to investigate a disappearance that's being kept quiet. Let me explain how these themes link the girls to, yes, soviet airwomen: 🧵

Zohran just said: "I am going to make it easier for the private sector to build housing in this city because what we see today is not labor, it's not materials, it's the wait that is actually costing so many, so much to build that housing" I wish we would hear that as clearly stated in Boston.

I really like this guy!

like for real for real

this interview has a fascinating segment at the bottom where Barbaro tries to get Zohran to concede that voters want him to triangulate on immigration and work with ICE to deport New Yorkers

Agon is the deal of the day @drivethrurpg.com! If you're interested in fast-paced heroic action in a mythic world, now's a good time to check it out. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Hey, Boston! Kickstarter United is hosting an in-person rally next week. Come join us to show your support and learn more about how you can help us secure a fair contract and end our strike! 🗓️ Thursday 10/23 🕛 12-1pm 📍 100 Oliver St., Boston kickstarterunited.org/boston to RSVP!

This essay on the myth of endlessly recurring antisemitism, the roots of zionism, and right-wing propaganda's refusal of history and complex explanations for political phenomena is one of the best essays I've read all year.

If you’re planning to hit the streets, we've gathered some advice, as well as a list of items you may want to bring with you. Be careful, and stay safe.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more. Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

These are up all over my city tonight <3

"ending remote work" is such a terrible, hostile, anti-worker thing that so many organizations have decided they need to do in order to subjugate their workforce further, and I pray it marks the beginning of a new and robust labor movement. senseless cruelty

Honestly, I don’t need you to mask everywhere. I just would appreciate it in grocery stores, medical facilities, airports, and airplanes. That would make my life so much safer. Just orders of magnitude safer.

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

On this day, October 15, in 1945, the Soviet "Night Witches" regiment was disbanded. Maybe check out the game? bullypulpitgames.com/products/nig...

Our final stretch goal playset has been announced: "The Ninefold City" by @jeeyon.bsky.social. Confront familiar-yet-legally-distinct divine lawgivers in their shining heavenly city and show them what you think of their god-given mandate – if we hit our final goal!

relieved to see this happen, and also, it certainly does seem to show that there never were security concerns about the Rafah crossing or aid entering, it was just using starvation as a weapon the entire time.

"We need the storm, the whirlwind, & the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; & its crimes against God & man must be proclaimed & denounced."

Activism and community building online may be critical, but it's also increasingly subject to surveillance. Trans and queer activists are looking toward new models, with degrees of visibility that balance safety with surveillance, just as sex workers have learned to do.

"i'm in love with my own reflection, i'm in love with the fruited earth."

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills. Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.