I’m so tired of rules and laws just being optional for the wealthy. Doing things I’d go to jail for at 10,000 times the scale and getting told “ah well, you got us you little rascal” is the kind of thing that radicalizes people.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

26 days stalled. No donations, not even for May Day or EMS week. This is basically my part time job, in addition to my day job. Please boost if you can't donate. I know we're all gasping for air right now, but nine retweets doesn't help me like 100 does.

Cowardice and complicity do not pay. The National Academies should have been standing up for science, not trying to appease the regime. www.aip.org/fyi/republic...

Them coming down on immigration is not funny to me. The love of my life got a green card as a pathway to citizenship to marry me. We divorced but our hearts are in a lifelong commitment. People I care about are affected by this anti immigrant white nationalism. Maybe folks you care about too.

Hey @repvindman.bsky.social weird that your "Weekly Wins" email this week doesn't mention you voted to endanger trans children by forcing teachers to out them. 73% of trans kids experience psychological abuse. You voted to increase that. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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:

PSA for Blacksky: If Bluesky bans you, reach out to BLACKsky. Blacksky adopts bluesky moderation, but can undo it on a case by case basis If And Only If, they are made aware of the issue. How to start the unbanning process 👇🏾 Email: [email protected] OR Support form (link below) Please share.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Devastating memoir of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour on surviving torture inside Israel’s prisons from 1993 until 2025. "I have decided to write because things do not find existence outside the borders of language, not even genocide." www.equator.org/articles/why...

Tag 22 #Mermay Rochen #kleinekunstklasse #acrylics #printing #monotype #mermay2026 #abstract #abstractart #sealife

Marcus McAllister ”SB150.38 un mot secret” 2026 - Sketchbook 150 drawing - 23x15cm #sketchbook #drawing #SciArt #bird

I can hardly believe it's Friday again already. To celebrate #scape day, here is a small #watercolour painting in Payne's grey. Happy weekend! #watercolor #landscape #painting #art #landscapepainting #paynesgrey #minimalistart #calm #tree | karinacoghlin.com

Walking Nightmare Graphite on Paper - 7 x 10 inches - 2026 xxyxxy.com #graphiteOnPaper

I am once again asking for your trash for things like this

I’m tired of reading the empty husk of bullshit that is generated text. All the AI generated slop imagery in local newsletters and local bar art all gives Arizona wildnesses a wonky saguaro and Sepia Filter like it’s goddamn Breaking Bad and I’m TIRED OF IT. It’s ugly af and you’re fooling nobody

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

"As a general principle, you don’t tax the wealthy to build. You tax the wealthy to manage their power. (. . .)For this reason, every dollar over $100 million should fall into a confiscatory tax bracket of 100%. There’s no reason to allow anyone to accrue more wealth than that."

There has been this steady stream of legacy media bs about higher ed in general and the humanities in particular that, while part of a long culture war against universities, really accelerated after 2020-2021. The New York Times became a genteel version of Dinesh D'Souza & David Horowitz.

Outlets like The Atlantic & NYT opened a new front in what Robin Kelley has called "the long war on Black studies" - but they repackaged critiques of higher ed that normally would have been confined to the pages of "National Review" for liberal centrists www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

None of the critiques are new, nor is the nostalgia for a 'pre-woke' college and university (as with the NYT's profile of Deep Springs). But what feels different over the past few years is the willingness of the center-left to fully embrace the right-wing fantasy of higher education.

As colleges and universities have made gestures toward anti-racism, the (white) upper middle class embraced the right's long standing sense of victimization in the face of demographic change - and the university is a central site where we project our fantasies & fears about demographic change.

Wow: “The tooth’s hollow had been scooped out by a stone drill rather than by natural decay or wear… The findings indicated that the prehistoric patient underwent a deliberate Stone Age root canal, a discovery that pushes back the earliest evidence of intentional dentistry by more than 40,000 years”

No compliance. Ever. Our trans siblings, we will fight for you.

Wunderwerck IV Liv Rainey-Smith Woodcut print Limited edition of 30 signed & numbered plus 3 artist proofs 4th of my study series based on Conrad Lycosthene's 1557 Prodigiorum ac Osentorum Chronicon. All artworks in this series are chosen via bibliomancy. #art #woodcut #printmaking #lycosthenes

What happens to people when they’re deported from the U.S.? Families collapse. People die. Helpers struggle. ICE violates its own rules (such as they are) just so it can make quotas demanded by Stephen Miller. portside.org/2026-05-21/n...

1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"To persist, to try, to take risks, most people need hope. They need the confidence that people can in fact change their conditions, and that collectively, they can do more together than they can apart." As always, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social invites us to engage with each other and practice hope.

Cool cool can’t wait for the way this is going to get misused!

I think a lot about how to express value of challenge, of pleasures beyond “relatable” “simple” etc. A lot of discussion with colleagues & superiors how to encourage curiosity. What’s frustrating is that this gets called elitist in a world with little leisure, utilitarian education, gamification.

People died for the Voting Rights Act.

I just came to stumble upon this. It is my new favorite skeet of all times. Read this brilliant, honest, bleeding, and poetic piece by @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social . If you don't - what do you have eyes for? It's an epiphany, a creed of defiance, Camus himself couldn't have written any better.

A spring #scape for your Friday ~ #landscapepainting #landscape #traditionalart #painting #watercolor #watercolorsky #skypainting #eck #skyscape #cloudscape #womensart

This guy is a total menace. Don’t get distracted by the “swinger” content. He’s long been one of the craziest standard bearers for the “constitutional sheriffs” movement. Read this 2021 Politico piece about Lamb. And I bet @jesspish.bsky.social knows more. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Not only that, but the common mainstream understanding became "Democrats defunded the police", even though the calling card applause line for the leader of the party was "I don't want to DEFUND the police, I want to give them MORE funding". Brain-numbing stuff

Private equity firms own 378 apartment complexes, totaling more than 104,000 apartment units, in the Grand Canyon State — nearly one in every four apartment

506 years ago, on the 22nd of May 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place. During the festival, Spanish captain Pedro de Alvarado turned on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, killing performers, spectators and nobles. #otd #history 🗃️

My favorite role models are those mysterious people who spent their entire lives building elaborate projects in their backyards at tremendous personal expense for no apparent reason and I think that's evident in most of my life decisions.

I'm on this week's episode of Native Plants Healthy Planet podcast with @nativeplantfran.bsky.social and Tom Knezick! You can check it out here bleav.com/shows/native...

This is THE definition of #ELit. I got chills listening to the recording.

A Hopi perspective on water: "Treat water like family, not profit." www.hcn.org/articles/tre...

Took this yesterday in the brief respite between downpours #FlowersonFriday #SCAPE

I think about polls like this and how it dovetails with replacement theories and other bugaboos

But yeah, this is an unmoored way to approach politics and life, really. There’s no political arrangement that will exist that will stop people from making art and liking it, no one is *making* you like it, and enacting a regime of racial repression because you felt peer pressured about art is wild.

What drove this home was seeing someone say that even though they didn’t want Trump to win they were so happy they didn’t have to pretend to like Everything Everywhere All At Once anymore. Not a Black movie but a similar dynamic and I’m very sure they were happy Trump won.

The thing is, saying "This is not for me" admits the possibility of other audiences, and for someone who's internalized the idea that they are the Protagonist Of Reality, the only audience who matters, that's a hard sell. Which leads to some real contortions of meaning.

#Scape Friday #ForestFriday #ECK #photo #photography #photographersofBlueSky #travel #trees

The abundance of creatures exposed by the negative tide is amazing! Here are just a few from our quick getaway to the Oregon coast this week. #marinelife #tidepools #oregoncoast #beachhike #rockhound #photography #love

Still need help I always get a headstart every week and every week the goal goes unmet This is not for a frivolous purpose linktr.ee/hiitsbritt [rehousing 💵’s go to Chuffed only] #mutualaid #helpsky #bipocma #fundsky #mutualaidrequest 💕💸 🤎🖤 #disabilitycrowdfund #mav #homelesssky