can’t stop thinking about “quiet piggy” and what an uproar that would’ve caused in any other news environment

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.

Thank you @annaroseiovine.bsky.social @mashable.com for including my thoughts about the adult studio alliance and industry code of conduct. Got to give performer-led safety initiatives credit where it’s due! mashable.com/article/adul...

It's infuriating when someone posts their grocery bill online and someone else says "you're just shopping wrong." You are flatly in denial if you don't think prices are outrageous across products and stores

What is Mamdani's plan to restore $10/month MoviePass?

Amazing. The man isn't even mayor yet but he's already solving our trash problems.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

For a quick and easy costume may I recommend Peter Thiel’s vision of the Antichrist

A bright spot of news I’m excited to share is that I was honored this past weekend by SPJ as a Fellow of the Society. I’m so grateful to everyone who has supported me and @spitfirenews.com and I got to talk to student journalists about the future of our profession! spitfirenews.com/p/we-yes-we-...

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

If you think ai porn "Avoids exploitation of sex workers" you REALLY don't give a single solitary shit about sex workers.....or people in general for that matter.

Kim Kardashian’s company SKIMS can advertise its “faux hair panty” to its nearly 7 million followers on Instagram, but a sex worker can sneeze and get banned from the platform

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Is Taylor Swift co-opting the term “showgirl” from sex workers? Thank you @gwenadora.bsky.social and @mssexysaigon.bsky.social for chatting with me for this piece mashable.com/article/shou...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

What's happening could not be more open and explicit. If you displease the regime, they will bring criminal charges against you. Ask your immigrant friends what it's like to live in a country where the rule of law is a fiction and your freedom depends on the whims of a dictator.

Mainstream institutions, including some of the biggest news outlets, have rushed to sacrifice their journalists and the meaning of words like "debate" to placate the people behind clickbait YouTube videos with titles about woke libs and Karens spitfirenews.com/p/mainstream...

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

You probably failed at "building bridges" if millions of people think that your life's work was destructive and terrible and if your supporters have to threaten people to keep them quiet about said legacy.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

better things are possible!!!!

For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about how the social media trend of hoping that Trump is dead or dying is linked to both his administration's deadly unraveling of rights and institutions and how hard it is for actual news about it to reach people over memes and vibes. spitfirenews.com/p/is-trump-d...

ZDCG demands accountability for continued attacks on media workers in Gaza:

children in minneapolis shot while praying, children in DC passing armed military when they take the metro to school, this country is so sick

2025 confirmed best year to get engaged

I would urge against referring to what is happening to Kilmar as a deportation. When people are deported, they are sent to their home country or "country of origin." What is happening to Kilmar and many others under the Trump administration is... something else entirely.

I wrote about how Harry Potter slop is inescapable and fueling JK Rowling’s anti-trans bigotry—but pushback seems to be growing, too. Case in point: I just opened Reddit and saw another reboot cast announcement, but most of the comments were about boycotting it spitfirenews.com/p/harry-pott...

"if big tech companies had shown up and fought against age verification because of the trickle-down effect of this decision, it would've brought more attention to the issue. Instead, people thought it wasn't going to impact them. Tech companies didn't think about "second-order censorship"

"Censorship begets censorship ... We've reached the dystopian stage of the internet." This piece is a vital accounting of how we got where we are and where it's going if more people don't push back against what @ericgoldman.bsky.social calls age-verification's "segregate-and-suppress" laws.

Censorship of porn is just the test run. Age verification is going to kill the open web mashable.com/article/age-...

"Children want to meet up in person, no screens or supervision. But because so many parents restrict their ability to socialize in the real world on their own, kids resort to the one thing that allows them 2 hang out with no adults hovering: their phones" @theatlantic.com Really interesting survey!

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Today, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis is slashing its staff of 23 valuable ZDCG colleagues — just weeks after it finalized even more corporate acquisitions and boasted about profitability being "up." Ziff Davis is putting its spending spree ahead of its own workers. 👇

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

An update: management has chosen not to recognize our Product, Engineering, and Humble Bundle colleagues as part of IGNCG, instead insisting on a time-consuming NLRB hearing, which took place last week. Help us spread the word: we will not be divided. We are IGN, and we will always stand together.

"Reich citizenship will not be laid in the cradle of every one born in Germany, but will be ceremoniously conferred on him after he has shown himself worthy of it through special accomplishments, through loyal services to the State." NY Times, July 6, 1933.

It’s always “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, drop out of the public sphere and become a tradwife” and never “Ladies, if you are alienated by overwork, form a union.”

It was never going to stop with trans people, and it won't stop with bi people www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-tran...

It’s kinda funny how a lot of people who agree that abstinence only sex ed is useless and repressive and that teaching people how to do things safely and responsibly is the only thing that works will then say stuff like this. Pick one!

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.