“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The point is to create a world in which the authoritarians can simultaneously inhabit a position of victim and abuser, creating an imagined threat of persecution and violence in order to persecute and carry out violence. This is how this always works. We cannot allow this to continue.

It’s not just that they normalize political violence. They also accuse the left of engaging in mostly imaginary violence, which gives unhinged right-wingers justification to “retaliate.”

A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A sign of the times right now is working in libraries and helping more and more people in their 60s and 70s apply for jobs online for the first time in their lives.

Pope Francis has died at 88. His final message: a call for a Gaza ceasefire. “This is cruelty. This is not war,” he said after Israel killed 7 children in Jabalia. He called Gaza’s suffering “deplorable” — and made nightly calls to Christians trapped there.

This is the worst thing I've ever heard in my life.

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years. It’s not remotely close.

First, the activist ‘overreach’ mostly consisted of low-stakes, cherry-picked anecdotes. The police were not defunded. Words were not banned. White men were not barred from college. The backlash is responding to the *possibility* of social change, not actual change.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Shout out to the friends and comrades @sunrisemvmtkc.bsky.social who are fiercely making the public case for regional transit funding. Kansas City-area residents deserve robust and reliable buses, but instead the people with the power to act seem content to let our transit system wither away.

NEW: Today marked the third protest in just one week from Kansas City-area climate activists, who demand that Jackson County step up to fund the KCATA. One protester was detained and more than 50 activists were removed from the legislature's chambers.

“We have materials here that are not available anywhere else,” Ruiz told the Kansas City Star in 1996. And that’s important, she said, because “books open up a new world to you.” www.kcur.org/history/2024...

THREAD: What We Know About the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal in Gaza

I can’t begin to express how bad these fires are. Friends have evacuated to our house and other friends are packing up what they can to evacuate and we are wondering if we are going to have to evacuate too. It’s such a colossal shitshow.

Can we talk about the smooth tortilla at ALDI. Every bag always has one tortilla on the end with one very smooth side. Why Is It Like That.

I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:

Leonard Peltier is still in federal prison. He is 80 years old.

Well, now I know we made the right decisions

I currently have this checked out! Last year’s anthology, Afterglow, is excellent.

For sale: ship of theseus Condition: used, like new

I HATE LEAFBLOWERS

the use of the history of Japanese internment as a manual rather than as a cautionary tale really sums up where we're at politically

I like India as a player and he has the kind of OBP the Royals desperately need in front of Bobby/Vinnie/Salvy, but a 1-for-1 swap for Singer would be an overpay

I am constantly impressed online and in life how many people think they are blocked or not invited or whatever because others can’t handle their brilliant philosophical analysis and not because they are just mean jerks who make everyone feel uncomfortable

The UN has now formally found Israel's genocide "consistent with genocide", including the use of weaponized starvation. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

For my first post #onhere, please enjoy this picture of a western ratsnake in the library