We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

but also: there are plenty of things that are or should be socially unacceptable that aren't crimes. I think people who talk loudly at the theatre are monsters, but I don't think they should go to prison! the options are not limited to "totally fine" and "jail for mother for one thousand years"!

"either this thing is a crime or you have to be totally fine with it" is such a silly straw man for any number of reasons, not least of which is that as a prison abolitionist, I don't feel like incarceration is a good solution to things I DO think are crimes!

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

for some reason, i don’t believe them

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

A thing I truly don't understand is why men just can't ever seem to retire. No matter how old and/or rich they are, they gotta keep poking their noses into stuff that's further and further from their area of expertise. And they get mad if you suggest, "Thanks but no thanks, I have experts for that"!

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

I like to think that I personally ruined the workplace.

Important article on apartheid Israel's scholasticide in Gaza, its escalating attacks on Palestinian education in the West Bank, and the abject refusal of the international community, including Ireland, in its legal obligations to prevent genocide #SanctionsNow www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

From what I’ve been able to verify, this is true. Members of congress are receiving $79 daily for food while the poor go hungry. #Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #SNAP

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

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"We are only allowed to own seven pairs [of underwear] in total. In order to exchange your state-allotted pairs for new ones, you must submit to a bunk search and an officer must verify to the property officer that you do not own more than seven pairs."

reminder that in 1971 a full 85% of the NYPD went on a highly publicised work stoppage, resulting in no appreciable increase in crime during those five days of one of New York's most troubled eras. further, a 2017 pause of "broken window" policing saw major crimes *drop* in NY this is 100% a bluff

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Hey all, my friend @swolesome.bsky.social is trying to raise money to help Maysara and his family evacuate Gaza. Swolesome has been raising money to help if you can share or donate. chuffed.org/project/1493...

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"A terrorist affiliated with the governing Republican Party attacked a religious minority gathering in the border province of Michigan, the latest in a string of political violence as American dictator Donald Trump seeks to consolidate power ahead of planned elections next year."

FYI

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday. The closure of Allenby effectively seals off the non-Jewish population of the West Bank from the outside world, as IDF attacks and settler pogroms accelerate. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

They’ve just gotta start delivering the cocaine in egg cartons and then the T administration can call it job done.

🥦🎶 Does regenerative agriculture need a musical? 🎶 🥦 Kath Dalmeny of @sustainweb.org insists that all economics should all serve climate, nature & health ... and then breaks into song 🎶 in this #FoodTakes video with @rebelwrit.bsky.social Watch the full video here: buff.ly/SQ8LRwK

Trans rights are human rights.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”

This makes me so angry. The fu**ing damage this does. The WSJ walked back its report that cited sources claiming bullets recovered in the Kirk shooting had been "engraved with transgender and antifascist ideology."

The UK is implementing a nationwide trans bathroom ban without debate or even passing a law through parliament. web.archive.org/web/20250905...

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up

"Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is" Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

If I was the Associated Press and it was not immediately clear why more troops are being deployed against civilians in the nation's capital, I would probably like, ask someone how come

Trans people actually commit crimes at a much lower rate than cis people but, you know, that stuff is irrelevant

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

“Official figures show that 90% of rape perpetrators are known to victims, one in two rapes are by partners/ex-partners, and one woman is murdered by a partner every four days in the UK.”

🌳 Think of the Oak Trees 🌳 In the latest #FoodTakes, Carina Millstone of @foodrise.bsky.social suggests that we think of the oak trees 🌳 and the other species in land use decision making. Filmed at @britishecologicalsociety.org by @rebelwrit.bsky.social Full video: buff.ly/TGwXVFd