Dammit. This is so heartbreaking and cruel

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Evil. Done in our name.

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

5:30-6:30 PM dinner is goated. just one more thing old people were right about all along

Going to run for president on a platform of requiring RFK Jr. to remain fully clothed at all times.

stop making me look at those horrible men

I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real Threads is atrocious too

Love to get into the pool with jeans. I call all my homies over to the cabin and we just get in the pool with jeans on. Then we get out of the pool and just drip that chlorinated water everywhere.

Convicted serial killers on death row have access to writing supplies and a legal right to send correspondence. Tell me again how it’s inaccurate to call these things concentration camps.

"My family." By a 5-year-old imprisoned in a Texas concentration camp.

“More than 60 days … going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems the water is what makes people sick here.” - 12 year-old imprisoned for 60+ days in Texas concentration camp

“I feel so much sadness and depression of not being able to leave, its really sad to hear that peoples cases are being denied and getting send back to their countrys.” -14 year-old imprisoned for 20 days in Texas concentration camp

literally everyone you're mad at got here years before you. you're the invader, queen

I do not care at all that Dawson put down the down payment on that multi-million dollar ranch one month before he died. I'm not even critiquing that GoFundMe. BUT I know what you would say if a disabled person raising for food or rent or medicine bought a movie ticket or god forbid decent shoes...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Ooh it warmed up enough that my attic is not fuhhhreezing so maybe I can sew this week! That would be nice. I have some really great patches to sew onto some denim and I also need to repair the fairy bunny railroad overall dress. Can't wait.

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

I often think about the fact that if the FBI et al had not killed Fred Hampton, he would be 78 today. Younger than Jesse Jackson was. Must have felt strange to outlive many of your contemporaries by decades.

One of the things language like this does is conveys the way that leftism is seen as feminized in america. Leftists are called “hysterical,” told we “throw tantrums,” and “are shrill and unreasonable.” This is the language of cultural misogyny, used to denigrate and silence women.

joyce is going after elon again

If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov

In late stage capitalism, having the ostensibly more left major party support your right to die when you are no longer useful to capital rather than supporting your right to pain medication, healthcare, counseling, housing—ie your right to LIVE—is fitting

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

"But if we fight back against the eradication of trans people, we'll be destroyed too!" If your organization can't survive without the elimination of a minority, then

Disabled LGBTQ trafficking survivor with serious health complications. I have to come up with ~$400 for my ACA premium. (no advice please) www.paypal.com/paypalme/kar... Venmo: @ KARRIE-HIGGINS-2 Tax deductible+all $ raised at my link is direct #MutualAid helphopelive.org/campaign/159...

I can't even sell my plasma because of my conditions but I keep told to do that so I can buy meds ... for the conditions that preclude me from donating ...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

I haven’t had feedback on my work in a class I paid for … since weeks before Savannah Guthrie’s mom went missing — that’s right, longer than the whole length of an FBI kidnapping investigation. We were promised feedback on every posting of our work. Others have received feedback. Just not me.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

Oh! I might be able to hop in a bit here! And seeing #ForTinu made me tear up ... I was thinking of Tinu today. Saw her name on my Signal chat from a long ago group and .... tears. Her loss is so felt and always will be.

I wish I had words for this feeling after being so excited to mail a family member a log slice/codex page from The Log Project -- something meaningful to him as the slice came from his childhood neighborhood, destroyed in the flood of '08+the tree felled in the Derecho of '20.

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.

As ever please tell everyone you know that LLMs are not databases. A database can have errors or be badly coded but you can dig into it and clearly look at the dataset. LLMs use a statistical model to output what seems best at the time but you can't check *why* or see the data.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement

normie centrists everywhere: my god ICE is monstrous and must be stopped chuck schumer: maybe *two* body cams

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

I am worn down by trying for years to get a little bit of help and seeing celebrities get millions in a day.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Worth noting: literally any US born politician could get some of that Mamdani glow by siding with people over billionaires every single time. Just love your neighbors more than money and fight for them relentlessly! (And have years of coalition building and great communication skills, etc.)

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going. Things are changing, y’all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...