A danger of parasocial relationships with AI is "now you're interacting with something that is designed to not challenge you," the CEO of Partiful, Shreya Murthy, says. "In-person relationships are supposed to actually have a little friction. That's how we build bonds." #TAF25 bit.ly/46mQI8B

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

Regret. WHERE IS KRISTI NOEM? These were her officers and agents. The South Koreans were detained by DHS - not the State Dept. Why is she being shielded from accountability for her Department’s irresponsible raid?

By me: A planned expansion of military spending by Nato countries could generate an additional 1,320m tonnes of CO2 over the next decade – on a par with the annual GHG emissions generated by Brazil, the fifth largest emitter in the world, according to a new report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Does anyone on this app work for Apple?? please pass up the chain that the glorching is getting out of hand

A new tool at ICE's disposal and - experts and history tell us - a new threat to civil liberties www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

During the Great Depression, these 7 Black wet nurses staged a sit-down strike to demand better pay and an end to racial discrimination. This is what a labor movement looks like. #LaborDay @hammerandhope.bsky.social

Movement media is a key tool to fight fascism. In the @truthout.org Center for Grassroots Journalism newsletter, see the latest from @wagingnonviolence.org @hammerandhope.bsky.social @convergencemag.com @kcdefender.bsky.social @deceleration.news & more! ❤️ mailchi.mp/truthout.org...

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

A tale of carceral medical neglect *and* rapacious capitalism from @nclc4consumers.bsky.social told in three posts. Read the whole story here: inquest.org/medical-... "In some jails and prisons, when someone experiences a serious medical issue . . . [1/3—cont. below]

Today is the anniversary of the start of the Attica uprising. "Those who led the Attica uprising wanted humane treatment. Their bravery resulted in meaningful improvements to prison regulations. . . . Those gains have . . . eroded. We want them back. We must remember Attica."

Join us on October 18th + 19th, 2025 CONFLUENCEMN.com in Minneapolis! 10:30-11:30 am / Room #341 Panel: Asian Americans in Geekdom: Celebrating and Complaining in 2025, with Bao Phi, Tri M. Vo, & me!

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

❤️ we are so thrilled and grateful!

2/ In california: "Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk" www.reuters.com/business/imm...

“What were our bodies but a clean sheet of paper for others to inscribe their stories? In our own homes, we were inappropriate.” - @taylorbyaspoet Gorgeous, existential, excavating new poetry collection by Taylor Byas from @softskullpress Pub day was August 26th — Congratulations! 🎊

Hello, friends. New Substack for the week from here in Minneapolis. Appreciating everyone fighting the terrible cultures of the U.S. for a better world. bit.ly/46eCac2

CHICAGO…

Here's a direct link to support Another World here in NYC. anotherworld.nyc - they are doing movement-building work that is going to help all of us.

What's in your TBR pile for #WomenInTranslationMonth ?

(25/61) “The backspace would like me to tap out the soreness of the telling, until the telling is gone and can move freely.” —Rosa Alcalá, “How It Started, How It’s Going {An Introduction}” (YOU) @coffeehousepress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets

📖 🎤There's still time to catch Tom Comitta on tour with PATCHWORK! @tomcomitta.bsky.social

Introducing our Fall 2025 season replete with iconic poets, Nobel Prize-winning translators, and our first book in French! coffeehousepress.org/collections/...

“Massachusetts Democrats have a choice. They can resist Trump, or they can help the ADL. They cannot do both.” www.masslive.com/opinion/2025...

These are scientific commentaries; but the commentaries of the whalemen themselves sometimes consist in hard words and harder knocks

This is the guy

We’re looking forward to gathering again on Labor Day. While billionaires convert the government into their private slush fund, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first. Thousands of communities are taking a stand — find an event near you. #WorkersOverBillionaires

Food companies are capitalizing on some of MAHA’s favored dietary principles. The trend might change American diets for the worse, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.

It disgusts me that Ezra Klein & co sit around in their cushy homes hand wringing about the WORD genocide when Palestinians' lived reality is hell on earth. I want to force them to look at the photos of kids killed in Gaza every day. I want to glue the pictures to their glasses so it's all they see.

Early in the genocide, the US told Netanyahu he'd be "fighting this war for...decades to come,” Miller said. “The prime minister said, ‘You’re right. We are going to be fighting this war for decades to come. That’s the way it’s been. That’s the way it’s going to be.’” truthout.org/articles/for...

Thousands of rank-and-file workers have joined the union to fight the billionaire media moguls taking over the industry.

kudos to @eddiekimx.bsky.social who, whilst dealing with the lingering effects of pepper spray, walked to the office, changed his shirt and sat down to report this morning's events

The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This poster remembers being out at the clubs in another city that night. Music pulsing, queer people dancing joyfully (& fabulously). Waking up to the news of the Pulse massacre. Of my community being targeted - shot dead for being gay. For being an ally. We remember - you can’t take that from us.

This week's newsletter is a yellowface memory and how storytelling on our own terms is a kind of medicine for the drunken white supremacist circus that is American popular culture of the 20th century....& creative writing prompt! open.substack.com/pub/sunyungs...

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Get to know MLA's LGBTQIA+ Sub-Unit! Please join us for a social night of fun on August 29th, 6 pm at Urban Growler in St. Paul. People partners and furry friends (dogs) welcome. Please reach out to hosts Alyssa Hadley or Cat Stricklan with questions. www.mnlibraryassociation.org/events/Event...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Important.

I can’t get enough of artistic responses to writing…😭 I did a benefit reading with other BIPOC adoptees to raise money for Palestinian families. I read a WIP, a short story that included this quote from Civil Rights Movement icon Diane Nash. Madalyn Drewno created this stunning piece in response.🙏🏾

Right-to-repair laws have now either passed or been introduced in all 50 states, forcing private equity–backed firms to allow DIY fixes.

Come on out to the Minneapolis Midtown Farmer’s Market on Saturday, September 6, for story stroll, book signing and giveaway, and storytime! 🙌🏽👍🏽 @mnbipockidlit.bsky.social