No thanks.

New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.

There’s plenty of money.

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future. mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products: For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

Happy Valentine's Day from the City of Monterey!

Exceedingly tired of politicians, university management and union presidents insisting our most urgent problems are too much worker power, a lack of plagiarism and wrong information as opposed to troops in our communities and concentration camps.

Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies

Roughly 300 readers, free speech advocates and local organizers gathered for Let Utah Read’s annual “read-in” event at the Capitol. “We do not want the government controlling what we can and cannot consume,” one 16-year-old participant said.

One example, on an anecdotal basis: you know who I see disproportionately devoting HUNDREDS of hours to practical organizing with local groups to fight fascism? Parents & relatives of trans kids. Candidates like Newsom will NEVER get that kind of passionate, priceless work from them.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 14 Blade: Sen. Markey (MA), Reps. Jayapal (WA) and Jacobs (CA) reintroduce Trans Bill of Rights. Co-sponsors in Senate: Warren (MA), Hirono (HI), Wyden (OR), Heinrich (NM), Padilla (CA), & VT's Sanders & Welch. In House: Takano (CA) + ~100 other Representatives.

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

It should be obvious that criticizing ICE—or any government agency—on social media is protected by the First Amendment. It is not a crime. Tech companies must not comply with sweeping government demands that seek to unmask users simply for expressing their opinions online.

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

In 2008, during the last presidential election before the Citizens United decision, billionaires spent $16 million. During the 2024 election billionaires spent $2.6 billion.

As Homeland Security heads to shutdown, a reminder that thousands of the agents engaged in the administration's paramilitary efforts are *not even DHS*. They're DOJ, or even State or Treasury. Any effort to rein them in will have to contend with that

Because the Department of Justice appears to have removed the .zip archives for the Epstein files, @ddosecrets.org is now the best place to get all of the data in bulk. ddosecrets.org/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Newsom vetoed a bill that would've prevented insurance discrimination against trans people and allowed people to stockpile 6 months of HRT. So yes, not only would he do this, he is actively doing it right now by endangering our access to healthcare in order to protect insurance companies.

Rep. Abi Boatman, a Kansas transgender legislator, shares her journey of military service, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights and work at the Statehouse. www.cjonline.com/story/news/s...

the machine is out of service for repairs (hand is fucked up from kickback accident) but its products are still available, some at reduced prices to entice sales b/c dogs be hungry www.galdrecraft.com Please share with friends here and on your discords, teamspeaks, offline meet ups, support groups

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hold on i gotta take this

I'm just going to say a thing. What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.

The Kansas State Legislature just passed SB 244, an extremist bill which cruelly targets trans people and their access to restrooms and accurate identity documents. Kansans: The time to act is NOW. 🚨 Contact your legislators and urge them to SUPPORT the veto of SB 244: tinyurl.com/2m77hbkk

Electricity prices are currently rising at more than double the rate of inflation. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job. In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike. The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

2 out of 3 Americans are worried about paying for health care. A majority of the public also says they expect health care costs for them and their families to become even less affordable in the coming year. www.kff.org/public-opini...

Our Latest: 📰 Rep. Jayapal introduces Trans Bill of Rights📰 📝: @artemis.theneedlenews.com

Everyone who's doing business with Musk right now deserves to be scrutinized as closely as everyone in the Epstein files.

Just going to note again, because somehow we've all completely retconned this and I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, that pound-for-pound Biden had one of the most draconian border security regimes of any U.S. president ever, second only to Trump, *many of whose policies he inherited and kept*

Worth remembering the same political party behind this was also advising Harris and are incredibly likely to advise Newsom or any other centrist Dem that runs for the presidency. Liberal and centrist governments are perfectly capable of carrying out trans genocide. They already are.

Bring Back Our Flags! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Stonewall taught our community to fight back — its legacy and our history won’t be erased! No matter what, we will always be here.

Damn if one (1) nineteen year old regretting their choice means nobody should be allowed to do it, kids who got fucked up as a result of joining the Army should sue Uncle Sam so everyone else is prevented from making a choice they might regret, too.

I know a CalPoly engineering freshman girl & the reason is they get forced out. The boys close ranks and won’t acknowledge their contributions. They get harassed. They get ignored. They get excluded from group activities. It’s constant. And so a bunch change majors because engineering is toxic.

It’s not a withdrawal until ICE is abolished. I have neighbors everywhere.

San Francisco teachers will enter their 4th day on strike Thursday, unless a deal is made late tonight. Negotiations have centered on wages, among other issues, so we asked: How much do teachers make vs. city workers? On average, less—much less. missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-t...

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Because folks don't actually want to discuss AI, they want blind submission to the ideological structures that motivate the contemporary use cases and deployments of AI. They don't want to hear the concerns except to dismiss them out of hand.

Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.

hi "A.i." is literally a tool of fascism

Our argument is simple but radical: transportation policy should maximize access, not movement. For a century, we’ve measured success by car throughput and speed. But that's only a means. The end is connecting people to destinations they value. We've been measuring, then building, the wrong thing.

The U.S. added 403,000 fewer jobs last year than previously anticipated. The new estimate is that the economy added just 181,000 jobs in all of 2025, as opposed to the 1.46 million jobs added in 2024.

I’m close to having everything shut off and eviction is around the corner I am literally packing my apartment up while working because that’s how likely becoming homeless again feels Please share my work and send tips I’m a trans girl and a journalist and all my work is free

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post is now saying Trump is right to roll back climate science and pollution protections at the EPA.

The whole point of the constitutional framers’ concern with due process was that the onus had to be on the government to clearly and specifically establish that particular individuals could be seized, which includes questioning. They hated the British general warrants. This is not theoretical!

“I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.” — Ray Bradbury

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Follow these awesome women ocean scientists, many of whom I'm proud to call colleagues and delighted to call friends. 🧪🦑🌍🐟 go.bsky.app/7MdiLgo

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

"People increasingly are seeing people like Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey as weak and useless, given their tendency to play softbody and write strongly worded letters to murderous ICE agents. No politician can or will save us. Certainly no police or military will."

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