The UN Speech that should have been covered wall to wall

I found this birding book along the side of the road on the Tamiami trail in the Everglades on 8/25/25. It is so well loved with sightings going back decades. If you're a birder (I am not) please spread the word and hep me find the owner so they can be reunited

the lesson of this administration is that law is fake, government is fake, the constitution is fake, and the country is what we choose to make it, not what some document requires

Once again, I'm finding solace in GET YOUR WAR ON by David Rees. The 2 books made me laugh/cry in the horror of the Bush years & they continue to work their magic in this regime. Here's a sampling of 8 strips that speak to this moment. #GetYourWarOn #AltTextHelp

They need you to be actively afraid because they no longer feel confident in your consent or your tendency to do what they need you to. This is a turning point in the class struggle and we need as many bold, brave people as we can get, taking care of one another, fighting, living, imagining better

Even if you aren’t masking anywhere else it still makes sense to wear a mask in medical settings & pharmacies because there’s a greater chance of being close to someone contagious & there are more people who are at higher risk in these places. Masking in these settings both protects you & others.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Great thread on how Los Angeles thwarted ICE

If you're in the NYC area, join our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social this Sunday, September 7 at this craft fair for Gaza. Proceeds will go to mutual aid groups in Gaza. Not in NYC? Support the Sameer Project directly here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Thank you @michael-hoerger.bsky.social for your continued efforts to educate folks re Covid. It's still a thing, people. #MaskUp

Mayor Brandon of Chicago responds to a question from a reporter if pushing back will make things harder? “Can you imagine if my ancestors would have had the same rationale? Let’s not fight against the Confederacy. Let’s just try to get along, and maybe one day they’ll give us our freedom?”

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Say their names: Mu'adh Abu Taha, Maryam Abu Daqa, Muhammad Salama, and Hossam Al-Masri. Israel killed FOUR journalists today, as they bombed Nasser, as they have bombed every hospital for two years now. They’re among 275 journalists murdered by US-Israel

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okay here we go DRAW A BIRD CHALLENGE y'all! right now, with your own hands, no fukken "A.i." it's fine if it's bad! bad is good because you did it on your own and had fun and learned something and made something literally only you could have! #DrawABird

BDS VICTORY! Last week, the Iowa City Council unanimously voted to boycott and divest from Israel bonds and all companies complicit in the Israeli government’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Never ever thought I'd find myself appreciating the words coming out of Piers Morgan's mouth

As Dems struggle to find an off-ramp for the increasingly unpopular Gaza genocide their leadership spent 22 months supporting, they've settle on blaming "Netanyahu." I wrote about the rise of One Bad Man Theory and how it serves to obscure much deeper issues with the logic and reality of zionism.

An absolutely astonishing revelation that would end any previous presidency immediately. Now we just skim past it.

Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.” This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over. Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.

Understand that Israel assassinated Anas Al-Sharif after approving the plan to invade Gaza City. They knew he would not leave the city and would cover the assault and killed him ahead of it. Let’s just be very clear here.

Home Depot and Lowe's share data from hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras with law enforcement

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” ~ James Baldwin Born OTD in 1924

If you are a teacher K-12 and have a wish list for supplies for the school year for your classroom, please tag me so I can amplify your list. We used to do this on the old site and people usually responded very well.

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UPDATE: Israeli soldiers have BOARDED the Handala aid flotilla. Cameras being shut down. Volunteers’ hands are up. The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.

This is not a famine this is mass murder in slow motion. 122 people have already died from starvation. 83 of them were children. And the world still looks away. Please, if you’re reading this, don’t scroll past. Help us survive. Help us save what’s left.

Tomorrow! I am channeling my inner Jerry Lewis for this crafternoon music festival for flood relief! Donate what you can and enjoy 4 hours of amazing performances by the most talented singers/songwriters. I even made you a pattern! All the details here: www.patreon.com/posts/tomorr... Share?

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The 19th printing of my text Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? since May 1st. The print run is over 1,200 copies now. Still just $3.00 from www.halfletterpress.com.

why destroy the department of education? would you believe there's a creepy evangelical organization operating in broad daylight but under the radar whose meteoric rise goes a long way towards explaining it? today's column: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

One snippet from a great 🧵 that offers perspective on this moment 👇

Jill Scott.

They gave the largest funding ever to the agency that is boasting about starting a concentration camp. Never let them claim they didn’t know when there was merch.

They're still going to House offices. They know we're almost certainly, barring a miracle, going to lose this vote. They know, but they won't stop trying because what the fuck else are you going to do when it's your child? Thank you for funding this.

it doesn't seem like too much to ask for at least a brief moratorium on "centrist" Dems knifing their own party members while Trump is attempting to pass the worst piece of legislation since the Fugitive Slave Act

Israel just bombed a children's birthday party www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

Even as we are celebrating Mamdani’s win over the many forces of reaction in this country - including Zionism - the genocide in Gaza continues. Props to the JVP Chicago hunger strikers for keeping the fight up

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angry every day that of all countries the U.S. thinks it has the moral standing to say who should or should not have nuclear weapons. ask the 38,000 children who died at Hiroshima and Nagasaki if the U.S., of all nations on the earth, has any right to pose as a moral arbiter here

This week, WIRED has been helping readers (that’s you!) learn how to win a fight, from Tesla Takedown to out-trolling trolls. We also put together a zine that collects some of the most helpful tidbits in a handy format you can print, fold, and share. Download here: www.wired.com/story/downlo...

"You don't have the authority to arrest US citizens who are asking to see a judicial warrant." NYC mayoral candidate Brad Lander being arrested *along with a member of his NYPD security team* by ICE.

Attending a protest this weekend? Here's a guide on how to best protest safely, what to bring, and what to do if you're confronted by officers. www.wired.com/story/how-to...