The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

"My fingers are surprised at a softness like lips puffed around the horizontal line of scar. My skin is dry so I head into the light & rub coconut oil on all I can reach. The oil is no small miracle of ordinary care."

“Not only is ICE/CBP detaining so many of our vulnerable community members- they target the elderly, medically in need, they detain them with brutality and harm,” said Cynthia Santiago, an immigration lawyer."

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Immigration enforcement agents strike a man in a parking lot with a vehicle- he then gets up and runs before being tackled by other agents in Rialto California

That’s wonderful for those people! STOP sweeping in Sacramento and taking survival necessities for our unhoused neighbors. @governor.ca.gov

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A private equity fraudster was found guilty for his role in a scheme to defraud 10,000 investors, including small business owners, farmers, and Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Trump just let him out of prison.

Congratulations to our 2025 Pushcart Prize nominees! ✨ #pushcart

"The IDF claimed it identified the eight- and 11-year-old boys and “eliminated the suspects in order to remove the threat.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/ceasefire-gaza-now

"It’s like entering a current more than choosing a career." Robina Khalid on midwifery https://smallthingsgrowing.substack.com/p/i-was-interviewed-by-a-student-midwife

Solitaire by Deborah Landau www.divasofverse.com/2015/01/soli...

Professors who see teaching as a skill, a trust & a responsibility are the ones who are burned out by these conditions. The ones who care about students’ well-being are the ones whose methodologies are unsustainable in these conditions. It’s agonizing.

During this busiest shopping period of the year, we’re hitting pause on purchases from Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Trump's crypto memecoin. Multi-million dinners with CEOs. Firing independent officials in charge of rooting out corruption. Giant tax cuts to Trump's billionaire friends. Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our nation's history.

Here's the kpop specific episode with kind.social/@toblaveisto... . We talk a lot about girl groups from the 2010-2020s, about originality, spectacle, fandom, politics, and joy as a compass. pocketcasts.com/podcast/unta... #kpop #twice #redvelvet #dreamcatcher #girlsgeneration #aespa

Two episodes out about music. In the first part (Ep. 3) kind.social/@toblaveisto... and I talk about his search for new and interesting sounds, from rap to noise and experimental. In the second, we talk all about kpop! podverse.fm/episode/6B30... #kpop #80s #music #joy #experimentalmusic

This is super exciting, but it’s gonna take funds. Help us bond more folks out of immigration detention by donating to our matching fund! Tinyurl.com/NCRFree

A U.S. senator stated a basic legal fact: troops can refuse illegal orders. The Trump Admin opened an investigation into him for saying it. Fox News praised it: “Make examples of people.” That’s not a warning sign. That’s fascism—on live TV.

I know enough autistic kids to know how destructive this would be. Hell, it would be destructive for a neurotypical kid. But I've worked very hard to help my autistic kid be emotionally solid, and this would have destroyed it.

While pregnant, Tierra Walker had a cascade of health complications that threatened her life. Of more than 90 doctors who were involved in her care, not one offered her an abortion, according to medical records.

Israel has held 16-year-old American, Mohammed Ibrahim, without trial, for 9 months. He has been denied contact with family & his health is deteriorating. He says he falsely confessed to throwing a rock after being beaten. America needs to secure his release NOW.

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains

1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵

A ‘show of defiance’? This is an example of terrorism and of how the media covers up for it.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

"From Day One, Trump treated the government shutdown in the style of a terrorist, hijacking whatever he thought Democrats would miss most — from government paychecks (but excluding the troops) to food aid, or SNAP, to airplane flights in and out of blue cities — and holding them hostage."

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The thing that's pissing me off the most is that "getting back SNAP" or backpay doesn't constitute a deal because those things were illegal. Making a "deal" about when and for whom laws exist is not it.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. (Published January)

How are they not describing it as a hostage negotiation with a psychopath who is happy to kill the hostages?

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

Torturing myself by watching Vance's Ole Miss q&a. Everyone got riled up about the hug, but look at this kid flashing a white power symbol and Vance guffawing.

Any religion or ideology that teaches you that starving people is an acceptable negotiating tactic or worse a desirable outcome is fucked up

Got a second? Contact your lawmakers to demand that they stop Israel from demolishing another Palestinian village in the West Bank.

NEW: Last night, a federal judge issued a permanent block on the Trump administration's deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon. This is a win for the rule of law. No troops on our streets – anywhere.

writing this contemporary rom com and realizing if i really make it contemporary rom com it's gonna be a dystopia and if i keep it contemporary rom com it's gonna be a fantasy 🫠

So Donald Trump’s big donors and giant corporations get massive tax breaks, but Americans waiting for SNAP payments are told to eat dirt? Did I get that right?

A court had to force Trump to keep Americans from going hungry — and he's still only covering half of this month’s SNAP needs. He won’t meet to reopen the government or do the bare minimum to feed people. And he couldn’t care less that health care costs are about to skyrocket. Shameful.

And now you threw it in the gutter. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Folks will still need help for a while. "However, millions of recipients will still face delays in getting their benefits, which were scheduled to start being distributed on November 1. It will take time for the Department of Agriculture and states to get the money flowing again. "

Dear Republicans, "We'll starve some of you until you let us take away your healthcare" isn't as good a look as you think it is.

"Once you imagine a body that might bring you happiness instead of loathing... I found myself having more days in which I wished for nothing more than to be present in my body. I realized that quitting would be, in essence, to value my own life and wish myself into the future."

Can we finally rid ourselves of the shame attached to poverty through the capitalist propaganda that poor people deserve to be impoverished? We have the data to know it’s not true. Can we overcome that through giving to others when we can without moral judgment about it?