Hasbro have apparently hired a notorious union-busting firm in response to the Magic the Gathering Arena teams attempt at unionisation - Reddit mods have deleted the post If you haven't please sign the unions petition actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcl...

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

So many people urge us to vote if we are dissatisfied with our democracy. And yes voting matters. But as today’s Supreme Court ruling tells us, it’s not that simple. Not everyone who should have the right to vote can exercise that right.

Suspending elections where people have already started voting so you can gerrymander their voting power away. Very democracy.

Please don’t paint your masonry basement walls with drylok, it’s a bitch to get off and can cause your bricks/clay tile to disintegrate when ground water cannot evaporate through like it’s meant to. This message is for my home’s previous owner.

Show your support and request that Hasbro voluntarily recognize their union. Arts workers deserve the labor protections provided by collective action #solidarity

If I am giving you directions to a nearby place and I ask, “do you prefer cardinal directions or turn right/left,” do you know what I mean by cardinal directions? I’ve had it happen several times recently where the person did not.

Today, @clevelandorch.bsky.social announced their 2026-27 season, and if I asked their MD the classic Billy on the Street question “For a dollar, name a woman,” based on what works he’s has chosen to program in his final, legacy-sealing season in the position, I would keep all my dollars.

I'm old-fashioned. I want your business to have a website. Don't gimme an Instagram page and a phone number. I wanna see what services you offer and then make an appointment on a regular degular website!

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

evergreen.

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

Fuck the Yankees

On the elder side of the millennial generation, checking in. I was pretty lucky to have computer classes regularly beginning in elementary school, and started Mario Teaches Typing probably in 4th or 5th grade.

I’m repeating op in their second post, but there exist people in this world, in our country, in your community who are fine with, and indeed deeply desire a return to chattel slavery.

I saw the early posts she was making about the London attack and got very nervous. Given how much worse it got, hope everyone takes a second to unfollow Hend.

I'm seeing a lot of these fake Donald Trump truths being posted on BlueSky (and lesser sites) at the moment. Its pretty easy to check, and you owe it to yourself and other people before sharing it.

Just got a fundraising text for the Mills Campaign in ME ‘signed’ by James Carville and I really hate agreeing with Carville, but a dude unapologetic about his nazi tattoo is absolutely NOT the progressive choice

Patricia Kopatchinskaja is an absolute revelation. Her Bartók tonight with Elim Chan conducting @clevelandorch.bsky.social was stunning in a brilliant program

Guys, if Polk County, Fl’s Sheriff Grady Judd is starting to find some common cause with me on this issue??? Holy shit the public opinion has tectonically shifted I went to college in this county, I don’t think I’ve ever found this man in agreement with me

I haven’t been cheering for the USA in the WBC. @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social provides a damn good rundown of why in his newsletter today: (1/2)

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Well, @clevelandorch.bsky.social announced its summer season, and there is not a single composition by a woman included in the classical programs. There is one composition by a person of color, Takemitsu.

Jason Benetti is excellent, so this is lovely news.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Two guys from the Epstein files and one about whom I distinctly remember hearing rumors years ago that he might have raped and murdered a girl in 1990. People were just asking questions… Anyways, exactly the folks you can trust to have your interests at heart

And nothing of value was loat

I think we can consider it an indictment of the orchestra world when simple gender parity among guest conductors feels so progressive. Baltimore is the largest budget org to consistently demonstrate parity.

It begins again- in the last month orchestras have started announcing their next subscription season and I’ve started analyzing the diversity of their conductors. Not looking that amazing so far. I’ve entered seven orgs in my database (with at least 5 more announcements to process).

PAPA LEONE YES

And THIS is why I won’t be setting foot in the USofA, not even to change planes on the way to somewhere else, while that fucker or anyone from his POS regime are in charge. ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to you.’

"It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul". Ursula K. Le Guin, in The Wizard of Earthsea.

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.

When I was living in NYC, I was approached by someone to sing a messiah with Schiller Institute Chorus. I spent 30 seconds googling them and immediately declined because the LaRouche Verdi Tuning was giving strong cult vibes.

I tried to get my gyn to replace my nexplanon last summer out of concern of losing access and they brushed my worries off and said I had to wait a year. I will be so very angry if I cannot get it replaced this year.

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

People are going to inevitably focus on the headline, but the Reformer story correctly focuses on the reality of what this terror campaign against an American city and its residents has actually consisted of.

"FFP2 masks are part of the [German] Olympic team's hygiene concept to stay healthy and perform successfully!" "FFP2-Masken gehören beim olympischen Team zum Hygienekonzept, um gesund zu bleiben und erfolgreich zu sein!" #MaskUp 1/

I’m reminded of the passage in Heinlein’s Farmer in the Sky where one settler is complaining about the tedious work of breaking up moon rock and seeding it with organic material when it would be “simple” ti just ship a bunch of Mississippi Delta mud up to Ganymede

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

probably not great that every natsec-adjacent reporter has spent the last 24 hours going "ron wyden expert here, this is not cute, ron wydens only do this when they're very distressed"

Exhibit 8648264848272 in how some terrible men never learn their lesson. This guy really should know better than to comment about the state of how women are treated in classical music on a KATHERINE NEEDLEMAN post.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

I’m sure someone is writing/has written a think piece about how the structure of arts funding in the US especially creates the environment that allows someone like JE to prey on a student at Juilliard for multiple years.

So… how many major non-profit orgs are doing some needed due diligence and searching their board/major donors in the files?

What do we think David Stern means here when he says Valery Gergiev is "a great source of P"? Also, this appears to be either a banker or the deceased former NBA Chairman, not the son of Isaac Stern.