Feels like a number of people have a hard time calling direct aid, direct aid. I don't know why. Not all direct aid is part of mutual aid but many mutual aid efforts INCLUDE direct aid. The key here is INCLUDE which suggests that there is more happening than direct aid in mutual aid efforts.

It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

I'm working on an essay about community organizing and I just want to say that if you're using AI in your organizing... you're doing it wrong. You can't articulate a vision for a better future or lead people if you let the billionaire plagiarism machine think for you.

"It is a miracle that none of us has been killed." - Rev. David Black Rev. David Black's testimony at this week's shadow hearing led by Rep. Bennie Thompson exposes the escalating violence of Trump's immigration enforcement

Sharing food with grateful types is all the difference. Heading to do that now.

MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear. By using the term "gender ideology," the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

I don’t know what you did to deserve this, America, but Tommy Tuberville might be about to sue you.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

📢 Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Join us Nov. 20th for this critical APLS Executive Board meeting at 6030 Monticello Drive in Montgomery. 👉🏼Sign up to speak with the link in the comments! 👉🏼Help us pack the room to support Alabama libraries and the freedom to read! 👉🏼Spread the word!

For Monday: Veterans Day Drive-Thru Food Distribution! In response to the government shutdown, the Food Bank of North Alabama and One Gen Away are joining forces to provide free groceries to the community this Veterans Day.

GIMME A BRAKE (LIGHT) FREE brake light changes November 15, 11 AM - 2 PM Optimist Park, 703 Oakwood Ave NE

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

For some reason I always think a group project sounds like a good idea and then 30 minutes into it I’m always like if you people promise to leave me alone I will just do all of this work myself

Today! Sunday 10-1. Shenanigans on Leeman Ferry Rd. In Huntsville

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

”The ‘welfare queen’ stereotype persists today despite the fact that more white people are on public assistance than any other group." Experts say the clips are being created to obscure the economic stakes of the SNAP shutdown.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Turns out you can be funny AND have empathy…Go see a show at Shenanigans!

I have two! Ta Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me. AND The Great Gatsby. Read it again. It will be a different book to you now than it was when you were 16.

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock www.404media.co/flock-logins...

You’re just really not gonna be able to ever convince me that AI is making our world better. It has made every piece of design and writing software that I work with worse.

The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the latest glimpse into the secretive world of animal research.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

For every one family food banks feed, SNAP feeds *9*. If funding is allowed to lapse we will see a massive collapse in support systems and people will die.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

When we fully account for the horrible things this Supreme Court has done, I hope special attention is paid to Alito and Gorsuch’s jurisprudence on the death penalty. They have rendered the ban cruel and unusual punishment an effective dead letter, leading to horrific outcomes in this state.

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted that is nearly as old as the country itself. One Afghan family's story of separation across the world shows the human consequences.

Food and Diaper Drive at Hay Day! We’ll be collecting these items during the event.

Trump's ballroom donors include: -Google, whose CEO thanked Trump for "resolution" of an antitrust case -Palantir, which has lucrative contracts with ICE -Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who would profit from Trump's regulatory rollbacks for private equity Pay-to-play.

/4 Worry that the opportunities to demonstrate peacefully are diminishing under a cloud of lies and thuggery and hostility to free speech. Worry that someday you will be ashamed of yourself if you just let this happen without saying anything.

/3 Worry that we're descending into totalitarianism, that we're shedding the rule of law, and that we're abandoning every American value and norm. Worry that America is showing its ass. Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.

/2 Don't worry that your sign looks bad. Don't worry that you're too old or too young or too affluent or too poor or the wrong education or wrong profession. Don't worry about the handful of sneering gatekeepers and protest-aesthetic snobs. Don't worry about sneering Trumpers.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Attending a protest on Saturday? Here are tips for talking with the press.

Don’t forget there’s a sign painting party on October 17 at 6 PM at Backfourty brewing on Lehman ferry Road. We’d love to see you!

Know your rights…a public service announcement …sadly …with no guitars

Important reminders for No Kings II coming up on October 18

You’ve asked…we’ve answered. Here is a map so you can plan your parking. Be sure to give yourself plenty of time to walk. And remember you can show up whenever you like between 9 and 11.