A mantra I sometimes say to myself in my head is "try not to give more consideration to the possibility that someone might be right than they have given to the possibility that they might be wrong". By this metric, I think Ezra Klein's opinions are worth exactly zero minutes of consideration.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6

Look up #Tinu. Big time fundraiser who DIED because we couldn't raise enough to get her out of Texas. And by we, I mean an international network of activists with serious cumulative reach. Elon killed a lot of us by severely damaging that network. We continue in her name. #ForTinu

“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” Assata Shakur

the world is upside down, the appropriate response to deafening silence in the wake of mass-disabling of our children is to scream at the top of your lungs. That's what Violet was doing on Tuesday. That's not anxiety, that's humanity. /end

A few days out from #UNGA80, I wanted to reflect on the session we took part in and the media responses since. Mount Sinai was one of the 150 organizations that signed the global pledge to advocate for healthy indoor air. The event itself featured four panels of speakers who 1/

Re: today's march in Chicago at 1 pm at 50 W Washington: I have seen some people posting complaints about this march that don't make sense, and I want to respond. First, some people complain that folks should take action in affected communities. They are. It's called rapid response. (Thread.)

They were funny, respected, well-loved activists. They were rightfully scared about what COVID could do to them. They were “the vulnerable”—chronically ill Black women who needed $$ for healthcare costs—the government wanted, and wants, us to find acceptable to abandon. They knew what was happening.

I remember when Hudson tweeted this. It was one of her last tweets.

Tinu talked about how she got sick from unmasked healthcare workers at her chemo appts, and they *still* wouldn’t mask when asked. Medical workers. Who administer chemotherapy. Who wouldn’t mask to protect patients with cancer.

It especially makes my blood boil when people treat COVID conscious people like they’re over dramatic or oddities to be amused by when I think about Tinu Abayomi-Paul and Shafiqah Hudson.

Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

BREAKING Sinclair Media says it’s ending the preemption of the Jimmy Kimmel show and that the show will start airing again this evening on Sinclair stations.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

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This is so brilliant. It's a concrete action with immediate benefits that can be performed incrementally

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Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

They've lost the 9yos

I have given entire talks on why The Nightmare Before Christmas is, almost certainly in spite of Tim Burton, a fantastic educational tool on how cultural appropriation works. On how consuming a cultural touchpoint for your own, and then regurgitating it and missing the point, lessens the thing.

YOU try doctoring crime scene evidence in a hurry with only the items you have on you and let's see how good of a job you do, alright?

Everyone wants to be the kids laughing at the bully’s antics but no one wants to admit it but they also don’t ever want the scapegoat of the bully to actually fight back Everyone believes the lie about Columbine being about their hurt fees and not them being racist homicidal assholes

NEW: At a UN event today, advocate Violet Affleck gave a short speech on pediatric #LongCOVID. She also talked about how clean air and masking could help address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and protect children from the disabling disease. thesicktimes.org/2025/09/23/v...

If something you did caused harm to our community, you don't get to tell people "mind your business." It is literally our business. It may not feel good to read. It may not be a big deal to you. But with everything we know about ai harming Black communities, speaking up IS minding our business.

Oh I have no doubt. Now that it’s hit just blatant censorship, we will also get the regurgitation of everything , every “wrong” Black, Queer , immigrant, Rural, disabled and Native person was punished for saying Seen as “brave” in the mouths of more “acceptable” people

All the Jews have to die or convert to trigger the rapture. Then our dead bodies surround Jerusalem and they climb over us to reach Jesus, who will bring them to heaven. It’s why they’re all Zionists obsessed with Israel. Cause they need Jews to go there so we can die. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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I've never heard them talk like this. They're more than pissed-off; it's like a switch was flipped and they received a massive data upload.

“limiting face coverings and opening officers up to prosecution would most likely hurt recruitment and drive officers from the state” So nobody will want to be a police officer if they’re not allowed to commit crimes with impunity?

I’m at a community meeting about resisting ICE in Chicago. There are about 400 people in this high school auditorium. Chicago is showing up.

I've really come to think that many people recoil from climate politics, as they did from Covid politics, not *in spite* of the fact that the problem obviously calls for (can only be solved by) solidarity & cooperation, but *because* of it.

(And of course I'm using "black people" as a stand-in here for basically any Other. Anyone other than them.)

They'll rip out a public pool before they let black people share it, and they'll sacrifice their own families & lives before they'll sacrifice to protect black people. Sure, they'd be protecting themselves too. But *they'd be protecting black people*. A fundamental violation of hierarchy. No.

Why? Because "we're all in it together" -- or more precisely, "we all must join in and sacrifice some of our immediate individual interests in the name of long-term collective welfare" -- is diametrically opposed to hierarchy & domination, which are the fundamentals of authoritarian psychology.

If there's one thing Covid should have demonstrated to everyone, it's that there are lots of people who would rather put their own communities & families at risk, would literally rather *die*, than submit to the call for solidarity. It's that repellant to them.

YES and this is acute among white people, this has to be said.

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HOW GOOD IS THIS This is how you speak truth to power and use your privilege.

Right wing when Colin Kapernick took a knee: Keep politics out of football Right wing when a hate speech fueled vlogger is killed: Moment of silence demanded. How dare this team not do that?!!!

we knew this from the data but there really is nothing these freaks love to do more than assault women

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".