On Red Cup Day at corporate Starbucks stores across the country, @sbworkersunited.org members are mobilizing and fighting for a fair contract. No contract? NO COFFEE! ✊

So it wasn't the rich people gobbling up the housing market, like in every other country? Sure.

Sometimes I wonder what people from other countries get out of wandering around bluesky and replying "well most of America voted to starve" but I suspect I will never understand the kind of person who would find that satisfying on any level.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

Amok, amok, amok, amok!

Probably because we have completed the coven's major task: ruining the workplace.

Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO.

Notably: every single rally (including in the small towns) was bigger than the surrounding police force available. That kind of image event is VERY IMPORTANT if you're, I dunno, demonstrating social coherence AGAINST a fascist government and it's makeshift gestapo.

THIS

Fun and play are often a part of social movements as the people trust the larger group to hold their values as the conflict with the state expands. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle in 1999 were full of folks dressed like loggerhead turtles and dolphins and stuff dancing to RATM. Very fun + serious.

And the thread that inspired those quotes here: bsky.app/profile/drli...

As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:

Grateful for the last word in today's newsletter from @hcrichardson.bsky.social. Protests are important because the give people the opportunity to expand their threshold for risk and to trust that people share their values.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

Some good news: “The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.”

Good morning! 🪶

"Now on ITV: 'Peer Review' - hosted by Mary Beard. 15 senior academics locked in Piddleston College, Bantshire University seek to find which of them is actually Reviewer Number 2"

REVIEWER 2

It was never about women's rights, it was always just about "ewww, trans people are icky, get rid of them" with a load of post hoc rationalisations on top to sweeten the bigotry for the general public.

Politicians cutting domestic abuse shelter fundings and causing financial crisis where women are unable to leave abusers and end up murdered. Of course they jump on vilifying a scapegoat to act as if trans people are harming women when the harm comes them and austerity politics in Westminster

The fact that the global trans panic is helmed by conservatives who believe in the subjugation of women being a natural consequence of biology should have maybe been a clue

“But to me, the time, energy and money spent protecting the definition of “woman” would be better spent advocating for the vital and crumbling network of organisations that actually protect women.” It is all very “Look at that trans woman over there!”, rather than the real issue which is cis men!

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“On a budget of just twenty-four dollars per American—out of the fifteen thousand dollars in taxes paid per person last year—they had saved lives at an almost unimaginable scale.” $24 dollars per tax payer was saving hundreds of thousands of lives. Musk cut USAID & killed more than 600,000 people

Evidence that being "gender critical" has nothing to do with listening to women. Women have made it clear that trans women are welcome in the ladies' pond at Hamstead Heath, and now a small group of transphobes is going to court to override them.

4. ... patients even more sick. Co-infection with influenza and Covid-19 is bad enough; with potentially no vaccination coverage for either disease it carries a significant risk of fatality. Simply put: the eligibility criteria for Covid-19 vaccination will lead to deaths. /end

3. Record numbers of people will be hospitalised for influenza. Because a large percentage of these people will not have had a recent Covid-19 booster (due to this year's extremely tight eligibility criteria), nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infection will make hospitalised influenza...

It is utterly insane to claim that BBC News has a “pro-trans bias”, when they are currently publishing articles in which they describe trans women as “a biological male who identifies as a woman”. That isn’t them quoting anyone, that is them choosing to use the language of gender critical bigots.

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

$24 dollars per tax payer funded USAID. $36 funds SNAP, a program which feeds 42 million Americans. This is where the current regime chooses to extract its “savings”. They don’t cut the budget for ICE or war. They don’t stop subsidizing billionaires. They take from the most vulnerable.

A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF” Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!

They say they represent women’s interests. But the women who actually use the pond have already spoken for themselves - they want the ponds to be inclusive. This is why Not In Our Name exists - to show that most women believe inclusion, dignity, and respect go hand in hand. 2/5

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

Found not guilty of assault with a deli weapon

Ruined it with all their pink, shimmery keyboards and lunch totes and tampons everywhere

“That is what makes it so morally bewildering to me that these culture war clowns are supposed to be a bastion of women’s rights. While they try to strip the dignity from a marginalised minority, frontline women’s services are on the verge of collapse.” 👉 archive.ph/ivFo2

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

My guest on today's episode is @amandalitman.bsky.social of Run for Something. She knows better than anyone how the old guard Democratic leadership resists letting fresh blood in. But she also explains that young people aren't waiting for permission. www.youtube.com/shorts/i0HZS...

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another." 🗣️📢 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

The shocking knitting scandal rocking Shetland deserves more attention. It's got everything - Fair Isle tank tops, cutting, "peeries", needle lengths, yarn thickness, and most controversially, crochet. 🐑 🐑 I don't know what Tom Daley is looking so smug about.

"conservative feminism" lmao

I remember reading about how identity papers in some places include ethnic group or religion and thinking "huh the only reason to do that would be to make it easier to discriminate" and then realizing the same thing applies to gender markers.

Reminder: It benefits nobody in a way to list sex assigned at birth on passports, there is no requirement to include it, this is just about punishing trans etc. Americans.

Judge McConnell basically walked them through the math, called all their arguments bullshit, and entered the order that the gov't stop playing games with the money while kids go hungry. Didn't even give the gov't the chance to respond.

McConnell on children going hungry: "This Should Never Happen in America." He goes back to gov't's argument being pretextual, citing numerous statements made by Trump and his adminisrtration over the last week.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fund food stamps in full for roughly 42 million low-income Americans, after admonishing the government for delaying aid during the shutdown. Thank you, Judge John J. McConnell Jr.!

Wow.