En route to Brooklyn Criminal Court where a rally is planned in protest against a woman forced to give birth shackled to a bench in the courtroom. Details shared by Courtwatch NYC include staff cracking jokes, refusing to unshackle her, photographing her, & more: www.instagram.com/p/DYdGDciiXOC/

Now: About 100 rank and file Legal Aid Society attorneys and allies are rallying outside Brooklyn Criminal Court after a woman was forced to give birth in arraignment. They’re discussing other instances of clients dying in custody & harsher punishments for NYC’s poor.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

What is to stop Trump from, say, suing the Department of Education next and demanding another 1 Billion dollars for his supporters? What is to stop those supporters from taking half their money and putting it in Trump crypto? He has stolen over a billion dollars in broad daylight.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office issued a nationwide arrest warrant on Monday for the ICE agent who allegedly shot a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and then lied about the circumstances that led to the shooting.

My man looks like he directed an arthouse biopic about the Pillsbury Doughboy.

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My guess is that the percentage of Americans who are aware that we are blockading and immiserating a neighboring country is in the single digits. Its not an invasion, but involves the use of American military force with the intent of collapsing the government.

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

Every time I open Bluesky,

An entire generation of feminists were thrown in jail for distributing pamphlets on birth control, which violated Comstock, incl. Emma Goldman, who was eventually deported from the US (not the only reason, but one of them) Birth control, abortion access—all a right we with uteruses are entitled to

Read this as many times as you need to.

Yet again women do not seem to count anywhere in these guys' analysis. There is a non-consensual AI p*rn robot on that website, it is not safe for women to be on there, especially leftist women. Ironically, they are unable to imagine material constraints on other people's choices

We need to just stop defining college as a training ground for corporate employment. Cut the corporate welfare and force the fucking corporations to train their own workers. A democracy’s interest in higher education is in creating thoughtful and informed citizens, not corporate drones.

People of the Irish diaspora: you were colonized. Reconnect with your language!

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

My newest YouTube video is unfortunately in algorithm jail, but everyone who did watch it loved it. I think you'll like it too! Go on, don't be shy: youtu.be/aKNoxMlPSfY

One good thing that entertainment journalists covering The Odyssey can do is never to ask Nyong'o, Page, or Nolan about this. When a prominent racist and transphobe says something racist and transphobic, go make his life miserable and leave his targets alone. They have nothing to defend or explain.

We need a new word for the special type of colonial/capitalist brain rot that leads to this unhinged desire to control everything around you and burn the environment to ashes to prevent even a single nanosecond of discomfort or boredom

a thing I have learned this week is that it’s difficult to write about parenting because everyone looks at what you wrote and sees their own parents. lots of misplaced anger. I’m not your mom!

Toronto! Come share food and Irish culture at this community event! I'll be teaching two songs in Irish 😊

New sumo heads may wonder why the ‘refs’ are so SWAGGED OUT. They’re called Gyōji. They’re bound by & carry on Shinto traditions. They are monitored & ranked like rikishi. Judges can overrule them. The scrutiny they face would kill an NBA official. Clothes get better with rank. I’ll post gyōjis ⬇️

Don't assume that I don't know how to read merely because I've massively misinterpreted what you wrote. I actually understood it perfectly, I'm just also annoying

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

While there are those who protest and host observation hubs for mobile community watch, several local artists are showing solidarity through their work, recognizing that art can be revolutionary. The full story: lataco.com/anti-ice-tat... By Izzy Ramirez

We need a new word for the special type of colonial/capitalist brain rot that leads to this unhinged desire to control everything around you and burn the environment to ashes to prevent even a single nanosecond of discomfort or boredom

As a Native person, when I tell you America is the same as it’s always been since white foreigners stepped here, I hope you believe me.

GIVING KIDS THIRD SPACES AGAIN TO BE OUTSIDE AND NOT ON THEM PHONES! A MAYOR!

"True Luddism was about locating exactly where elites were using technologies to the disadvantage of the human being, and organizing to fight back. This is an important point: Luddism can and certainly did coexist with technology, and even a love of technology. 1/

This is currying favor with the right wing outdoorsman set, softening them for when they move to extract resources for private profit from public land, destroying it in the process.

do you even read? do you even read angela's ashes bro?

Strikes, protests, mutual aid: To be effective at movement building, it's essential to be able to talk to people. Step one, every single time, is having conversations with people around you about taking action:

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

Lots of fun surprises in NYT's 100 best restaurants lol

If you need organizing advice, my YouTube comments section is the place to get it ❤️ youtu.be/aKNoxMlPSfY

I'm feeling very tender today. How are you feeling?

I recently sat in an hour-long car drive with two American commercial property developers and a tech entrepreneur, listening to them talk; by the end of the trip I was ready to join the Red Brigade.

Fun fact: Listening to a real rich person talk for less than a minute increases the average person's agreement with the statement "Eat the rich!" five-fold.

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Healing our trauma is essential if we want to build a better world. So much of the work is learning to emotionally regulate so we can have difficult conversations with other people, including people whose politics we don't 100% align with. Full video: youtu.be/aKNoxMlPSfY

It's unclear to me whether he's being racist against the Irish (archaic, hilarious) or whether he's Irish and mad that I'm not racist enough (insane, also hilarious) but maybe he lost his communication skills in the same place he lost his shirt

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

Why is trauma healing so essential to collective liberation? New video essay out now:

Pursue wonder. Pursue joy. Pursue understanding. Physics is for you (and astronomy and evolution and paleontology and chemistry and history and anthropology and linguistics and and and and and and...).

What? A new video is out already, so soon after the last one? That's right, that's how much I love y'all

A few months ago, a reader asked us if we'd post about her dog, Stella, who'd just passed away. While there are plenty of places to put remembrances of humans online, there aren't too many options for people who want to memorialize their pets. So we made one. www.coyotemedia.org/bay-area-pet...

Omg you guys I really am becoming more like my ancestors, I got called a slur LMFAO

Capitalism lives in the eternal "now". It doesn't want you to know about history, it doesn't want you to know art has existed for tens of thousands of years, it wants you slavering for whatever's coming NEXT, whatever's HOT and NEW, and ignoring everything else. You do not have to do this.