Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

To be very clear, the mass deaths of millions, children or not, has to be named as his explicit goal, and that of this administration. There is no garbing it in nice words any more.

Hi friends. As your hottie friend doing work on data centers, I am BEGGING you to stop using AI. It is not worth the increase in your electricity bills. the increase in water bills the emergency room visits the droughts the degradation of ecosystems the fatalities the racism

Chloe Alberta reads from her flash piece RENAISSANCE featured in our NOVEMBER ISSUE. ✨ You can find the whole piece right here! buff.ly/OjkvGSN

Wow. This is….incredible. I can’t wait to dig into the details.

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

it absolutely rules that the N&O is running, and promoting, this story. newspapers in any city ICE threatens should consider doing the same.

Someone on the other site posted wallace shawn canvassing for Zohran Mamdami and I will never miss a moment to post one of the most moving pieces of writing ever written by an American Socialist... www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Celebrating the work of our trans and queer contributors today and every day! Check out a few pieces from our archive we hope stay with you beyond the blog. buff.ly/554vznz

When I talk about how not only is it a beautiful thing to be warned about potential violence and how to keep yourself safe- but that all people should *expect* clear and detailed expectations of actions- this is what that looks like.

Look at academia giving me a little hope

A good reason to try to avoid getting Covid! Wear a mask when you're indoors or in a crowd to save yourself and others this sort of pain (not to mention Long Covid)

Check out the replies for bail and relief funds for L.A.

Yes, please!!💥🌺

Elon Musk’s AI data centers polluting Black communities so that his Nazi followers can ask his chatbot questions is a perfect distillation of why AI is fascist technology

RIP Virginia Giuffre Thank you for your courage ❤️

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I’m not going to tell people how to feel about protests… at least not today. Instead, I’ll recommend Sarah Schulman’s book about ACT UP. It’s not just a history of the organization; she also talks strategy in a very practical way, especially regard coalitions.

Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.

📣National P.O. Soapbox Day, Sat 5/3 Host a #HandsOffUSPS teach-in & take action to #SaveThePostOffice 💌 WE provide Toolkit & Teach-In Materials (coming this week!) 💌 YOU arrange location or online platform to host your own community teach-in. Stay tuned! More info SOON. usps-teach-in.carrd.co

Finally: LONG COVID. Post-Viral Epidemiology is up. -symptoms -why it happens -who believes in it -why it sucks so bad -what you can do Dr. Wes Ely is THE guy when it comes to Long Covid. Spread this around to anyone it might help -- which is everyone. www.alieward.com/ologies/post...

New — Judge has DENIED the Trump administration's motion to dismiss Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit, orders his case to be transferred to New Jersey, and not Louisiana, per the Trump admin's wishes. The judge also reaffirmed a previous ruling blocking the deportation of Khalil.

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people: SHARE WIDELY these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

A good part of my job is to read extremely concerning studies in order to compose cross-sectional view of What's At Stake and work out ways to engage stakeholders This is, without hyperbole, the most concerning thing I have read in a long time www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

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A doctor has been serving one of Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods for decades — and if his patients can’t pay, that’s OK with him. So when he was diagnosed with cancer, his community rallied to raise $100,000 for his treatments.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

Happy Twin Peaks Day to all who celebrate! Also happy birthday to me

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

I know this is tiny so check the alt text. Y’all gotta leave me alone about a one day boycott—it’s got to start with one day and hold. Retailers won’t notice one day. They have several bad days a month.

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Sharing this spreadsheet again of Black families in Altadena who need our help; Altadena is a historically Black community and there are real fears that this is what permanently displaces people who have lived in the area for 30 or 40 years. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

fiction subs at @atticusreview.bsky.social close at the end of the weekend, folks! if you're waiting for a sign, consider this it ✨

"I was just a lounge man with nothing to my name, but he liked my voice. It had distance, no distinct qualities, watery, he said, in fact, and malleable." ~Enter the world voice-work~ with this piece from @meikoko.bsky.social in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social 🎙️

"The more they drink, the closer they get until they are brushing our shoulders and whispering in our ears. Until they are bestowing compliments like shiny gold stickers." Stay warm with this flash about intimacies~ by Isabelle Ness in @atticusreview.bsky.social atticusreview.org/camila-and-me/

"And I know now I have a reason to break the rules, a reason I’d never had before. I promise it’s a good one." Check out this tender time-traveling tale from Angelica Terso in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social! atticusreview.org/a-time-trave...

"The Angel Gabriel gives me a going away present: a faceted stone pulsing with unearthly light. He says if I swallow the stone it will lodge in my core, keeping me warm on long nights alone." Frances Klein gives us angelic flash in @atticusreview.bsky.social Issue 6!

“A wolf would never let a parent-teacher conference last an hour-and-a-half,” Tallulah said, slipping a mask over her head. “A wolf would rip off the mother’s face.” Check out Melissa Darcey Hall's "Domesticated" in Issue 6 of @atticusreview.bsky.social!

Thank you @atticusreview.bsky.social for publishing this piece and thank you @zkennedylopez.bsky.social for the edits! atticusreview.org/expectant-bo...

issue 6 of Atticus Review is live!!

you've got one day left #authors !

[girl from the ring voice] two daysssssss

(fiction subs @atticusreview.bsky.social close in 1 week, pass it on)

Strange Horizons ran a special Palestine issue in 2021, the year of the last major Israeli bombing of Gaza. Please read these stories. It won’t help the current situation in any way, but Israel is intent on the genocide of the Palestinian people, and this includes their culture. Help keep it alive.

Read Palestinian books! Now and always. Here is my brand new list of 25 of my recommendations, books I loved. Including more than 25 different authors! Fiction, poetry, anthologies, comics, kidlit... You'll find something just for you. Then go advocate for a ceasefire.

Write your representatives to demand a call for ceasefire. Action Network helps you find your reps contact info, click here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-ceasefire-now?source=direct_link&

happy weekend, sunday crowd~ @atticusreview.bsky.social is still reading fiction for issue six! so far we’ve accepted pieces about: - the angel gabriel - roosters - time travel - reincarnation (maybe) - and more~ we brought on some new readers recently, too! keep them busy 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼