it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

The Sun-Times is reporting Border Patrol took at least two teenage boys today when they hit Little Village, again. One is said to be a 16-year old student, U.S. citizen, and student at Benito Juarez Community Academy.

researchers found that elkhorn and staghorn corals — two species once fundamental to the structure of Florida’s reef — are now “functionally extinct” in the state" What scientists saw underwater in Florida left them “shocked” — and devastated - flip.it/PP5hSo

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina voters are once again asking a federal court to step in after Republican lawmakers pushed through what they call an “unnecessary, mid-decade redistricting” that dismantles long-standing Black opportunity districts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"You inhale richly and muse aloud that you love being off-grid, as the lights of a 7-Eleven glitter in the near distance. You’re about as off-grid as the Times Square T-Mobile."

Overhearing my students review the list of former FEMA administrators before their exam. “Who’s Michael brown?” “Is he the current one?” “Nah, bro. He’s the one who flamed it during Katrina” The kids know things.

"Provincial officials allied with the Trump regime have jailed a political dissident for over a month after he made comments on social media critical of the authoritarian leader and a recently slain political ally who founded an influential group to radicalize America's 'White' ethnic majority."

Turkey ready to participate in Gaza peacekeeping mission - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/turkey-ready-participate-peacekeeping-mission-gaza

This is real life.

Nearly a year after a US-brokered truce was meant to bring calm to Lebanon’s southern border, thousands of displaced families remain unable to return home. Israeli strikes continue to pound the south, destroying homes, farms, and the few signs of recovery.

Massive increases in military and RCMP spending while cutting social programs that help working families. Trampling on Indigenous rights and cementing more corporate power and control. Neoliberalism at its finest

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

It's amazing the degree to which this country is being taken over by nazis. Meanwhile, a solid portion of the left from centrist libs to leftists are defending a fucking totenkopf tattoo. This is bleak as hell.

Israel’s incarceration and torture of Palestinians is central to its settler colonial project, yet global solidarity with prisoners is weak, writes Zoe Paris ⬇️

Trump “wants us to believe that Portland, Oregon, in my home state, is full of chaos and riots. Because if he can say to the American people that there are riots, he can say there’s a rebellion. And if there’s a rebellion, he can use that to strengthen his authoritarian grip on our nation.”

"One rock? Okay, fine. But every house in the neighborhood? This was obviously a coordinated effort to humiliate our family." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-l...

Palestinian bodies released by Israel came from infamous Sde Teiman detention centre - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestinian-bodies-released-from-sde-teiman-detention-centre

Israeli army and settlers have carried out 158 attacks against olive pickers since the start of the current season

Russia spent another night attacking civilians in latest wave of terrorist attacks on Ukraine.

the extraction class desperately wants to turn the internet into a badly automated ouroboros of engagement slop that shits ad money with no pesky labor but researchers across three universities found that the more LLMs are trained on clickbait slop, the worse and more "hostile" the models become

“The risk isn’t that AI will replace frontend jobs. It’s that it will replace the ones that were already replaceable.” denodell.com/blog/ai-is-j...

From Monday: Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

🧵 Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

Holy shit. Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs. The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds. What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.

have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away

Publicize the heck out of this fact as the Speaker of the House collaborates with the American president to, literally, take food from babes. (SNAP benefits for ALL poors cut off.)

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Someone went there: "It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It" via @futurism.com futurism.com/future-socie...

What GOP Lawmakers Are Costing the US Economy to Avoid Funding Healthcare talkingpointsmemo.com/news/governm...

the kids are alright

“It’s literally a kid’s worst nightmare having someone come take your parents in the middle of the night,” said one advocate. “No matter the outcome, you are turning a kid’s life upside down.” #FamiliesBelongTogether

the truth is that this isn't a theocracy and jesus isn't my fucking king

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak! But media elites find that boring.

He caught Starshield—the defense version of Starlink—using bands reserved for uplink (Earth to orbit) to send downlinks (orbit to Earth). Likely because 1) the bands are rarely used (this use violates int’l agreements) and/or 2) they are frequently shifting bands to hide the classified signals.

It’s wild that they don’t consider how bad the optics are… what a colossal waste of money And imagine if they just … didn’t escalate the violence?

The people using their voices to be seen and heard.

I stand with Eslam — her account @soma-eslam.bsky.social was unfairly suspended. Please email [email protected] and ask Bluesky to restore it. Every message counts — let’s help her get her voice and community back.

Just when I’m on the verge of giving up on humanity, people have the nerve to go out there and be creative, funny, brave, and beautiful.

“There's something wrong when you have one country ruining, leveling another country. No matter what started it.” Renown scientist Bill Nye shares his thoughts on Gaza with @premthakker.bsky.social at the ’No Kings’ rally in Washington, DC.

Trump refuses to respect the fact that Congress has the power of the purse “That’s yet another part of the Constitution that Trump is fully flushing down the toilet, and arguably the most important one,” From @ryanlcooper.com and @ddayen.bsky.social: trib.al/OJlcolj

"The war in Sudan is distorted in Western media." "This is a war against civilians and against a truly pro-democracy revolution." "[W]e need to emphasize the interconnectedness of these conflicts and the collective role of regional/global powers." #Sudan #Healthcare #Genocide

The dramatic actions are a direct challenge to president Claudia Sheinbaum's administration, demanding an end to NAFTA flexibilities and other policies that farmers say are destroying their livelihoods. The full story: lataco.com/mexican-farm... By @theglutster.bsky.social

No kid should ever have to protest or advocate for their friends’ basic humanity. But they’re standing up at No Kings anyway.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

I’ve got an idea about how to get people to care about climate change.

You can judge any city by the quality and vitality of its places for public life. Here in Torino Italy it’s the many piazzas, the pedestrian streets, & the public market. Many cities had to claim these places back from cars. Don’t have those kinds of places in your city? Are you sure you’re a city?

Lots of families are seeing their donations go down since the ceasefire which is understandable but also they’ve lost everything and are hoping to rebuild or at least give their kids a stable home through the winter- if you can help ❤️

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"