"AI" won't clean your drinking water (data centres will slurp that up anyway) "AI" won't lower your bills (algorithmic pricing will take whatever you have left) "AI" won't improve services (a racist chatbot isn't going to help you) Magic beans are a bad investment (unless you're selling them)

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

Mutual Aid needed as SNAP benefits were cut and I have no way of getting food for the month! Below are ways to help and thank you to all the contributions and the collaborators who helped get this word out! Venmo: Jasper-Steinline CashApp: $sideshowguyo7 PayPal: @ isaacjasper

In other good news, my health is starting to turn around, I just need to keep up the momentum.

Another submission made. With any luck 2026 will be the year I become an unescapable nuisance, with writing everywhere.

After reversing decades of civil rights gains, Trump's next goal: disenfranchise Black voters | Opinion ->The Philadelphia Inquirer | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Starvation is always a policy choice. Just like homelessness.

"No, you see, you don't understand governance-- we're holding the food hostage until we can take away your healthcare, duh!"

Give 'em hel Mamdani!

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

SNAP being cut/paused the first of Native Heritage month is the most American bullshit ever. ensuring community is fed & taken care, you’re checking on neighbors and treating the most vulnerable like kin is a great way to “celebrate” Native Heritage month.

If you haven't seen me much it's because I am wrestling with finishing a metric ass ton of work due before 2026.

Four days before the Louvre heist catapulted museum security to the global stage, thieves in California snatched more than 1,000 items, including Native American artifacts, from a Bay Area museum.

Slowly chipping away at the work in front of me, two writing assignments finished, now to cook some halloween treats. Time to make CANDY CORN !!!!!!!!!!!!

No horror movie comes close to the horror of the climate crisis. The worst part? It’s already here. We are seeing the devastation of our heating world happening in real time. The people in charge can still change this.

I'm going to be here. You all should come, too. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

I am committed to compiling a NC research triangle area media list in the next 24 hours but if anyone has one concealed conveniently about their person I would appreciate getting a peek at it. In other words, does anyone have a list of NC research triangle media for a press release?

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli

There's a chance that the kidnappers & murderers of Indigenous females are out in the cities of America continuing their evil ways right now. They've already so-called lost some of the detained/deported victims. Others were allowed to die. A lot more have died than have been reported.🙁

feeling crushed, financially, right now. I would say I'm hating capitalism today, but I hate capitalism every day.

Gov & Politics Health Indigenous Affairs Native Americans want to avoid past Medicaid enrollment snafus as work requirements loom Tribal leaders say they are concerned Indigenous enrollees could lose coverage, despite exemptions made by Congress 1/13

LOL We’re all gonna die.

I was already a hard AI-skeptic but this cements my long suspicion that there is no feasible path to anything close to return on invested capital for these data centers. Tech would need 15 to 25 times current AI revenues within the next 2-3 years just to break even. Not financially viable.

www.11alive.com/article/news... institutionalized cruelty.

antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one

Greasy Grass Press will no longer be publishing The Bees Made Honey In The Rick Man's Skull series. Unfortunately the company will be dissolving due to factors that take out indie publishers every year. That said it will be available somewhere next year.

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Maybe the most infuriating part of this is that if you just gave most of these people $4200 a month they’d find their own damn housing and get their lives back on track

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

LOLOLOL WHAT buddy, this is all the things you wrought, what the fuck, you need to keep it in your nose like the smell of poo that it always was

1921 Tulsa Oklahoma, 1986 Philadelphia, 2025 Chicago Illinois…

Last week was a shit week, for me, personally, and for the fam as a whole, I am hoping this one is better.

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Also notice how much anti vaxxers pushed so much propaganda about heavy metals. And taking dewormers to detox. Meanwhile when u point out the corporations that mass produce lead, mercury, arsenic and Cadmium laced products of their fave corporations. Suddenly it's crickets.

A shocking incident unfolded in Chicago when about 300 ICE agents descended from Blackhawk helicopters onto an apartment building, rounding up everyone living there. Many residents, according to witnesses, were pulled outside in zip ties, wearing little or no clothing. #Chicago #USDemocracy #NoKings

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami #booksky #quotes #readers #indieauthor #library #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #📚💙

Unions nwu.org

Lets talk about "Soft Banning" in schools and in publishing. Unlike Kimmel writers are not as able to rally huge numbers at a moments notice, but they (we) are on the front lines of the suppression of ideas. How can writers deal with this problem with precious little support? #booksky

And please remember when military brass is asked how they’re going to respond to the President saying they’re going to be a big part of fighting the “enemy within” it’s not the “purity” people or woke left who put them in the position to have to answer that question. Donald Trump did.

being a Serious Political Pundit means watching today's speech where the president announces his desire to have the military murder liberals and penning a column about how the woke mind virus is about to become a victim of its own excesses

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

Contrast this with Hegseth honoring soldiers who massacred women and children.

The US is collapsing. The Invasion of Portland because too many people there are ideologically opposed to fascism, the request to the SCOTUS to end birthright citizenship, these are the final nails in the coffin. Tribal Citizens will be among the first to lose our citizenship, 45 said it in January.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Concentration camps? Forced labor? Sexual assault? No, that's what Nazis do. That could never... Woops.