keep aggressively reposting this because I think ~in these times~ what actually matters is *listening to trans kids* about their experiences given the opportunity, they're perfectly able to speak for themselves, despite the fact that they're being objectified into a political football by adults.

🚨NEW REPORT: The U.S. incarcerates women at a higher rate than almost any other country in the world So much for the “land of the free” 🧵

To @prisonculture.bsky.social’s point, imagine if you could do your work without constant threats of imprisonment, deportation, harassment, policing, and surveillance. That’s what the so-called Right has. Then add funders who don’t hem them up.

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

NGL I just read @jessicavalenti.bsky.social's roundup from yesterday and I am so utterly over this Planned Parenthood Medicaid thing. You're scared patients will get hurt? Welcome to my word for the last three years.

If Republicans really believed that America was a ‘pro-life’ nation, they wouldn’t have to work so hard to trick voters! What’s happening in Missouri right now is a blatant attack on democracy: jessica.substack.com/i/174038402/...

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

This photo is everything!! (Alaa with his remarkable mother Dr. Laila Soueif, who spent nearly 300 days on hunger strike to secure her son's release)

Contact the superintendent of the Lansing School district and voice your disgust. His is the first office listed www.lansingschools.net/departments/

Wherever you are, please attend an ICE Watch training. Then link up with a rapid response network, if you're able to do so. In Chicago, trainings are happening regularly. Once you manage to attend one, you can contact OCAD about getting plugged into a rapid response network.

I can’t recommend Kelly’s newsletter enough—it’s easily one of my most important reads week after week. Folks who can afford to do so will not regret become a paid subscriber.

It is a long running bipartisan position that ‘terror’ suspects can be killed without evidence or process and that ‘drugs’ are a major problem that require a military solution. Both wrong, but this is how we got here.

www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with... Here is the GoFundMe link in case anyone can donate to this brave kid and his family. Eleven years old jfc...would that all of us could have even a fraction of his willingness to do the right thing and protect the people around us

Yup. It’s not about winning over republicans; it’s about defeating the left

To anyone who followed Aadhaar’s rollout in India, the language is uncanny. Aadhaar’s ‘savings’ were derived from welfare denied. Countries need to pay attention to the language around surveillance tech in other countries. We’re all stumbling over different iterations of the same problems.

The "terrorist reclassification" was an extreme over interpretation by Ken Klippenstein that circulated purely as a headline and is active disinfo, there are a whole gaggle of left/lib journalists right now who have found their niche getting massive engagement by scaring the shit out of trans people

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

“A seventh-grade student in Michigan is being hailed by his family and community as a hero after he disarmed a classmate carrying a gun — but instead of being rewarded, he was expelled for failing to notify a teacher immediately.” newsbeyonddetroit.net/2025/09/21/m...

This story has been updated to reflect that these rumors are not true. So let’s make them real. See y’all Friday morning at 1930 Beach Street!

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Charles was my grad school advisor, a mentor and the author of the best book about organizing ever written.. www.zinnedproject.org/materials/iv...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t want my children to feel that I’m helpless. Even though we lost everything in the genocide, I try to smile with them… to show them that better days will come.😓 Every donation tells my kids: “You matter. Someone out there cares about you.” ❤️‍🩹 Please Donate or Share 🙏

Everything in me wants us to take a victory lap but there are two important points to keep in mind: 1. ICE might be saying this to get protesters to back off because we'll think the job is done. Stay vigilant. Don't take these liars at face value.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

This was always the goal and don’t forget that this happened because of the Democrats/Joe Biden. TikTok was in zero danger of being banned and the ban was non existent until Biden/Dems worked w Gallagher to revive it because people were using the app to speak out about Israel’s genocide.

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

The Philippines is also part of the United States' anti-Muslim crusade - complete with genocidal slaughter. Somehow (suspiciously) the Moro War has been memory holed, but that American failure is perhaps "the nation’s first “generational struggle.”

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism by Brian Kwoba. [just recently released] - uncpress.org/978146967535...

As of now, only $12K of the necessary $250K in legal fees have been raised to free Leqaa. If prisoners are the compass of the Palestinian struggle, they should be the compass of the Palestinian solidarity struggle as well.

This has been moving at less than a trickle. Please donate and share so that Leqaa can be brought home.

Global Sumud Flotilla Sails to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats unicornriot.ninja/2025/global-...

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Yes, this is clearly about Indian immigrant workers. Solidarity with other immigrants has always been our only option, but the Indian diaspora is rife with reactionary conservatism, anti-Blackness, classism, technocultism, and model minority myths that hinder real solidarities.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

Hi! We are fighting this tooth and nail and have been for years even though we lost a major foundation funder because of our vocal and effective opposition to KOSA. Anyhow here's our donate page ;-) www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/

Re pre: RT, we call people who bargain with fascists appeasers / collaborators. What we dont do is fuck with collaborators, and appeasement is rightly remembered by poli sci and history as the worst least effective diplomatic strategy of the 20th century

Hey everyone who’s not a New Yorker but following the Mamdani phenomenon: here’s a great new update on NYC mayoral race + fantastic interview with NYC organizer @petesikora.bsky.social linking #climate and affordable housing in the campaign. Master class in messaging. youtu.be/13yZsstG6Es?...

Lots of good information about digital operational and information security here www.turnoffyourphone.org

Klein’s entire political project has been problematizing minor transgressions of the left while insisting we excuse or valorize the cruelty of the right. Every few months he facilitates the ceding of more ground, assuring us it will protect whatever thing he will then insist we cede 3 months later.

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

President Trump is expected to restrict the H-1B visa program by issuing an order requiring a $100,000 fee for applications. Here's what to know about the H-1B.

Really don’t know how to reconcile the hegemonic belief in policing as absolutely necessary and deserving of sizable funding with the constant drumbeat from public officials who do not trust the police to keep them safe at all.

FFS. Kansas's referendum was overwhelming in favor of abortion rights, 59.2% vs. 40.8%. But, I'm sure that picking the losing side of the issue while completely alienating your base is the path to a Democratic Senate seat. Ezra can't even "centrist" right, by just following the polls.