Our only path to safety is to insist on fully shared, fully equal humanity, and to refuse to normalize hate and violence against anyone. (2/3)

This is a beautifully written article. If you want a look at the march this past weekend this is worth your time.

I can’t wait for the next president to create a fund that pays reparations to Black and Indigenous people without any Congress approval or oversight whatsoever.

Some of us have had this choad's number for a while now. For the rest of you, better late than never. Welcome to the club.

“Everything is “enshittifying” “ No you assholes Everyone is telling you flat out they aren’t “newly” reducing anything They want to take us back past labor rights and straight into slavery days But please banter more about how you not experiencing a segregated experience is a new phenomenon

Thanks to NYHTC, the essential work of housekeepers — so often ignored or demeaned — pays enough in NYC to lead a life of dignity. That’s the power of a union. At this moment of staggering inequality, we need more of it.

They’ve been at this here for a very long time in a very sustained campaign bsky.app/profile/msen...

impossible to overstate how much grads booing AI gives me life. and i think i might take on this behavior in public. like, some dork starts going on about AI? BOOOOOOOO. right there. loud enough so people stare.

The New York Times apparently not acting to fire the Canada bureau chief who included a fake AI quote in a story is a scandal! But they're not feeling the pressure because Futurism is one of the only newsrooms to even cover it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

thank goodness for the alt text; marge was lost

I wrote headlines and edited stories for many years, so I get rounding off the figure to $1.8 billion, but it obscures the message being sent by the actual amount of $1.776 billion.

FYI regarding Gaiman since his account is reactivated: If you want to disconnect from it, the correct order is unfollow, then block. If you forget to unfollow first, click on @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and unblock, then unfollow/block.

I have prayed at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Like me, the Muslim-Americans who were targeted today pray for peace, for the future of their kids, for a better tomorrow. That’s what we all hope and pray for. 1/

This is Amin Abdullah, the security guard at the Islamic Center of San Diego who died protecting his community and whose bravery very likely bought time for the students, teachers, and others at the mosque to find safety. A recent Facebook post gives you a sense of who he was.

New research from Yale and Johns Hopkins identifies microvascular endotheliopathy (inflammation and damage to small blood vessels) as a primary driver of long COVID brain fog. The study indicates that vascular damage from the initial infection leads to long-term neuroinflammation.

If you’re a gender nonconforming woman and not doing a complex “I’m so soft and cuddly and sweet and will do everything you ask” song and dance routine 24/7 you *will* be experienced as abrasive by a lot of people. There’s really no way around it.

There’s usually a point where your dancing shoes wear out and you realize how little the performance protected you anyway and you give up entirely and start communicating to anyone who isn’t a gender nonconforming woman in monosyllables. Or snarls when necessary.

Houston area folks: Looking for a last hurrah for crawfish season? Want to support free mental health access for Houston's food and beverage workers? Boy, do I have the event for you! Tickets at www.illhavewhatsheshaving.org/upcoming-eve...

Attended a graduation recently where the official made a point to thank the students she had contacted to ensure she could accurately pronounce their name. What a small act, taking the time to do something right, but those acts are WHO YOU ARE to other people. It's what they remember about you.

Myrtle does not own one single thought. I mean, why snuggle with your warm sleeping sisters when you could pretend to be a potato instead?

Save the condolences and statement of "there's no place for Islamophobia in the US." Of course there is. There's a place for it at your dinner table, on TV and in the White House. I say this as a Muslim, you can keep the words.

I say it all of the time because it's true: Islamophobia in the U.S. is absolutely one of the most tolerated forms of bigotry. It's everywhere, routine and rarely challenged. It's not surprising that teenagers who swim in this water from birth would also be Islamophobic.

"Banda and corridos permeate daily life in Northern Mexico, so rather than reject or avoid that legacy, many of these artists fold loving nods into their own musical adventures." In Cowboy Paradise, Discover Sinaloa’s Punk and Electronic Underground:

If you're one of those folks who's Deeply Concerned about how some bad actors are using some alt text to assist in genAI model development, well... I dunno what to tell you. Fascists use roads too but that doesn't mean I want those destroyed. Solve the fascist problem, not the road problem.

"She felt that Black women could find their voices by using them. Not by waiting until we’ve seen the world or somehow knew enough to get things perfect, but here & now—despite ridicule, repudiation, & limitation—we could try, we could call it & we see it, we could document it, we could remember...

1/ Something historic happened in Louisiana. After SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act & Gov.Landry canceled House primary to dismantle a Black congressional district, voters fired back the only way they had left.They nuked all five constitutional amendments. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Today's new word is "palimpsest," in the sense of "...something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface." In this thing I'm reading, it's talking about "palimpsestic art," or basically multiple things happening at once www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/p...

The deep commitment of the protesters and speakers came through. These are lawyers and legal aid professionals who are desperately trying to protect their clients. Much respect.

Impressive work by ALAA UAW 2325 getting so many passionate people to this demo on such short notice. Their chant game was impressive, too - some pretty wordy call and response (as might befit the legal profession), pulled off nicely!

City Council member @shahanafrombk.bsky.social and NY-10 candidate @bradlander.bsky.social both showed up.

A speaker said the woman who was forced to give birth in the courtroom was picked up for trespassing -- on her own roof. Other speakers talked about people being picked up for jumping subway turnstiles.

Big protest and march at Brooklyn Criminal Court and outside Brooklyn DA Gonzales's office in protest of this woman's treatment today. Organized by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys, UAW Local 2325.

Graduation season is on for a few more weeks, so there's still a chance we see a crowd rush the stage to tar and feather a tech bro speaker.

Whitest thing I’ve read all day. And given where I work, that’s quite a feat.

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

Space is the place is available to watch on the criterion channel 🚀

A friend is selling her mom's house in case there's someone here who needs a little house an hour south of Moose Jaw. www.realtor.ca/real-estate/...

This is really important analysis.

... and yet I am the only candidate in #CA14 who says we should prosecute these people. Meanwhile, other candidates are out here saying we need to run centrists to win over Trump voters in a deep blue seat. Genuinely feel like I am taking crazy pills.

A man apologized to me on Saturday. He was dickish so I turned around & walked tf off. He came up later, apologized & asked for a redo. There was a lot going on so it didn't really register, but I genuinely don't know how many times that has ever happened. Thank you, David. That meant quite a lot.

#OtD 18 May 1995 hundreds of workers at a factory in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, walked out on strike against non-payment of wages in March. By the end of the day they won, then continued the strike with new demands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9033...

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

what is a shitty camera for #ShittyCameraChallenge? well… here's the list nobody will enforce this rule. but everybody will see what you did.

Been working on this one for a while! Hopped from Atlanta to Oakland to SXSW to capture the creation of the wacky, warped "I Love Boosters," Boots Riley's big swing at making a summer blockbuster with a revolutionary heart www.newyorker.com

Just realized this link is wrong!! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This story on the LIRR strike has two points getting missed elsewhere: 1. It's happening only after 3 years of negotiations and 6 arbitration boards 2. Workers care about the passengers they're inconveniencing and know the cost of what they've been forced to do www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/on-the-lir...

“When we strike, we win!” Ran into striking LIRR workers. Solidarity!

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This helped me check and I immediately unfollowed him. I also gave away any books and merch I owned before moving from NYC to Toronto.