here's a grid of all the stuff i really liked in the music world that was released this year! album of the year (AOTY) 2025:

weekly listening for the first time in a while

Good thread. I am always thinking about how "constitutional sheriffs" rewrote Parks's story to fit their narrative.

Viktor noticed that Bluesky started muting posts that had the word Palestinian in it without their say so and pointed that out

More union-busting bullshit! After a handful of years of increasing worker power/unwillingness to take or do shitty jobs, they’re now creating an atmosphere of fear in workplaces. “Speak up and lose your job” seems to be the current mantra for leadership across industries.

Have you ever gone to pay your rent and there's a $3 fee on top of rent? Or maybe it costs $10 to pay with a credit card? Yeah. So that convenience/junk fee is actually illegal in several states. Landlords do this all the time — but it's often illegal and makes the lease void.

PHILLY: Apparently there’s a protest “against gun violence scheduled to start at 3pm today and go from the Art Museum into Kensington. The chuds *will be armed and open-carrying* and several local schools have already sent students home out of caution. Cops are already at the Art Museum.

In These Times has great new articles on how workers pension $$$ is being invested in corporations that are bad for workers, the economy and democracy. inthesetimes.com/article/fina...

"by" implies multiply by .5 (i was taught by = x aka multiply) "in half" would mean divide 90 in half so there's 2 answers here depending on your rigidity to syntax but technically only one correct answer

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward. "We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

1974-2025

don't you dare put any of this two-state solution zionist bullshit on my timeline on this anniversary wtf is wrong with you

Billionaires market tech as innovation & disruption but the truth is AI—& the data centers that power it—are replicating old systems of harm and exploitation. Show up on 10/15 and demand that people, not billionaire, drive how Philly uses tech: phillytechjustice.org/hearing

fuck ice airing commercials during dynamite, let em know: help.hbomax.com/us/Feedback/ tbsnetwork.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/req...

A new report finds that hundreds of people have been charged with so-called “pregnancy-related crimes” in the two years following the Supreme Court’s overturn of abortion protections in the U.S.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

i was in the ER puking my brains out to the point of not being able to breathe/lips turning purple i can assure you i was not focused on anything but aiming my vomit into the bag

There are 2 Black Democratic Senators….. Imagine going along with this.

Illinois police officer killed a preschooler 19 seconds after entering his home, Kelly X. Hui reports. Terrell Miller was just 4 years old when Macomb Police Lt. Nick Goc shot him & his mother’s partner while responding to a domestic violence call. Goc has faced no repercussions.

make no mistake, this is exactly what Mayor Parker and the rest of City Council want. The blood will always be on their hands.

“Ms. Cahill needed help and the city took her and locked her away. And it resulted in her death.” www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

In 2015, LaKeith Smith, then 15 years old, and four friends broke into unoccupied homes. A responding police officer shot and killed one of Smith’s friends. Then, police charged the rest of the teens with felony murder.

cant believe that this is the first-ever time that liberalism has been ill-equipped to stand up to fascism. crazy stuff that nobody could have predicted

been waiting on an El train for like 30 min now what the hell is going on SEPTA are you only running one train today?!???

and nothing of value was lost

look at this bullshit.

!!! This is good news. You can support the Stop Cop City Atlanta defendants here: weelauneethefree.org/support-the-... For more on what's happening, follow @atlpresscollective.com and Mainline on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DOZDaYckWH...

The Attica uprising might feel like far-off history. But the reality is that nearly 2 million people are behind bars in the US & still experiencing the brutal conditions of the carceral system. It’s time to put an end to mass incarceration. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

The Attica prison uprising began on September 9, 1971, before being brutally shut down. Incarcerated people released a list of demands ranging from pay raises to parole reform to better food – demands that people in prison are still fighting for over fifty years later. 🧵

love 2 see old friends from cutting our teeth in organizing as a thumbnail and in the streets!! <3

Pre-Order 'How to End Family Policing: From Outrage to Action' from @haymarketbooks.org NOW! bit.ly/endfamilypolicing 💫 Edited by MFP Co-Founder Erin Miles-Cloud, Advisory Board Member Charity Tolliver, Erica R. Meiners, & Shannon Perez-Darby, this book is a call to build flourishing communities.

The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.

Via @oodhamboiii

part of why anyone saying "diversify police" would change anything it doesn't you will never be anything but a minority first to them when they think you step out of line with the white supremacist order

"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh More to come! Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

We need @aewontv.bsky.social and @tonykhan.bsky.social to work with IATSE Local 8 in Philadelphia and not undermine the union with illegal contract laborers for these upcoming shows at 2300 Arena! Please remedy this situation! You will lose attendees who have been looking forward to these events!

Wow i did not know the origin of this, but what a textbook case of normalized transphobia in media having longterm impacts we can't even see

Capitalism breeds isolation. (As proven by the public mental health epidemic posed by so-called "AI" and the endless ads for "AI" boy/friends on Facebook, which push you to talk to an app rather than to friends!). As @prisonculture.bsky.social recommends, just organize an adult field trip!

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance

you can even look up the database of all 287(g) agreements ICE has and you will see many university boards of trustees listed

The Democratic Party in Chesapeake, Virginia plans to advertise the write-in campaign of the local Republican sheriff who campaigned this year as “Detain ‘Em Dave Rosado.” boltsmag.org/chesape...

🚨NEW: Local jails – even in “sanctuary” cities – are playing a crucial role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda This report exposes the sinister loophole that helps the administration hide the true scale of immigrant arrests & detentions 🧵

mostly they became cops

if you’re Palestinian, you’re gonna lose your account no matter how many links you do or don’t use!

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

"I was speaking with some youth & they were like, 'Oh, well, we’re high schoolers [...] doesn’t matter who’s in office.' I said to them, 'Hey, you know that in another part of this state students go to school 4 days/week. You go to school 5, all of you in public school.' And they were like, 'What?'"