These are slave catchers. Their model is directly from slave catching . They are following the blueprint America BUILT for attacking racialized property

Not pursuing criminal charges against Boeing, like not pursuing criminal charges against any of the banks/bankers who drove the financial crash of 08, is just a huge fucking mistake.

"surely we'll learn something from the economic-thrashing caused by VC technology hype cycles THIS time" sad_trombone.wav

prepping for that inevitable government bail out after three years of broad product misrepresentation and fancy math

Welp. This is a thing I know now and I need to share the damage.

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

As a bookstore that sells pamphlets and magazines, the criminalization of such materials feels pretty close to home. So let's take a closer look at the materials the federal government is claiming tie readers to "antifa terrorism." We can pick out six titles in these grainy photos. 1/

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Spoiler: they're mostly from here.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

And I want folks to remember this feeling because now We gotta bully these people to keep their promises And signal to those who would say they shouldn’t we can make this hard for them Not because it’s a “fight” but because we have WORK to do

Also, @muckrock.com makes it super easy to file a FOIA request. Wanna find out if your local police department has the facial recognition app from DHS? Clone one of these: www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?q=... and put in your local/county/city/state police agency.

Huge props to @josephcox.bsky.social for putting the Mobile Identity FOIA requests on @muckrock.com. Makes it incredibly easy to do FOIA requests for your state/county/city police agencies.

Got tired of reading the news and getting mad. Feeding America backs 200+ food banks around the country and I've seeded with $500 for now. I'll match up to another $500 myself. Pass the hat, RTs graciously appreciated, etc.

Imo this is the problem with calling everything fascism-in the US, fascism is understood as something that happens to white people and that white people saved the world from. It’s not understood at its foundation as being white supremacist.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Because a lot of white people, regardless of where they fall economically, truly have it in their spirit that their whiteness is enough to shield them. They’re about to find out that it is not. We, the collective non-white people understood this fully. My one frustration is that

Read this thread from a great Portland reporter! The New York Times running this story today is absolutely calculated. It has been positioning Portland for years as a progressive villain. Also: why send a reporter from the Bay when the NYT has at least two reporters who actually live in Portland.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

Guess what pals? You don't have to wait for someone else to do this in your neighborhood You can just order whistles and do the same It can be you who is clever and shows solidarity and courage.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Data shows sharp increase in Eugene ICE detentions lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/justic...

Anti-AI activists targeted "AI Portland’s Summer Soiree," writing anti-AI graffiti, throwing paint on cars, and leaving behind these flyers declaring '“Butlerian Jihad Against AI,” a reference to the Legends of Dune prequel trilogy...depicting a war of humanity versus robots and computers."

Loving the Map of The Month subscription. Beautiful and inspiring work all. #GISchat mapartists.org

Movies that have made me cry while watching them, in the last five years: 1. Turning Red 2. KPop Demon Hunters I will not be investigating this any further.

Very true and we just wrote about this as well

Inside you there are two wolves.

To be clear on what’s happening here: over 100 House Ds joined the Rs to pass crypto legislation that will allow corporations to issue their own money.

This article has a lot of very useful information detailing exactly how specific people were caught after exercising their constitutional rights to protest. I highly recommend reading it in this era where freedoms disappear by the day, along with our neighbors.

Crossover I was not expecting @sdr-podcast.com mentioning @wtyppod.bsky.social

I’m still in my feelings about the imagined/ overly hyped “where are Black people “ kerfluffle And on how scared Billionaires are in NYC But … in NYC near the richest a neighborhood a in the world A Black coach steps up while the “resist” model doesn’t even want to talk about race

the true crime podcast absorber to “i’m being marked for trafficking at the grocery store” to “deport all immigrants and back the blue” pipeline is also like…an expressway toxic mom fear culture is rampant. look at any mom Facebook group in your city. “trust your instincts, mommas” 😩

Learn how to start your own martial arts and community defense training program here: bsky.app/profile/swee...

tbh a LLM that's just a real dumbass, like your one friend who says stuff where you are rendered speechless by what a dolt he is, it sounds like kind of a fun project?

On this day, we lost Haunani Kay Trask. July 3, 2021. She has contributed much to Native Hawaiian Issues and overall Pasifika Issues.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of five young activists of "Mother Nature" group in Cambodia. These environmental activists were jailed on charges of “treason” & “blasphemy against the King” The charges are ofc bullshit #FreeMotherNatureYouth #FreeOurFriends #MilkTeaAlliance

"the US, founded on slavery, has never been able to escape its original sin, and is unique in that respect. Every country has its original sin and a dominant group with its racist core. But only in the US (so far) has that core secured unqualified majority support." crookedtimber.org/2025/06/29/t...

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

The Polynesian conquest of the Pacific is an absolute miracle of human potential and more people should know about and celebrate it.

Peter Thiel & guys like him worked tirelessly for the last 15 years to transform tech from an industry that often developed cool new gadgets & software that made our lives better into an industry based on scams & rent seeking...& now they're complaining that tech is stagnating? Incredible!

Important read. People who have no understanding nor basic empathy for dynamics of exclusion and state violence in South / Southeast Asia are making ppl stateless, for no reason at all. This violence echos out in widening ripples. Like preventing transmission of disease or nuclear proliferation.

Richard Hooker Jr., president of Philly’s IBT Local 623, is officially running for the Teamsters National presidency. He’s challenging current pres Sean O’Brien, who infamously spoke at the RNC and continues to cozy up to the right-wing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEEJ...

Not enough people realize that Merrick Garland let an entire network of White Power groups that literally built Timothy McVeigh's bomb off the hook because he had the one guy that was easy to convict because he admitted to the bombing. They are still out there plotting. Garland made sure of that.