I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

Last month, the company behind ChatGPT wrapped up a long-awaited restructure that that turned it into a for-profit entity valued at $500 billion, despite the fact that its products have yet to yield significant revenue streams.

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This is my district and MY GOD. GEAUX AWAY - LEAVE US ALONE.

A stock dip comes after Reuters reported Meta estimated a chunk of revenue would come from running fraudulent ads.

Bayview Hunters Point's "gamechanger" supermarket will close, leaving a food desert behind—just as SNAP benefits are being stripped from many community members.

Just a complete disappointment.

Sups. Rafael Mandelman and Matt Dorsey are continuing to move toward an agenda that elevates abstinence over “Housing First” to address homelessness in San Francisco.

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

To Honor Miss Major, We Fight for the Trans and Queer Spaces She Built truthout.org/articles/to-...

#Livros 📚🌈 Do regresso de Adam Silvera, a Dustin Thao, Felipe Castro, ou a Miss Major e Toshio Meronek, estas são histórias queer em Português que não vais querer perder este mês!

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

The Land Use and Transportation Committee will hear Monday/3 an obscure piece of legislation that could undermine the city’s limits on chain stores in neighborhood commercial areas.

Next Saturday! Join the Sudanese community in a protest and vigil at Surrey City hall. Share widely!

There have been plenty of legitimate attacks on Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy. In recent weeks, though, many critiques have been tinged with specifically anti-Muslim undertones.

“even the dead will not be safe from the enemy, should he be victorious.” —-WB This is my neighborhood corner store cat that was murdered by tech and now tech will profit from that murder.

Trump, who had handed his Latin American ally a $40 billion lifeline weeks before the election, cheered Millei’s victory, saying “not only did he win, he won by a lot.”

It’s called techies

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With US strikes on Venezuelan boats and covert CIA operations underway, many in Venezuela fear President Trump is laying the groundwork for US-backed regime change and possibly a Pinochet-style dictatorship.

To honor Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, we carry on her fight for trans and queer liberation. She met violence and oppression with humor, love, and defiance, building spaces of resilience through decades of fearless community care and activism.

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.

Stanford is prosecuting 11 pro-Palestine protesters on felony vandalism charges & demanding $300K+ in restitution. Consider signing this petition to drop the charges: actionnetwork.org/forms/suppor... Unsurprising although disgusting to see my alma mater on the wrong side of genocide.

@sadfrancisco.bsky.social and I wrote about Major for @truthout.org 💜

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.) Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear. But… no “kids”!

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

The arson wave of the 1970s in the Bronx left public housing basically untouche. On the other hand, the public-private partnership otherwise known as Section 8 housing was much more likely to be torched. Bench Ansfield’s book “Born in Flames” goes deeper.

Activists are lining up to oppose changes that would give the mayor even more power than the city’s chief executive already has. The situation has been called “DOGE comes to San Francisco."

The antifa concept can be traced to Arditi del Popolo movement, an Italian anti-fascist group that was founded in 1921 for the purpose of defending working-class people and institutions from the assault of Mussolini’s blackshirts.

RIP Miss Major. Recommended reading if you’re not familiar with her and her contributions.

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you. @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries. It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement #USA ‘I'm relieved to have this outcome,’ says Wyoming’s Terri Lesley www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

At House of GG/TILIFI, with Asiah, Beck, Christopher and a few close helpers, where Major’s getting hospice care and trying to get some rest. Keep sending good energy this way.

Miss Major is getting good care in home hospice here in Little Rock. Clip from Vice doc on YT titled: Pride Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does For This Stonewall Veteran

"Mainstream visibility hasn't helped our community at large. It's actually *more* to our detriment"💥 Miss Major spoke the unvarnished truth until the end, long live her legacy💥 (From MISS MAJOR SPEAKS: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary, Toshio Meronek/Miss Major @versobooks.bsky.social)

I've been told that this 2019 fundraiser for Miss Major started after her stroke is where anyone who might want to contribute to the expenses of her family in the immediate future should contribute: fundly.com/missmajor - It will stay open for the time being.

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

Reading Miss Majors Speaks was an incredibly moving experience last year. I can't recommend this book enough for those unfamiliar with her work. Rest in peace 🖤

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Devastated and undone but celebrating that we got to be on the planet at the same time as our beloved Major. May we all be as unwavering In the face of fascism as she remained. Sending love to the rest of the family.

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

America 2025:

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

I forgot to share my October newsletter here. prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...

Solidarity!

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’