“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

These people are so fucking boring.

a zine in every driveway and a zine in every pot

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

Thinking of those of us who went around saying “I wear a lot of hats” and now also have a lot of neck problems to match.

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

the older i get, the more i understand the Luddites. (and they were right.)

TikTok's latest illegal 'life hack' seems to be 'dispute credit card transactions for free stuff' and legality aside I am here to beg you: Do not do this to small businesses. It really fucks them over in ways you may not be aware of beyond stealing from them (which is, to be clear, what this is).🧵

examples of what the FBI included as evidence of "Antifa terrorism" in the Prairieland case: -Narcan spray -Anarchist tattoos -a highlighted copy of Emergent Strategy -a zine made of a 2019 review of Hereditary and Midsommar from @reproutopia.bsky.social -First Aid Kits -seeds for garden vegetables

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

It's hard to even know what to say or do when things get this bad, but here's one of Daniel's oh-so-scary drawings.

Because i was extremely That Kid, i used to spend summers reading my great-uncle’s back issues of Scientific American. He saved them for me all year. It was extremely validating for little neurodivergent me. So this is just one more piece of shitty news today.

Let's support the Prairieland Defendants. Give if you can. Write letters to them while they are in detention. Keep them front of mind. Fight for them. prairielanddefendants.com/meet-the-def...

There's a great deal that's alarming about the Prairieland sentencing, regardless of how one views the shooter, but the biggest deal is 30 years for a man who wasn't there, convicted of moving a box of zines while knowing protesters. Consider the implications. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Hey pals! Barnes and Noble are doing their preorder sale, and I’ve two books members can get for 25% off: Every Room a Hunger (Horror, queer & trans, liminal haunted house): www.barnesandnoble.com/w/every-room... The Mighty Nein: Stories Untold www.barnesandnoble.com/w/critical-r...

They’re also on sale at Bookshop.org with free shipping for anti-Prime day (yay!) bookshop.org/p/books/ever... Signed copies, as always, can be purchased through @astoriabookshop.bsky.social

Trump wants to make an example out of the Prairieland defendants, so we need to make an example out of them in the opposite way. We need to hold them close and not let the state claim they are the "bad protestors" who fought against fascism "inappropriately."

You can tell if a movement is serious by whether or not it abandons its prisoners, especially the "messy" ones. If Trump-era political prisoners are not released after he is removed from office, then the specter of Trump will not be gone.

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

You can draw a through line between Standing Rock, Stop Cop City, the Palestine encampment student protests, and the results of the Prairieland case. And then still have Dems asking why there aren't more protests...

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

There are no perfect protestors, no perfect political prisoners, no perfect way to resist fascist violence. The state sees us all the same. Ask the Haymarket martyrs. Ask Fred Hampton. Hold the Prairieland defendants close. Give them your support, your letters, your love. They WILL come home.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

I’m in that unenviable moment where my stomach isn’t quite right but now i’m hungry. Bleh.

looking at news out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?

THE SWEET & LOW PACKETS! (They used to have the slogan “eat out more often” written on them. My first lesbian crush carried a packet around in his wallet for exactly that reason.)

introduced one of my work bros to 17776. i told him he has to text me with his reactions as he reads it. i can’t wait.

DHS would deport most of the team if they got their way

Why it matters: when the paper of record calls your existence a debate, that framing doesn't stay on the page. Republican officials, judges, Supreme Court justices, and anti-trans groups have all cited the Times to justify stripping trans rights. The coverage by the paper of record matters.

It wasn't just framing. It was who got to speak. As coverage turned, trans voices in the stories dropped sharply while opponents of trans rights rose. By 2026, opponents were quoted more often than trans people themselves. Trans people were spoken about, not to.

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

Like most students I’ve met in prison, he was SO smart & SO hungry. I remember the night we met. It was over 100° & my program asked to hold class in the “puppy room” bc it was the only room in the prison with air conditioning… bc training service dogs requires AC, but housing humans doesn’t!!

A Juneteenth freedom miracle: I ran into a former student whom I’d first met in a prison, where I taught. They are out, have a bachelor’s, a master’s & are finishing a phd. They work educating students in prison & helping with their re-entry when they get out. Met his wife and family. God is good!

this is perfect

wrote about my birthday party www.theringer.com/2026/06/19/n...

Saw this slop yesterday, along with the actual poster it's based on. There was no point calling it out as AI--you can plainly see the Gemini watermark in the corner. What struck me, though, is that Big Tech has been at this for *years* and the results are *still* filled with incredibly basic errors.

1/ Happy Juneteenth! How a Texas emancipation commemoration spread across the US is an amazing story. But Juneteenth wasn’t the first Black Freedom Day in America—or the only one of its day. So, let’s talk about em’. Pictured: Martha Yates Jones and Pinkie V Yates, Houston Juneteenth, 1908 | HPL

Hot Girl Summer implies Fall Guy

The largest movement of a single group of people since the great migration.

I love this. Unmute.

The Spokane 3 were just convicted and are awaiting sentencing. The same just happened in DFW. Not to mention the many state charges against protesting or the thousands who are being illegally kidnapped, detained, and deported without due process.

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

NO is one of the most critical words every decent human being needs to use in this age of fascism, "A.i.," ICE, anti-trans bigotry, eugenics, and billionaire propaganda. NO. Refuse to participate. Refuse to buy. Refuse to agree. Refuse to even smile and nod politely. Say NO. All the time.

this week's post is about yesterday's indictment and how it focuses on the alleged anarchism of the indictees. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/criminal-a...

Several Wisconsin cities and counties have been ending their contracts with the embattled tech company Flock Safety, and Verona Mayor Luke Diaz is heartened by the ongoing domino effect: “We can stand up to be an example for other communities.”

One of my colleagues is doing a presentation on how great AI is, and to prove the point he got AI to create the slides for him, and he asked AI to save the presentation and I think you can all guess where this is going... Anyway, we've all learned an important lesson about using AI.