New blog post from @americasvoice.bsky.social amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation. americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...

This would never have happened if Peter Sellers was still alive.

Tell your dog I said fuck the police.

Kavanaugh stop

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

We really don't talk enough about how decades of copaganda have contributed to the perception that "chaos" at protests can only be caused by demonstrators, and the only response is more repression. Elected officials just yelling "stop hitting yourselves" on repeat

SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it. Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this... ij.org/press-releas...

Cosmetician With Cancer Beautifies Displaced Cancer Patients During War on Gaza [Vertical] Forcibly displaced and suffering daily from breast cancer, Samar Al-Jaal finds joy in beautifying her cancer-ridden campmates using cosmetics. Full video available in quoted post.

the arts are magic, i truly believe that.

i’m not gonna lie, this video has really f-d me up. it is an extremely stressful time to be a brown person in this country, let alone a brown, queer, femme in texas.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

we are at the "throw electeds who are people of color under the bus in the hopes that it'll stop before it runs *you* over" phase of right-wing takeover

Really cool guys. Really glad we got to book them for Dreamgaze PDX last year. And yeah the record was produced by Robin Guthrie back in ‘89 and didn’t see the light of day until Little Cloud pressed it.

“the kkk is bucking tradition this fall by pushing residents to install their own outdoor heating devices, along with what some extremists are calling “controversial” tree decorations” - american media

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“the kkk is bucking tradition this fall by pushing residents to install their own outdoor heating devices, along with what some extremists are calling “controversial” tree decorations” - american media

cn: domestic violence _ _ your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"

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gather round, kids, as i warn you about a pos informant by the name of brandon darby en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon...

one of my bands is opening this show with @homeiswhereforever.bsky.social next week at antone’s. if you are a rock and/or roll type of person, come see us. we play some real gay post punk and my fav non-musical thing about us is we look like we’re each in a different band.

Benverine

The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this: tiktok.com/@drewharwell instagram.com/bydrewharwell

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!

one of the best to ever do it and he doesn’t get nearly enough recognition. los lobos are the real deal.

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago

Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone. The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this ---> www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

It’s a 1️⃣-2️⃣punch: The State of Texas, the Regents, & the President dissolve the Faculty Council. Then Trump offers a compact that will affect academic freedom, curriculum, student recruitment, research priorities, the future of academic programs. Once faculty had a voice in such decisions. No longer.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

I've been writing about the war on drugs for more than 20 years. There are some cases that have stuck with me -- names that have never left my head. For the last couple years, I've been working with The Intercept on a podcast to tell their stories. It launches in a week.

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

I swear to the goddess nothing infuriates me more than the faux-naïveté of techbros—they will create and unleash tech that can have monstrous consequences for the most vulnerable among us, and if challenged about it, suddenly they become newborn babies knowing nothing of this cruel world

I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years

The men wrongfully accused of the Yogurt Shop Murders--two of whom were convicted, and one of whom was sent to death row--should've been exonerated long ago. Glad to see our D.A. doing the right thing. But we need a top-to-bottom review of police + prosecutor conduct. www.kvue.com/article/news...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

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these kinds of people do not understand the weight of the moment and the realities of oppressed communities. they are not safe for you. it is past the time to coddle people willfully ignoring the dangers that bipoc, disabled, queer and trans folks & more experience daily. step up or step aside.

The father—who's lived in the U.S. for over two decades and has an active asylum application—was reportedly driving with his daughter when he called his wife and said someone seemed to be following them. When they got home, agents got hold of the child. trib.al/VFuC1v3

OAKLAND Oct 17 @ Stork Club - playing a solo set at a fundraiser for FentCheck with some great bands. Come support a good cause!

The devaluing and crushing of art and artists has created the perfect environment for dehumanization, corporate control, a culture of self-service and transactional behavior, and has undermined our ability to imagine a better future than our present. It’s hard to overstate how devastating it’s been

lol/😭 thinking also about how happy i was to learn one of my bands was getting $500 for an upcoming gig. there are 5 of us. it’s rough out there. i spend waaaaaaaaaaaay more creating music than i’ll ever make back. there are so many artists we’ll never get to know because of this cost barrier.

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If you were wondering how you can actively help to protect people in this moment and you’re a white middle-class American the way you can protect people now is by using your position of privilege and relative safety to call what is happening by its name and to get louder than you have ever been.

Pulp and LCD Soundsystem joined forces to cover Heaven 17’s “(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.” Nancy Whang and Jarvis nail it; so do the bands. 😎 youtu.be/thZ6EFlmB_E