Post a banger that is not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoIq...

I know this is dumb, and probably mentioned before by someone, but this is the kind of nerd I am: Renee is from French and means "reborn" or "born again". Renee Good. Good, born again. And (according to Wikipedia) Nicole means "victory of the people". May it come to pass, in her honor.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social LINDEN

California is preparing to send its own state observers to watch over federal monitors from President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice. The move underscores a growing standoff between state election officials and a federal government many voting rights advocates say is weaponizing oversight.

So we are supposed to believe that Trump had proof that the survivors of his latest attack were narco terrorists, but then he let them go home?

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social ABBATIAL

"Institutions frequently drop content onto a platform rather than opening a conversation with their audience or understanding what a platform’s algorithm will reward."

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. www.nokings.org

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social FLOCCULENCE

Charlie Kirk woke up every day and made a conscious decision to be the Charlie Kirk we all saw. That’s the meanest thing I can think of to say about pretty much anyone, and it also happens to be completely true. We can remember what he did, and we can remember who he did it to.

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

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Horrible violence in Utah. Political violence, if that is the motive, is an aggressive cancer that kills us all.

Don’t wish murder on anyone because then you wish it on everyone. Don’t minimize a murder cuz you didn’t like the murder victim It’s not funny. It’s not edgy. It’s not justice. It’s murder. Each murder is the death of us all in very real ways. I know, I’ve died far too much for one life.

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

Somewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. "Makes money for who, exactly?" is a question that is never asked.

It's time to realize that efficiency is a property for humans to use, humans are not for it to use. It's time to realize that human society is not a corporation, and we are not its employees, and that its profits are ours. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

/4 Nevertheless a critical mass of people unwilling to accept barbarism can get rid of barbaric leaders. bsky.app/profile/free...

If you're interested in why this summer was so cool along the coast, how I approach wildfire prediction, or my broader philosophy on climate communication, check my wide-ranging two-part conversation on West Marin Community Radio (KWMR)'s "Epicenter!" kwmr.org/post/17695

Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

One of the greatest deceptions of our time is the false narrative that we should be more concerned about a poor person misusing the welfare system or an immigrant being here illegally than we are about the ultra wealthy abusing the system and cruel people having unchecked power over all of us.

Our public lands are not for sale. Speak out. Please share this. ‼️‼️🔔

🔥 DENIRO AT CANNES: “In my country we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted… Art looks for truth, embraces diversity — that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.” 🇺🇸

Naming the white conservative/fascist/supremacist definition of "efficiency." The thing they want efficient is not machines, nor systems. The thing they want efficient is us. Human beings. They want to get more from us and they want to pay less. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

It's time to realize that efficiency is a property for humans to use, humans are not for it to use. It's time to realize that human society is not a corporation, and we are not its employees, and that its profits are ours. www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...

The President is insane.

Interesting that if you shop at Whole Foods, a lot of money is spent making it feel like a place that respects workers and embraces progressive values, but it is not. Costco just feels like a warehouse but they treat their workers pretty well and has rejected anti-DEI BS

I asked my niece this at our Easter extended-family dinner. Her response, "we have to WORK on Saturdays!" She is off on Thursdays. I showed her maydaystrong.org.

🔥 💰MUST-WATCH — PATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES PRESIDENT: “There is a number that is too much… we believe money becomes power. And when power threatens democracy, you must take away that power, and the only way to take away money is through taxation.”

I’m going to pull my teeth out if the left tears itself apart over whether Pete or AOC would be a better candidate while Trump dismantles every single check on his power. Let’s have the debate while deep down adoring both of them as insanely smart, principled politicians that we are lucky to have.

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

Maybe it’s just me, but there’s no reason any decent honest human being should be visiting the orange felon for any reason at this point seeing as he’s a convicted felon who is actively destroying the country. LA Dodgers and The Eagles are a disgrace.

We often look back on the seminal moments in our history and wonder "What would I have done?" This is our moment. This is our time. We must stand up. We must speak out. We must do everything we can to stop a President who has every intention of destroying our democracy.

Lots of people demanded shadow hearings from Dems. There's one ongoing on DOJ's attempt to undermine rule of law. www.youtube.com/live/CZ042e1...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

when people say "this isn't what I voted for" they should be forced to list what they DID vote for

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

Friends, I know you're excited to try protesting, but under no circumstances should you ever sign up to attend one. I'm suspicious of any org asking people to put their name on a list that is easily accessible via warrant or may even be public. You can just show up day of.

Look, for over a year, one brave Cassandra was warning you that massive tariffs were coming and that they’d wreak havoc on the economy. But no one listened to Donald Trump.

Why would we believe jobs numbers from this administration?

The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.

ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Bill Burr is a national treasure 🎯! "You journalists need to get your balls back"