today is the last day i will ask you to donate to people’s rent this month. we are trying very hard to meet a $30,000 goal today to help the last few families on our list before their rent grace period ends.

PSA: it is in fact possible for universities to address financial challenges by slashing (incredibly expensive and largely useless) admin positions. Memorial University just downsized VPs from 7 to 3. Yes we can! universityaffairs.ca/news/memoria...

I love that the Oregonian did an interview with Chandler, the supposed leader of antifa and he's just a nice young man who lives near a detention facility and lets people use his bathroom and store breakables/valuables. www.instagram.com/reel/DQW28hn...

Having followed @socialistdogmom.bsky.social on various micro blogging platforms for years I don't know why it took me so long to start listening to Weird Little Guys, but I am now and it's a delight

For some people, attention is the whole thing. That's the real issue at the heart of the current discourse.

I and a lot of people in 2020 - incl people who just lived near the Capitol - had more painful, difficult, and irregular menstrual cycles immediately following tear gas exposure. I am not aware of any attempts to look at long term reproductive implications but take my n=1 for what it's worth.

The Target boycotts in Minneapolis are an even bigger deal bc it's where the company is based and it employs several hundred thousand people in the city (a few thousand fewer after recent layoffs tho)

I am genuinely thrilled that I will never be fancy (or, frankly, masculine) enough that I will be billionaire pedophile adjacent.

I'm going to need someone to tell me if an entirely non English language album has ever won in this category (I'm guessing someone already has)

Every time I see D'Angelo being honored I think a) he was incredible, so deserving and b) mad Angie Stone, who was incredible in her own right and who we *also* lost this year (and is the mother of their son) has gotten almost no mention.

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

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Time for my annual viewing of Prince's Superbowl halftime show

You guys I did a thing successfully instead of hiring a handyman

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Please let all this good special election news shake loose a solid centrist D for KS governor 🙏

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

My brain needs more sex novels, it's a scientific fact

There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up

My only contribution to the Heated Rivalry discussion is that this is yet another example of there being a dearth of well made romance movies or television shows (at least English language) and there IS CLEARLY A MARKET so more please.

to be clear, both are good

it's great to say everyone protest on a saturday two months from now but people showing up last minute in subzero temperatures and on their free time to protest is something slightly different

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered that 5-year-old Liam Ramos and his father be freed from ICE detention. Families don't belong in detention.

it is so disgusting that there are enough resources for everyone on this planet and the evil bastards on top just sit on their hordes and watch people starve

i literally can’t understand how rich people keep their money. giving people money they need to stay fed and housed is the most amazing feeling. i wish everyone of you that have donated got to experience the gratitude of the people you are helping.

💚Mpls

You know shit is bad because all the original folk/Americana coming out is 🔥

I am just fundamentally bothered by anyone who takes what should be an in-group conversation that is a disagreement about how *that group* wants to do their dangerous, stigmatized, emotionally draining work and airs it for public consumption.

Even if you are trying to single-handedly take on the police state (why) your arrest, charges, etc. make others connected to you who are more vulnerable to state violence even moreso because they can get swept up due to their connection to you.

Btw, I think people should understand having a platform makes you a bigger target of the state. It adds a whole nother level of threat assessment when you’re otg organizing People can take individual risks but it’s very harmful to suggest that people shouldn’t take opsec seriously. Its a collective

These three goals are served by removing, intimidating, & threatening Black & BIPOC/BIWOC journalists & activists and frame them as rioters and agitators./13

The regime players use narrative creation & capture to 1) grift what they can; 2) enact the WH’s white supremacist fantasy to forcibly resegregate the country; 3) cause a race war in which they can deploy military to control the country./12

I recently met an academic who was from India who told me he was queer (hindutva doesn’t support lgbtqia+) & Bengali Brahmin family in a small village. He said that he abhorred the Islamophobia, communal violence, & caste violence & discrimination in India. & said didn’t vote for modi in 2014./7

…education materials have been ideologically altered, universities are controlled by state, and India as a Hindu state (a goal of Hindu nationalists who control the govt) has become openly part of govt agendas seeking to position Hindus as superior citizens. /6

The Indian govt declared an emergency & withheld internet in the region for over a year. Under Modi, India is an electoral autocracy accdg to V-Dem, 2019 to now: India shutdown Internet ~100+ times/year, 80+ more than any nation, press freedom has plummeted, caste/religion-based violence risen…/5

This is exactly what happened in India from 2014-2019 after PM Modi was elected. In August 2019, Modi unilaterally abrogated Articles 370 & 35a that removed Indian-occupied Jammu & Kashmir’s constitutionally granted autonomy. /4

Soon any journalists that stand with these folks will also be labeled as anti national. The regime will use their bought media outlets and planted propagandists and influencers to push these folks out of msm. /3

This is ethnic cleansing/resegregation agenda of the regime. The first step was removing Black voices (esp, Black/BIPOC female ones) from msm tv & print (e.g. Joy Reid, Karen Attiah). /2

If it is not clear, they are arresting Black activists & journalists b/c they can’t deport them legally & state terror can serve a dual purpose of chilling dissent & labeling Black folks as rioters (read-anti nationals)./1 A 🧵 showing how this worked in India from 2014-2019.

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

...Pusha T?

Every accusation is a confession so very evergreen

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

Another group of protesters marched down Mariposa and joined the group at La Alma - easily at 1k people now

Here at La Alma Park where a big crowd is gathering for an ICE Out protest in support of Minnesota. @denverpost.com

The 11-year-olds out at recess were chanting "F*ck ICE, F*ck ICE" at Denver's Morey Middle School as I passed just now.

It's imho an even bigger deal that the most recent four (all, fwiw, Black) people arrested at the behest of the DOJ are not all journalists, but a mix of journalists (Lemon, Fort) and political candidates/workers and community organizers (Crews, Lundy).