Today is Josephine Baker’s birthday! She was from the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood in St. Louis which is where City Park now stands. She’s definitely worth learning about, and @margaret.bsky.social’s podcast does a great job covering her story. www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

It's Pride Month! A fantastic month to stand up for the rights of trans people, and a perfect time for transphobes to shut the fuck up.

That's football. Shit happens. Gabriel? The best player tonight. This said, whoever is rejoicing in the success of a club built on the money of a dictatorship holding together through the systematic exploitation of 90% of its population should take some time to reflect on their world view. Bisous!

Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:

From that piece above: "Deaths linked to gender or sexual identity more than doubled in 24/25, and trans young people are now estimated to be taking their own lives at 7 times the rate of their peers.” Cis folks, how are you not appalled by this?

Art!!!

It's not just that it's been 22 years. It is the absolute shit that Arsenal supporters have had to deal with both within the fanbase and without. Just thoroughly enjoying finally being a champions again.

22 years!!!! Arsenal are Champions again!!!!!!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ALL OF YOU BEAUTIFUL WONDERFUL SPECTACULAR PEOPLE DESERVE IT WE DESERVE IT

St. Louis City is doing a mental health night tonight. They reversed their policy on allowing the Punks to bring a trans flag themed banner to hang in the stadium this season. This is why that decision is so bad, and really undermines their messaging.

"If you say it enough times, people will believe it whether it's true or not" – from Arsecast Extra 694 with @gunnerblog.bsky.social, out now in all the usual places

Could one call it, National Socialism? apple.news/Ayzu02N1yRTS...

The Trump regime and other aspiring despots want to be the ones who tell you what anarchism is. Don't take their word for it. Learn about anarchism for yourself. The best parts of your life are already the most anarchistic—the egalitarian relationships and spaces of freedom. crimethinc.com/tce

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

My Met Gala hot take is that Bezos’s wife looks like she could be a Canadian on South Park.

This is why standing up for who qualifies as "match relevant" is important. @stlcitysc.com

The editorial cartoonist's pen is one of the sharpest tools in journalism, whittling issues down to basics for satire or rage. I'm proud to say that my long-ago colleague, Milt Priggee, is unafraid to shock with a tough point of view.

The Voting Rights Act was passed to ensure equal representation in our democracy. The SCOTUS decision today guts the prohibition on racial gerrymandering, effectively using the redlining of the past to rob Black folks of equal representation in the future. It’s a devastating blow to democracy.

With AI creeping into education, this brings up an important point that needs to be considered when integrating AI into pedagogy; is that pedagogy sustainable? If companies have been heavily subsidizing the true cost of AI, what happens when educational institutions are asked to pay up?

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

It will probably end up just fine, but I hope the World Cup is an abject failure. aje.news/yrr6yv

Rod Liddle. The journalist who freely wrote about his desire to "shag the kids" here.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Idiocracy, but Luke Wilson's character just wasn't exposed to AI. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

CITY SC should have waiting until they actually won something before parading out the gold jerseys and playing “The Best.” It’s painfully obvious ownership and FO care more about branding than anything else.

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

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Because he’s going to push her out?

Like even if this all ends without an escalation from the present level of bloodshed Trump and his administration should be held accountable for the threat alone. Making this threat, on its own, is a crime against humanity.

But without immigrant workers on farms and in kitchens, what will there be to buy?

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

This frames DEI as a bad thing when it is actually the thing meant to prevent these types of situations.

If Donald Trump wants to steer Iran's leadership away from fundamentalist Islam, he must deploy an army of beautiful young research assistants to convert them to pseudo-Christianity. by David Brooks

As a Manchester United fan I rightly expect absolutely no sympathy for the abject state of my club. I will also say: Wenger's Arsenal overwhelmed Manchester United fair and square, while Chelsea and Manchester City didn't, and football as a whole is still paying a huge price for that.

I went to an Omnimax inside Caesar's Palace followed up with a MacDonald's in the basement of the Barbary Coast a couple times. Also, the Nevada Test Site.

Wait, it’s St Totteringham’s Day already?

The World Cup should be held elsewhere. Iran being forced to withdraw due to being attacked is unacceptable.

i don't say this lightly, but the secret service does have a responsibility to ensure no one who rolled a Warlock ever occupies the White House

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Sending love to everyone who isn’t match relevant!

"I think that the goal of Tom Homan switching out for Gregory Bovino is purely optics and damage control. It's not actually a change in their tactics of intimidation and indiscriminate apprehension,” said Minneapolis City Council President Elliott Payne.

As always, great vibes at the City Museum.

You … umm.. wanna cite a source there champ?

You can’t fight fascism while stealing other people’s work. This is from @jamesstout.bsky.social.

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide