You DO NOT need to watch a fascist rally to understand this

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

Journalism is labor and you need to be paying people for quality, and independent, work.

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

This happened under Biden. I need y’all to stop pretending like this is just a Team Red issue.

"When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration alongside established facts and expert analysis."

A new folk hero.

lol new clown car just rolled up

Immigration advocates say if you see ICE targeting someone, knowing what to do in the moment is critical to protecting immigrants. It’s hard to know what to look for, but this guide can help you better understand how to be an effective bystander in Oregon, and your legal right to do so.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

STATE TERRORISM CHARGES DISMISSED BABYYYY www.bbc.com/news/article...

Actual political violence.

every time i feel anxious and unsettled i just try to remember that beneath the earth lies an immense stone labyrinth that awaits us with the patience of a hunter

on today's episode of racial capitalism

My conservative in-laws demand to debate every issue they don't like and have learned absolutely nothing from this. Mention anything they don't like (queerness, anticapitlaism, acknowledging that they hurt your feelings) and you immediately enter a boss battle with them.

Former Washington Post opinion columnist Karen Attiah this morning on Bluesky: “I’ve been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.” (She made the mistake of quoting his own words.) [kottke.org]

They murdered about 10% of the population of Gaza.

"One of the most boring political observations you can make about Republicans or Democrats is that they are hypocrites who say one thing and do another. That stops being interesting when you realize their words are never actually saying anything about their real principles and values"

Love is love.

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

I believe in labor unions and am a member. But many romanticize them as if they magically solve things. In academia, job cuts, restructuring, and political repression are happening at schools with faculty and staff unions. Many union members are racist and anti-leftist. The struggle is constant.

The reason affluent media people are such suckers for “civility” is that the actual content of most politics has no real stakes for them personally. If you want to find these people’s true political feelings, mess with their money.

The idea that there is a "Left" in American politics is an absurd right wing fantasy, which of course is politically useful to them, but unfortunately it's also useful to centrist media figures who need it to be true for their somber above-it-all commentary to make sense

Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...

"Research shows that trans people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to be the victim of a violent crime. We salute our colleagues across the media who are working tirelessly to make that number even higher."

“What is clear is that zero resistance to fascism, or defense of democracy, will be coming from the American business community. They have made the calculation that tax cuts, deregulation, and right wing judges are worth whatever horrific long term price the Trump era will extract on all of us.”

I do think it’s worth noting that few people in this country contributed to the culture of political violence quite as much as Charlie Kirk.

The union for Powell’s workers @ilwulocal5.bsky.social ILWU Local 5: "A company whose entire business model is dependent on human creativity should be safeguarding against any technology that exploits, devalues, or displaces it."

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.

RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

Nothing so grim as corporate communications people use Chat GPT to write an announcement of an employee passing.

Boss has egg on his face as 11 months after firing Colin John from his server job at Fried Egg I'm in Love, the National Labor Relations Board says owner Jace Krause acted in retaliation and must put him back on the schedule with full backpay.

it's extremely consistent and not at all hypocritical if you understand the goal of this administration to be white supremacy and not some idealistic adherence to a legal system

Nepal has me like

Talking with my parents and they told me the story about how my dad went to my middle school vice principal and told them to get rid of the kid bullying me or he would beat the shit out of him. I had no idea! It's the sweetest thing he's ever done for me.

I watched Paul do a performance about his work for the Risk/Reward festival in 2024 and it was one of the best pieces of the evening.

In response to the dismantling of the CDC, California, Oregon, and Washington have launched the West Coast Health Alliance, which will make their own science-based vaccine guidelines, and make sure vaccines are accessible to everyone.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

4-Year-Old’s Optimism Just Making Things Worse For Area Family https://theonion.com/4-year-old-s-optimism-just-making-things-worse-for-area-1819572921/

The new Elizabeth Gilbert memoir sounds absolutely berserk www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The thing that keeps me coming back to the Newsom stuff is that Democrats who object to our saying we'd never vote for him are refusing to treat us as ordinary voters who need to be won over, like any other demographic.

The thing the mainstream media is not remembering about Hurricane Katrina is their own lethal, racist contribution to treating rumors as facts used to demonize the stranded in New Orleans, turning them from victims to be aided to enemies to be contained.

Make a statement for higher ed workers this Labor Day with HELU signs! Easily printable from our website, perfect for any kind of Labor Day action. See you in the streets! higheredlaborunited.org/2025/08/28/h...

A local publication about the one sport I play? Sign me up.

Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.

Mariam Dagga, a visual journalist who freelanced for The Associated Press and other news organizations and produced harrowing images of the war in Gaza, was killed Monday by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33.

"If we want real democracy, we need to extend it to the economy. That means overcoming the capitalist law of value and redirecting production toward social and ecological needs." Thanks to @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social for this conversation. progressive.international/wire/2025-08...

So excited to talk with James about their new book! Save the date! 🔥