Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

#medsky #pathsky Federal workers are missing paychecks and SNAP benefits are about to run out. Food insecurity is about to get so much worse. Please consider a donation to your local food bank (money, not cans). We’re donating as Christmas presents (do it now, tell them in December!)

It would help to have a National Day of Action re: SNAP - perhaps on November 1. It would take rapid response but houses of worship could take the lead in mobilizing their members. Educate everyone about the cuts, encourage local donations, pressure Congress, etc...

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

All morning was spent chasing ICE out of my neighborhood in Chicago (Avondale) and meeting other neighbors who were out patrolling on foot, on bikes, and in cars. A caravan of ICE SUVs got within a half block of my house. I finally had to use my whistle. It works. It drew others out to the street.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Free groceries for furloughed workers

Every imagined threat about socialism is modeled after real things that happened under capitalism

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

I worked for a small food pantry for a while. The can of beans you paid $1 for would cost us 20 cents through our connections. Give money directly if you can. You can literally multiply the amount of food your donation can provide by 3-5x just by giving cash directly.

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

We have to set up extensive systems of mutual aid. This needs to get done, not only to mitigate the damage this regime has already done and will continue to do but to support the collective action necessary to bring them to their knees.

A purity test against Nazis is a good thing, actually

@ossoff.bsky.social @warnock.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @hankjohnson.house.gov @mcbath.house.gov @sanders.senate.gov

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Far too many (white) Americans treat racism like its a political opinion and not a character flaw.

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Thousands in Bellingham joined the "No Kings" protest Saturday, while dancing and singing songs in the rain.

One thing I always hear from heroism experts is that doing small courageous things equips us to do big ones later on.

Don’t feed the fascists.

The first thing the State Dept account did here was threaten to use Bluesky posts to strip people of visas and investigate non citizens. That's a real threat against every Bluesky user and it's absurd the account isnt banned yet.

Given his unjust banning, I am taking up Link's charge and doing Fund Me Fridays in his stead. If you have funding needs, drop them in the thread below. I'll also be grabbing links that I've missed from previous threads and reposting them. Today is a good day to meet some people's needs.

So the NYT crossword theme today (SPOILER) is “no ice.” Is that a message?

The training was extremely helpful!! They need folks in East Multnomah County, Clackamas, Aloha, Washington County in general, Medford, etc. They need as big of a network as possible to have people on scene to reports within 15 minutes. It takes all of us!!

It’s also incredible how many more places could be made meaningfully COVID-safer with a $200 air purifier and a $50 filter change every 6 months.

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

Every democrat needs to be saying this right now.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Don't forget to spend your FSA money. Lots of things that you can purchase using those funds will be of great use and interest to places like homeless shelters, domestic violence organizations, mutual aid groups & more. Consider buying menstrual products for one thing.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Listen to scientists and not sociopaths in public office. Get your annual COVID vaccine.

The problem is the administration considers non-white skin as reasonable suspicion

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

If you are an alum of: Vanderbilt UVA UT Austin U of Southern California Dartmouth Brown MIT U Penn U Arizona Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW: 2/2

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Can you [especially if you're here in Chicago/the area] plan to make this one call tomorrow? LFG📱💪‼️

Name a single good faith, fact-based argument from the right. A single thing that dignifies press coverage or scholarly attention. One good conservative idea.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Blacksky Algorithms Inc is a for-profit company I started as a vehicle for advancing my life's mission of making communal practices of mutual aid a normal practice. Before Blacksky I starter Papertree as a community bank account. Papertree is now a part of Blacksky. I'm also a mutual aid organizer.

Our academic freedom committee on how Cornell egregiously violated its own rules in discipling Prof Cheyfitz and cancelling his class on Gaza

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them: -Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants) -Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996) -What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play go fuckin Huskies Nazi UW students fuck off

So much of academia runs on silent, collaborative service, requiring mutual goodwill to sustain it. That a few universities would sign letters to get them better deals w/ a corrupt administration… I don’t see how those universities survive in the long run. The rest of us just need to say no.