I would love to see a journalism style guide saying we should always refer to the Dept of Defense with something like (nicknamed Dept of War by the administration)
but then I'm so old that I still believe Congress is the only part of gov constitutionally empowered to declare war.
If you don't know about the Haber-Bosch process, you're about to hear about it a lot more in the coming months.
People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.
*Participation guide, here (there is some good explanation! but I'd rather additional transparency on tactical nuances): indivisible.org/campaigns/ma...
This is one of these things I can type out and shout till I'm blue in the face and it is indisputably true but also it is not covered anywhere so people do not believe it.
The GOP is all in on the death squads.
My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus
Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.
(To be clear, I agree with the FAQ definition, but wish the distinction, tactical decisions, aims--and most of all, DEMANDS--were clarified.)
The coalition FAQ page states it *isn't* a general strike, which gives me some pause... then, what is it? What is the overall strategy here, and why? Why not other tactics?
A poster showing a library worker shelving books, underneath the words "National Library Workers Day."
Today is #NationalLibraryWorkersDay! Part of #NationalLibraryWeek, this is a day to recognize and celebrate the hard work of library support staff and librarians. Are there library workers and librarians that have helped you, over the course of your reading life? www.librarything.com/tag/librarians
www.themarginalian.org/2015/12/11/n... #NationalLibraryWeek
Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
I would *strongly* recommend other institutions learn from the struggle to respond effectively in Texas: knit together students, faculty **AND STAFF**. The latter category so often left unengaged tho spans backgrounds, interests, experiences--& can help you navigate campus bureaucracy.
Screenshot of article which reads: The challenge of creating a “higher ed NATO,” Baker said, is that it needs to represent such a wide range of institutions. “We need to think from a broader perspective than the Columbias and Michigans of the world,” she said. “How do we create a coalition that works for the good of community colleges and … highly resourced research universities?” Though the discussion was short on concrete answers, it placed the current moment in historical context. Bollinger said universities were caught “flat-footed” by Trump’s relentless assault on higher ed; Baker said she wasn’t surprised, given her prior experience in Texas, where the Legislature sought to control university operations in an all-out effort to win federal research funding. “A lot of the authoritarian policies that we are seeing nationally have actually been tested in states previously,” she said.
I want every conversation about US higher education to include open access institutions like community colleges and regional public universities. We should also find ways to learn from our "laboratories of democracy."
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."
NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
i am pretty keyed up to print the inside of the disability zine
this one includes contact information for chicago public schools higher-ups and will be free
it's a combination perzine and research based zine about a topic very few want to include regularly
impeach trump
push for repeal of bbb
re-fund every program that trump defunded
subpoena every motherfucker
make it so those assholes can't make a single breath without 20 congressional committees investigating every atom
“Multipolarity isn’t a hypothesis.” Spain’s prime minister gave a world-reordering speech in Beijing and mainstream media is just out to lunch www.un-diplomatic.com/p/multipolar...
Pour one out for Aaron Swartz.
I don't think non-Black people understand how much Black people calculating spaces as to whether they'd be hostile to Black people.
It's the same way I think men don't understand that women navigate spaces thinking about whether or not they'd be safe
More perfect union: BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters. The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.
Republicans just handed the Boundary Waters to a foreign corporation.
For the GOP, it’s foreign billionaires first, America last.
Yes, Israel is destroying Lebanon's breadbasket. This is why I have been saying that Israel's goal is to destroy Lebanon itself.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Epstein survivor says it's not too late to expose what happened at his New Mexico ranch
Rachel Benavidez, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of assaulting her at his isolated Zorro Ranch, wants his enablers to be held accountable.
In honor of Tim Cook's stepping down, here is the story of how I emailed him, not once but twice, with open email tracking enabled, only to discover that, not once but twice, my emails to the CEO of Apple were opened on a computer running Windows.
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Alcohol expands to fill the void left by weed prohibition, and tobacco does the same for the constriction of legal ADHD medication.
Assuming the Democrats take power, the strategy does not change in what is pushed for:
Full obstruction and halting of all normal processes until the regime is removed from office and in prison.
That's the moderate position.