For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote.
A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.
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Alex Clark re. Windham-Campbell prize, in her interview with Gwendoline Riley:
"Aside from a select number of events, there’s little of the media circus about the whole affair... a boon to writers who are all operating in an increasingly challenging marketplace."
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Viktor Orbán has congratulated Péter Magyar! #Hungary
One can hope… 🤞
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Providing those seeking asylum with right to work is estimated to bring in, conservatively, £8billion in reduced government expenditure and increased tax revenues. It'd help increase job numbers (people spending more creates new jobs) and it helps those seeking asylum rebuild their lives faster. 2/
#KeinVergessen: Heute vor zwei Jahren, am 25. März 2024, verübt ein Rechtsextremer einen rassistischen Brandanschlag in Solingen, bei dem İsmail (Kancho) Zhilov & Kıymet (Katya) Zhilova sowie ihre Töchter Elis (Emily) & Gizem (Galia) ums Leben kommen.
https://f.mtr.cool/zfvsjdkdak
This is a Nation wide opportunity for non-lawyers to help get people out of ICE detention.
You go to a courthouse, look stuff up, & pass it on to these folks to coordinate with attorneys to *get people out*
habeasdockets.org/volunteer/
Accountability begins with visibility. If you see anything inaccurate on the map or have additional information, please share it. The full interactive map and analysis are at my Substack: austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-41...
I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)
I wonder what the popularity of Trump as well as the active resistance against him would be if Americans would get their information from non-U.S. media rather than from the sane-washing legacy U.S. media.
‘All of the infrastructure Marshall and his friends have built exists for the right wing alone.’
This is excellent. James Ball in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social
app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/143582...
kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck
Thank you Virginia Giuffre. Thank you Gisèle Pelicot.
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop
And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹)
RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
Roses are redde
Violettes are blue
Sayinge that the adoption of a technologye ys inevitable
Ys a way to trick you
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.
Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.
Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
IMPORTANT pls RT
My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all
The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct)
If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved
“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with @badaude.bsky.social — @monalisavitti.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...
As longtime observers of struggles to establish peace and justice in the US and around the world, The Nation is honored to nominate the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
This Bruce anti-ICE anthem is gonna leave a mark:
This day calls on us to do more than reflect; it calls on us to act — to confront antisemitism wherever it exists and to reject all forms of hatred and dehumanization. May the memories of all those lost be a blessing — one that guides us as we build a world where every life is sacred.
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
