Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center
"What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said."
www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...
150 veterans with @vetsaboutface.bsky.social and other groups held a demonstration at the Capitol rotunda, facing arrest. Photo via @anatosaurus.bsky.social
“This bill forces homeless people charged with a crime to make the false choice between jail or at least one year of forced treatment. Louisiana has a long history—and present—of chain gangs, prison labor, and entrenched white supremacy" says @homelesslaw.bsky.social
Photo of Lucy Parsons, social activist.
"Oh, when will ignorance be dethroned, and reason and justice reign supreme?"
-Lucy Parsons, letter to the editor, The Socialist, 12/7/1878
Ooooh. I love it.
Scott Wiener shoveled manure at a photo shoot the other day #affordablehousingcrisis
Go Blue!
lovely print of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera under an umbrella the background is a blue anarchist bomb with a fuse, bold red text reads "trans power, join the fight for trans liberation".
“Maybe, grief is actually just this precious badge of love that you wear because someone has died and your love is continuing to grow,” says Rachel Goldberg-Polin. cbsn.ws/4chRbNu
women who hate men generally just hate what men have done to them whereas men who hate women mostly just hate what women won’t do for them
the difference is crucial
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread. Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. I live here, too. I want freedom Just as you. Langston Hughes
So the governor has said my district cannot take furlough days, which means more RIFs, & the already razor-thin elective offerings for kids will just be a gaping hole. This is such an unbelievably bad move, @tinakotek.bsky.social.
personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life
I wish more educators and fewer lawyers would run for public office, in part b/c the best ones are naturals at explaining the whys of things.
We could use more people in public life who cultivate understanding and bring people along together instead of "voters are too dumb to appreciate language"
Palantir is also claiming in this same statement that Germany went too far in constructing its postwar identity around guilt for the Holocaust, which is the exact narrative that the German far-right is running on and winning in elections.
500 years of European settler colonialism explained in 13 seconds
I consistently repeat to folks that they do not in fact ever *succeed* on their own. Sometimes the assistance is visible, often it is submerged. None of the USian billionaires *succeeded* on their own. In fact, most of them continue to benefit from your money, labor, etc....
it me
Schrodinger's strait, neither open nor not open.
More than 38,000 women and girls killed. Nearly 11,000 now living with lifelong disabilities. Many still missing.
The toll of the Gaza war on women and girls is devastating and ongoing
news.un.org/en/story/202...
We saw two day laborers, pushing a cart of supplies and a generator. Our mutual aid table called them over and gave them free dinners, water and clothes.
We fed folks that were unhoused. And folks who came out their apartments just to come to us.
It’s why our mutual aid is called Everybody Eats.
US budgets less for improving lives, more for ending them. Discretionary spending by function, constant 2026 dollars. This chart shows war spending increasing steadily since 2017 and shows public investment spending peaking in 2020 before steadily falling ever since. Trump’s 2027 budget includes $1.5 trillion in war spending and only $432.3 billion in public investment. Amounts reflect discretionary funding plus supplemental discretionary funding via reconciliation. Budget function 050 in war category; others minus 700, 750 in public investment. Data: Office of Management and Budget, Congressional Research Service.
Budgets are moral documents
www.stephensemler.com/p/trumps-bud...
According to ICE 35% of arrests are "collateral", but looking at individual cases "targeted" arrests wete not at all targeted. Abolish ICE.
Fela is the GOAT.
Oh hey, they're back again today. ICE is just running rampant in Massachusetts courthouses.
On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.
Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
Reminds me of the time Jesus said unto the money changers, “What’s in your wallet?”
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Farm worker bent over harvesting strawberries
"Pablo" is harvesting strawberries in Salinas, CA. He shares, "It is very tiring work—spending eight hours bent over like this working at a very fast pace. But it's honest work that feeds my family." #WeFeedYou
