authoritarians use five consistent mechanisms: controlling women’s bodily and reproductive autonomy; blocking equal access to the workplace and public life; reducing penalties for domestic and sexual violence; and reinforcing strict gender and sexual hierarchies’.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
Its interesting that regular people can be charged for "standing by" during a shooting, but cops can't (thinking of Uvalde)
www.wzzm13.com/article/news...
FUCK YOU SO MUCH.
I want to find someone to dress up with me as Sacco and Vanzetti to shame people at the local Columbus Day parade until they change the name of it
Feminism win!
A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge. “They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”
He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence
has anyone else noticed that ai kinda sucks, a lot?
Another small Journey jet—this time out of Phoenix, AZ—is currently en route to the African continent. We’re monitoring this flight for potential deportation stops in the region.
When can the Trump administration strip legal protections from migrants who risk death in their home countries? www.vox.com/politics/486...
data centers in the South run hot, draw water, and spike energy bills in communities that already pay the most for the least reliable service. that's not abstract. that's Memphis and Birmingham paying for someone's AI dog meme.
A burn ban is in effect for Duval County until further notice. Jacksonville is experiencing its driest conditions since 1872.
Crazy.
With Dems like these...
Camden County Commissioner Director Lou Cappelli is a corporate lobbyist, in charge of a $400,000,000+ budget.
One of his lobbying firm's clients says this:
“Supporting freedom by serving the war fighter & US taxpayer in a way that glorifies God.”
👏 “Public schools exist to serve every child… This obligation is the heart of equal opportunity in our country — and private school vouchers were built to bypass it."
www.the74million.org/article/scho...
i don't understand bluesky people who pretend to be on the left but absolutely hate poor people and complain about people asking for money. hating beggars is actually just standard reactionary stuff. it's weird to know about systemic economic inequality and still be doing that.
Feared N.J. cancer cluster update: Town slams state after bombshell report (via @starledger.bsky.social, with @karinpricemueller.bsky.social)
www.nj.com/monmouth/2026/04/feared-nj-cancer-cluster-update-town-slams-state-after-bombshell-report.html
I threw a book in the trash today. You can't be revolutionary while homophobic and slut-shaming.
What good
Is the money
you made
destroying the planet
When the planet
is destroyed
#Florida DEP & a Sebastian landowner accused of illegally filling wetlands and clearing mangroves without a permit nearly a year ago are at loggerheads, & dispute is keeping the case from moving forward www.tcpalm.com/story/news/l...
When do we bring felony charges against companies poisoning the shit out of Black cities
Congrats you are all gross warmongers
“Ana Padilla, executive director of the UC Merced Community and Labor Center, said farmworkers have described instances of employers pointing out Border Patrol or ICE vehicles and saying they easily could call them over.” #WeFeedYou
abolition
surprising roughly no one, Trump was never just concerned with people who came here the 'wrong way'
tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Blanche v. Lau, a case where Trump is asking the Court to make it easier to remove Lawful Permanent Residents
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/blanc...
The death of imagination is the death of belief. Without an ability to believe a better world is possible, people give up and accept what is. They think it is inevitable. Cultivate imagination and wonder, and belief in a better world can take root.
Kidnapping these angels and traumatizing them is a crime for which people should be punished.
People say teen girls are really mean, but I've gotten more genuine compliments from high school girls substituting the past two years than ever in my life. Maybe the people saying that are just creepy assholes.
If we had any kind of real society- we would have a basic care expectation. Food, clothing, shelter, healthcare... basic things everyone has a right to no matter what NO MATTER WHAT. Instead we choose to bomb babies and prop up child rapists.
It would be nice if, at a moment when academia is under brutal assault from outside forces that are opposed to the very core of its mission, academics weren't so obsessed with self-flagellation.
As it should.