Indeed, notorious.

Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music | Official Preview | Peacock Original - SNL Fanatic YouTube video by SNL Fanatic

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

Know Your Rights | Immigrants' Rights | ACLU Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution. Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices.

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Mahoning Valley lgbtqia+ fam emergency meeting and check in Feb 1– DM us or email MVqueeraction at gmail for address. Pot luck, accessible, gas cards available.

Figure from paper showing (a) Four framings of Indigenous futures thinking evident from the literature (Adaptation oriented, Participatory, Culturally grounded, and Indigenising), and the key ideas and science underpinning each frame. Each new framing builds upon and includes elements of the previous framing(s), leading to some conceptual overlap between frames. (b) Geographic distribution of the four framings in this review, and numbers of publications in each country

new paper

Framings in Indigenous futures thinking: barriers, opportunities, and innovations
Cheok+

http://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01615-1

In science & policy (e.g. IPBES) there has been increasing attention paid to Indigenous futures thinking

However […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

it’s hard work envisioning the municipal structures of an abolition democracy but it’s worth doing. Am working on its sounding.

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood Here’s a step-by-step guide.

This is a great piece.

"As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."

I’m sitting in the Cathedral of Learning right now, and teaching at Pitt this spring. This city feels very friendly and walkable and I love the buses but I have heard they are not great through the whole system.

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.

Mahoning Valley Queer Action stands with our trans community. We will not be erased.

I’m seeing a lot of confusion about the Equal Rights Amendment online.

I've been working on the ERA for 13 years & literally wrote a book about it.

So, let me help answer some questions.

1) Yes, it really is a real amendment & fully part of the U.S. Constitution. Full stop.

Mahoning Valley folx come hang out this Saturday and let’s plan a solidarity community for the coming storm.

Question. Has anyone created a crisis mapping or resource mapping worksheet or exercise for if you are attacked by 2025 M4G4 (online or off)? Or know of something that could be adapted for this purpose? @prisonculture.bsky.social

I'm going to trust Bsky and not limit this tweet. Reply all.

“How do we minimize the influence of corporations in our lives?” @lizpelly.bsky.social asks. Her new book Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist is out tomorrow!

Congrats!

Wading Into 2025: How to Begin “We live in chaotic, disastrous times, but amid that madness, we can still find each other and fight for each other.”

I talked with my friends @prisonculture.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, and @shaneburley.bsky.social about activism and organizing in 2025 and how we should move into the next phase of struggle.

I mean, “Bad Romance” can be heard as a femme version of “Head Like A Hole,” even if she wasn’t listening to industrial from the start.

Love that this syllabus on legal studies of white supremacy includes musical selections for most weeks.

Never seen CopTense for describing an invasion of our allies before

Keep imagining better worlds.

If you want to investigate police unions, overtime scams are usually a good place to start. NYPD ran the same #CollarsForDollars scam during the Stop & Frisk era — arrest people of color near quitting time & rack up HUGE overtime pay while slowly “processing” them. Taxpayers bilked for billions!

The Ugly Truth About Spotify is Finally Revealed A year-long investigation by an independent journalist is very alarming

"Spotify apparently targeted genres where they could promote passive consumption. They identified situations in which listeners use playlists for background music." www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-t...

Police to wear facial recognition cameras on beat to find criminals and missing people AI will be used to match images to a database of wanted individuals

this has always been the nightmare

body worn cameras + facial recognition = a recipe for totalitarian control

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

Remember the Northfolk Southern disaster in East Palestine? Folks are still desperately trying to get justice and support for their needs.

This graph is stunning. Yellow are number of NYPD car chases, blue the number of people injured by those chases.

I know correlation does not always imply causation, but… man. Both those trends really change w Adams’ arrival.

What it's like to sleep in prison: Moldy mattresses, bright lights, nonstop noise The dangerous problem of sleep deprivation leads to a health and safety crisis in prisons and jails.

One morning, Steven straggled into the prison shoe factory a little groggy. The prison made him be up at 2 am, so he'd only had 3.5 hrs of sleep when pushed the wrong button & a machine mangled his hand.

Here's our deep-dive into the toll of sleep deprivation in prisons and jails:

I wrote more about the "alt-" in alt-right and its relationship to post-punk's use of aesthetic pluralism to double down on white masculinity

www.its-her-factory.com/2024/12/on-t...

“Some Day at Christmas” as holiday vision of an abolitionist democracy. Stevie was always doing the good work.

everyone pls give a warm and sexy welcome to @akpress.bsky.social! ❤️‍🔥

@davulis.bsky.social is always so good about transparency around this critical issue. So: 1) Female academics - send your book pitches to editors. Please! 2) And just as importantly, senior women stay on task with promoting the excellent work of your junior female colleagues to book editors.