crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

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An Israeli soldier smashing the head of a Jesus Christ statue in southern Lebanon.

In Chicago today—what was supposed to be a simple off-street cleaning at Eugene Field in Albany Park turned into an encampment sweep that lasted for hours.

City workers destroyed two unhoused residents’ belongings and shelter.

Opinion | New Hungarian PM says government was funding CPAC but won’t anymore “I believe the state should never have financed them in the first place,” Péter Magyar said this week. “It was a crime.”

Not enough people are talking about this.

Hungary’s incoming PM has said that Viktor Orbán used Hungarian government funds to help finance CPAC, the flagship networking event for GOP candidates, members of Congress, and conservative media in this country.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Young ensign Wesley Crusher (the boy) sits at a console on the bridge, but he's turned around like he's having a talk with safe and trustworthy adult who has walked up behind him. He looks sincere and earnest, as if it's a 'very special episode of Star Trek.' He's wearing his blue and blue and gold and red and blue again Wesley sweater, which is not a bad look, tbh. Closed caption reads, "drugs can make you feel good."

Learning that there are options beyond scorched, earth, and total agreement is a process I am still working through. And sometimes it is hard, and it is necessary.

Everyone can have a penthouse? How did this guy ever convince anyone he’s smart? He’s always been a good conman though, I’ll give him that.

I read that article about the sexual torture the IDF put their prisoners through. I can't share the link, it's too depraved. I don't understand how people can be this evil.

This is not an achievement when you consider, like, vehicles and things

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

"Nothing like this has ever happened!"

"Yes, it has! You're wrong!"

These exchanges usually yield nothing useful. What is this like? How is it similar? How is it different? How have folks resisted under related conditions? What struggles are linked in the present? What actions make sense now?

There's a section in my book with Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You, called "Make Connections, Not Comparisons," and I think it's worth reading and thinking about.

I would love to place a moratorium on arguments about whether or not events are "unprecedented." A thing does not have to be *unprecedented* for us to be off the map of our experience, or for solutions that were applied in a different era to be ill-suited (or worth considering).

I like being a historian because when people talk about contemporary issues and say “this has never happened before” you can usually disagree, and you can also disagree when they say “this is exactly like this thing that happened in the past”

Thinking about how much I wish the novel The Actual Star would get adapted for television.

I've been saying for a while, now.

A functional FBI under Trump would be an FBI doing a ruthless job of jailing opposition leaders and activists on bullshit charges

So JD Vance is saying that the United States is knowingly engaging in economic terrorist against the entire world? Cool, cool.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

I really think now would be a good time for Bluesky PBC technical advisor Jeromy "Why" Johnson to consider his position

Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires, says Kelly Hayes.

Part two of my conversation with @tanuja.bsky.social is now live. We talk about conflict resolution, why some common approaches leave people feeling let down, how to make better apologies, how to receive feedback, and the relational skills our communities need to survive these times.

Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires, says Kelly Hayes.

Good stuff in here, especially about "failure" & wanting things from a process that that process can't do (but what *can* it do?), & about allowing time, from @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & Tanuja Jagernauth organizingmythoughts.org/rupture-and-...

I am Lwaxana Troi, daughter of the Fifth House, holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed.

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

Yes I am victim blaming, and no I don’t care: the entire industry has used fear as the cornerstone of its marketing for years; threatening people’s way of life in the abstract while damaging the economy, stealing peoples work etc. You don’t get to walk that back just because it became real for you.

It’s actually hard to conceive someone being this out-of-touch with normal life.

Exactly one year ago today:

“I really want to hold onto the distinction between someone who is actually my enemy and someone who is talking out of their ass, or making me mad right now, or who has hurt me, or become my opponent in a particular moment. Those are not all the same thing. And if I start treating them as though they are, that distorts my politics and makes me worse at navigating conflict. When I am dealing with my own communities, my responses actually help define, not only who I am, but who I am in relation to those people, and if I am treating them like the enemy anytime we disagree, I am going to become their enemy, whatever my intentions are.” - Kelly Hayes

"I want to be clear that I am not talking about Nazis here ... I’m never going to be in a process with one of those people, or trying to repair a relationship that we don’t actually have." truthout.org/audio/ruptur...