Support Palmetto State Abortion Fund on Midlands Gives Palmetto State Abortion Fund helps people access abortion care when they cannot afford it. We provide direct financial support to clinics and cover the real costs of access--travel, lodging, gas, food...

87% to goal!

www.midlandsgives.org/organization...

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Seems appropriate since this morning’s Haathi walk was campfire scented.

fires.cornea.is/state/georgia

Data Colonialism: AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota a...

The artificial intelligence industry’s data center boom is the latest chapter in a long history of environmental racism and resource exploitation in vulnerable Native communities, says Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls, the executive director of Honor the Earth.

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Commodity Traders Reap Billions in Profit as War Upends Markets The world’s biggest energy traders are reaping a fresh profit bonanza as the war in Iran causes unprecedented disruption to oil markets.

The people benefiting from Trump and Israel's war on Iran: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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If I have to repost this piece a dozen times to get people to subscribe to Scratch, I will. We are an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned co-op that is aggressively anti-AI, not on Substack, and whose focus is publishing/media.

We’re betting everything on our ethics & our work. talkscratch.com

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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The Land Remembers: Anti-Colonial Resistance from Gitxsan to Gaza Join me for an inspiring evening highlighting the global links connecting Indigenous and Palestinian resistance. Don't miss the chance to hear from out-of-town speakers from the Gitxsan nation! Wedn...

The Land Remembers: Anti-Colonial Resistance from Gitxsan to Gaza

Highlighting Indigenous & Palestinian resistance, with speakers traveling from the Gitxsan nation with a mounting fight against PRGT pipeline (Carney and Eby "nation-building" project)

Wed May 13, part of Nakba commemorations.

Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.

Saturday the 25th through Saturday May 2nd, all books bought for us from our wishlist or partner bookstores will be matched in a cash donation. This is one of the best times of the year to buy books for us!
Check out our wishlist here; bookshop.org/wishlists/60...

Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.

Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.

'Like Gaza': IDF razes south Lebanon villages during cease-fire, sources say Sources Describe a Policy Modeled on Gaza Operations, With Contractors and Heavy Machinery Demolishing Civilian Infrastructure South of the Litani; Officials Say It Aims to Prevent Residents' Return a...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return.

Both are war crimes punishable under international law.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

You can’t be more tired of giving (money, time, support) than people are of genocide and starvation and terror.

We have other ways to practice being together on this earth.

Interdependence is not weakness.

Collaboration is generous and hospitable.

I think USians need to find ways to grieve what's happening in the U.S. without reproducing imperial logics that the U.S. is "losing a position as the world superpower" or "as the leader in science" or "as the leader in research" or "as the leader in . . . "

Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas not only recorded an anthem for the civil rights era – they fought for fair pay and proudly called themselves divas Classic songs ‘Nowhere to Run’ and ‘Dancing in the Street’ captured the revolutionary spirit of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

artists, cultural workers & arts institutions based in Somali regions were encourage by our statement critiquing the Somali Pavilion & put out their own SCATHING statement.

it is long(ish), but i'd recommend fellow Black diaspora folks to take the time to read

www.instagram.com/p/DXFTja9CJ59/

Indian unions and farmers stage a nationwide strike over interim trade deal with US A broad coalition of unions and farmers in India has held a one-day national strike against an interim trade deal with the United States.

Conditions for farmers there are basically a tinderbox for revolution, and have been for a very long time.

apnews.com/article/indi...

'We Palestinians Are Not Going Away' is a zine made up of first-person accounts of the war / genocide in Gaza, Palestine.

Download it (it's free), print it and distribute it ✨

Available to download from the Little Zine Revolution site: lzr.life/zine/we-pale...

Great thread on jail support.

Zohran Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov you stood with the taxi workers, we need you to show up for the home care workers.

When you call a principled stand virtual signaling, you might be the problem.

*stares directly at the camera*

1. Create problem.
2. Privatise solution.
3. Profit.

Rinse and repeat.

Kuwait Is Stripping Its People of Citizenship at an Unprecedented Rate Behind the language of legality, the new emir has pushed a political project to narrow national identity and roll back decades of democratic reform

Kuwait has officially stripped citizenship from an astonishing 5% of its population - over 70,000 people - and a full 20% may be impacted. Good backgrounder on what’s going on by Sultan Alamer and Fatimah Muhammad.

newlinesmag.com/essays/kuwai...

An FR24 map showing Journey Aviation’s N588TN landing in Algiers. This was an ICE flight.

An ADSBx map showing Talon Air’s N50JE going from Accra to Addis Ababa. This was an ICE flight.

An ADSBx map showing Journey’s N62FF landing in Nairobi. This was an ICE flight.

An FR24 map showing Omni’s N207AX landing in Kinshasa. This was and ICE flight.

A particularly evil week for ICE flights in Africa. Since Tuesday, ICE has deported people to Algeria, Ethiopia and Kenya, plus two possible third-country removal trips to Ghana, and one confirmed third-country removal trip of 15 Latin American nationals to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"fuck off with your data center" in scribbled handwriting

"all bots are cops" in monospace/typewriter-style font, and @stopthedata in the corner

"Yes Birds! No AI." with a hand-drawn bird flying over the "No AI" text. there are little bits of bird poop on "AI". in the corner is @stopthedata

placed an order for some stickers. might place an order for a 4th design, waiting to hear back from someone.