someone like doctorow will never take the extra step this writer is very kindly inviting them to take because foundational to their worldview is the idea that digital tech is liberation. seeing it as emerging from oppression invalidates everything they’ve ever advocated for.
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes.
In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
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we are mere hours from Trump admin officials going on TV and talking about how women and LGBTQ people are oppressed in Iran and that's why we need to bomb them
meanwhile half the US has forced-birth laws in place and Kansas just revoked every trans person's drivers license
I really like this version of the clip because you can hear people doing the barks (people bark like a dog for Brody, it's a thing), what sounds like some "A-E-Dub" chants (AEW fans do that when it's a matchup they really want to see) but then everybody coalesces on "FUCK ICE"
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
ICE has 5 field offices in Canada.
Shut them down
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
That is why I told you to fix your heart.
You think it's only us weird lefties here on Bluesky who care about this but it's literally foundational American principles in the goddamn bill of rights which are being gleefully violated in the name of deporting more brown people and fuck that shit.
This is why the work of the late Robert McChesney, who *for decades* revealed the dangers of concentration in media ownership, is so important.
(FWIW, 25yrs ago in grad school — during the first dot-com bubble, AOL-TW, etc — I was senior researcher for a lab that mapped media consolidation.)
A woman shot fucking dead in the streets and the biggest worry liberals have is that there could be looting or lawlessness.
What the fuck do you call summary executions by masked, unaccountable violent men? Let me know.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911
"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
I'm sorry, but I just think it's very telling when we differentiate between ICE's killing of American citizens versus undocumented immigrants. And I'm seeing that a lot right now.
We are one step away from the Proud boys suing the US Government for “retribution.”
It’s the perfect Trumpian phrasing for the moment too.
Soon enough, I bet Trump will give everyone pardoned $1million each and offer a job with ICE.
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.
March is heading up toward Trump Tower now. Organizers stopped briefly in the intersection to call attention to common threads between Israeli occupation of Gaza and U.S. military intervention in Latin America. People inside the shops on Michigan Avenue and lined up for the Nutella store look on.
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
Paris green! If only arsenic weren't poisonous...
We didn't survive and thrive as a species because we had warriors or hunters - pretty much every omnivore can manage that.
We did so because we developed Grandmothers, and domesticated Dogs.
Community is what defines us as a species, and every "self-reliant" libertarian shitweasel be damned.
[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
ICE was founded in 2003.
I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the cia. I’m at the combination pizza hut and CIA.
Thrilled to see @mandytroeger.bsky.social and my article on the legacy of Bob McChesney publically available today in MR: monthlyreview.org/articles/be-...
It’s really such an honour to get to contribute to this very special issue alongside so many people that have helped shaped my own perspective
“Like prime, but with human beings”
