could we white people discuss our version of “calling in” and “redemption” and “grace” for wp (esp maga) or is it gonna be like this
and is the disassociation justified, helpful, satisfying, performative?
My piece about US Senate candidate @andrealaflamme.bsky.social based on our chat this week.
open.substack.com/pub/shaystew...
watching OpenAI and Microsoft bulldog our AI regulation bills in Colorado has been a bit of a downer. They meet and meet with legislators and have $$ for lobbyists and have Gov Polis ear. they want their way and not much scruples about how.
HB26-1139 (Rep Junie Joseph)
HB26-1195
Only one person is running in each of Oregon’s 15 DA elections this year.
“‘It is a big professional risk,’ is what we’ve heard when we talk to lawyers about running,” says a leader of a local advocacy group.
Black journalists speak out against alleged retaliation and discrimination at WJZ
baltimorebeat.com/black-journa...
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
wild stuff. thread.
super sad
More pain. More agony. More heartbreak. Thoughts and prayers are not enough. We must TAKE ACTION to deal with this epidemic of domestic violence. We must get to these men to let them know that violence IS NOT the answer! That is not how you are to be a priest, protector and provider.
going from macromedia to san francisco unified to teach hs math was 50% drop in pay (2001) prolly bigger delta now
“employers minutely regulate workers’ speech, clothing, and manners, leaving them with little privacy and few other rights. And employers often extend their authority to workers’ off-duty lives. Workers can be fired for their political speech, recreational activities, diet, and almost anything else
May Day has been declared a day of civic action in Chicago schools, which means buses will be provided for students and educators to join the rally in Union Park.
They conveniently overlook Breitbart and O'Keefe using paid infiltrators to do their dirty work, to ACT as provocateurs. SPLC doesn't do that. It pays observers not instigators.
PA Commonwealth Court: reproductive autonomy is a fundamental right under the Pennsylvania Constitution, embedded within the right to privacy and other recognized rights, even if those currently interpreting the U.S. Constitution disagree.
www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
polis cannot go soon enough
sames
i’m fine with it
Can definitely criticize the merits, or if the scale reached the point where you're effectively subsidizing them well in excess of the value of the information. But "I'll pay you if you tell me what your little Klan club is up to" isn't illegal and I doubt SPLC donors would be that shocked by it.
"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."
solid work
update: there are 4 D in competition for this nomination. one was a federal prosecutor who resigned in 2025 over trump antics
Ooh, this made me so mad.
In The Souls of Black Folk., W.E.B. DuBois wrote about the Freedman's Bank and how it's mismanagement caused a distrust of banks for generations.
And on this, DuBois and Booker T. Washington were in agreement.
a lot of us are ready to drop people (or block, mute, etc) at the drop of a hat and ok u do
u
and practicing repair instead of just disassociating can have benefits
and yes some people need the distancing
is there more besides yelling at staff?
"Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent," said Chad Mizelle, former chief of staff for Bondi. "Many career prosecutors are not interested in this kind of work. It's a very small group of people."
Bondi's former chief of staff Chad Mizelle: "Part of the reason the weaponization work has been difficult is that you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
From @paulareidcnn.bsky.social and other @cnn.com folks:
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
gonna need some more posters
similar for patriarchy. we ran sex assault and dating abuse workshops for high school and boys tune out a woman presenter
a man needs to do this man job
yup. i’m benching 3/4 body weight and i’ll be 4/4 by fall
and every day is leg day
Republicans are working hard to cut another blank check to ICE and CBP with NO reforms.
Americans want affordable health care and housing—NOT billions of their tax dollars funneled to rogue agencies.
I voted NO.
