Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Fuck the police Podcasts: You Don’t Even Like This Band, Look Good for the Boys, Ghoul School. Founder and co-director, Restless Equinox Independent Film Festival He/they. ADHD. Bi. Durruti Stan.
Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.
John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 15h agoThis is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
I don’t think we need to worry about self perpetuating AI because we won’t have any water or minerals left by the time AI is able to do that. The #1 argument against AI is, unfortunately, environmental, and Americans do not come around to environmental threats with any sort of responsiveness.
the fine gradations and overlaps between scab, arsonist, gullible, and advertisement
Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterdayThere is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
Got hit with the verification request today but also good to know this below
Hold on!@holdon.templeoftherat.com · 4w agoBsky now requires age verification to use in any capacity. As always, Firefox users can bypass these things with a custom uBlock Origin filter on mobile and desktop, which is easier than completing the age verification itself: gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...
Stephen A Smith is very open about the fact that he hit his children who are both girls
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · yesterdayDid we ever find out if the A is for Asshole?
University of Maryland teacher of the year Dr. Berhanu Kibret was detained by ICE despite having a "valid work authorization" according to the school. ICE will find any excuse they can to ignore valid documents or authorizations to live in the US and detain well respected members of the community.
University of Maryland ‘teacher of the year’ detained by ICE in Texas
DHS said pharmacy instructor Berhanu Kibret overstayed visa and arrested him at Dallas-Fort Worth airport
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This is what an actual *hero* of Irish music looks like:
Chicago needs 15 million new cops to fund 15 million new NASCAR races. We're turning Lake Michigan into the first fully aquatic data center. Every kindergarten will be equipped with ToddlerSpotter. It's not ShotSpotter! It's better—SWAT will be alerted every time naptime needs to be enforced
Thinking a lot this morning about why high-ranking cops may be feeling like they don't have enough protection.
CPD leaders knew cop proposed hiring hitman to kill fellow detective, new federal lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit alleges an officer faced years of violent abuse and threats at the hands of another detective while top brass and city officials have refused to investigate or discipline him.
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WBEZ@wbez.org · 2d agoA group of high-ranking Chicago police officials are pushing to form their own union, setting up a possible fight with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration.
the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.
This may be a good time to remind people that trans people in sports has always been normal until recently with SCOTUS. Both parties are fighting to take rights away. Any Democrat that pretends to be “neutral” on this is a liar. There is no neutral. You enabled fascists and took away rights.
A 39-year-old El Salvadoran man, who was being held at Delaney Hall, has died, the man's family says. He's the father of a 12-year-old US citizen daughter and has lived in the country for nearly 20 years. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/03/s...
El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
thecityreporter.nyc
‘Hundreds of residents in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right anti-migrant rally, forcing organisers to cancel the event amid heightened tensions following a temporary influx of migrants crossing from Morocco.’ www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
Residents of Spain’s Ceuta shut down far-right anti-migrant rally
Hundreds of residents in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta gathered to oppose a planned far-right rally.
aljazeera.com
For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2d ago“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
404media.co
Lost in the chatter about Todd Blanche and Trump's slush fund is the fact that anti-abortion Senators have demanded Blanche do a whole mess of things for them. The judiciary committee votes Tuesday morning. We're in the danger zone
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · last wk.In the past month, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee have asked Todd Blanche to: *review DOJ's stance on the Comstock Act, a law antis claim bans all abortions *force FDA to end abortion pills via telehealth to settle a lawsuit *fan flames about abortions later in pregnancy this is all Bad News
hey babe, you okay? the firing squad is almost set up and you’ve barely touched your last cigarette
Literature, games & queer people are nice, but I really do miss the vast network of hypermanic super speculators who turn every market into a casino & every casino into an altar upon which to pray to the great Platonic dick and balls that looms above us all, guiding us lowly Tarnished towards grace
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Today is the 90th anniversary of the execution of Roger Casement What is less well known about Casement is that he was an occasional poet. Sharing, not because it's a great poem, but to acknowlede the colonial strategy of language erasure Treasure language, every voice #poetry #poemoftheday
