a fair, equal shot for every kid fully funded schools interdependent communities elders that are held and hold us so many trees unions for all art everywhere mental healthcare degrowth slow economies craft no cops no prisons no borders a just and sustainable future for the next 7 generations

a roof over every head food in our stomachs healthcare for all bodily autonomy freedom to love/marry who you want safety to be yourself freedom to worship, or to not clear air, water, soil safe roads accessibility in all spaces a living wage fair taxes to fund the public good our radical agenda

this thread just puts it all out there so plainly and it's suffocating

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2w ago

Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

“Alligator Alcatraz” May Close After Months of Tribal Resistance in the Everglades

The controversial immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” could soon shut down — a dramatic reversal following months of resistance led by the Miccosukee Tribe, Native advocates, and ...

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 2mo ago

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

it's people like this who we so desperately need in leadership roles and yet

Jennifer ♾️ aura points KP@jeniuskp.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The small icy moon Mimas, floating in space above Saturn, the planet crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system. NASA Photojournal image PIA06176, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 18 January 2005.

Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.

Jayson Conner and Jeffrey Newman, Who Gave Backpacks to Those in Need, Die Days Apart (Gift Article)

The couple, who died within a few days of each other, provided needed supplies, like socks and wet wipes, to people living on New York City’s streets.

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Here is a verified gofundme for his family: gofund.me/bf251d4ee

Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

& I was baptized in Florida in the late '80s before I could walk, but for some reason this doesn't seem to bother the same people...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump is now using his platform to attack kindergarteners because they are Muslim

Wild to me that they have more to say about people on the left who are trying to make things better than the actual people destroying things. Just constantly proving how broken their priorities are. It's "big tent" with fascists but "parasites" with anyone left of center.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling a Jewish dude a "parasite," don't love that

Learning from people who love things and overflow with joy about those things is one of my favorite parts of being human!

Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder@wiscobirder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who wants to help me find the Black-billed Cuckoo? You Ready? Let’s GO!!! #WiscoBirder 🫶🏾🪶

cancel the world cup, this is all you need

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 3mo ago

HYDRATION BREAK 🐣 🪶

"We are a nation living in the aftermath of collective trauma, that a significant swath of citizens have met by choosing to go to war, with each other, with immigrants, with other nations, and with democracy itself," writes @profcrunk.bsky.social.

Been Country: Commemorating Juneteenth in a Dying Empire

On America’s 250th birthday, Brittney Cooper meditates on grieving a country that has never loved Black folks.

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Absolutely brutal thread. "A.i." in education is a fucking plague and anyone who pushes it on professors and students is betraying education itself. An act of abuse and betrayal to push this fucking cheating, lying, bullshit machine on anyone, ESPECIALLY in an educational environment.

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

"We all want the good parts of community: the free support, the love, the name on our emergency contact. But it comes at a cost that’s not at all romantic or fun but very necessary. So I’m choosing to be a villager, and I’m enjoying it. Most of the time." A very good essay and very true.

The Inconvenient Village

We all want community, until we actually have to be a neighbor.

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Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

This whole thread. We already did the "okay, back to 4 years of business-as-usual" without fixing all of what got us the first 4 Trump years, and look where that left us.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 4mo ago

I'm seeing people post things like "things would be boring if Harris were president" and look, it would be much better if Trump weren't president, but posts like that are telling people that we are not in the fight of our lives, and that the end goal is complacency. That is how we got here.

in this house we’re pro-dandelion

100% this. AI is a deskilling project. To use it is to embrace your own uselessness.

Luiza Jarovsky, PhD@luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I see no lies here

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech companies' go-to defense (section 230) and hold them accountable for defective or negligent design

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Meta and YouTube were both found liable by a California jury for harming a plaintiff's mental health with the design of their products. A massive ruling in a bellwether case that will open the floodgates for other lawsuits

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

Jared Yates Sexton@jysexton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today it's the airports, but soon ICE will be omnipresent in our lives unless they are stopped. Public spaces. The polling place. You name it. This is textbook authoritarianism and as long as the corruption of liberal democracy continues there will be more and more power vacuums for the fascists.

Entire decades later and I still catch myself singing "healthy foods taste so good." Often.

andré carrington@andrecarrington.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Greatest food influencer ever youtu.be/KBMxpDbp51A?...

This (and the rest of the thread) is such a clear way of describing the experience. I tried using a similar program a while back now so I could try to form my own opinions about it and it was deeply uncomfortable and left me feeling frustrated and disconnected.

Elise Wang@elisewang.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The hallucination alone is a dealbreaker, obviously. But I was much more disturbed by the effect it had on my own sense of communication. Words are for connection. If you continually threw a rope into the darkness and no one caught it, you'd begin to think there was something wrong with the rope.

Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

Civil rights are a kitchen-table issue.