A screaming guilliotine

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The Cleveland Public Library's union voted overwhelmingly, 97%, to authorize a strike, which will happen in August if the administrators continue to stall contract negotiations. As an author whose work is carried by those libraries, I whole-heartedly endorse the library workers.

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

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A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, about one aspect of the Fire Ant Movement Defense statement we published earlier this week discussing the Prairieland verdicts. crimethinc.com/NoWayHome

No Way Home: An Anarchist Ex-Prisoner’s Response to Fire Ant Movement Defense

A statement from Eric King, an anarchist and former political prisoner who spent nearly a decade behind bars, in response to the statement from Fire Ant Movement Defense.

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it's true that AI is wrong and looks like shit, but personally the most repellent part of it is that the people who use it of their own accord are doing it because they believe what rich people say and do what rich people tell them to do

NYC, the only way for us to come back from this first quarter is to overthrow the NYPD, abolish private ownership of the means of production, establish universal access to health care, food, shelter and education AND improve the subway system, because we're clearly not impressing anyone on the court

She was assaulted by three men who threw her to the ground. She pulled out a gun, and despite being under lethal threat did not fire a round. She's been charged with assault; the assholes who yelled transphobic slurs while beating her are out and free facing no charges. www.them.us/story/trans-...

Trans Woman Faces Assault Charges For Self-Defense, Despite Wyoming’s “Stand Your Ground” Law

Rihanna Kelver was standing outside the Crowbar & Grill in Laramie, Wyoming, when a man began to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs at her.

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