There’s been a bipartisan commitment to the idea of immigrant labor without immigrant people or immigrant rights, which in its way is as corrosive to meaningful democracy as ethnonationalism imo

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Just a heads up that this is what we're dealing with - planter class "political leaders" and corporate execs making massive deals over the heads of communities they've been starving for resources for decades, and then framing its pittances as public services. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

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The greed never stops. Intentionally stagnating and bottoming out wages so employees have to go on benefits, then filing for tax refunds because you refuse to pay those employees is sickening #labor www.commondreams.org/news/walmart...

'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid | Common Dreams

US Sen. Bernie Sanders exposes the shocking truth: Amazon and Walmart employees rely on federal aid due to poverty wages, while CEOs rake in billions. Should taxpayers subsidize corporate greed? Join ...

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The fact that public surveillance can be turned off for the rich seems a demonstration that they're quite aware of their false narrative. "privacy is a luxury for the elite few, and the rest of us are subjected to pervasive surveillance everywhere we go" www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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Hi friends! I am working on doing graphics for a small mammal rescue to help them move away from AI and they are looking for people to match this generous donor’s donation to help fund the rescue! I would so love if you could help get eyes on this ❤️🐾 📎 below

I have been a lifelong lover of pop culture, but please, please do not make me learn what Jimothy is. I do not want to know. Maybe it’s something wonderful, but I am at my breaking point. I retire. I would like to settle into “teacher who doesn’t know any young people things” life now.

Lots said already about the problems with this presentation, but please remember that when we're looking at terrorist attacks and plots by the white power movement, they go down when the attackers find sympathy, or jobs, in the halls of power.

flight • reflex@flightreflex.bsky.social · 4w ago

@briantylercohen.bsky.social too late now, but you were presented with a chart on CNN tonight about right and left terrorism. The narrative was that historically things were “just about even”, “both sides” etc. this is absolutely not what that graph shows. Those are *stacked* bars.

Fund the journalism you want to see in this world! If you don't have money to give, please consider circulating these appeals so they reach somebody who does. Word-of-mouth does wonders for independent news orgs.

Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you've worked with me in recent weeks as a freelancer, I've probably shared this news with you, though it's time to share it more broadly: @prismreports.org is in serious trouble, y'all. We have lost half a million dollars in philanthropic support & we have almost no secure funding for next year.

ante up working journos

Tina Vasquez@tinavasquez.bsky.social · 4w ago

To entice you with weirdness: The first 10 people to donate $100 or more to @prismreports.org's fundraiser will get a Halloween-themed package from me! (I know it's July, but the real freaks know Summerween is the time to prep for spooky season.)

Psst those intellectual diversity centers are just one more rightwing grift TIL Rufo’s speaking fee is $50k

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

“You won’t earn as much going to college because it’s expensive” is literally the right wing assault on higher education, a data-free lie going back back at least to Bush’s disastrous 2005 bankruptcy reform that created a gigantic moral hazard pushing tuition rates into the stratosphere.

NPR@npr.org · 4w ago

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

NEW: Last year, DOGE brought in a UChicago student to create an AI tool to work on HUD policy. But when @democracyforward.org filed a FOIA request for details about what exactly was going on, many of the documents were withheld, some citing a non-existent AI privilege. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

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This is a good moment to remind everyone just how abusive even police admit they are. It’s an open secret. Even the FBI found that 40% of responding cops reported that they committed physical abuse against their spouse in the last 6 months. That’s 10 times more than the general population.

Steve Held@peoplesfabric.bsky.social · last mo.

His ex-wife said “that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship,” and he asked her to lie for him. Exactly the kind of chud you’d expect to work for ICE.

Organizers more experienced than me always say that people need to see their wins, and I've never liked that basically for this reason - a "win" is always working to undermine itself the second you get it. marvistavoice.org/lapd-let-its...

LAPD Let Its Flock Agreement Expire. The Cameras Are Still Running, and a New Deal Is Already in the Works. - Mar Vista Voice

The LAPD has let its agreement with surveillance company Flock Safety expire, acknowledging that the deal never adequately settled who controls the data collected by the company’s automated license pl...

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the vast majority of agricultural labor in the USA is done by undocumented latinos in an illegal kafala system-type employment arrangement with millionaire plantation owners and a small force of overseers who LARP as rugged cowboys. if you do not understand this you are not a serious leftist.

🏳️‍⚧️ june | יוֹכֶבֶד🪬@junewl.bsky.social · last mo.

people do not fucking understand how agriculture is actually done in this country. they still have this little house on the prairie image of a white guy in overalls and a straw hat with a pitchfork, not overseers in ATVs driving around a 10,000 acre property at night to police mexican farm 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?”

once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

Security camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.

I'm not even rooting against Argentina at this point I am rooting against FIFA

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last mo.

Wow. I just heard back from ICE on this. Here's their statement. No comment at all on the claim that the three witnesses in the van with the deceased man are being pressured to self-deport, and ICE refers further questions to the FBI:

Maybe the other thing that some people will get through their THICK SKULLS is that most people who live & work in the US are WORKING CLASS. Teachers are WORKING CLASS. NURSES are WORKING CLASS. Social workers are WORKING CLASS. SO ARE STARBUCKS BARISTAS (who some seem to despise)....

A powerful reminder that being told that queer love is completely wrong as a child can predispose you to the idea that love can, and maybe should, absolutely destroy you.

UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last mo.

1. Since December, CNN and CNBC have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of a financial relationship between the networks and Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently. w/@atrupar.com

The NARA San Francisco office is *the* place to study histories of US immigration and western histories of all sorts. Its staff are extraordinarily valuable for researchers, historians, and citizens who visit daily to learn more about these topics. This is terrible. www.kqed.org/news/1208890...

Exclusive: The Bay Area’s National Archives Office Is Closing. Researchers Are Worried | KQED

The Bay Area collection includes original records from landmark birthright citizenship case United States v. Wong Kim Ark, and inmate records from Alcatraz. Federal officials didn’t provide details ab...

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Hell yeah we are

Asheville bookstore sues SC Corrections for destroying their books

Asheville shop Firestorm Books is suing South Carolina prisons over a policy that destroys books not from approved vendors.

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The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments

The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...

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The DAR is more progressive on Trans people than the supposed front runner for the 2028 Democratic Party nominee and Governor of California.

Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈@danifroom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

I started to line up all of my best arguments for why the panopticon is bad, actually, but then I remembered that none of these guys are arguing in good faith. These are the people who profit off of the panopticon and they have no intention to engage in "radical transparency" themselves.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

The next time one of these guys has a new idea will be the first time.

Don't let bored football fans tell the story of Caitlin Clark's season: defector.com/dont-let-bor...