on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
@katpet.bsky.social
Data centers have become one of the U.S.'s most potent political flashpoints, uniting coalitions on the left and right like few issues do. We sent @mollytaft.com on a journey into the data center resistance. The Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders made appearances along the way:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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‘Nolan’s spectacle threatens to drown out his story just as the towering waves of the wine-dark sea – more grey than purple – threaten to overwhelm his hero’s ship.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social reviews Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Stacey Fitzpatrick's husband was abducted by ICE last week in Seattle. Now authorities are threatening him to self-deport without legal representation. youtube.com/shorts/r51WA...
ICE kidnapped her husband. Now they're threatening him to self-deport.
YouTube video by BreakThrough News
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mentioned in this episode: colonialism, white supremacy, and patriarchy are intertwined like three strands of a braid www.breakingdownpatriarchy.com/podcast/ep54...
Episode 36: Breaking Down White Settler Colonialism — Breaking Down Patriarchy
“This is how I was socialized to behave as a white person”
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I’m hearing from multiple sources that they believe there is indeed a surge happening in NYC. This incident, in Inwood, happened amid multiple days of ICE in the area, as activity was also reported in Corona (Queens), Bensonhurst, Bushwick (Brooklyn), & Port Richmond (Staten Island) this past week.
Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 6d agoMasked ICE thug just casually shooting pepper spray at a few old ladies standing peacefully on the sidewalk filming them in uptown Manhattan today. Just because these monsters are quieter now doesn’t mean they’re not still out there violating people.
They'll mail guns, but want to prohibit mail-in ballots And jr & Blanche are corrupt. He must not be confirmed! #BlockBlanche #DyingforGunSafety #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy #DV1
📢🚨 Ladies: WATCH this Fabulous Podcast. Then RE-POST & SUBSCRIBE: #Misogyny : The electric fence you experience when you step outside of the role that patriarchy has designed for you. ⏩ How To STARVE Patriarchy: Why Withdrawal WORKS youtu.be/xsvMrDldOpQ Ty @theresehlee.bsky.social
The Patriarchy's Secret Weakness | Why Withdrawal Works
YouTube video by Therese
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See this recent talk btwn my former @npr.org colleague Michel Martin and Joanne Lippmann @camanpour.bsky.social’s @PBS show about the “fear” of anti-DEI #MAGA crap that many HR leaders are activating by REFUSING qualified Women + Black candidates #Cowardice #ROISuicide 👇🏾 youtu.be/u-Ft9wxwwC4?...
“Erase Women:” The New Reality in Corporate America | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Hey, White people: This 13-year old child, who is Corey Ruiz’s daughter, shouldn’t have to be this brave. WE should. And we must.
"Would you be less charmed by me if I turned to the camera and said, in my clumsy English: GET IT THE FUCK TOGETHER?"
I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back
“I’m happy that the absurd proportion of my legs to my body fills you with a dim echo of what you used to call joy. I would be thrilled if your delight at me...
buff.ly
The conflict over transgender athletes is “breathing new life” into old conservative arguments against women’s competitive sports.
The Heritage Foundation only wanted to protect women's sports when it was about trans athletes
Not anymore.
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150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Are you voting this weekend? Wondering how lefty organizers on the ground are thinking about this primary? ElectionCheatSheet.org has you covered no matter the level of detail! Switch from a quick voter guide, to deep research on each lefty orgs’ endorsement pages, in just a few taps!
"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
trib.al
We (me and @lhh.bsky.social) talk a good amount about these dilemmas in in our book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Here's a Dig interview from just before the election that gives a decent overview if it's of interest: thedigradio.com/podcast/soli...
Solidarity w/ Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix
Featuring Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on their book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea. Guest hosted by Micah Uetricht.
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fromtheperiphery.com/2026/05/11/r... Thank you @fromtheperiphery.com for hosting us ❤️🔥
Revolutions of Our Times: An Internationalist Manifesto
In this episode, israa’ and Leila are joined by two compas from The Peoples Want, Juls and Alaa, to talk about Revolutions of Our Times, an internationalist manifesto written by The Peoples Want. T…
fromtheperiphery.com
“Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements” by Courtney Desiree Morris theanarchistlibrary.org/library/cour...
Why Misogynists Make Great Informants
Courtney Desiree Morris Why Misogynists Make Great Informants How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements
theanarchistlibrary.org
REMINDER: Tankie orgs and influencers are funded by the literal bourgeoisie. Billionaire media mogul Neville Singham funds PSL, Code Pink, BreakThrough Media, and more; while Cox Media heir Fergie Chambers funds Sovereign Media, Calla Walsh, VPOL, ACPC, and many more thru his "Babochki Collective."
On The View, soccer champ Megan Rapinoe brought attention to the dangers of WA's I-638, the most extreme MAGA measure of its kind in the US. "It's more than just a couple of trans kids being able to participate in youth sports. It's an attack on women." Vote NO on I-638 this November. #NoHateWAState
"If we torture them enough, they'll just throw in the towel and abandon whatever legal case they might have." @timmiller.bsky.social & @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social on deadly conditions at Camp East Montana, where guards allegedly bet on detainee suicides and three people died in just over 40 days.
in the wake of Amy Acton's anti-trans turn in Ohio, I will re-up this @bostonreview.bsky.social essay where I make the case that abandoning trans rights is BAD POLITICS for Dems, as it will turn away their own pro-LGBTQ base w/o winning over a single new voter... www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
Trans rights aren’t tanking the Democrats.
Julia Serano responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”
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ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...
ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data
NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.
austinkocher.substack.com
"Epstein got away with rape because people get away with rape. Far more people get away with rape than get punished for it. This is a hideous and inconvenient fact."
Phallocracy All the Way Down - Liberties
The Epstein Phenomenon ought to foist the subject of sexual cruelty to the forefront of our consciousness. It is a common cruelty, so common and so awful that we have had to find ways to blind ourselv...
libertiesjournal.com
California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System For over 19 months, cops across the Golden State continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
California Cops Tracked Protesters Using Orange County Sheriff's Flock System
For over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.
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This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 4w ago“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
There has been a massive uptick in ICE kidnappings in Washington State. We know why. Researchers at The University of Washington have been tracking these illegal kidnappings and the data that is helping ICE surveil and stalk people. This data is being shared with the feds. Mostly by local cops.
New documents revealed about the Spokane 9 case. 13 phones were hacked with cellebrite under the guise of "conspiracy charges." 12 of the 13 people were never indicted. But the govt got all their data anyway.
Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters’ phones
Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.
motherjones.com