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Stop right now and count to 43 to get an idea of what this was like
Court shields 2 Harris County constables over 43-second dog bite
The Fifth Circuit granted qualified immunity to two Harris County deputy constables who watched a police dog bite a suspect for 43 seconds.
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In recent years, there has been attention and worries about how reading has changed among kids. Those concerns include the nature of what kids are reading and how many fewer books are part of their education diet. https://to.pbs.org/4yqeHRe
'Post-literate age': Why fewer Americans are reading for pleasure
In recent years, there has been attention and worries about how reading has changed among kids. Those concerns include the nature of what kids are reading and how many fewer books are part of their education diet. A new cover story in The Atlantic is ca...
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Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
currentaffairs.org
Are people on Bluesky aware that a Black man was found hanging from a tree in Raleigh NC yesterday afternoon, near the CaribMask Carnival. Making this the sixth or seventh Black person found hung this year. Also? Black. People. Do. Not. Hang. Themselves. From. Trees.
so as usual, it's not transgender women causing problems in women's sports -- it's cis men.
Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.WBNA eligibility rules don't use any external measures to say what defines a "woman."
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
An opinion columnist for Mitch McConnell’s hometown newspaper has written a pre-obituary outlining the “detestable” senator’s legacy. 🧵 www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconn...
I am rewatching Orphan Black & was reminded of this gem that also applies to organizing! Those characters often had little reason to trust one another, but they were all they had, so they figured it out. So many of us need to get better at building coalitions along like-minded priorities when able!🫂
Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 11mo ago"Some groups have learned to navigate difference and animus out of necessity. Incarcerated people organizing within prisons, for example, often learn to put feuds, rivalries, and personal differences aside because they recognize the necessity of building with who is there." 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 - Chapter 9
You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.
So ICE, like police officers, basically get to execute people, say some nonsense about feeling in danger, and then completely get away with executing people
What's the deal with the potential proposed transfer of ownership of Chicago's parking meter system to Stonepeak, a company profiting from Omni Air International ICE deportation flights? @djbyrnes1.bsky.social breaks down the latest. Finance committee meets again on Monday, July 13:
A. People in DC did not know those fascists were planning to march. B. They marched for 15 minutes and then turned tail. C. People in DC would have been out there had they known they would be there. D. Do people know how people in DC (who actually live in the city) roll?
Happy 4th of July from the ICE facility in Broadview, IL, where ~2 hrs ago a Fed fired pepper balls from inside his blacked out SUV, striking an older protester in the torso. Others rendered aid, quickly wiping the irritants off them and getting them a fresh shirt before taking them to the hospital.
Wrote up a little newsletter about why people should go see "Supergirl" -- and watch "Sorry, Baby" and "Is God Is" "They’re all very different films, but they all grapple with what it means to embrace life under the totalitarian horror of misogynist violence." news.chanda.science/archive/you-...
You should go see Supergirl
It's pop art that is unapologetically political.
news.chanda.science
Here’s a link the Ta-Nehisi’s latest w/o a paywall. READ IT. archive.md/SSLbJ
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Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3mo agoTa-Nehisi places the “don’t vote for Kamala unless she disavows Israel” & the “vote for Kamala b/c Trump will be worse” camps into historical & political context here. The headline is misleading, the article is gold. This should be the last word on this divisive argument. READ IT
Your 'doom quote' for today: "Once a civilisation overshoots its biophysical limits, as ours did over 50 years ago, the outcome is not in question; only the timing, shape, and experience of the descent." adrianlambert.substack.com/p/if-collaps...
If Collapse Is Inevitable, Why Does Seeing Early Matter?
The evolutionary role of Neurodivergence in a collapsing world
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I recommend reading this piece. Definitely made me think more deeply about my stance on Platner.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 3mo agoI like this piece from @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social. She’s right that our conditions shape the candidates we get. “Are we trying to stop things before they get worse or not?” I think Mainers understand the hand they were dealt by local and national political conditions. Many other folks don’t.
Very good column, worth reading. The fundamental point is very important: we’re going through something right now where, on the other side of it, whatever happens, we can’t be back where we started. The difficulty is convincing enough Americans that this is the case to act accordingly.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
We will not beat back repressive power with a bunch of fragmented “leftists,” writes William C. Anderson in “Another way out.” Instead, we can look to what political prisoner Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic” to break free from orthodoxy & bring our politics to life.
We need a mosaic movement, not fragmented ‘leftism'
Instead of a call for resentment-filled “unity” or traditional fronts, we can look to what Russell Maroon Shoatz called “the mosaic”
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Hopefully the SPLC can take out this current incarnation of the Klan at the DOJ when this nonsense goes to court.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoNew in PN: "Now, as part of the project to undo Reconstruction, the DOJ hopes to take out the SPLC using the very tools it used to defeat the KKK. And along the way, they can exculpate every bigot who ever swung a tiki torch. *Those boys weren’t bad, they were just stirred up by outside agitators!*"
"The effort comes in response to longstanding criticism that Harvard’s faculty leans overwhelmingly liberal." Golly, I wonder why faculties tend to be overwhelmingly liberal? Are liberals more drawn to teaching? Have conservatives been engaged in a long war on science and knowledge? WHO KNOWS?
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 5mo agoSad to see Hayek from 1949 proved wrong in 2026: “I have yet to come across a single instance where such a scientific pseudo-reputation has been bestowed for political reason on a scholar of more conservative leanings.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
Mark my words. In about a week, Americas are going to wake up in the morning and feel what this chart actually means.
BTW the people who spent the last few years advocating for Palestine were clearly 100% right that normalizing war crimes and genocide there would just increase the likelihood of inhumane actions elsewhere. Just saying.
“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...
It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...
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