whoo this sentence really jumped out <<In one case, The Washington Post ran a front page story advertising the location for white servicemen to meet and carry out further attacks on black people in the city.>>

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago

I think today's liberals in the US are used to a social environment where pogroms are rare and don't realize the role armed self defense plays in that state of affairs www.history.com/articles/red...

I generally prefer more concrete demands in my political messaging, but for immigration policy we genuinely do need culture war (positive). Decades of tolerating media that shows migrants and drugs as a valid source of criminal danger, on broadcast television, it’s rancid and accepted.

Jonathon M. Floyd@jfloyd314.bsky.social · 2d ago

The average America is just totally, completely wrong about immigration, thanks to a combination of a lack of education and a deluge of right-wing propaganda for which the left has never had a remotely satisfactory answer. The standard normie response of "Just come legally!" is utterly unrealistic.

The reason so few ostensibly progressive people are actually for open borders is because if they erase the arbitrary line on the map they'd have to reckon with the fact that the wealth with which they plan to build their utopia is unjustly hoarded by 10% of the world's population from the other 90%

this ROCKS lmao just throwing it out there but would anyone wanna do something similar in chicago with Kapow after primaries maybe 👀

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

ᴛʜɪɴɢs ɢᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ʜᴏᴛ ᴡᴇ sᴛᴀʏᴇᴅ ᴀs ʟᴏɴɢ ᴀs ᴘᴏssɪʙʟᴇ

"Our electronic voting machines are so good that they don't accept votes from Argentines and Americans" - Brazil's Vice-president Geraldo Alckmin, at the Worker's Party National Convention

Camarote da República@camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 3d ago

🎙 "A urna eletrônica é tão boa que não aceita voto de argentino e de americano" - Geraldo Alckmin na Convenção Nacional do PT (Kkkkkk)

abolitionists were armed. The Panthers were armed. You do not need to flatten movement history to make a prudential point and then demonize anyone who criticizes you as a walmart arsonist

Something I think about a lot is how western liberals were writing screeds on the inherently slavish Russian mind when Russian civilians didn't stop the war their government launched and then when it was their turn far, far fewer of them ended up imprisoned for opposing the war than did Russians

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5d ago

US Central Command (CENTCOM) has prepared a large-scale operation in the form of a decisive two-week bombing campaign should Trump choose escalation to break the deadlock in the Middle East, two sources confirmed.-NYP

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4d ago

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help From Abroad

As Senegal Cracks Down on LGBTQ Rights, Activists Seek Help From Abroad - UNICORN RIOT

Since February, Senegalese authorities have initiated a crackdown against the LGBTQ community, reportedly arresting hundreds across the country.

unicornriot.ninja

after watching the odyssey i think emily wilson straight up just did not watch that movie-- i cannot imagine a person coming out of that and thinking 'you know what would make this commentary on male sexual violence and imperialism better? if odysseus fucked circe'. it boggles the mind

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.

"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...

I wrote a comedy textbook about Native American history, people and culture! It's called “We’ve Been Here The Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America.” It’s like if The Daily Show or The Onion wrote a book about Indian Country.

Speaking of mythic/heroic film epics about humans and gods--have a great one. Not based on a specific poem that I know, but on the oral storytelling of the Bambara people of West Africa.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · last yr.

YEELEN (1987); a fantastically beautiful Malian heroic epic, with a thrillingly grounded yet awe-inspiring depiction of magic as a natural emanation of humanity's storytelling & linguistic abilities, which can birth gods & fell entire peoples. Power, gorgeous & terrible. Loved this.

breaking: Wikimedia Foundation says it will not voluntarily recognize its workers union, instead insisting on an election held under Trump's NLRB. Wiki Foundation execs dodged this question at its massive conference last week. www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa...

Wikimedia Waits Until After Its Massive Conference to Say It Won’t Voluntarily Recognize Union

A supermajority of Wikimedia Foundation workers say they have signed union cards, but the foundation is insisting on an election.

404media.co

Mountains at Saint-Rémy by Vincent van Gogh, 1889 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137747

Their anonymous agents, much like ICE today, stamped out dissent across the country, anything deemed “un-American.” They kicked in doors, conducted warrantless searches, kidnapped and interrogated suspects, intimidated and tortured. They particularly targeted immigrants. Sound familiar?

a wasted opportunity in legend of korra would have been to have this precise conflict come up-- the era of modernization was precisely when you saw people contemplating new alphabets, simplifying characters, etc.-- but this would require the showrunners to perhaps read a history book, so impossible

MARCY BONES! ☠️@marcybones64.bsky.social · last wk.

but most usages we see are specifically in Earth Kingdom or Fire Nation contexts. we don't get to see the writing systems of most other cultures, just the lingua franca

the average voter knows basically nothing about foreign policy beyond a few vibes-- if you are voting for someone based on foreign policy, you are an extreme outlier!

SK@sstratpolitics.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'd be careful about saying that, with our foreign policy platform we won the Mayors of NYC and DC, and won Congress seats in NYC, Denver, Philadelphia, and about to be Detroit. While also setting a record for socialist party membership in America and at our all-time membership peak

the one person for whom the 'ukrainians are nazis' canard makes her feel more sympathetic towards them

Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · last wk.

AP running a puff piece on this woman:

A thread on the great Silas Soule, one of the few figures from Old West history that I unequivocally consider a hero. Be warned, this is going to get rough...

Henry Ward Beecher was a New England reverend who shipped Sharps rifles to abolitionists in crates thought to carry Bibles. He believed that while the truth shall set you free, the truth & a breech-loading rifle was even better. Harriet Beecher Stowe of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame was a relative...

i still think one of the worst things that could have happened was the biden interregnum as opposed to trump just having two straight terms of four years-- completely took the wind out of the sails of the opposition and let a whole bunch of top Dems hunker down instead of getting kicked out

sasha (they/them)@returnedknyaz.bsky.social · last wk.

pretty close to objectively true that Trump I being fractionally less offensively stupid than imagined in the first 2 years blunted a lot of the momentum against him

every day i think of the french government-run minitel system and what different kinds of internets we might have had if we hadn't created it in the era of run-away capitalism and neoliberalism. feels like the internet was doomed to this from the start.

Jjinandtonic@jjinandtonic.bsky.social · last yr.

Making myself sad in the wee hours of the morning thinking about how within two generations of making an unparalleled, world transforming platform to meet and talk to other people we’ve so contaminated it that we might have been better not making jt at all

We should have burned silicon valley to the ground when we had a chance

It's very rarely acknowledged by the "what about Sudan?" crowd that has negatively polarized itself so thoroughly against pro-Palestinian sentiment, but basically all of the most pro-Israel think tanks are also extremely pro UAE and GCC writ large. There's a reason for that.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · last wk.

Pro-Israel, pro-Saudi, pro-Emirati, pro-Egypt, doesn't disclose donors, has an actual, literal genocidaire on its board, is more influential than people like to admit, is technically not in charge of anyone etc.

if you're starting out by trying to be like something else, you've failed from the beginning imo. applies to tofu but also to many other things in life!

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 2w ago

OMFG stop trying to make tofu taste like meat it will never taste like meat learn something about South east Asian cuisine and how to cook tofu properly what the fuck why does so much vegan cooking content drive me insane with this shit?!?