Colin Kaepernick knelt 10 years ago. America responded with a clear warning to Black people | Howard Bryant www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...

Colin Kaepernick knelt 10 years ago. America responded with a clear warning to Black people | Howard Bryant

A decade after Kaepernick’s quiet protest shook the NFL, his exile looks less like an aberration than a blueprint for the culture war that followed

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They’re ending democracy via post office

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h ago

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

I joined @chrislhayes.bsky.social on "Why Is This Happening?" for a conversation about the strange roots of tech fascism. My book, "The Nerd Reich," tells the bizarre but true story of how these ideas migrated from the internet fringe to the Trump White House. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

’The Nerd Reich’ with Gil Durán

Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · September 1 · 53m

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“Mamdani is the political personification of this. He’s the smiling face fighting back. He’s the resistance of a city that has long been captured by capital on the verge of reform. Lurie is also a smiling face, but he’s the reverse. He’s fighting on behalf of power in a place on the verge of capture

East Meets West: What NYC & SF Can Teach Us About A Multipolar Democratic Party

Forget MAGA: The Real Battle is Zohran Mamdani vs. Daniel Lurie

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The US military is all about training people to never to say no to people with more power than you. Also it doesn't want to say no, this is its perceived mission.

Rebecca Ingber@becingber.bsky.social · 6h ago

“The military has conducted extrajudicial executions of alleged drug dealers at sea and of a country’s head of state, … has kidnapped another head of state. And the president started a war without even consulting Congress, much less obtaining congressional authorization.…”

Or, and hear us out... you could learn and grow. Question. Investigate. Demand evidence. Lean on your own understanding instead of surrendering it to someone else.

Tapping our collective helmets while a committee of corrupted umps calls balls and strikes

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 6h ago

The Supreme Court has allowed Trump to move forward with building a White House ballroom. trib.al/NI5GwOJ

LLMs are terrible search engines. We used to have good search engines, now we have terrible ones that drink lakes and dominate small towns.

@ecutruin.bsky.social · yesterday

I'd argue that you can use an LLM for history class the same way you might use a search engine. Teach your students how to make effective use of said tools, and to verify the sources of any historical information presented in the output. This isn't all that difficult to do.

someone should tell speaker jefferies about the armies of masked secret police and the concentration camps, he seems to have missed those stories

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 8h ago

What @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social told me the House agenda will be next year if Democrats win —Reverse Trump’s Medicaid cuts —Extend expired ACA tax credits —Restore Congress’s authority on tariffs —“Decisively” end the Iran war Beyond that: “We’ve established five working groups on affordability”

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The women who prosecuted Nazis at Nuremberg

Editor's Note: Before reading this article, we recommend Tim Wheeler's earlier story on the life of Mary Metlay Kaufman. It provides informative background on the life of this remarkable lawyer and ac...

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🧵1️⃣ Most countries in Europe are pushing they're citizens to stock up on essentials incase war with Russia. Constant "Russia may invade in a matter of weeks " All the while pandering to the genocidal oligarchs of the US, who are deeply connected to the warloving oligarchs in Russia and who

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 17h ago

Anton Siluanov holds talks with US counterpart as European officials object to Russia's return to G20 talks.

If you don't like people standing up for equality, then sit your ass down. Be an ally or shut the fuck up.

NEW: DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15

DHS Facial Recognition Software Used Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT

Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has deployed an aggressive facial recognition apparatus for monitoring and tracking domestic political dissidents, raising questions about why an agency created ...

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If you're willing to compromise on human rights, there's nothing you aren't willing to compromise on. You're a shit stain.

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel, Louis Daguerre, c.1824.

Happy September! 🖼️ Grasset

And the Trump-supporting Talibangelicals would automatically reject it just to “own a Lib.” They’d rather have family members suffer or die than give up on their unintelligent, thieving, child-raping idol.

Book Cover of the Day:

Study of an Oak Leaf, John Ruskin.

It was always the plan: complete erasure of Gaza, of Palestine.. We have to remember that, no matter how they phrase it going forward. #FeckIsraHell #FeckUSraHell www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250901-fro...

From genocide to gentrification: Trump’s plan to erase Gaza’s population exposed

The latest ethnic cleansing proposal targeting Palestinians in Gaza has surfaced in the form of a postwar reconstruction initiative backed by the administration of President Donald Trump. Dubbed th…

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There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places. —Wendell Berry

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 18h ago

Wendell Berry, a lyrical Kentucky farmer who wrote award-winning poems, novels and essays, has died at 92.

Well it wouldn't be the first time Hegseth decided a school full of 12 year old girls was a legitimate target.

Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 18h ago

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

YOU, the WISEMAN - “For you see, the true meaning of Christmas is not that of the labor union’s propaganda, nor that of the bleeding heart concerned for the orphan, NAY not even that of the mildly distressed bourgeoises, it is- me, a peasant - “…I don’t like kids dying in the street”

Protest that endures, I think, is moved by a hope far more modest than that of public success: namely, the hope of preserving qualities in one's own heart and spirit that would be destroyed by acquiescence. Wendell Berry, What Are People For?

Abortion Every Day was at the Daisy Chain festival - Kylie Cheung shares her reflections. "The dedication of Olivia and her team to empowering and educating her fan base of women and girls—about our rights, what we deserve, what we’re up against, and how we fight back—was tangible and infectious."

Daisy Chain Reminds Us Feminism Has Always Been Cool

Reflections on Olivia Rodrigo’s iconic festival

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While the Trump administration pretends that anti-fascists pose a threat to the public in order to justify crackdowns intended to pave the way for an autocratic power grab, bigots and fascists whipped up by the administration's lies are carrying out actual murder sprees.

Midtown homicide suspect had multiple other LGBTQ+ targets, sources say

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Sources close to a midtown double homicide, which is now being investigated as a hate crime, told News 4 Tucson the alleged shooter Ousman Ceesay appeared

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COLLINS: "Do you want to respond to what the VP Vance said today, that there's something “very, very evil" about you?" EL-SAYED: "Let me tell you what's evil. Evil is starting war where there is peace. Evil is the idea of stripping away people's healthcare when they have absolutely no other option.”