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The Athletic@theathletic.com · 20h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
obviously this is islamophobia, but it's also the liberal framing of american empire as always being reactive. none of our actions ever have consequences and no one ever has valid historical reasons to be hostile towards america
Mohamad Bazzi@mbazzi.bsky.social · yesterday25 years after the tired American cliche of “why do they hate us,” helped instigate two forever wars (Afghanistan + Iraq), this is how @nytimes.com chooses to explain Iran’s political system:
All love and power to those who fight back.
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · yesterday"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...
Few things make me more furious than when some dipshit decries political actors for sowing division within a society. THATS WHAT POLITICS ARE. Rewarding some groups and punishing everyone else. That's the whole of it. To refuse division is to amplify the power of the hegemon. Fucking cowards.
Had to gently call in a femme comrade recently on a safety issue and they responded so helpfully and the whole interaction felt like we grew to understand each other better. As opposed to every single time ive had to gently call in a dude and they act like im trying to castrate them or something.
#OtD 4 Aug 1980 the US-backed military dictatorship in South Korea handed down jail sentences of between one and five years to 30 people who had been involved in an insurrection of coal miners and their families in Sabuk the previous April stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...
To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
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There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza. There is still bombing Gaza.
In case you were wondering why Hochul is peeved at state violence all of a sudden: yes, the person pepper sprayed was a white woman.
Gothamist@gothamist.com · 2d agoICE pepper-sprayed NYC woman, 72, in the face. Gov. Hochul is peeved. gothamist.com/news/ice-pep...
Writing fiction in any genre should be a purely human exercise. If you use AI to generate *any* dialog, story ideas, character shapes, *anything* creative, you're betraying the very concept of artistic expression. This is a bright flashing red line for me. www.wired.com/story/the-bi...
‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood
Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.
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"They're paralyzed from the waist down, they have pancreatic cancer ... and the commissioner is saying, [they're] too dangerous to release."
Prison Journalism Project@prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 3d ago“If you commit a crime and the judge says you’re going to spend 20 years in prison, that is the sentence: taking away your liberties, your right to vote, to do other things. The sentence didn’t include losing your leg from diabetes or losing your life from poor care.” Story via @thexylom.com
Heavy police presence at Summer Streets marks latest NYPD surge under Mamdani gothamist.com/news/heavy-p...
Heavy police presence at Summer Streets marks latest NYPD surge under Mamdani
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has responded to large gatherings with unprecedented deployments of police.
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You cannot dictate the tools the pigs will use through regulations. If they can use a thing to harm folks, they will. The only thing we can do is limit the tools they have by destroying them or refusing to allow them to exist in the first place.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2d agoNew: police are being explicitly told to hide the fact they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them. Basically, do not mention this in official police reports. If the tech is completely legal and acceptable, like law enforcement say, why hide it? www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
If you volunteered for this man and you aren't getting your beak wet, you are a sucker, I'm not sorry to say. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Who gets a car in the Mamdani administration? These 52 officials
A car and driver is a perk for dozens of jobs in city government besides the mayor.
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The state exists to organize violence to impose the will of the ruling class on their subjects. Thats it. The only thing a state exists to do. You can try to use it for other means, but if youre paying attention, youll quickly figure out that everything always comes back that organized violence.
Jimmy Butler, I am ready to join your jihad against the robots.
With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447
#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...
"The Michigan case was filed on behalf of Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee and Hillsdale Counties..." But please, keep gushing about how progressive the papacy is. I'm sure the Catholic Church is thankful for the p.r. while they keep attacking every last one of our rights.
MI agrees not to enforce conversion therapy ban to comply with Supreme Court ruling
Michigan has stipulated it will not enforce the state ban on conversion therapy that seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of minors as part of an agreement filed this week with a ...
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THREAD. After years of litigating against New York prosecutors and judges, we just won a landmark First Amendment case in the federal appeals court. The case could expose the secretive world that protects prosecutors when they break the law. But something deeper is going on.
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. Edward Abbey
We seem to be tripling down on a really bad piece and I’ll just register my disappointment. (Alex Pretti was armed. I’ll wait for an explanation as to how that was bad/ineffective)
"ICE could not simply deny that the massive hunger strike at Delaney Hall was happening, so agents resorted to violence ... ICE officers cut off the detainees' external communication, repeatedly threatened to sabotage their cases, and brutally assaulted and pepper-sprayed them[.]"
Prism@prismreports.org · last wk.“People are not willing to give up so easily or to have their spirits broken.” Hunger strikes are spreading in ICE jails, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports. More detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions & legal rights violations.
There is a nation-wide push to massively expand the carceral capacity of the most expansive PIC in the world. This is being done in the name of progressive reform.
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · last wk.new: officials are building a $7 million “trauma-informed” visitation center at the cook county jail, part of at least $400 million in projects planned at the jail over the next decade. it’s supposed to make for a more “humane” experience—but it’ll do little to address the dismal conditions at ccj.
they’ve been calling us a terror movement for years. the media rushes to tell people that every mass shooter is trans before the bodies hit the floor. for half a decade now, we’ve been damned whether we do or don’t. respectfully, this moment is no different from what we’ve long been living through.
