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(He/Him) Human Paperweight. Compassion will be key in the harsh days ahead. We're all we got.

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Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Democrats. The "lesser evil" you excuse today never washes off of your brand. The genocide, the transphobia. That's you now. We begged you not to do it. You did it anyway. Whether you win or lose, regardless of how evil the GOP is, it's on your permanent record. And you did it 100% to yourself.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 3w ago

People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.

Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in Kansas A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Look everybody. The youth of the Black south poisoned by data centers speak. This is the world devastating harm of AI. It's not just ruining people's brains & plagiarizing & producing slop. The air of Jasmine's community in Memphis is thick with toxic waste killing folks. @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Randolph Potts@rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Jasmine Bernard, 17, speaks out on health impacts of data centers in Memphis. She and others addressed the Memphis City Council about air that smells like rotten eggs, worsening asthma & increasing hospital visits. She & others called for a moratorium on new data center development. The Mayor choked

ann is building neno.social@ann.co · 2w ago

You don't dismantle white supremacist ideologies. You erase them with another, more powerful one, either by amplification or by repetition. The issue is we don't have a cohesive replacement ideology to repeat or amplify.

Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴@161bklyn.myatproto.social · 2w ago

"A federal court in California on Tuesday order the US Department of Agriculture to halt any further enactment of a plan by President Donald Trump to dramatically restructure the agency, which public workers unions and pro-democracy advocates argued in court was unlawful."

Federal Court Blocks 'Blatantly Illegal'​ Trump Effort to Restructure USDA | Common Dreams

The coalition behind a lawsuit challenging the plan called the ruling “a welcome reprieve to the Trump-Vance administration’s reckless, unlawful, and disruptive reorganization."

commondreams.org

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 3w ago

Tribes decry governor’s veto of two bills expanding tribal consultation, religious protections Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills that would’ve given tribal governments a greater voice in water projects and in preventing the destruction of sacred Indigenous religious sites on state land.

Tribes decry governor’s veto of two bills expanding tribal consultation, religious protections

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills that would’ve given tribal governments a greater voice in water projects and in preventing the destruction of sacred Indigenous religious sites on state land.

cal.news

Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Dems are going to spend the next 2 years impotently trying to prove they won the midterms while Trump finalizes perma-reign of the GOP's forever regime. And Dems will continue to vote shame out of reflex.

Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Every generation thinks their midlife crisis is somehow more unique and personally significant than what previous generations experienced. Cope disguised as hope never changes.

Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · last mo.

A party that sells itself as "less worse" has no future. A party that forbids its base from demanding a hopeful future is a dead party. Any society that party controls is doomed to collapse.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · last mo.

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · last mo.

Wait. I was told that Obama fixed healthcare and anyone who wanted guaranteed Universal Healthcare was a whiny baby who didn't understand how politics works.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING WaPo: JD Vance and admin officials are set to announce that they're removing hundreds of thousands of people from Affordable Care Act coverage — claiming that they were fraudulently enrolled in the program, according to three people with knowledge of the forthcoming announcement.

Shakes@shakes.bsky.social · last mo.

Media will write an article about Medicaid cuts that affect disabled people and put it behind a paywall. Truly evil to be like: The government might kill you soon but we're too greedy to let your impoverished as know the details.