artists! culture makers! chicago! midwest! one week from today is the proposal deadline to participate in ART IN THESE TIMES, an InterCcECT exhibition as part of #falloffreedom selected artists paid! weekend includes party, poetry, comedy, coffee by Nabal interccect.com/2026/08/01/a...

Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition

In conjunction with Fall of Freedom, which calls on artists to unite as a constituency specifically challenged by ascending authoritarian attacks on the freedom to learn and free association, Inter…

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One cannot be raised on the teachings of Buffy Summers, Aragorn, Aslan, Dean Winchester, Ryan Atwood, Sydney Bristow, Max Guevara, Veronica Mars, Rory Gilmore and the Baudelaire trio, and not grow into an adult with very forthright opinions (with a side of chronic nostalgia).

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

hear fucking hear

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · 3y ago

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

ny times op ed tomorrow: sure, the city has experienced the lowest crime rate in history under mamdani's democratic socialist leadership. but are the lives saved worth the loss of support from republicans on long island?

so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · 2d ago

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

it's true, one of the things Seattle is most famous for is being really really violent and yeah we're very well known for our super dirty, filthy, smelly streets. and omg the grossest trees--like so many. we barely go outside, everyone knows that

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

vets who are both qualified and want these jobs probably already have them; and the only trucking jobs that pay decently are likely staffed by Teamsters, which MAGA would happily dismantle if they could

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

VA Secretary Doug Collins: "These are some of the most highly skilled, highly trained, highly motivated, determined people we have in the workforce. Hey, why don't we put them behind a truck? ... they're gonna do it safer, they're gonna do it better"

It's the last day of International Zine Month. Check out this @truthout.org podcast (transcript available too) with host @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, IC cofounder @prisonculture.bsky.social, and writer/organizer Red Schulte talking zines!

Making Things Together: Zines, Strategy, and Survival

“We’re going to need a lot more in-person opportunities for us to expand our humanity,” says organizer Mariame Kaba.

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want to be clear there are absolutely big differences b/t Dems & GOP, don’t ascribe to all-the-same, and that said, it’s awfully telling how many high profile Dems now profess to prefer a Republican in office than a progressive and how that appears to be driven by who is closer to their values

"the pedophile in chief is not gonna protect you!" 😎⚡️

Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

this is so out of touch with reality. people in these towns know any jobs from these projects that don't ship workers in are temporary, and likely not union jobs. nobody's getting paid. meanwhile, energy bills and land, air, noise, and water pollution are all rising. nobody wants these data centers.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

turning FEMA's resources away from disaster during hurricane and wildfire season is insidious enough, but designating them to "pre-crime" as a strategy to oppress legal opinions, ideologies, and politics is fascist af. Minority Report was a cautionary tale *against* authoritarianism, not a guidebook

Larry Colvin@larrycolvin.bsky.social · last wk.

FEMA’s New Mission: Domestic Terrorism The disaster response agency forgets the weather, embraces pre-crime #Blues open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

this is exactly right

Jenn Budd@jennbudd.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Pre-crime” means you have not committed any crimes but might. In my college law classes, it was always stressed that law enforcement is primarily a reactionary system in a free society. To be proactive in law enforcement means civil rights do not exist. That is what this is.

I found this fascinating. I don't think I've ever seen a Museum publicly list the costs of an exhibition before. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... - It's actually super helpful for people to see what it takes.

A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition

“Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form,” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, stars Autumn Knight, Dread Scott, Ghislaine Leung.

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dems holding shadow hearings to get this info out is good politics

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 6d ago

Chicago teen shares his experience in ICE detention centers: I am 18 years old and I just graduated from high school in Chicago. I was in ICE detention for 2 months and 10 days. They kept me in solitary for 2 days for no reason, alone in a room with just a toilet. They never let us go outside.

this is bullshit that show was fun why can't we have fun

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 6d ago

THOSE FUCKERS CANCELLED WONDER MAN

Sobering update from BLM OR/WA on the extremely active PNW wildfire season. 1.3M acres have burned, w/a seasonal avg of 1.2M. This is an above normal wildfire season already...and we have to go until at least October. Give this a read, folks. #wawx #orwx #wildfires

it sounds like he's describing long covid, which can happen when people cease implementing safety measures like masking and air filtration, even if they're getting vaccinated

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

Mari and torch

all those books being cut up and thrown away by Big Tech could go to K-12 schools, prisons, colleges, libraries, nursing homes, literally anywhere but the trash. but they want to privatize knowledge, history, and information as if that doesn't belong to us all. this is a basic fucking take I know

Fauci accuses Rand Paul of having an "unhinged obsession with calling for my prosecution" and of making "repeated slanderous comments," then says "although it pains me to do so... under advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the 5th Amendment to refrain from answering your questions."

noting here that they state it is both a crime to make a false statement (that they're attempting to entrap Fauchi into making), and, it is a crime to choose not to reapond (such as invoking the 5th)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Fauci is taking the 5th in response to each of Rand Paul's questions

ok so not all his council was removed, but still, this seems incredibly significant because my read in this is that they manufactured a disruption in order to make an example out of him

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rand Paul loses it when Fauci's attorney tries to say something, and he eventually directs security to kick him out of the hearing room

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

this absolutely is an entrapment question, and as they removed his council from the room (if I remember correctly), he did the right thing by invoking the 5th

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Joni Ernst asks Fauci if it was really his plan to persuade Trump to try to slowing the spread of covid, as though her question is a gotcha and that was a bad course of action

mad scientist?! this is literal insanity. 1 in 10 people dying in the US during a *global pandemic* is a lot of people what the hell. lockdown was worldwide. long covid persists today. did covid eat MAGA's brains or what

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

Settlers torch two mosques in the Palestinian territory as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu threatens 'more broad action'.

Why are Israeli settlers on a rampage in the occupied West Bank?

Settlers torch two mosques in the Palestinian territory as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu threatens 'more broad action'.

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ideas about technological unemployment go all the way back to Aristotle, and it's never been aspirational, but techbros since time immemorial have held this up like some sort of utopian carrot on a dystopian stick

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another odd moment occurred when Musk insisted that work in the future would be "optional" because robots would do everything. Musk said people might still work in the future but compared it to people who grow their own backyard tomatoes. He said they could just go to the store for better tomatoes.

The party cleaves exactly there. On the one side, those who refuse to sacrifice order for justice, and other other side, those who refuse to sacrifice justice for order. The thing is, order isn't a moral value.