#OtD 21 Aug 1791 the Haitian revolution began as 100,000 enslaved people rose up and eventually overthrew both slavery and French rule, creating the world's first Black republic shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...
Wanzdog
@wanzdog.bsky.social
Posts about trains, sports, and general stuff. Student manager once for a D-1 mid-major basketball program.
ICE is a tool of the bosses and is a deadly weapon aimed at workers. truthout.org/articles/uni...
Union-Busters Are Using ICE to Intimidate California Wine Industry Workers
California’s wine industry runs on immigrant exploitation. Now migrant workers are unionizing.
truthout.org
I want my tax dollars to give the people of Gary, Indiana their power back instead of being used to murder and imprison children.
Legalizing sports betting was a fucking mistake
Lewie Pollis@lewispoll.is · 4d agoWhat the fuck is wrong with people
Update, she got pulled over again in the next town over. Car is due to for registration so (even though I shouldn't have to) we're going to replace the license plate when I go to the DMV. this is fucking ridiculous.
Postman Wookie wants to film your car@wookiedrives.bsky.social · 5d agoSo ny wife just got flocked because our NC plate matched a stolen plate # from Texas. What the fuck.
"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."
It Is Past Time for You to Quit Elon Musk's X
Yes, I'm talking to you. 🫵
publiccomment.blog
“The public university in New Jersey abruptly deleted a reference to genocide in Gaza from its website. The author, a Jewish scholar of genocide, believes officials caved to donor pressure"
Stockton Pulls Genocide Reference After Donor Complains
The public university in New Jersey abruptly deleted a reference to genocide in Gaza from its website. The author, a Jewish scholar of genocide, believes officials caved to donor pressure.
insidehighered.com
Dockworker unions in 6 countries, representing 40 ports, are calling for strikes and shutdowns in October 30 to protest war. The unions say, “We are ready to meet with organized groups of dockworkers and port workers from any other ports interested in becoming part of this common struggle.”
Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes and Protests Against War and Genocide
Unions representing workers at 40 ports in Europe and the Mediterranean are calling for an international day of action on October 30.
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#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376...
And after that come the drones with guns.
NACDL@nacdl.org · 2w ago🧵First came the Flock cameras. Now come the drones. Hundreds of police departments are rolling out autonomous, AI-driven surveillance drones that can follow one car across a whole city and film through your apartment window. A new @truthout.org report lays it out.
BREAKNG: Meta announces it will invest $1 billion in US cities and towns where it operates and is building AI data centers. That sum pales in comparison to the $600 billion Meta plans to spend on data centers through 2028. The company already has 160 data centers planned or under construction.
“Division is how rulers maintain their domination, and the most effective way to accomplish disunity is to mobilize invented political categories such as race, nationality, or especially citizenship to transform these real differences into insurmountable divisions.“ by Salar Mohandesi
The Left Can’t Win Without an Internationalist Vision
The globalization hype of the early 2000s has given way to an intense focus on national borders and competition between states. But the Left can’t afford to abandon its own form of internationalism ba...
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Going to keep posting these for as long as it takes. Get Flock (and Axon and all other mass surveillance tech) out of our communities.
Late Night Anti-Fascists@latenightafa.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW Aug 8 2026 - Polk County, GA Ex-Georgia drug task force agent (ex-Police Officer Tracey Royston) charged with misusing license plate reader (Flock) database
Foamers are collectively loosing their shit saying these are all "ruining" their shots and saying that they're making the runs more stressful for the crew while in actuality, the crews are finding is all funny as fuck.
metalheadrailfan 🔞@metalheadrailfan.bsky.social · 2w ago
New from 404 Media: around the country, cities are ditching Flock. But in many cases, immediately replacing Flock with Axon cameras. These clamp to an existing streetlamp so harder to spot. May be harder for public to know what cops are using the cameras for www.404media.co/cities-are-d...
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
404media.co
Once upon a time, the mall in Moorestown, NJ had one of the largest indoor skate parks on the east coast.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 3w agotell me about your town’s weird mall
Another person conducting ICE abductions in New Jersey has been identified: Mike Smith of Warrington, PA, described by Jersey Counterinfo as “41 years, is married, is a homeowner, has two children, and is a Disney Adult.” He evidently is a U.S. Marshal: jerseycounterinfo.noblogs.org/nj-ice-agent...
STRIKE ALERT: Prisoners across the U.S. will stage a National Prisoners' Human Rights Strike from May Day through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027, uniting the fight to end legalized slavery with the struggle to restore voting rights to the prison class Jailhouselawyersspeak.com @jaillawspeak.bsky.social
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
futurism.com
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Repairing an elevator, driving a taxi, and doing covers of Hank Williams and Marty Robbins in a seaside bar at night
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 3w agoEnough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
This is fundamentally the pursuit of the private sector: to create its own state (or series of mini-states) in all but name, but without even the pretence of democracy or other pesky means for the people to have any input or say.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4w agoDid you know that in the US at the beginning of the last century, many miners weren't paid in cash? Instead, they were paid in company scrip – tokens which were only redeemable in stores owned by the company. Learn all about it in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/scr...
This is actually a wonderful example of why we should not try to squeeze ourselves into their framing. As Jess points out beautifully, parents rights is never about parents like us and it never will be. Because it's a thought killing cliche designed to undermine equity and progress.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4w agoSo, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?
Mamdani views Jewish New Yorkers as just that - Jewish New Yorkers - and not temporarily displaced Israelis. And THAT is why Zionists hate him so much. Because the Zionist project that has culminated in the Netanyahu regime REQUIRES that we all be viewed as temporarily displaced Israelis.
NEW: I wrote for MSNBC about how Madison Square Garden turning off their facial recognition cameras for Taylor Swift is a perfect encapsulation of our dystopian present: where the wealthy can use surveillance to consolidate power, and the rest of us live in a privately owned panopticon.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got to buy MSG's privacy. Her fans aren't so lucky.
Reports that Madison Square Garden temporarily shut off its facial recognition system for Swift’s wedding expose a glaring problem with how the elite wield and control mass surveillance.
ms.now
“He had felonies.” Shut the fuck up. The U.S. president has more felonies, is a rapist and protects pedophiles.
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · last mo.I didn't know Corey Ruiz, but I know that we failed him. I know police officials will lie about him and I know cop worshippers will rush to defame him.
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · last mo.Fifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.
#OtD 21 Jul 2001 Italian police in Genoa raided the Armando Diaz school and brutally beat the protesters staying there. The victims were then arrested and tortured by officers, who were never punished stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9391...
