So they’re torturing this guy.

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · 2d ago

Air Force Major Who Called for Trump’s Impeachment is in Solitary Confinement 24 Hours a Day: Attorney www.military.com/air-force-ma...

The media always talks about "class war" or "race war" as if they're not already happening. This is an example of both. Making someone pay for their imprisonment is grinding the heel in the back of their neck, just to make sure they know their place.

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

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

This is the sort of thing that makes me want to put more rich people in prison. Then charge the MF's. But scale it up, of course. Musk pays $50k / day for his stay.

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

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

I've been working like hell to get this across to leftists: The term "zio" is inherently antisemitic and shows that you're willing to make common cause with the far right.

Spooky Scary FTM@sincerelyandrew.bsky.social · 2w ago

Zio is a slur created by a white supremacist. The term glowie was invented by a racist man. It costs zero to examine yourself and your biases. Quit using phrases made by racist white people.

Don't ask me to explain it, but this old song by Dave and Phil Alvin has been speaking strongly to me lately. 🎼"I declare this whole world's in a bad condition...." 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eR5...

Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin - "World's In A Bad Condition" (Official Video)

YouTube video by davealvinofficial

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I used to think that talking about “hate” was anti-political, that it moralized what were really deep material and structural issues. There are obvious deep structures to oppression that go beyond “hate.” But hate actually matters!

At the end of the day, either you believe no one should be treated like the Nazis want to treat people or you are lost. no one should be talked about like the Nazis talk about people. It’s humanism or bust

Part of why I think I can read twitter without losing my mind is that I discovered stormfront when I was very young (I AM JEWISH I WAS NOT POSTING ON STORMFRONT). it’s all the same shit, forever

reskeeting with alt text. also yes because dying is not an option.

a spoopy red rock with 8 legs@unfixable.place · 3w ago

I close my ears when men start the provider and protector propaganda. History proves that’s not the case.

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

How to kill gaming for good: As if matcha boxes and micropurchases weren't bad enough, Microsoft wants you to watch ads in order to do boss fights. Fuck no to this shit. I have enough trouble with RL breaking my focus, without ads doing it for me. #gaming www.techspot.com/news/113909-...

Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes

The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles.

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Labor Day. Today we remember Joe Hill: immigrant worker, songwriter and Wobbly organizer, executed by firing squad in 1915 after a conviction widely denounced as unjust. His final message to the labor movement: “Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!”

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · last mo.

The ultra-wealthy keep trying to pit the rest of us against each other with scare tactics ("communists!" "men in the ladies room!!" "brown people!!!" "drag queens!!!!") to keep us from noticing that our real problem is THEM. They want us to fight *any* war—except a class war. Happy Labor Day.

Basically they want to talk shit about us. They want our identities to be the beginning & end of the conversation. It’s obvious that if you can delegitimize the highest minority in the country, if that’s allow, if that’s considered a serious question, then no minority’s legitimacy is guaranteed.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

How can people not see that the war on birthright citizenship (which will potentially impact all people deemed not white enough) is directly downstream from basically a decade of permitted, normalized, unpunished attacks on & ✌🏾questions✌🏾about Obama’s birth status? We are here because we were there.

Per a conversation w/ @thefallingdream.bsky.social: "AI Psychosis": ableist, saneist, makes it seem like an individual problem; washed "AI Ensorcellment": highlights both the truth of the magico-religious commitments underlying all tech *&* the curse-like nature of systemic "AI" impositions; fire

I am once again tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to

CNN@cnn.com · 2mo ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

I find class-first/only "Leftists" to be the most useless kind of activists in existence. No matter what they tell you, they're not really radicals. Just centrists with a Marxist vocabulary. They'll ignore race, gender, disability, neurodivergence, etc. and act like all those things can....🧵

This is such a lazy piece. It's like "this is a price control, and price controls always fail." First, it's not a price control. It's a government subsidy. Second, price controls don't "always" backfire. They prevent gouging in emergencies and help regulate monopolies.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2mo ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Absolutely right.

Josephine Riesman@josie.zone · 2mo ago

Ok no but for real MYYYY hot take is that Annie Lennox can do everything Madonna has ever done, but Madonna couldn't do 1/3 of what Annie Lennox has done

roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker

To the bigots like Elon Musk crying about white genocide & how the white race must be saved from the destruction people of color having rights causes, this situation of hardcore racist oppression from Trump still looks like white people being under threat to him. Their need for power is insatiable.

I think it’s very bad for all of the discourses at once for there to be messaging out there saying that the word ‘genocide’ is antisemitic and also messaging out there that the guy with a Nazi tattoo is just misunderstood

Always nice to see the Pope doing shit right. Now if we can only get the Church into the 20th century on sex and gender.

the babahuck@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 6mo ago

*movie trailer guy voice*

Now that I'm here, an introduction of sorts: I'm an AuDHD Queerdo living in the East San Francisco, trying to survive the MAGA-pocalypse with as much of my sanity intact as possible. I'm in my 50s, and "sometimes antisocial, always antifascist" is practically my slogan. youtu.be/KVpRYQoV7zI?...

Sometimes Anti-Social But Always Anti-Fascist

YouTube video by Stage Bottles - Topic

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Thanks to @wkamaubell.bsky.social, I just discovered this very cool publication: A newspaper published by incarcerated people at San Quentin Prison. Much needed in this age of declining journalism. sanquentinnews.com

<Taps Microphone> Anyone out there? Checking this place out as a non-corpo alternative to the other places.