When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.
They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
1. Major news on trans youth care. The American Psychological Association has reaffirmed its full support for its 2024 guidelines supporting trans youth car.e
It provided documentation showing Jesse Singal mischaracterized their position in the NYT.
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“A force numbering in the hundreds — several times larger than that initial deployment — is not a retreat. It is a tremendous enforcement footprint in a single metropolitan area, and a force capable of inflicting mass terror, carrying out targeted abductions, and sustaining a climate of fear.”
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Like Octavia E. Butler wrote on her calendar, “Keep your word,” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
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Every frickin time
ICYMI
I've been saying since early 2025 that people were and are in motion... Some people have insisted that 'no one is doing anything' and they are wrong.
Really smart take here. A good amount of harm that generative AI is producing in modern society is coming from the fact that a ton of people (sometimes including police) have bought into fantasies about what the technology can actually do.
Ring has done this before. They partner with cops, get backlash, withdraw a bit, wait for it to calm down, and then go right back to working with cops. Don't believe this spin.
www.theverge.com/news/878447/...
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Today, I wrote about white anger around the bad bunny half time performance, and how white people should recognize that although we might not understand his language he is speaking to us too as assimilated people who have much to do in decolonizing ourselves
“Irish has a seanfhocal, a proverb, that goes: Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul. When we lose our languages, we lose a part of ourselves. And some of these languages are easier to recover than others.”
“The dialects of the Americas being sung on our radios with evermore visibility, I think stoke within us a fear that we will be overwritten the way we overwrite others; The way that has been done to many of us before we were even a thought in our ancestors’ minds.”
“English is not being taken from any of us, but does not know how to exist unless it is the dominant tongue. It can coexist with others, but has to be taught to”
“I am writing to you all, as Béarla, English because that was the language which was violently given to us. Yes, even us white assimilated Americans. Depending on your family ancestry, it is likely that your family didn’t speak English until recent history.”
Today, I wrote about white anger around the bad bunny half time performance, and how white people should recognize that although we might not understand his language he is speaking to us too as assimilated people who have much to do in decolonizing ourselves
We live in an openly fascist police state it’s just not evenly distributed yet.
They murdered two people in the streets less than a month ago and nothing has stopped them they are only getting more brazen as our leaders attempts to pacify us all.
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Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them.
www.404media.co/government-l...
Swing by the station (aka Discord) next Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 8 pm ET for the first part of Steve’s “Crooks + Detectives” Masterclass! This month, we’ll start with the figure of The Crook 🦹 and how the 5 elements of a crime can help us construct narratives with more tension, depth, and propulsion.
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
"Since launch, more than a dog a day has been found and more than 27 dogs a day every day every year have been shot by the police using your Search Party by Ring cameras to hunt and kidnap your neighbors who they also shoot to the tune of about 4 a day every day every year, as well as the dogs."
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This is so generous and amazing! Thank you @haymarketbooks.org #booksky
My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.
i had imposter syndrome trying to talk about fascism alongside Alberto Toscano, but i'm glad i did coz it was an incredibly generative conversation that helped distill & crystallize my own thoughts about fascism worldwide today & it's differentiations from the past.
www.tni.org/en/article/l...
In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.
A background of the outer facade of the st Brigid’s cathedral in Ireland. There is a gold graphic of a st Brigid’s cross, below are two placard like shapes in yellow. In Irish they say “Lá fhéile bríde sona daoibh, leánfaidh an T-earrach an oighear”
Oscail do chroí. Tá Imbolc anseo agus nuachtlitir nua i do bhosca isteach
text of the poem revolutionary letter
every damn day I’m reminded
