Years ago, via a painting by her great-grandfather, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social got fascinated by the Jewish Bund, a secular, anti-zionist socialist movement. We are all very lucky she did. Her book "Here Where We Live Is Our Country" comes out on 4/7. Preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/here...
Out tomorrow: Nobody’s Baby, a sapphic sci-fi mystery novella on a space cruise ship where, suddenly, a wild baby appears!
Graphic with busy car congested road. Text says car dependency is the opposite of freedom. Mobility freedom comes from mobility choices. Ad is from the Urban Truth Collective.
How about those gas prices? Brutal, huh?
You know what really costs us all a lot?
Car dependency.
#UrbanTruth
They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.
Poland’s electricity operator detected a suspicious disruption in late December when several solar power stations suddenly disconnected from the grid despite continuing to generate power.
This is, quite simply, not remotely true. One generation ago? In 2002? What about two and three generations ago? Nope. Not remotely true. It doesn't advance discussions of political economy to make absurd claims like this.
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The federal government awarded contracts Sunday to renovate two warehouses, each designed to hold 1,500 people, into immigration detention and processing facilities in Maryland and Arizona, according to contract records. The Maryland facility is scheduled for completion by May.
Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
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The screaming subtext here is a call for ethnic cleansing, in a healthy pluralistic government he’d be censured and expelled
I've been trying to swear less online. Long time since I've posted "motherfuckers"
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the most important state election of early 2026 is right around the corner… though you’d never know it by the attention it’s receiving.
here’s hoping this bolts article helps jumpstart a little more chat!
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
for fuck’s sake
The first job postings for the Williamsport, Md. ICE detention warehouse appeared online.
The “humanitarian response” firm behind them has never held a federal contract.
a checkered car parked in front of the jazz club "Le Tabou". A group of young people, sometimes referred to as the "Zazous" counterculture, are sat in the car.
Robert Doisneau,, 1947
Lurendrejeriet: lägg skattepengar på att ”korta köerna” inom sjukvården - genom att köpa dyrt av privata företag som bara opererar lönsamma patienter. Kvar hos den offentliga sjukvården blir de icke lönsamma patienterna. Köerna blir då längre för dem - för till dem räcker inte skattepengarna. Läs.👇
Today, on International Women’s Day, Georgian protesters have gathered outside Rustavi Women’s Prison in solidarity with female political prisoners — many of whom report degrading treatment, untreated chronic pain, and threats in detention.
My suffragette-era great-aunt caused raised eyebrows and mutterings when seen 'riding astride a bicycle' in Cramond.
We have come so far.
We can achieve so much more.
#Women #Cycle
#InternationalWomensDay
Yes, I think this is an important point and why trans folks feel particularly more betrayed and angry about Labour than they would the Tories or Reform. As with immigrants, it's an attack Labour are choosing to collaborate in rather than oppose.
It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.
Photos of Sylvia Rivera, Hattie Wiener, Christine Jorgensen and Judy Garland Captions: Sylvia Rivera 1951 - 2002 Revolutionary who led the charge of the modern LGBTQ+ liberation movement Hattie Wiener 1936 - 2024 Sex-positive therapist known as the world’s “Oldest Cougar” Christine Jorgensen 1926 - 1989 First transgender woman to have sex reassignment surgery Judy Garland 1922 - 1969 Singer and star of “The Wizard of Oz” and other Hollywood classics
Smallest amount of credit possible to the NYT (but much more to obituaries editor Amisha Padnani) for actually having 2% trans women in this "100 Years of Women Who Made Headlines" (Sylvia Rivera & Christine Jorgensen are the picks).
Gift link that I don't pay for:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I get that nothing matters until the NY Times reports it, but some of us more independent outlets had this story a month ago...
www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
