Colin Pigott

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

There are no republican dogs or cats. Hope this helps!

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

A lot of people use “fundamentally” the way the kids use “literally,” but they just know it sounds smarter. Watch out for people like me

this dc situation looks pretty horrible. i wish i had more to say except that autocracy is always mundane and petty and vicious and encourages you to look away and be safe. and you can live quite normally under it until you're a direct target

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

I can’t offer many words, but my actions suggest that no, it isn’t. And I just scrolled through 11 days of your posts, so I do have the time

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Time to re-up this little ditty about how to make your Venmo more private. Remember that digital security is not just about protecting yourself, it makes your entire community safer

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Respectfully, the party that lost to trump twice also needs to be burned to the ground. To extend your metaphor, it’s like they’re fighting fire with raisin bran. We should not be sitting here saying hey, save your critique for later and help us throw more raisin bran on this fire!

Me dismissing my car’s “service past due” notification

we are brexiting but it’s worse because we didn’t even get to have a big fight about it. It’s just a few hundred dim zealots with control of the cockpit

The news switching between the crashing economy rising fascism and flash flooding. Welcome to the rest of your life unless we really change this shit

yes

This is something I try to tell peers who haven’t really given this place a fair shake yet: Unlike basically every other option we have to get our work in front of the general public, Bluesky doesn’t punish us for it, and the user base overindexes on people who actually do want to see and read it

Sorry to hammer on this but I think understanding what's happening at the intersection of criminal punishment/immigration is V IMPORTANT right now! Please join us tomorrow at noon! I will be asking these four very smart people questions! Register here! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Musk explicitly says he wants to turn America into El Salvador where a strongman has consolidated power, undermined judicial independence, harassed journalists, and suspended constitutional rights

If you are looking to do your part in saving democracy, I highly recommend you buy and read ONE book:

Howard Zinn’s a People’s History of America.

It’s a MUST read. It’s not for the faint of heart, but we are at war for the soul of this nation & you have to be hardened to face the fight

READ IT!

What will help your political movement more

A) saying fuck around and find out and making fun of poor people

B) working with mutual aid orgs to deliver food and do ideological work at the same time, educating them and providing them resources at the same time

Difficult to say!

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

I should only get benefits from living in a society. If I also have obligations that's communism

My heart will go on, from seminal 90’s blockbuster Titanic, on the piano 👨🏼‍🎨

Good thread on this interview and the tech reaction. Historical trends led to workers getting some leverage and a bump in social justice and labor activism, and tech CEOs will blow up the USA rather than let it continue.