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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:

Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

The Sims website in 2000.

On February 4, 2000, The Sims was released.

The Sims website in 2000.

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever.

A thread.

QA workers at Blizzard ratify union contract with Microsoft The three-year contract delivers generative AI protections, wage increases, disability accommodations, and more.

NEW: QA workers at Blizzard Albany and Austin have ratified a union contract with Microsoft after three years of negotiations.

The contract delivers protections against generative AI tech in the workplace, wage increases, disability accommodations, crunch restrictions, and much more.

Palantir needs to be obliterated the same as ICE, and Peter Thiel can face the Truth and Reconciliation committee he’s spent his entire life trying to negate.

If we want to fix our country, this is non-negotiable.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

The workers saw how their united struggle forced the abandonment of hypocritical police lies…They understood who was their real foe when they, who were not violating law and order, had the troops and police sent against them, just as though they were the country’s enemies.

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Data centers slurping up electricity like Garfield on a lasagna but I have to turn everything off when it's 10°F or else we get to freeze as a lil treat.

Hey yall. As you've seen here - unfortunately a large portion of the ivy road team was laid off today, myself included. We're all looking for work! Gonna do a quick thread about those who were laid off today and why you should hire them:

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Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I posted an anti-ICE video today and six hours after I posted it, it was sitting at 0 views. Statistically impossible.

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

“There’s no point to calling because my senators already agree with me”

“There’s no point to calling because my senators won’t listen”

These are both false information and you should correct and/or block anyone circulating them. Your calls are tallied and create support and/or real pressure.

Feeling helpless? Get involved. From all I'm seeing and hearing from our neighbors in MLPS, these resistance networks didn't spring up overnight; they were built, brick by brick, for years. The best time to get involved was yesterday; the second best time is today. We all have a place in the work

Nope!

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker.

It worked.

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Get rid of your Ring cameras. I don't care if they're useful and I'm sorry you spent money on them but they have to go. futurism.com/future-socie...

United States Completes WHO Withdrawal WASHINGTON —  January 22, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of State today announced the United States’ completion of its withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the organization's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.

The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

This is a shameful move that puts both Americans and people all over the world at greater risk from disease outbreaks, which require international collaboration to contain.

yet another way people in power are using AI to try to take away the dignity and agency of ordinary people

Worth remembering that this is how companies force disabled workers out of their workforce. If any disabled workers impacted by this want to discuss, you can reach me at g.a.bunting@gmail.com and on signal: gabunting.89. Anonymity guaranteed.

Ken McElroy - Wikipedia

thinkin about this guy again, the town bully who was killed by no one, for no reason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_McE...

What an uplifting story about the importance of community!

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

Defender video doorbell cameras are subscription-free and local storage, ensuring there’s no data sharing with cops or ICE. I’m sure there are others!

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

"Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble."