Brooke Harrington

Full article, no paywall.

tl;dr: Face-to-face contact and trust are unbeatable assets when it comes to mobilization for collective action.

Same lesson over a century later from the Montgomery bus boycott in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement.

www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...

Must be referring to the 1980 article by Mark Traugott--1 I still teach in my organizational soc courses--explaining why, when 2 similarly oppressed grps of Parisian workers had the chance to participate in the Insurrection of 1848, only 1 grp actually mobilized: the 1s who lived next to each other.

This is 1 of the ultimate expressions of what Habermas called the "colonisation of the life-world":in this case, colonisation by finance.
ALL things are being devoured not only by $ interests but by the worldview that profitability should be the sole measure of value, from education to life itself.

oh ffs not the "fight, fight, fight" fist pump too

“Currently, Massachusetts sends $4,846 more per capita to the federal government than it gets back. New Jersey and Washington are in the same position...Meanwhile, red states pocket $1.24 for every dollar they send to Washington. Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy.”

That "free gift" Qatar made of a jumbo jet for Donald Trump turned out to be pretty expensive, huh? I wonder how many Americans lives it will cost.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Some of your best work, really.

That's how they relate to us, flesh-and-blood women...and that's why they beat and murder us in rage when the flesh-and-blood does not conform their ingenue dreams. We're not real to them. We're not human in their eyes.

Where are the people who said harping on Project 2025 was fear mongering? Come outside we ain't gonna jump you

Sick and tired of people wanting to defend “western civilisation” especially when they are also attacking arts and humanities in the universities.

Headline: Seal breaks into new Zealand home, traumatises cat and hangs out on couch

He never really got over the break up with Heidi Klum did he?

Between this & Epstein, the big picture of recent news is: a lot of wealthy men genuinely want to own slaves.

And their sights are set on just about everyone as potential slaves--not just people of indigenous & African descent, but anyone female, anyone poor. The vast majority of the population.

Archbishop OfEamonn

I haven't heard the word "floosie" in ~50 years! My grandmother used to use it.

Well see if you can get these college-aged women pregnant and criminalize birth control, problem solved. These guys have no intention of letting women compete with them for university positions or jobs: their game is "eliminate the competition."

Why do so many Americans have to learn the simplest lessons in the hardest possible way?

From "sports betting is bad, who knew?" to "electing a convicted felon & rapist is bad, who knew?" the US is being destroyed by people who apparently have no more grasp than a cantaloupe of cause & effect.

JB Pritzker

🎶Billie Holiday🎶

#art #artist #dog #jazz #music #nowplaying #photography #singer #us

If you're watching the intrusion of AI into all things human w/increasing bewilderment & wondering "who wants this?" I have a theory:

People who have tangled with narcissists--incomplete humans who fake human emotions & behavior--are completely revulsed by AI.

People who ARE narcissists love AI.

For money.

Class war isn't the issue here. Misogyny and xenophobia are phenomena in their own right, and they cross boundaries of class.

Dave Chappelle praising "freedom of speech" in a country where anyone without a penis gets flogged and imprisoned for saying "we are human, too" is both revolting and totally on brand for the man.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

HARD SAME

Badge of honor.

I need this embroidered on throw pillows and plastered on billboards; I need temporary tattoos of this phrase.

WUT? Ewww...I hope you got to take a Silkwood shower afterwards.

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Guys who fantasize about "virgins" who aren't human. The guys who buy RealDolls.

OMG. I didn't realize that's who he was. Imagine being a student in his classes and realizing he's posting about his favorite fantasy virgins.