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YouTube video by Sesame Street Sesame Street: Making Crayons

When I say “trust the process,” this is the process I’m talking about

oh it’s me

it is maddening!

i think about this every time i hear his name, and then my brain explodes that we continue to let these dinosaurs hold so much influence.

Why are things like this? A kind of absurdist fatalism has taken over discussion of "the current moment". In the last 22 months of genocide and reenergized fascism, the simple question "how are you?" has gone from almost dread...

“we are living through a counterrevolution…one of the foremost tasks of the counterrevolution is to make everyone forget that something like a revolution ever seemed possible…The total fascism ascendant in the US and around the globe has emerged because the liberal order has nothing left to offer.”

Graff, quoting Louis Fischer: “He [Hitler] would destroy democracy. Yet democracy tolerated him and helped him take office in order to destroy democracy. This peaceful death of German democracy is one of the strangest chapters in history.”

whoa! excellent news!!

thinking early 90s mall alternative: sonic youth, sugarcubes, the cure

i see this so much with brilliant artist friends who don’t have the stomach for dealing with social media taking on what is essentially a promoter/pr/manager role. and i can’t say i blame them, i feel like it often takes away from my desire to create.

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MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

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agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

When they tell you to look at the camera, you can say, "No thank you." It's very easy, I do it every time I fly. I try to do it loud enough that the folks around me see and hear it, too.

CALLED IT

This U.S. Citizen Recorded an Immigration Arrest. Officers Told Him To Delete It or Face Charges. The peaceful traffic stop in Florida turned violent after immigration officers arrived and used chokeholds and a stun gun to make arrests.

Trump has unleashed a wave of a unaccountable, racist, unfettered thug squads on the country. They believe that if you're undocumented -- or just look that way -- they can do whatever they want to you and anyone who defends you. And practically, they're probably right.

Who are they 6 people from the DFW area have been harshly imprisoned in response to a July 4th noise demonstration against an ICE Facility in Prairieland, Texas. They are a mix of working-class people, including mothers, fathers, longstanding community organizers, and friends. Their bail was set from 10 to 15 million dollars per person, and they are facing life-ending charges beyond reason.

16 people from the DFW area have been harshly imprisoned in response to a July 4th noise demonstration against an ICE Facility in Prairieland, Texas. They are a mix of working-class people, including mothers, fathers, longstanding community organizers, and friends.

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a series of info slides on the DFW prarieland defendants with a decorative border showing breaking chains and various animals Support the prarieland defendants

From @screwstonAF on insta
Information and support for the Prairieland Defendants

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Seeing some folks say "it's a little weird two ad campaigns zero in on genes (eugenics)" as if it isn't blatantly OBVIOUS that this is an emergent property of COVID-denialism, existing structural eugenic & ableist bias in society, rising fascism and a US President who talks about genes

Weird huh???

oh #comicsdna and thanks @katebeaton.bsky.social for creating art that has given me and my friends a lot of joy over the years. ( @mckelvie.bsky.social you are one of those, too)

this is a pretty good glimpse at me tbh

Not so fun fact: King County (where Seattle is) tried to kick ICE Air out of Boeing Field, but lost in court.

So they require ICE to load its flights in full view of a public livestream. It's how @lalabote.bsky.social etal have documented ICE guards abusing migrants. kingcounty.gov/en/dept/exec...

The Poetic Optimism of Latina Lesbian Activism An exhibition centers efforts in Los Angeles from the 1980s to the 2000s to chart an ongoing struggle for liberation.

“EN CADA BESO UNA REVOLUCIÓN.” “LESBIANAS. UNIDAS. ¡FELICES!” Such battle cries embody the poetic optimism of Latina lesbian activism across borders. The ongoing struggle for liberation is charted through protest posters, now on view at the Vincent Price Art Museum.

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that is too cute!

Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda

The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Graph showing that from January 2025 to May 2025, 45% of all ICE arrests were transfers from local jails

ICE has capitalized on local detention of immigrants to make more arrests: Since January, 45% of all ICE arrests were transfers from local jails.

When I tell y’all I hollered! Miss Bertha was playin them drums tho 😭😭😭

this drives me bonkers. i’ve worked with kids who’ve actually been sex trafficked.
in texas.
for years.
none of these politicians actually gives a damn about any of these kids, or the horrific systems that made their situations possible. but they’ll say whatever keeps the donors happy.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.