Max Osborn

An Annotated Version of the Indictment Filed Against #StopCopCity Organizers — Interrupting Criminalization An annotated version of the indictment filed against #StopCopCity organizers, featuring critical information and context, questions for discussion, and more.

i think it would be great if more people read this annotated indictment of the RICO case against folks involved with Stop Cop City created by @interruptcrim.bsky.social , just for a sense of how the state treats opposition in this country
www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

COYOTE First Aid Kit: How to Compassionately Respond to an Overdose Naloxone, rescue breathing, and 911: Learn the do's, don'ts, and best practices for reversing an overdose.

Anyone can reverse an overdose, and we should all know how. Naloxone is a social intervention; while our public health systems are woefully inadequate, and the war on drugs continues unchecked, we can empower ourselves and one another to step up.

✍️: @nuala.bsky.social
📸: @estefancy.bsky.social

the lost wages and disrupted employment, attorney fees, etc.. all lost and virtually unrecoverable in these cases if i'm not mistaken.. definitely a victory for prosecutions to end, but so much damage in the wake

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, support media orgs like @transjournalists.org doing vital work to materially support queer & trans media workers, & check out this resource page by @fspnwu.bsky.social on pushing for better labor conditions freelancesolidarity.org/kyr-trans-me...

Lies, Damned Lies, and Transgender Statistics plus over a dozen studies contradicting the “social contagion/rapid onset gender dysphoria” hypothesis

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven:
on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-...
& Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

Putting out the same batsignal on all my platforms: Are you an artist/graphic designer? Do you know some whose work you’d recommend? Ideally queer or trans? Do said artists want to potentially talk about designing a book cover? Message me! 🙏

Tell @wearehighered.bsky.social about what's happening on YOUR campus with the attacks on higher ed.

We hear a lot about the elite campuses but what about the rest?

And we hear when schools do egregious things, but not so much about where things are better.

www.wearehighered.org/campus-tracker

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

...I mean, can we all finally stop pretending like the NYT is a remotely progressive outlet these days rather than a center-right mouthpiece for the very rich and out-of-touch?

I'm bummed too! I grew up reading the NYT! I enjoyed and respected it! But let's not kid ourselves.

for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...

Who is Wilson? She does not own a car. She lives in a rented 600-square-foot apartment with her husband and two-year-old daughter. By her own account, she depends on checks from her parents back east to cover expenses. To let them off the hook, she seeks to force residents of Seattle to pay for “free” child care and other goodies.

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

How the right uses "gender ideology" to blame trans people for everything MAGA learned from global autocrats the language needed to push fear.

“With its hateful rhetoric, the right seeks to cast gender identity not as something you are, but as something dangerous that you believe… the end goal is the same: to wipe out transness itself.”

We need to disrupt anti-trans genocidal politics and work towards politics that nurture trans people.

Yesssss this pie is so good and it's such a nice deviation from the standard pumpkin / apple / pecan offerings (which are also good, but there will probably already be at least one of those that someone else brought)

Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

This is a project Alice helped to organize - just made a donation in her honor, and I hope some of you will too.

I am holding so much grief, but also so much gratitude that we lived in a world so shaped by her brilliance and creativity. Rest in power, Alice Wong. Your work changed us. Your vision will continue to lead us. Your memory is a blessing and a responsibility we must honor every day through action.

May her memory be for a revolution. May it deepen our commitments. May her example sharpen our politics. May her life remind us that disability justice is a practice of transforming the world through collective care, accountability, creativity, defiance and imagination.

Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life

Alice was a master of calling out power without losing sight of community. She named the violence of austerity, medical rationing, eugenics & state abandonment with unflinching clarity. But she also paired critique with genuine belief that disabled futures are possible & already emerging everywhere

Alice was not only a brilliant disability justice activist—she was a cultural force, political strategist & builder of worlds. She showed how access is built through struggle, creative collaboration, interdependence, and principled refusal. She made the invisible labor of disabled life beautiful.

Losing Alice feels like the ground shifting beneath us—I'm devastated—but to have known & shared even part of this life with her was an honor. She was one of the most fearless, generous & visionary disability activists. It’s impossible to measure how much she shifted the world—I feel it everywhere.

Really sad to hear of the passing of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social - a fierce, powerful voice for disability justice and by all accounts a lovely human being. Will be setting aside some time to revisit her work.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Cornell has become the latest "elite" university to agree to the DOJ memo banning trans students from bathrooms and sports and adopting a definition of sex that defines trans people of out of existence.

statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

Zohran Got New Yorkers to Hope. What’s the Plan to Deliver? Organizers who brought him to the verge of victory are looking ahead to the challenges of democratic governance.

“Álvaro López, the electoral coordinator for the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, believes “we need to get away from a ‘holding them accountable’ framework toward a ‘building power’ framework.” hammerandhope.org/article/mamd...

The correct headline here is "Trump administration begs courts to let him keep starving children and elders"

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

Screenshot of old book text: "The form of the edifice was disapproved by LaFayette, in the memorable expression which he uttered as he crossed its threshold for the first time, " What! have you Bastiles in this country ?" In a letter to a gentleman in England, dated August, 1825, he says, " As to Philadelphia, I had already, on my visit of the last year, expressed my regret, that the great expenses of the new Penitentiary building had been calculated chiefly on a plan of solitary confinement."

Man, I love whenever I get to do history research. Today I learned that when Lafayette visited Philadelphia in 1824, city leaders showed him Eastern State Penitentiary, still under construction.

Lafayette's reaction: "What!? have you Bastilles in this country?"

To invoke Mario Cuomo - but NOT SAY HIS NAME.

Because he had already told us he was done saying the name of his defeated opponent.

I shrieked.