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The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"I Was Surprised by the Good Nature of the Students."

Free article on student anti-war protests, available now from the latest issue of Middle West Review: bit.ly/46gLfS4

Open Letter on Academic Freedom at UVA Open Letter from Members of the Faculty of the University of Virginia In light of reporting that officials at the Department of Justice are pressuring University of Virginia President Jim Ryan to re...

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

3 of Pa.’s largest employers urge: Fund SEPTA and other mass transit now | Opinion Depriving public transit of needed resources will have economic impacts throughout the commonwealth, write the leaders of University of Pennsylvania, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, and Comcast.

The leaders of three of Pennsylvania’s largest employers — the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Comcast — on proposed SEPTA cuts

NYC bus service to increase on 16 borough lines starting Sunday thanks to congestion pricing Bus service on 16 local routes is set to increase next week, part of a package of improvements meant to augment increased bus speeds due to congestion pricing, Gov. Hochul’s office told the D…

Faster, more frequent buses! Brought to you by congestion pricing.

"The MTA has already increased service on eight key express routes heading into Midtown. Next week’s improvements are meant to speed up travel within the boroughs on lines with particularly high ridership." —@nydailynews.com

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

DO NOT LOOK AWAY

ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

Buried in the Republicans' billionaire tax giveaway is a special interest provision that would essentially ban states from regulating AI for a decade.

This is a dangerous proposal that has nothing to do with taxes. It cannot become law.

Who is Caitlin Cunningham? Meet the goth Aussie basketball player who is driving lesbians wild “Maybe I’ve just got big dick energy,” Cunningham tells PRIDE on why queer women are obsessed.

For everyone's information: they/them/she

www.pride.com/culture/spor...

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

A snapshot of women building a paper mache dragon.

#OnThisDay, 25 June 1983, around 2,000 women create a 4.5mile rainbow snake to encircle the Greenham Common camp in England, protesting the use of the airbase to house US nuclear weapons.

#GreenhamWomen #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

My only recent photo with Zohran is when he joined us at the first Jewish mass action against Israel in Gaza and we all got arrested and taken to jail. Now, we and thousands of people who volunteered for his campaign made him the boss of the very NYPD who arrested us.

Organizing can change anything

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

A protester holds a sign that reads: Justice for Melissa Horton.

From today's protest in Chicago.

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate "We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

the national guard was deployed against BLM protesters five years ago. All it did was make us angrier.

oh my God

a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests

now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit

separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery

Any academics interested in reviewing my book about how empire, global migration, and scientific understandings of race shaped the counter-insurgent and surveillance-heavy style of modern policing?

Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats Public opinion on immigration has shifted — and pundits need to catch up

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom.

Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

‘Wildly underprepared’: National Guard troops seen sleeping on floors in exclusive photos State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

Pride flag and New York State flag flying at Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY

Modernist Pride 🫡

With alt:

Homey little songs about how cities are amazing and you feel good when you wander around them and they're where you're from and you couldn't imaging living anywhere else are one of my favorite microgenres.

We're now doing british forced apology tweets for protected 1st amendment activity

Similarly, "bean bag rounds" are typically filled with lead shot, not plastic. They can fracture your skull and kill you. After I got hit with one in 2020 (thankfully in the leg), an Austin Police Department officer acted surprised there was metal inside.