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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

And then allow ICE to have a major presence due to said Super Bowl performers' comments about them.

The “Thrilla in Manila” at 50: A Retrospective on Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, and the Power of Their “Calculated Blaze” At the 50th anniversary of the fight, the “Thrilla in Manila” emerges as not only the story of two extraordinary boxers’ pushing themselves to their physical limits, but also embodies creativity an…

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the "Thrilla in Manila" fight between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Suzuko Morikawa shows their face-off to be a "crucible cultural conflict" that extended beyond the ring and captured the tensions of the mid-1970s. 🗃️
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May Day 2028 - MAY 2028 CONTACT US Resource Library Ready to take action? Working towards alignment in your local? We’ve compiled sample resolution language, organizing tips from people who have done it, and other resources....

Attacks on working people are growing at a dizzying pace. But we have a key point of leverage: The billionaire class depends on our labor.

@labornotes.bsky.social has just released a new resource on May Day 2028 filled with contract alignment FAQ's and resources. www.may2028.org

It’s official! We’re launching the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. After years of building as a small but mighty “program,” Labor Studies has been elevated to departmental status. We’re the first but hopefully not the last of our kind in the UC system.

If you live in California, call the governor's office and tell him to sign SB 79 into law.

916-445-2841

What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Well don't I feel stupid

eternal gratitude to Cuba for offering sanctuary and a home to some of our most cherished political heroes.

Rest in power Assata Shakur.

Tweet from Tanisha long with pictures of Assata “Assata Shakur joins the ancestors a free woman. She did not die bound by the carceral system and she did not pass away living in a land that never respected or accepted her. Assata taught us that liberation can not be bargained for, it must be taken. Rest Free, Assata.”

assata was the best of us. a revolutionary who was determined to be free by any means necessary. our north star forever and always. assata taught us that we will win our liberation and that the most important thing in the world for us is to struggle. rest in power assata shakur

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

I’m so fucking tired of the argument that pro Palestine protesters only target Kamala. Literally every week since Oct 7 there are Palestine protests multiple times a week. Someone just interrupted Trump dinner. Watch videos of ICE protests in LA — tons of kuffiyehs. You’re just not watching.

Recently spoke with @civilwarjon.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his new book "Measuring the Man: The Writings of Frederick Douglass on Abraham Lincoln."

Check it out at the link below!

EXCLUSIVE: 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Chairman Casey Wasserman Lists Stanley Kubrick-Inspired Home for $32.5 Million BY CHARLIE LANKSTON SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 A photo of Casey Wasserman is at the center in a LA28 track suit, with images of a stunning modern home hanging off a cliff with an infinity pool overlooking the LA basin

Maybe he's selflessly selling his house to help personally finance the Olympics in case they go over budget

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Two photos of Donald Trump with King Charles and Queen Camilla in Windsor Castle, as a staffer looks on, and a dark-silhouetted shape glowers under a wide-brimmed hat off to the side, apparently Melania Trump

Absolutely amazing Grim Reaper vibes from Melania Trump in these pictures.

For 400 years liberals have been shouting “but what if our institutions worked to create a more equal society” and here we are. With 1 billion people in slums and 10 people having as much wealth as 4 billion people. Your what ifs have run out of time.

Great piece in @cliocontemporary.bsky.social by @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social about modern McCarthyism

I'm still amused by the one dude who compared SNCC to Indivisible.

SNCC was a Black ass organization run by Black people who ended up kicking out white liberals in 1966 because they couldn't be counted on for the fight for Black liberation.

There's a lesson there.

Sylvan Adams in IPT kit shaking hands with Netanyahu

UAE crown prince posing with Pogacar, Gianetti and the rest of the UAE team holding a UAE jersey

Kagame and Lappartient holding a cycling jersey

Macron posing with Vingegaard in the yellow jersey

"The UCI strongly condemns the exploitation of sport for political purposes in general, and especially coming from a government"

They Want Charlie Kirk’s Killer to Be Trans The right was so quick to blame “trans ideology’ for Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week that no facts will be enough to convince them otherwise.

The right was so quick to blame “trans ideology’ for Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week that no facts will be enough to convince them otherwise.

Bob Vylan's "Pretty Songs" is perpetually on repeat in my head.

One of my favorite games to play and terrify my friends with is “six degrees to nazism” — they give me a thing they’re interested and I show them the steps a white nationalist could use to indoctrinate them via that thing

crucial piece of information missing in the headline and post: one of the teams is called Israel Premier Tech and owned by Sylvan Adams — it is not a state-owned team but he has made it abundantly clear that the aim of the team is to raise the profile of Israel

I really just think it's class and racial solidarity at work. They see themselves in him and they do not have solidarity with his targets.