David Sparrow

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

This is really fucking scary and the only thing we can do is basically show up with solidarity as much as possible. Whatever mark and their family need

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This but also applied to landlords.

Remember what Adam Smith wrote about landlords. They reap where they never sowed and demand rent.

Had this same thought when one of the Wired posts was about the best pet surveillance system for watching your cats while you're at work.

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

Kavanaugh invented a form of acceptable police stop that contradicted the basic facts of the case.

Straightforward lies, misrepresentations, mistakes--whatever you want to call them--these undermine the legitimacy of the court.

We need a SCOTUS corollary to Olúfémi Táíwò's position on elites lying. Reporting on SCOTUS should emphasize Alito willfully misrepresented a children's book. Gorsuch got basic facts of the football prayer case wrong.

Pic of Plestia Alaqad overlaid with text from interview: Plestia Alaqad: I can't believe that it's almost — [she pauses] no, it's not almost, it's actually two years. Okay, I can't believe that it's been two years of this ongoing genocide. When I was reporting in Gaza for 45 days, these 45 days felt like 45 years. And now it's 200 days feeling like 200 years for the people who are actually still on the ground facing bombing, displacement and starvation, which is being used as a method by Israel. Israel is literally ethnically cleansing people in Gaza, and we're watching a genocide unfold live on TV.

23-year-old journalist Plestia Alaqad, like many Gazans, lost her home in the first days after October 7. unable to reenter her homeland, stuck watching the horror continue, she’s publishing her diaries from reporting on the ground.

full interview @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/plesti...

And no, the protests for Palestinian liberation were not reducible to antisemitism. A social movement spanning hundreds of colleges cannot be summarily dismissed with an antisemitism hand wave. Call out those journalists for their shoddy work.

No, the day-to-day work by profs is not being undermined by woke politics. Profs are out here everyday teaching their content. Most are working off the tenure line and have short term contracts with meager pay. Call out those journalists for their shoddy work.

No, trigger warnings weren't causing a collapse in civilization, and frankly weren't being used nearly as much as the word counts made it seem. Call out those journalists for their shoddy work.

Heres a suggestion about restoring just one sliver of trust in the news. Do a comprehensive review of all the moral panic, garbage-level work on higher ed in the last decade. The national media version of colleges and universities has been wildly distorted.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

A picture of myself against an evening sky

A picture of banners from the Highlander Center

A picture of a rocking chair in the light

A picture of a homecoming programming sign showing different workshops

Had an excellent time at Highlander Homecoming this weekend connecting and building with some amazing organizers and thinkers.

Books Unbanned Teens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks.

Young people anywhere in the country can check out ebooks and audiobooks from the Seattle Public Library.

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Drop Site Urges the Immediate Release of Global Sumud Flotilla Participants, Including Drop Site Journalist Alex Colston All of us at Drop Site News are deeply disturbed by the reports of inhumane and abusive treatment of nonviolent activists and journalists detained by the Israeli military while on board the Global Sum...

Sick with worry over the ongoing detention of Alex Colston, journalist at @dropsitenews.com. I have known Alex for nearly a decade as a student, teacher, colleague, editor, publisher, and dear, dear friend. He and his comrades must be let free, now. Please read this, share, it and demand action.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

It’s legal to insult cops in the US, fwiw

A Fox News Chyron that says for my antifa member speaks out on the left is Jesse Watters and on the left right is Guy Fieri

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

"They’re dropping chunks of the sky on all of us they can, and they’re threatening to drop the rest of the sky on the rest of us in the hopes that we’ll stop fighting back."

"The answer, of course, is that the fascists are trying to drop the sky on us but they’re not currently capable of doing it as completely as they’d like."

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

Hard agree on this. To hold the House Senate and presidency for a sustained period of time requires winning a lot of elections. No party should worry about losing the filibuster, or more accurately no party who plans to win a majority and enact majoritarian social policy.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

I was completely unaware of the white supremacist meaning of moon man. Everything about this is bad.