Marisa Kabas broke the biggest story of Trump’s second term last night, beating NYT and WaPo to the scoop. If you’re wondering whether independent media has what it takes to hold Trump to account, the answer is yes.

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

Pretty amazing that nonprofit Watch Duty -- which says it has 150 volunteers working around the clock to track wildfires -- has become the most trusted source of information on LA fires. Operated by retired/volunteer firefighters, dispatchers, and reporters. Real people.

www.watchduty.org

Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’ An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets

Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home.

“In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”

It's hard to imagine a more brutal illustration of climate injustice and a failed society than indentured teenage slaves being used to protect the homes of wealthy Americans.

Oh I see we’re doing “they were old and sickly anyway, let ‘em die!” framing again

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

We're almost 90% to the goal for @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams on a Pillow - a game about Palestine, made by a Palestinian, literally risking his life under violent apartheid to make this game and tell this suppressed story.

8 days left. Please help him out.

launchgood.com/1948

Yellowface by RF Kuang (who has already been recommended) is great! It's very much what will you sacrifice morally for success 😬 It's got that pace that just slowly pulls you in more and more and RF Kuang's sooo good at voicing her characters 🤌🏾🤌🏾

I finally got a library card after 10+ years of not having one! So I can finally check out ebooks to my kindle and audible.

Get a library card!! Read!! Do it!! 📚

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

A stylized illustration of a bipedal beige and white lop-bunny character wearing a pink night cap and sleeping under a green and earth toned quilt with a teddy bear.

i would be unstoppable if not for the tired sleepys
#OCsky #digitalart #cuteart

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cool, shut it down

May the two of them be reunited in death. May Allah rest his broken soul. May these genocidal Zionists, those who arm them, those who protect them, and those who support them face true justice.

Mr. Nabhan was such a beautiful human. This is the first socially mediated war where we get to see people intimately, pray for their safety, mourn as they mourn their loved ones. and mourn when they die.

Really grim. He murdered a man for being homeless, and got away with it because the man was homeless. We should be clear about this and the fascist implications here.

Your support helps me commission more writers reporting justly on Palestine, especially those sending us testimonies during the genocide in Gaza. If you have used our work in anyway, please donate or share 💟🇵🇸

name a video game you have 100+ hours of gameplay in. 🎮

#blackskygamers

The Cosmos Is a Black Aesthetic This essay begins with the premise that Evelynn Hammonds’s highly cited “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” provides a reading strategy that has largely been ignored by subsequ...

Every #WorldAIDSDay, I honor Bob Finney, the ACLU Southern California photographer and next door neighbor who planted the seeds of my love of photography. He was there when I was born, and I miss him still.

I dedicated my latest #BlackStudies article to him.

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To all of you who has supported @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social's Dreams of a Pillow already: thank you so so so much for being a part of this ever-improbable dream of a Palestinian developer making a Palestinian game about Palestinian stories.

Read up, signal boost, support at launchgood.com/1948

YouTube video by Rami Ismail An appeal for Dreams on a Pillow

I want to make a personal appeal for the beautiful new game of Palestinian gamedev @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social. As nobody will fund a game about the 1948 Nakba, Rasheed is crowdfunding via launchgood.com/1948. I've been doing production advice on the game pro bono, and it deserves to exist.

books are a lifeline for incarcerated people. join me in donating to a program with a crucial and direct impact.

YouTube video by Hippolyte 🪐 The blood on our Controllers - The Complicity of the Game Industry in the Palestinian Genocide

I have a lot of complex feelings watching myself struggle to make coherent sense of how I feel amidst an industry that has dehumanized my people while the Palestinian genocide shows the results of that dehumanisation. A beautiful documentary by @hippolyte.bsky.social.

youtu.be/g7488to6Jpc?...