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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

A short vacation in a warm place 🏖️

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Decolonize Your Playlist lands TODAY 2pm ET! New country, folk, hip-hop, and rock music from Crystal Shawanda, Francis Baptiste, Evan Redsky, Mattmac, Jag Arreola, Shub, Neighborhood Kids, Wamptronica, Mimi O’Bonsawin, Kalyn Fay,Siibii, much more! Uncertain.fm

My annually repeated message to Americans that tax preparation is an unnecessary game that business forces you to play.

Boston Ballet part 2

Stand with Etel and Ashley. Say no to ICE. Pack the courtroom. No posters t-shirts allowed Tuesday starting at 8:30 am. February 10th. Room #23. Worcester Courthouse 225 Main Street. Back in May Ashley Spring and Etel Haxhiaj joined a community response to an ICE attack on Eureka Street, the first of its kind community response and a movement that has now spread across the country. Eight months later Ashley and Etel still face a jury trial for their actions of compassion, defense and courage.

February 10th. Please help spread this among your networks. Pack the courtroom on the day Ashley Spring & I face a jury trial.

@prisonculture.bsky.social can you help us amplify this flier? ❤️

Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.

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Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.

people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

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uncertain.fm has Decolonize Your Playlist at 2pm Eastern. Indigenous music from Evan Redsky, Miss Kannina, Stella Standingbear, THRONE, Ailani, Hayley Wallis, Scubba & Dinah York, LABRYS, Ruby Waters, OPLIAM, Ali Fontaine, Diyet & The Love Soliders, mars aspen, Ribbon Skirt, plus much more. #ICEout

@auroragirl.bsky.social I love the name Aurora!

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are eat shit ice and pronounced ah-kee-ah deegahsee ah-yay-luh ahneenawskeeskee

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. The word for 'ICE' translates as "kidnappers" or "body thieves"

Flying my flag at half staff while I toil away in the Blue Sky Mine today.

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The most famous athlete who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was Jim Thorpe, a Sac and Fox Native American who became a legendary Olympic gold medalist (decathlon and pentathlon) and professional football/baseball player, one of the greatest athletes ever. #antiquesroadshow

pulling this reflection on white silence/fear over here, too:

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.

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New Decolonize Your Playlist radio TODAY 2pm and tomorrow 8pm Eastern! Listen for two hours of my favorite folk, hiphop, and rock #indigenous contemporary music from 2025. uncertain.fm

New Decolonize Your Playlist radio TODAY 2pm and tomorrow 8pm Eastern! Listen for two hours of my favorite folk, hiphop, and rock #indigenous contemporary music from 2025. uncertain.fm

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

The fascists don't have the culture. And THIS absolutely enrages them.

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Radio Free Entropy shakes the magic 8 ball and finds the answer is uncertain.fm. Music from Carsie Blanton, Karen Dió, The Rugby Mothers, Glam Skanks and more. Tonight at 8pm ET (replay Monday at noon) on uncertain.fm #music #uncertain.fm

ACTION ALERT: Elon turned his chatbot into a porn generator so his incel legions can turn photos of real women and kids into non-consensual porn. Use this tool from @ultraviolet.bsky.social to tell Google and Apple to drop Grok from app stores. #TeslaTakedown act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Take_Gr...

I enjoyed this show unironically.

Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators

huh. this is super interesting

If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning.

Let purpose preempt despair.

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

This message hits hard.

Algeria votes to declare French colonization a crime and demands restitution Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule

merry Christmas one and all

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