Ethan

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

I feel that if the arc of the universe bends towards justice there is only one, hilarious, first victim to a Starlink reentry.

Every digital space is ontologically unsafe because of the organization of the digital world by colonialism and whiteness. Every. Single. One.

Liberalism of the kind you're espousing, and the kind that user-driven moderation evangelists seem to subscribe to, misses this fundamental fact.

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Artistic expression has no constraints. Social media is always reinforcing the existing social structure rather than trying anything truly new.

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.

Well, that’s great to read once I’m already at work…

The police ruled it a suicide - “no evidence of foul play”. If we had a competent federal investigative service a hanging of a black man in MS would be an immediate tell. Trey Reed’s family had to get their own autopsy to learn the truth. Law Enforcement is selective and skewed anti-black.

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

"Anti-immigrant march" is such a telling phrase. An immigrant is just a person who exercises the freedom they are born with, which is recognised by all human rights legislation, and moves across imaginary lines on the ground. Being "anti-immigrant" means anti-movement, anti-freedom and anti-person.

To be serious for a moment, you deserve to be lampooned for talking about robobigotry like it's a real problem when our government is currently funding multiple ethnic cleansing campaigns. Criticizing people for saying the computer doesn't have feelings is completely self-centered and ridiculous.

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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

The destruction of Gaza City is a crime against history Centuries-old mosques, churches, and ancient artifacts all face obliteration as the Israeli military systematically flattens what remains of the city.

"[T]he Israeli army's systematic erasure of Gaza City [..] is wiping out thousands of years of Palestinian and Arab heritage, representing a crime against history itself."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

Totally worth subscribing to if you can afford it, but sign up for the free membership post-haste!

“Peacetime breeds rule-followers. In war the rules go out the window. …and it takes a particular kind of moral courage to see your way through, take the initiative, and make the enemy more afraid of you than you are of him. War demands ratcatchers.”

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

anyway, TLDR, Taylor Swift is Paul Thomas Anderson for people who read too much Encyclopedia Brown

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Fadi. Fadi is 19 years old and wants to go to school to be a software engineer. Instead of studying he has just been trying to survive after his family has been displaced many times. He has a new fundraiser to help him accomplish his goal.

Marisa is doing the hard work of everything //waves hands// by being independent. Glad to see more traditional outlets working alongside her to research and report the news.

since December, I have been saying that one move is for blue states to place federal tax withholdings from state employees into escrow. (Note: I am a state employee. It would be messy). The state, as I understand such things, already has these funds.

My game Smushi Come Home has a lil 40% discount this week for the Steam Fall sale! 🍄🍂

So much of the US conversation about gifted programs goes nowhere, because we refuse to talk about the real problem: racism.

1) The US education system is too racist to recognize Black kids that are gifted.

2) US society is too racist to allow gifted Black kids to reach their potential.

One woman’s eye-witness account of life under Taliban rule | Aeon Essays When the Taliban captured my city, thousands fled and the rest were severely repressed. But I’ve stayed – and survived

Smuggled out of Afghanistan — a chronicle of the last four years of living under Taliban rule as a woman. It was a rare privilege to work on this essay, and I am proud to have had some small part, alongside Untold Narratives and the Bagri Foundation is making it happen.
aeon.co/essays/one-w...

was it soft-boiled? hard?

I really love John Allison’s work. You can read it online badmachinery.com or buy some books! Either from the site or topatoco.com in the USA (as we’re behind a tariff wall).

White men! Listen up! You are on the wrong side of history right now, in general.

The next poll needs more negative approval ratings for Trump - get on it!

Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile “Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”

Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog.

Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.