Jessy

a bald man in a suit and tie stands in front of a green light Alt: A skinny bald man resembling Voldemort or Slenderman but wearing a black suit and red tie stands in front of a fake city background of black skyscrapers where the sky is inexplicably light green. He’s twitching his head and mouthing the words “Not a good deal.”

12/ Basically, there’s only one way to fight Texas Chainsaw Cathy (Deloitte) and (Crooked) Adam Slenderman! So why be a final girl when you can stick with the union?

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#WNBA #Unrivaled #NCAAW #NBA

11/ Nneka, Tash, Elizabeth Williams, et. al. get this. They stuck together. They didn’t even have to sacrifice their undisciplined colleagues to do it!

The others are a horror movie cliche. The ax murderers show up + they go LET’S SPLIT UP! Later they mistake their buddy for the actual threat.

10/ Labor unions, like any endeavor involving democratic aspirations that we inevitably disappoint bc ppl are imperfect, are often a hot mess.

Those are still your comrades who you need. You still have an actual enemy (see: Cathy Deloitte, Crooked Adam, et. al.). Their eyes are still on the ball.

9/ So much emotional and spiritual work in struggles for justice and liberation is about staying clear on (a) who our actual enemies and (b) who our enemies are *not.*

We can critique comrades + call ppl to a higher standard w/o throwing the person or the cause under the bus.

8/ Meanwhile, other E-Board + #WNBA players w/ a deeper praxis of solidarity keep the main thing the main thing: the focus is the players, who — once again — 👏 ARE 👏 THE 👏 UNION.

They value + respect WNBPA staff, while remaining accountable for what is ultimately the players’ fight.

7/ The statement from two (white) franchise players paint a the WNBPA Executive Director, a Black woman with a JD whose role is literally to get them paid and protected, as the problem in CBA negotiations.

Like WTAF. Cathy Deloitte is right there? But now Terri Jackson is the problem? Be serious.

6/ The way these parties discuss the WNBPA staff as people who are in service to them — as Terri Jackson said,
as people who “serve at the pleasure of the players” — also tells us something.

It is informative bc you can learn a lot about somebody based on how they treat service workers.

5/ Also notice how, at least in Annie’s article, the quotes from the rest of the union exec board show unity. They are probably pissed, but they still don’t disown Plum/Stewart. They talk about their union as a collective with multiple perspectives. They are disciplined!

4/ Thus it is 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩when Plum, Stewart, & Co. talk about the union as someone other than them — especially when they are elected leadership! At best it shows they misunderstand what a union is. At worst it repeats a boss talking point. Either way it’s kind of a psyop.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

3/ This is divide + conquer propaganda!! It’s a genre of propaganda that insinuates itself into everyday speech, including the speech of ppl who support or are members of the union.

2/ Bosses (and scabs, whether workers or the establishment media) will do the opposite. They’ll represent the union as a meddling, obstructionist third party that intrudes on the collaboration + communication of the worker-manager relationship.

Also, some labor thoughts (The Point God is a union lesbian!)

1/ The union = the members. Strong unions + strong union members know this and reflect it in their speech. They default to first person plural to talk about their collective: “we,” “us,” “our.”

May The Point God of endurance and encouragement grant you a spirit of unity with one another, so that together in one voice you may get your check and bring Cathy Deloitte to her knees.
-A prayer for the WNBPA, catalogued in Romans 15:5.

Read Annie’s piece for context!

#WNBA #Unrivaled #PayThem

Imagine choosing your strike targets based on the roll of the dice.

Which, btw, is War Crimes: the murder of civilians as well as the destruction of civilian infrastructure, the "wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity."

Israel is announcing that the entirety of Dahieh is being ethnically cleansed a day after announcing that the entirety of South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed.

“Save yourselves and evacuate immediately”

Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

Satellite images show Iran school strike hit more buildings than earlier reported The images suggest that precision munitions struck other buildings, including a clinic that was also inside the complex.

If the reports are correct, it’s because they were using outdated data to produce target lists. The school was once part of a military complex. An unspeakable crime either way.

bsky.app/profile/anja... double-tap strikes, regardless of the target, are usually understood to be Geneva Convention violations because they target the wounded and aid personnel who are specifically protected under international law. The target here makes this an especially staggering evil.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“

A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

I've spoken to folks who are justifying this stuff in the same way they justify Israeli attacks on Gazans: "Did you know the Iranians hide weapons and soldiers in hospitals and schools?!?" It doesn't fucking matter. Targeting innocents is a war crime.

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2025 FIBA 3x3 Gold Medalist Veronica Burton #americupw

2025 #WNBA Most Improved Player Veronica Burton

2026 #UNRIVALED CHAMPION VERONICA BURTON

...GOOD MORNING DALLAS UNIVERSITY!

Morning after Unrivaled finals and I’m still mad. There were two fouls called against Hayes that were 100% fouls on Stewart (in close succession). Tip was in the right, refs are racist and bailing out a “star” who absolutely didn’t deserve it.

I brought you into a land of plenty, to enjoy its gifts and goodness, but you ruined my land; you disgraced my heritage.
-God herself speaking to Breanna Stewart, quoted in Jeremiah 2:7
#Unrivaled #WNBA

The dead don’t live;
Ghost Gangs don’t rise.
Indeed, you* have punished and
destroyed them.
-What actually happened in the #Unrivaled championship, articulated Isaiah 26:14

*You = the referees and the anti-union terf who employs them

Your dead will live, their Ghost Gangs will rise, and those who dwell in the dust will shout for joy.
-What we hope will happen in #Unrivaled, expressed in Isaiah 26:24

I don’t care if the team I don’t want to win wins, but win fair don’t fucking cheat. Damn near every call in the 4th was absolute bullshit.

Breanna Stewart ruining as much as she can in the span of days, if not hours.

This was a fight vs no-fight Democratic primary and the fight candidate won by almost fifty points.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries should be shaking in their boots.

We, the American people, are coming for their no-fight caucus members— and we will take their leadership positions away.