LiftingUp 🍁🫶

7/ During a decade in which the USA's favorite “tech critics” were busy shining the shoes of people like Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel, Borsook saw very clearly where things were headed. Because these things were obvious by the late 90s, at least to journalists like Borsook.

Over the weekend, we wrote about how dozens of judges have found ICE's new detention policy — seeking to lock up millions of people facing deportation without a chance for bond — is illegal.

Last night, four more judges added to the growing list: www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

this archetype remains undefeated

Because he believes tech will save humanity and it therefore Jesus. 🤭

Truth isn’t true, remember?

Oh I rubbed salt, pepper, and smoked paprika over the ribs the day before. The sauce was just commercial stuff this time. Bullseye Guinness.

I love to see people rediscovering in person relationships.

Hillary Clinton Sees a Dangerous Moment for Women’s Rights, and Democracy

We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world.

I spoke to the @nytimes.com about the strong forces trying to turn the clocks back and how we can all fight for women's rights and futures.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

“Tell me why can’t we use a Predator drone to obliterate that boat [filled with migrants]?”

- Stephen Miller’s alleged question to an Admiral during Trump Term 1

BBQ pork ribs

Last night was the last bbq of the season! Time to put the charcoal away for the winter.

People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.

People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.

People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.

People walk and cycle along Midosuji Boulevard after dark, a major shopping street in Osaka lined with wide foot- and cycle-paths, as well as colourful trees, buildings, and streetlights.

Based on these studies, comparisons, and citizen input, a clear vision emerged to transform Midosuji from a car-first thoroughfare to a people-first destination. By the time the Expo began in April, the city's showcase streetscape had become not only beautiful, but functional and safe for all users.

The news of the week makes it sadly clear that the legacy media is fully capitulating. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and pro-democracy.

It will never bow down. It will never give in. It will never compromise

Sign up now to support its work! hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Yeah what the heck

This is who the Canadian Broadcasting Company is memorializing. We are already in fascism in Canada 🇨🇦:

i've subscribed to:
rolling stone
WIRED
404 media
defector
the handbasket

chicago journalism i subscribed to:
unraveled
block club

it's time to support media directly so they don't fall into the hands of fascists, the replies to this post have additional great news media i recommend supporting

Martin Niemöller: "First they came for the Socialists..." | Holocaust Encyclopedia Learn about the origins and legacy of Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…”

Must read article on "First they came for the" German pastor Martin Niemöller

He voted for the nazis, woke up protested & was jailed by Gestapo for 8 years until #Antifa freed Germany in 1945

in 1946 he did a lecture tour in Germany "I did not speak out."

encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

The FCC should stop coddling a dictator, you mean.

Canada's parliament started the week giving a standing O for free speech and the memory of Charlie Kirk.
They ended it by joining Orban's Hungary and Trump's America in targeting @kneecapceol.bsky.social an Irish hip hop group for challenging the genocide.
Not our finest hour.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The “comedians” who refuse to punch up at the powerful are not funny, they’re just bullies.

Thank you! That’s one of my goals 🥂

We should also support the magazine, The Nation. It is One of America’s oldest and most important magazines from a liberal / prospective. It is highly likely to be targeted by the Trump Regime. @thenation.com

subscriptions.thenation.com/TNA/?f=Site0...

I don’t get it.
Does he have something on everyone?
Are some people just existing in a bubble?
Is it that some folk are just stupid?
All of the above?
(It’s all of the above, isn’t it?)

This was extortion. FCC Chair Carr threatened broadcast licenses for things regime disapproved. Nextstar, the largest US owner of broadcast stations, notified ABC it wouldn't broadcast Kimmel to protect itself. ABC suspended Kimmel to protect the time slot revenue stream. It's worse than it appears

This is all he said.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.

You and I, We Are Artists. Learning to See - Welcome!

Hey #bookSky #WritingSky #CreativitySky 🙏

I started a substack for creative writing. Would love it if you could share with whoever you think might be interested! It will be a fun weekly newsletter with writing prompts to get the creativity flowing!

open.substack.com/pub/learning...

Robert Redford has died. He was 89 years old. RIP.

Just a few years ago, he had this to say:

A black-and-white portrait of a man with a mustache and beard, wearing a tweed jacket and tie, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.

Did you know that a man from Winnipeg not only co-founded IMAX, but he inspired George Lucas to create The Force in Star Wars?
Or that he had two Oscar nominations?
Roman Kroitor did it all.
And this is his story.

🧵 1/10