yesterday’s & today’s were the two men who killed in that detention center shooting in Dallas in September. both young dads, big loving families, nothing worse than one DUI each, but they couldn’t run when the shooting started because they were shackled. ICE never bothered notifying their families
a tree making the italian pinched finger hand sign, il gesto del carciofo with a branch, on a second image there's a neon sign for a pizza place called Italian Affair, but the fair is burnt out: Italian AF
standing at the edge of the vast canyon between rubio's heel and the back of his shoe, shading my eyes against the sunrise
one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl
A recent photo of Brandon-Croft
A sample strip from Where I'm Coming From.
The cover of the hardcover collection of Where I’m Coming From from Drawn and Quarterly.
Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft, creator of the comic strip Where I'm Coming From, the first comic strip by a Black woman to be nationally syndicated in the mainstream press in the US. (Jackie Ormes was restricted to Black press in her time.) #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after.
It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.
“Non-diverse participants” is the euphemism of the year
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Me driving the oil to the pick up point
WASHINGTON: Despite republicans’ best efforts, including a 24 hour filibuster-style debate — “the state house approved a levy on incomes over $1 million… pays for free breakfast & lunch for k-12 students…”
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What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...
This is bitch made.
Screenshot of a Google summary for Jenova.ai reads: “Jenova is the most powerful Al agent platform in the world. Access a universe of expert agents for every domain, or create your own in minutes.”
Somebody: “We’re running out of deadly and/or evil things from classic literature to name our product after. What will we do now?”
Final Fantasy: “I got you.”
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
Great thread from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social in the replies here.
oh wow it's like Iran and Venezuela are two wildly different countries whose governments respond very differently when attacked
For #Target, abandoning #DEI has been an unmitigated financial disaster — many boycott customers say they will never return
Four straight quarters of declining traffic & revenue even lower than Wall Street’s already low expectations
#Costco maintained DEI and now enjoys record sales
#inclusion
> The US ambassador to Haiti has confirmed that the US State Department issued a license to Vectus Global to export defense services to Haiti.
The US is inching towards a genocide in Haiti at this rate. I got folks in Leogane smh
Scoop: The Pentagon barred press photographers from briefings on the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military conflict with Iran after they published photos of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that his staff deemed "unflattering."
BREAKING: ABC News, citing sources: The United States is facing difficulty evacuating its personnel from facilities under bombardment in Iraq
This is the second or third time he's run the "it's a lot more fun to kill" line, and it seems to do consistently well with his dead-enders. Not quite the line of smiling ghouls in a lynching postcard--the victims are offsite and offscreen--but getting there
Donald Trump calls Thomas Massie a traitor for supporting the release of the Epstein Files.
Journalists need to start asking Trump what he is trying to hide.
57/ Iran will not let go of Hormuz Chokehold until it has a survival equation with US & Israel and iron-clad guarantees that it will NEVER be bombed again.
Military experts have been studying Iran's capabilities for decades. Read the 2008 paper from Prof Talmadge. And follow her account here & X
He's been spewing bullshit since 2015, but I don't remember a ton of this energy from the press
She’s (a) running against Ilhan, and (b)probably counting on people not figuring out that she was an ICE prosecutor before signing up to imprison people at DOJ. Her candidacy comes with a free laugh track.
On reflection the funny thing is that “paperwork isn’t what makes you american” is actually an argument for legalizing people who are American in every respect except the law bsky.app/profile/adam...
Via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social: The Trump administration Wednesday made an emergency request to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the revocation of legal status for more than 350,000 Haitians, opening them up to deportations.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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"In the 21st century, data, digital labour, and algorithmic infrastructures have emerged as new vectors of accumulation. Here, Prince Ifoh argues that re-reading Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, and Achille Mbembe reveals how digital capitalism reconfigures… Africa’s history of underdevelopment."
