Apparently the stated motivation of its original founding was "well racism is our responsibility and it's bad to make other races do the work for us!", which is one of those things that sounds like a fine idea until you think about it for a minute.
oh word
Wassily Kandinsky "Black Lines" (1913) • In one of the artist’s first forays into pure abstraction, vibrant ovals drift across the canvas beneath a frenzy of agitated black lines. This work portrays a collision of two worlds through color and form alone. • In fact, Kandinsky painted Black Lines in 1913, when worlds were colliding. Geopolitically, an era of stability was nearing its end, soon to be demolished by World War I. That same year, astronomers discovered that the massive Andromeda Galaxy may be on a collision course with our own Milky Way.
#ArtHistory 🗃️ 🐡
Kandinsky proved that abstract art is far more than mere decoration. Look closely at Black Lines. Produced over a century ago, its frantic energy captures the same geopolitical anxiety I’m feeling today. Do you feel it, too?
Wassily Kandinsky "Black Lines" (1913) • More in the ALT
You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.
From the SURJ website, boldly: “We organize white people.”
Many have said
FYI (if it's not obvious) -- this is a whites only organization, with all the missteps, blunders and credulity for white guys that implies.
A lot of the answer is the CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, who is in turn merely the embodiment of the psychotic donors on which the org relies. I feel like there's a good profile out there that I'm forgetting at the moment, but this piece in The Forward is pretty good: forward.com/news/797871/...
I need 11 guys...
Us white people sure love redeeming other white people
This is spreading all over Bluesky today and is wildly misleading--it is from eight months ago and it is in reference to working with NATO allies and arming Ukraine.
🤯 WOW: Russian billionaire wealth has hit a record $696 billion, officially surpassing the total bank savings of the entire Russian population.
ooooh temu figured out it's now shorthand for "cheap off-brand garbage" and is not happy about it
Youtube has banned Jeopardy! Host Ken Jennings' history podcast, Omnibus, because in 2019 (seven years ago), he did an episode debunking the racist and deeply antisemitic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
That's right... debunking a rabid hate-fueled conspiracy theory is grounds for being banned.
1. I was heretofore unaware there were actual "leaders" of the boycott.
2. Target has not reversed their decisions and I, accordingly, do not plan to return - announcement to end or not
Facebook post by Nekima Levy Armstrong: "Friends, A Breaking News headline just appeared in the Star Tribune, claiming that the national Target boycott ended today. This is false. The writer of the story, Carson Hartzog, is fully aware that the Target boycott was launched in Minneapolis on February 1, 2025. I have spoken to her several times since then, yet she failed to reach out to me, Jaylani Hussein, or Monique Cullars Doty, the three founders of the national Target boycott for the story. Carson even used the photo from our press conference that includes my daughter, Assata Joy and Ms. Rosemary Nevils, an elder in our community, to try to add legitimacy to a bogus story. I am once again disgusted by the Star Tribune and their attempts to minimize and erase the voices of our community. The nationwide Target Boycott is not over, unless and until Target reverses its decision to rollback Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, as we said from the beginning. “Pastor” Jamal Bryant does not speak for us or our community and has zero authority to end the nationwide boycott of Target, a company that is headquartered in Minneapolis. Please don’t believe the hype and these attempts to rescue Target from the effects of capitulating to the Trump Administration. Target rolled back DEI because of Donald Trump. They donated $1 million to the Trump/Vance inauguration committee. Target also allowed ICE to stage in its parking lots during Operation Metro Surge. The nationwide boycott of Target is successful and it will continue. Please continue to shop elsewhere."
Nekima on the Target boycott.
My year-long boycott of Target has taught me I don't need Target.
“The University of Wisconsin-Madison Academic Staff Assembly passed a resolution on Monday calling for UWPD to end their contract with Flock Safety and publish all other contracts with surveillance technology companies, like Motorola Safeties and Rhombus.”
When asked to comment on the Iran War, Speaker Mike Johnson declined, saying this was the first he was hearing about it.
It gets better/worse. Trump asked the sizes, so they either lied (because shoe size=dick size) or didn't lie and Trump got them wrong sizes on purpose.
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."
Very cool.
Look! A non-horrible thing happening!
An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen
Another of many similar incidents that should be investigated so that people who profited off insider information can be prosecuted. (WSJ gift link)
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The evil clowns of 2016 were a warning about men in unnatural makeup, bad wigs, and oversized shoes
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I mean: I think a big part of it was also that the Warren Court jurisprudence was founded in a popular&historical understanding of the Constitution as a document establishing democratic governance&protecting a free society; concepts the Roberts Court is openly hostile to.
Some helpful information here: www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/trust-in-us-.... It's partially a function of partisanship (and ability to spot partisanship in court decisions), accentuated by high-profile decisions, such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, that reach the mainstream.
We get to choose:
The Roberts Court and its approach to executive power, or the American science superpower.
We can't have both.
🚨 8 in 10 popular AI chatbots regularly assisted with planning school attacks, bombings, and high-profile assassinations.
At a time when mainstream AI becomes a tool for violence, this new research by CCDH & @cnn.com shows how AI-generated violence is a matter of choice 🧵
Trump has spent more in 10 days on his reckless war in Iran than America spends in two years on community health centers providing medical care for low-income and uninsured Americans.
Our priorities are out of whack in this country.
