The devil does not need advocates. Either state your position in good faith with evidence (not these fanciful "what-ifs" of what *may* be a mischaracterization, in your opinion), or don't state it at all.
Huey P. Newton has his arms around two young Palestinians holding rifles while smiling. In the background is a building of some sort in rough shape, with a tree partially obscured by it. The brickwork is missing a section in one spot. It is a building in an unknown refugee camp. There appears to be some kind of writing on the one wall, but it is largely washed off and damaged, rendering it likely illegible.
Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton standing with Palestinian resistance fighters in Lebanon, 1980.
BREAKING: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) has called a strike authorization vote for 1,500 workers who power Broadway and touring shows.
If the union members vote yes a strike could start as soon as Friday morning.
poster with a picture of Assata Shakur & the words "Assata Shakur Is Welcome Here!" written above her head & "Republic of New Afrika" written in the bottom right corner
"Assata Shakur Is Welcome Here!"
finally got @sunnyture.bsky.social on here, we got a plethora of new music otw, until then check out our album Nation Time:
black & white photo of Kwame Ture behind the wheel of a car, driving while wearing shades & a coat, smiling with his right hand extended
Kwame Ture (1966) - photo by Gordon Parks
as someone with basically an email job, every sex worker i know works at least 5x harder than me and they're basically working in some capacity 24/7. some make drastically more than me, but most firmly Do Not so it's dumb to act like it's free money. it's a god damn Job
It's what a good CHRISTIAN NATION does with children. Shove them in a river.
The CHILDREN they all care SO MUCH about.
The children they're making ALL those laws for, to protect them from DRAG SHOWS & HISTORY BOOKS & the word "GAY."
Children. Important to protect them.
Unless they're brown.
Remember this?
if you ever doubt that america is a fundamentally broken country, just remember that half a trillion dollars was given to telecommunication companies to have fiber cable nationwide and they just pocketed the money.
we should have the best infrastructure in the world, but no.
In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro
Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse If you’re a sexworker, think VERY carefully about joining Threads, because here’s what Mark Zuckerberg did to me: I had a FB account as Mistress Matisse, but FB scraped my legal name from somewhere else and then changed my displayed NAME on my account without notice/consent. Yep.
warning on Threads and data: Facebook will do its best to out you as thoroughly as possible
The goal isn't to replace Twitter. The goal is to create a public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter. Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads - they have on Instagram as well to some extent - but we're not going to do anything to encourage those verticals.
Politics and hard news are important, I don't want to imply otherwise. But my take is, from a platform's perspective, any incremental engagement or revenue they might drive is not at all worth the scrutiny, negativity (let's be honest), or integrity risks that come along with them. There are more than enough amazing communities – sports, music, fashion, beauty, entertainment, etc – to make a vibrant platform without needing to get into politics or hard news.
Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”
When they follow you on BlueSky but not on Twitter
I have been noticing this a lot too 🤣
CNN, The New York Times etc would be thrilled to return to a media environment where they can dragoon Americans into the Iraq War on an obvious pack of lies.
Mellowing the platforms by screening out politics and hard news goes a long way to accomplishing that.
News agencies *don’t* actually want social media platforms doing politics and hard news, because that’s their job.
The best possible outcome for mainstream agencies is having the ability to post/advertise on social media, drawing eyeballs to their sites, without competing narratives
can’t wait for this guy to put a microchip inside my skull
The FDA approved a blood test that can identify pregnant women at imminent risk of pre-eclampsia, the first advance in diagnosing the deadly condition since it was discovered more than a century ago
It disproportionately affects Black women in the U.S.
I was just thinking about how parts of India have such bad air quality that people's lives are shortened by at least 5 years. The British replaced native trees with pine plantations they contribute to wildfires in the Himalayas. Plastic waste from the west is still incinerated in India.
I’m moving us up to a 3
Two Spider-Man’s pointing at eachother
Meanwhile Hawaii and New York right now.
The planet is issuing eviction orders.
I'm begging people to listen to these residents of East Palestine. Their lives have been blown up, they've been abandoned, they desperately need help. You can watch our whole livestream here:
https://therealnews.com/east-palestine-residents-have-been-left-behind-and-theyre-running-out-of-water
Their front page: stark raving grad. CUNY grad calls for revolutions and attacks fascist NYPD in speech
The Ny post always attacking people by making them look cool as hell
Will German reunification hurt transsexual rights? Now that East and West Germany are being united into one country, the laws concerning transsexuals and sex change operations are being re-evaluated. East Germany scores higher on transsexual rights than West Germany, but East Germany's more humane laws may not prevail in the new reunited country. As it stands now in East Germany, men and women 18 years and older have been able to receive government-sponsored sex reassignment surgery, get married and adopt children. According to Professor Goerlich of East Germany, who spoke at a meeting on the subject in Hamburg, in two cases a transsexual mother gained custody of her adopted children after a divorce. Goerlich plans to fight to retain these more liberal laws in the future Germany.
this pride month, I'm thinking about how trans people in East Germany were able to receive full healthcare provided by the state alongside legal rights to adopt kids, and how they lost all that when the wall came down
