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Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

Projects that help explain to people what’s happening are what’s going to help them make collective sense of the moment.

Battle River-Crowfoot: for once, just do the right thing.

They lynched Allen Brooks—and sold postcards of it. 10,000 watched. Kids cheered. No one was charged. They called it justice. We call it genocide. Now they’re banning books so you never find out. 📚 ERASED tells the truth they fear. Read it before they erase that too: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

Project Esther isn’t just about Palestine. Crafted by the Heritage Foundation — the same far right organization behind Project 2025 — the playbook makes clear that their war on the Gaza solidarity movement is just a Trojan horse for a far more ambitious project: destroying the American left.

Old school medieval fantasy without the cringe. www.amazon.ca/dp/B01DB65IN8

@arkymorgan.bsky.social Hi, Morgan. I hope this note finds you well. We are all well. I bought an RV, but things went a little south and I ended up flying to Mexico for some serious dental treatment. Thanks for the invite to the lit cactus, I look forward to going there when normal returns .

All I can really say at this point is if everyone isn't watching how trans people have lost basic rights and protections on a scale that hasn't been seen in decades in the span of 72 hours and realizing that even if you aren't trans there's nothing stopping it from happening to you, you're a fool

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Just saw this posted on FB and had to share.

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on Bluesky. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

Muslim Americans are creating a movement around accessible and resonant information on sexual and reproductive health.

To achieve its climate goals, the city helped finance the largest solar farm east of the Mississippi.

John Williams went undercover to expose the operations of notorious fascist militias like the Oath Keepers and AP3.

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato