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Ok white dudes…here’s your chance to LEVERAGE your privilege in service to something other than white supremacy…your chance to show the world that not all of you seek a future that sees everyone else as less than; as pawns to be used for your own gain…it’s time to put up of shut up Link below 👇🏾

Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).

I wish people on the lefts would take some of the energy they are about to direct into ripping each other up over Kamala and use it to build new mutual aid projects, plot community defense, and create necessary ecosystems of resistance and defense in our communities.

wrote about the creepy, unhinged alliances that pushed and paved the way for Trump to pick J.D. Vance as his running mate—including pseudonymous reactionary bloggers, venture capital billionaires, the PayPal Mafia, and uber-online nationalists: slate.com/technology/2...

BIG NEWS: A seventh patient has been cured of HIV! The details of the treatment that cured "The Next Berlin Patient" hold promise for a broader cure that could bring relief to the 39 million people living with the virus. I've got the story here! www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/seve...

BREAKING: #California bans school districts from outing LGBTQ+ students #NOH8

First tomato of the season. A Jersey Devil tomato grown in the Jersey Pines.

Punch left, start with the compromise and compromise even further to right because perfection is the enemy of the good, and here we are.

The criminalization of homelessness is a bipartisan project.

This piece from @jackmirkinson.bsky.social sums up where I’m at this morning. :: “I am particularly outraged at being told to excuse genocide on behalf of someone who can barely string a sentence together at the most consequential possible moment.”

Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs

Spawning Jersey Devils in the Pines.

Very cool that in the midst of a historic election that could put a dictator in the White House that the political class has responded to the crisis of faith in democracy amongst young people by…banning TikTok and criminalizing student protests. I’m sure that will be very helpful!

Hey folks: I'm one of a group of founding era historians who signed on to an amicus brief for the Supreme Court concerning presidential immunity (and the many ways in which it makes no sense.). It was released to the public today. You can read it here: www.brennancenter.org/sites/defaul...

For the very first Salvo feature, I had a long chat with Terminal Nation vocalist Stan Liszweski about cheating death, dancing with the Devil, and putting Arkansas hardcore on the map: salvo.ghost.io/terminal-nat...

Oh you thought the earthquake before the eclipse was wild? Mount Etna in Sicily is sending out volcanic Spaghetti-O's right now: apnews.com/video/italy-...

Breaking: Meta has now banned and removed all links to The Handbasket on its platforms because of this story. www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-ref...

I see you I support you I have your back. Without apology or qualifications. I don't understand hate living a life being the target of it and following hate groups as a means of survival.

Over his four years as mayor: -Homicides fell to a 10-year low -Baltimore bought two hotels for unhoused people; is selling abandoned homes for $1 -He's running a guaranteed income program for 200 families -He's suing car-makers for bad anti-theft tech This racist bullshit is particularly clownish

Joe Lieberman helped leave the Democrat party. Forever gratitude for that only.

Biodynamically succinct to revive some serious Gloucester County seed history at @sweetamaliamarket this year Seeds are power. Archives of genetics, history and nature's way of intersecting terroir for culture folkway and food life. www.instagram.com/p/C46Uj5aOtm...

they let me call John Fetterman a jagoff www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I've been in touch with the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office about what they did and did not include in their summary of Nex Benedict's autopsy report. Here's a transcript of our emails so far:

While you are clowning right-wingers and tradwifes for weird kitchen table content you could also be reading about the Black feminists who theorized the kitchen table as a space of political resistance & radical love, challenging how white feminism imagined the home & liberation, 40+ years ago.

even though lee zeldin lost his ideas won

Reposting this A week from today!

If public health agencies can't even advise people to stay home the full time when they are sick, they have given up on trying to prevent disease.

Lines on the Pines is a celebration of Jersey Piney culture. It's 3.10, 11-4 at Stockton U Galloway, NJ. I will be there talking about my project that revives functionally extinct Jersey-bred tomato seeds to define and document Jersey-tomato culture The Jersey Devil tomato is emblematic of this