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konobi.bsky.social
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Get his ass, Venice

Qantas withholding an Australian's phone for an entire 15 hour flight because a foreign government told them to should be a huge scandal. Make this news.

"Impunity, the sadist’s conception of freedom, mainstreamed and marketed as the new American dream." Everything you need to know about 21st-century politics in one sentence from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's all too superb third book, "They Knew." Every passing day just reinforces her insights.

Tenure isn't the problem: we should want all educators to have tenure. Tenure is just sparkling job security. Given our current institutions, who is granted opportunities to attain tenure and who is disproportionately awarded tenure is what bears scrutiny.

"...and [non-violent resistance] is a much more inclusive technique of struggle." If your idea of people power isn't inclusive of normies, it isn't an idea of people power.

☢️‼️ The Russians have been poisoning Ukrainian military personnel with chemical weapons in the Siversk direction for three weeks in a row, — press service of the "Rubizh" brigade NGU

There goes the nonsense argument that placing American industry inside Ukraine will act as air defense from Russia because they wouldn't dare strike such facilities. By the way, Russia has been striking US-owned enterprises in Ukraine throughout the war.

NOTE DEADLINE OF THE 16th! The US Department of Energy s trying to get rid of important rules of Section 504 that will take effect July 15 unless “significant adverse comments” are received by June 16th. Take action with @dredf.bsky.social: dredf.org/action-alert... #disability #pwME #MECFS

If ppl actually practiced solidarity w/ disabled ppl &masked, this wouldn't happen. The left's embrace of eugenics ensures this outcome; lack of solidarity reinforces vulnerability. As long as the left refuses to grapple w/ its eugenics problem our so-called anti-fascist movement exists in name only

Who could have predicted this? Disabled people. The correct answer is disabled people.

“We don’t need a ‘both sides’ narrative about whether protestors are violent or not. They are protesting the violence of fascism.” thetriibe.com/reshape/we-d...

Every fascist uses illness and violence to disable opponents. They disable us with covid, poverty, police violence, climate destruction, war, transphobia. They count on ableism to make us deny this reality and to abandon each other. Resist. Wear an n95. Use alt text. Make protests accessible.

This is worth sitting with. Just for instance, I know who gave me the infection that left me bedbound. It does happen. This isn’t an abstraction.

New NASA administrator expected to embrace the outdated “geocentric model” of the solar system instead of the widely accepted “heliocentric model”

Em…. Russian flag?

So the woman arrested for wearing a medical mask at a protest was released; cops said it requires a doctor's note. This is not true of the local laws where they are, but—as we told you happens—cops don't know or pay attention to these regulations.

Just a reminder that Trump considered pardoning the men who plotted to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. “I’m going to look at it. I will take a look at it. It’s been brought to my attention. I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The tech industry needs serious, meaningful regulation about the things it can sell and how it can sell them, and the neoliberal bullshit of “free markets” has allowed this nakedly harmful software to proliferate, taking advantage of the fact that more people than ever feel alone and desperate

it does feel like a rubicon being passed today but does anyone remember the arson at the house of the most prominent jewish elected leader in america like two months ago

Ominous

With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

Why are we playing this game? The U.S. called our diplomats and personnel home 24 hours before the strikes. Obviously we knew.

Just listened to a CNN segment that Iran could activate its cells in U.S. to carry out attacks. And my thoughts immediately went to Trump shifting counterterrorism units to immigration and putting a 22 year, whose experience includes assistant in a grocery store, in charge of terrorism prevention

(📢) BREAKING: On the eve of the No Kings Protest and Trump Birthday Bash, Trump makes two huge confessions: 1) The ICE reads were political. They’re pausing for industries with many Trump donors. 2) They targeted those Trump concedes are “non-criminals.”

This is why I wrote my pinned report, which draws from my time as a criminal defense attorney. This jackass says he’s going to define “get violent” for the people in his county... ...but the *first six offenses he names* are non-violent offenses. They are changing definitions to justify fascism.

lolololol lolololololololol For anyone not aware, Disabled people and especially Disabled BIPOC are disproportionately represented among those killed by cops.

Let’s also not forget that foreign born nannies have been very vocal about facing no wages, sexual assault, and violence and if they speak out, their rich white employers will threaten to report them to ICE

A lot of people want to Be Helpful by warning other people of dangers, but sometimes what’s most helpful is letting people know that the risks are mostly in their heads.

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: ON TRUMP'S ORDERS, THE U.S. ARMED FORCES ARE DETAINING AMERICAN CITIZENS OUTSIDE AN INVOCATION OF THE INSURRECTION ACT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY We are living in historically dark times. No American can any longer leave their home without being aware of this.

The research team that carefully documents these & other international law violations has been defunded, and will have to let essential staff go in a few weeks without new funds. Yale is allowing them to receive donations, if this kind of work is valuable to you. medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...

Modern American phenomenalism and conservative empirical idealism, where things exist only if they're observed on Fox News

"Science Shattered". I confess that even I was unaware of the statement that opens this piece: "The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research." 🧪 projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Vaccine skepticism is on the rise, but there are studies that show specific ways to address people’s questions, according to a feature in Nature. #medsky 🧪

This is a really cool paper where they developed machine learning models for predicting persimmon harvest dates and yield based entirely on meteorological data, and the most important weather factors vary by cultivar: www.mdpi.com/2624-7402/7/...

🌍🐟 Rivers now carry 2–3x more mercury than before 1850 A new global study shows human activity has massively increased toxic mercury in rivers since the Industrial Revolution – a key source of contamination in fish. 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SciComm #Mercury #WaterPollution 🧪

They're all deer staring into the headlights of this crisis. They had the opportunity to vote away this bullshit and they didn't. Now they want Disney™ to make it all stop happening. 👇

I get that these guys have no shame, but that doesn’t mean we should give them a pass for it. Shame on Johnson and shame on the Republican Party that won’t call this out even though they know it’s wrong.

The White House has already previewed their legal argument in the military deployment at the border context; they argue it's not a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act because the troops are not arresting the person, merely temporarily detaining them for local law enforcement to arrive.

Just in time for summer

Kristi Noem Appears With Bandage Over Ear Struck By Words

OMG. According to two members of Congress that just conducted an inspection and confirmed horrible conditions at the ICE detention center where unrest led to 4 people escaping, apparently people were able to escape because an EXTERIOR WALL was made of drywall and wire mesh!

Very, very concerning.

It’s going to take a very long time for the US to regain respect.

Sure seems bad that almost every higher ed institution out there is pressuring us and our students to use this garbage because the CEOs that donate to their building funds told them it’s the future.