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No one is mentioning all the perjury RFK Jr. committed, testifying before Congress.

White people be like well what if a dog had human rights. Well what if a computer had human rights. Well what if a corporation had human rights. Dude, a whole lot of humans are in line first for human rights.

Why isn’t the unemployment of Black womens a feminist four alarm fire?

This, to me, is Blueskyism

Live footage of historians these days

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: This magnificent #Roman #fish-shaped flask was found during the excavation of a storeroom in Begram/Afghanistan. It was probably made in a workshop at Alexandria/Egypt, dating 1st/2nd century AD. Begram was a....🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

When we create artificial intelligence robots, they will be given three Laws to safeguard humanity: 1. never do anything to decrease shareholder value. 2. always obey the company unless it conflicts with Law 1. 3. fuck the poor.

KAYLA GO ON SAY THAT INTO THE MIKE

Everyone who spent YEARS saying we shouldn’t punch Nazis you have to punch yourself repeatedly right now. It has been 8 months of the most openly Nazi administration in history is waging war on us and memeing about it.

If liberals took all the rage they have for nonvoters & started actually fighting fascism with it, we'd really be somewhere. But they can find nothing better but to blame the people for a rigged system where we had one choice against someone who should've been disqualified & she was doing genocide.

Today marks *1 year* since Israeli forces killed 26-year-old American Ayşenur Eygi. Her family has heard nothing from Biden & Trump admins, and Israel. State Dept. told us it has “no higher priority” than US citizens — but then referred us to Israel for info on Israel’s killing of the US citizen.

Since the message resonated so much.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/puppets #smbc

As a 1/2-white Black man with professional expertise in race and racism, it is ✨abundantly✨ clear, white people, generally, do not possesses the fundamental skills necessary to successfully combat, much less reverse and rebuild everything Project 2025 is destroying. Black people tried to warn you.

Please stop trying to make ‘abundance’ a thing that we have to take seriously. It is an intentionally nebulous term designed to apply favorability to whatever the grifter of the hour is talking about. It’s basically the same way they use woke. We don’t have to let them dictate the nomenclature.

BLACK PEOPLE: Please get vaccinated. Recall RFK Jr.’s horrendously racist and pseudoscientific belief that we as Black people do not need vaccines because our immune systems are stronger and pointing at slavery as his proof. He & his rhetoric mean you nothing BUT harm.

No. If I say "I want to build a Mars base!" That's "Wanting to build stuff?" But if I say, "I want to end all fossil fuel cars by 2030!" That's holding back progress? 🙂🙃 "I want to build murder drones!" I'm a builder? "I want to build enough housing to end homelessness this decade!" Leftist? 🙂🙃

Autistic people have more chronic pain from hypermobility, EDS, migraines, and sensory overwhelm etc. and so take more Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol than non-autistic people do. And autistic people also have more autistic kids than non-autistic people do. This is not rocket science. #autism

One of the great injustices of Neo-Liberalism is how people who work taking care of the elderly and taking care of the disabled are barely respected and poorly paid.

The thing about ‘what about Chicago/Detroit etc’ is these are great places that should be much greater & every measurable pattern of crime & poverty or whatever boogie man you want to apply is also traceable & it can be traced back to pulling resources & dipping because too many Blackfolk live there

They really birthed a whole ass demon

New discovery: During excavations at the #Roman fort in Schramberg-Waldmössingen, a Roman workshop for the production of hobnails for the caligae (boots) of Roman soldiers was discovered. 🏺 #archaeology www.denkmalpflege-bw.de/publikatione...

This seems manipulative to me. There aren’t a meaningful amount of people saying these guys can’t have good ideas people are saying that they have an evidenced record of being so demonstrably evil that they can’t be trusted with or about anything.

You don't get to live in a civilization which bombs, destabilizes, exploits and extracts from the global south and then bitch when the victims of the bombing, destabilization, exploitation and extraction move to your country to get away from the misery your society caused them.

Secretary Of War He hung up a sign that said Secretary of War, snapped a picture for the socials, shut the door, took a swig of Jameson straight from the bottle, then sat down and fondled the revolver in his desk drawer like a little boy playing with his penis. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/secretary-...

It's gonna suck when we find out Tom Hanks wasn't disinvited to West Point because of any criticism of Trump but rather because of his role in Bosom Buddies. Because "it confused Trump"

Tell your friends, family and anyone who will listen to follow The TRiiBE in Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

You know I've never been to a Nine Inch Nails live show, before? Well. Before tonight I mean.

Happening soon — At 5:00 p.m., protestors are expected to gather in downtown Chicago for the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda’s emergency “Chicago Says No Trump, No Troops” protest. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

I don’t be on here so I guess lemme catch yall up lol: This has been one of my most successful years as a lawyer & I plan to end it strong 😌✨ I’ve been sober for a short while now and I love it. Idk if it’s a forever thing but it’s been great and my body feels good. So many blessings 🥰✨✨

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. Learn more in my book THE FACEMAKER: drlindseyfitzharris.com/the-facemaker/

IMO the biggest differences between universities are: - does the library have books (not only digital subscriptions) and a budget - are there staff for support/admin work or is it someone’s second job - do students have time to study and faculty time to teach No big names or tech matter as much.

I am not well at all because of *widely gestures*

My picture doesn’t do the blood moon justice. But I have seen the sign in the sky.

The Hum was more than a sound. It was the electric ley of the land manifesting. We walked underneath its lines and were transformed. Outsiders called us trespassers, filthy hippies, mad marchers. We just called ourselves Children of The Hum. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH

New discovery: During excavations of a 14th-century pottery kiln in Freiburg, medieval #toys were unearthed. Over 40 figurines were found within the kiln, among these were a clay horse, the head of a man wearing a pointed cap, and a depiction of a mother with her child www.swr.de/swraktuell/b...

Oh so you mean AI was always a form of moderation and we need people who understand how we talk to people and how it affects mental health … and how it connects to social policy and text creation *turns to camera *

When Nate Silver says ‘mule’ about Obama it’s obviously a well-known reference to the footnote 217th page of the 8th book of the Asimov series Foundation in which the footnote says, and I quote, ‘7. not in the racist way’

Goodnight from Bob Kaye’s food truck on Barge House Lane, where his display of a: ‘HAVE YOU SEEN THE GHOST BEAR?’ poster has sparked a lot of conversation. Goodnight from Kit Wyantt, already ruing his purchase of the sleep-denying Book of Bruised Places. Goodnight from Hookland.

Normal people will struggle to understand why this is to me the most exciting news story of 2025 so far www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW — A protest is about to begin outside the Illinois navy base serving as a hub for Trump’s attempt at a federal enforcement takeover of Chicago. About 30 minutes ago, Gov. JB Pritzker responds to an apocalyptic meme Trump shared, floating war against Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

White people gotta be able to admit whiteness is a problem to be down with me. Gotta be working on that whiteness. Can't just get freaked out by descriptions of the phenomenon of whiteness. Hopefully can feel relief that generalizations do NOT apply to them, & if not work on that.

I had to get rid of some old cushions from 2011. These violet ones arrived this morning and Oscar has already claimed them 😂😂

holy shitballs I haven’t even finished my first coffee yet

I’ll sign that open social web letter when Mastodon’s CEO Eugen, and Evan (aka the father of the Fediverse) do + if NL Net and The Social Web Foundation kick bread to Blacksky.

Reading books is becoming an act of resistance.

I’ve been told ChatGPT is going to ‘solve’ climate change so we must allow it to consume all the water and electricity on the planet by many a techbro so I dunno really

I like how ancient Egypt was so weird and cool that they get their own special category of nerds called "Egyptologists". Are you interested in ancient history in general? Archeology? Hell no! Unless there are also mummies and pyramids and shit involved, that is.

I am begging the Wall Street Journal to write more incisively about Labor

Really need sites and reporting to stop peddling the “wow tiny team made a big game!” Myth and ignoring all the contractors. Particularly when the devs themselves are very open and credit all the people who worked on the game.

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My book is (surprisingly?) here so if you thought your book was on a topic they'd neglect or that you'd be exempt, reconsider

heterosexual people wold be better off if they knew more queer theory and romance tropes Like it’s okay. You’re a golden retriever submissive service muscle top who wants a spicy mommy domme please stop dating brats who haven’t gone to therapy

Do not hire slmeone to study us HIRE US nonprofitquarterly.org/black-womens...

Made plum dumplings with my Mum! (You can tell which ones are mine, haha) 😍😍 She's the best cook! ♥️♥️

tl:dr - NONE of the options for either pulling carbon out of the atmosphere or shading Earth from the Sun will make any difference if we don't drastically decrease our carbon emissions. This is absolutely *not* a trade-off, where we can "pay" for continued emissions with carbon removal.

had a drink for every time I got recognised from twitter this evening and lasses whew

Chicagoans have made it clear that President Donald Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard won’t be taken lightly. Grassroots organizations and activists are providing Chicago-area residents with information on how to stay safe during these times. thetriibe.com/2025/09/we-k...

Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, including pepper spraying a 4 months old Video here www.instagram.com/reel/DOOraN9...

It’s too funny how American exceptionalism has people clinging to delusions that things can never be bad here even as they are evidentially very bad right now. It’s literally the little dog sipping coffee on fire. People ask if the empire whose ashes are falling all around them is too big to fail.

It's been time for the Kennedys to come get their kinfolk.

This app is disgusting the way it deletes Palestinian accounts.

Idiocracy is fundamentally a movie in soft praise of eugenics but holy fuck if it didn't predict some of these really shitty values, behaviors, and aesthetics.

History teaches us that the most horrific & extreme violence against scapegoated groups can be normalised swiftly. It really isn’t such a big step from sending ‘inconvenient’ people to be killed, to killing them yourself. news.sky.com/story/farage...

DC is a US colony. Its community has long legacies of resisting federal power & fighting for autonomy. We have a lot to draw on in this moment & others across the country can learn from how it goes down in DC.

"I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone" — Claudette Colvin

“I don’t give a shit what you call it” is the most honest description of what US foreign policy has been for a long time. The US is getting even more violent and reckless in many ways - and any state that thinks they are immune from the violence of American imperialism is deluded.

External colonialism converging with four centuries of internal colonialism.

Folks thought i was being hyperbolic when i said that Trump would be our Netanyahu.

The U.S. is a white trash nation.

blorb

An important new book by a team of experts on the tremendous violence of the revolutionary world, in which Europeans’ enlightenment humanism co-existed with their assaults on each other & the often genocidal destruction of non-European societies.

NEW — Speakers are rallying Chicago protestors at today’s march against Trump’s desire for a federal takeover. “If Jesus was the immigrant, then we know without a doubt that God is on the side of the oppressed, the vulnerable and those fighting for freedom today.” thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

Americans be like wah we’re too special to live in a failed state!

The torment nexus market is flooded right now these visionaries need to all settle the hell down my vacuum is selling my nudes and my dishwasher is reporting me to the FBI.

Everyone waiting with bated breath for the Epstein files: Of COURSE Trump is in them. But even if he’s on record raping underage girls, it won’t make one iota of difference. His supporters and handlers either won’t believe it, don’t care, or both. The Epstein files won’t change anything.

Dying eating this like old Japanese people when they eat mochi on New Year’s Day

so are we taking the flags back off the lamp poles or are we just ignoring them or are we going and hanging up the rest of the six nations flags next to them? like how are we handling this one. what’s the consensus

No idea what’s going on, but isn’t the Mall in London amazing as a pedestrian street? A place for people, not metal boxes. More of this!

Dear Koreans, You’re not imagining . You are being targeted this is a cultural war and they hate Black originated music in all forms they extra hate any cultural output challenges their believe of masculine dominance They were not kidding when they said the men are that threatened by KPop

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I'd missed @alanbeattie.bsky.social 's excellent piece here, although as he says, setting out the facts is no longer enough to change the terms of debate and the public won't believe the government anyway

If wish people really got, that if it's vote or you won't have a democracy anymore, which is what it was last election, it's not a democracy at that point.

If wish people really got, that if it's vote or you won't have a democracy anymore, which is what it was last election, it's not a democracy at that point.

If wish people really got, that if it's vote or you won't have a democracy anymore, which is what it was last election, it's not a democracy at that point.

If wish people really got, that if it's vote or you won't have a democracy anymore, which is what it was last election, it's not a democracy at that point.

A drawing from last night

Behind greed lies fear. What if you'll need more later? Make a pile. Just to be safe, hoard. You don't want to be in a position where you regret not having hoarded enough. What if by guaranteeing survival, we can reduce this fear that drives hoarding? What if universal basic income can reduce greed?

Why hello there! Don’t you look bright and breezy on this Saturday morning. You look lovely you really do. So just remember we love you just the ‘weigh’ you are. 🥁 Thanks very much, we’re here all week. 😆

To be honest, I don’t think Trump feels accountable enough to anyone for anything including child rape to even be doing anything as a distraction from the Epstein files. He pretty much rampages & damages how he wants regardless of everything with impunity.

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Salsa in the park against the occupation?

Very rare for a white man, not to mention a Brit, to develop actual real-life swag.

NEW — As hundreds of federal agents assemble just outside of Chicago at the Naval Station Great Lakes, organizers have already begun their resistance to President Donald Trump’s desire for a federal takeover. thetriibe.com/2025/09/chic...

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You want the key right now ? Keep the marginalized in their homes Keep trans people at home and safe in their body Keep Black women reseourced and into jobs Keep immigrants away from camps

-Abingdon Square farmers market, NYC, September 6, 2025 -Vincent van Gogh, Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed, 1887

An epidemic of needing to git gud is sweeping the world as early reactions to Silksong come in. May need another lockdown at this rate.