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Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

The problem in every country is the same For the last 50 years the billionaires have demanded ever higher profits Their profits are now so high the Government can't afford basic services But those billionaires bribe Politicians So the Government won't take action against them

Black people are STILL fighting for the right to vote in 2026. Sit with that.

India’s cockroach protesters defy Modi’s crackdown – The Latest | India | The Guardian (Me: India, France, Brazil, USA 1968 déjà vu) Source: India’s cockroach protesters defy Modi’s crackdown – The Latest | India | The Guardian

At least 160,000 people have taken to the streets in third week of French school protests. Greta Thunberg joined students protesting in France over chronic teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings. www.theguardian.com/world/2...

Mexico will require the digital platforms to protect minors from violent and sexual content.

Thinking of @prisonculture.bsky.social reminding us people are in motion everywhere. This at the same time/same city as a sch board meeting where tons of community members showed up to protect community schools from closure and where I know of tons of folks doing immigrant defense work tonight.

India: “Cockroach Party” leader freed from custody, demand resignation of country’s electoral chief Leaders of the Cockroach Janata Party, an Indian youth movement, were released on Sunday, a day after they were detained before protests against a controversial revision of the electoral rolls. The…

Protests Rage Across India as Government Purges 130 Million Names from Voter Rolls www.democracynow.org/2026/10/7/he...

Don’t mute your India news, people! Monumental protests happening right now.

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

In how many ways can this message be repeated? @emilymbender.bsky.social has been saying this for how long now? www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

#launchyourboat podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social

My former colleagues, Mark Cane and Stephen Zebiak, were the first to successfully predict El Niño more than a year in advance in the late 1980s. Now we’re really good at it, and know the consequences. It’d be irresponsible for governments not to take action. Read this from my buddy Jeff Shaman.

Amid warnings of runaway AI systems and even human extinction, Jenny Domino and Jen Weedon say an important question remains: "what is AI doing to people, communities, and their rights, right now?"

The grim warning by Climate Impact Lab says the heaviest toll is expected in poorer countries already struggling with food insecurity and high energy costs, partly due to climate change. Read more: nbcnews.to/3UYTlvl

OPINION: "The traditional disaster response model assumes a sequence of preparedness, response, recovery and, eventually, a return to stability. "However, a full recovery from major flooding or a hurricane takes years," Lee Ann Rawlins Williams writes.

fuck this

“impose pacing”

I would too, but this elides a central problem with Democrats and the media -- unlike the Republican Party, which is *very* happy to carpet bomb the media with a message that then directs their coverage, most prominent Democrats are reluctant to do anything like that.

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

Finished reading "The Beginning Comes After the End" by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. A framing of the current moment as the transition from one civilization to the next, prioritizing inclusion, interconnection, & collective resistance to authoritarianism & hierarchical systems of control. Powerful.

25 years ago today, the World Trade Center towers fell — and 2 accounts from inside them still shape how we think about emergency planning and disability. Sharing this piece by disability self-advocate Tina Argetsinger on what that day still teaches us. https://ow.ly/vXra50ZMN3a

Back to school. ❤️

"Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census" comes out in one month! Please pre-order the book if you can (or ask your library for a copy). You can choose French or English, audio, e-book, or hardcover.

I was reading an author recently talking about how we don't appreciate the way that email isn't siloed. That is, you don't have to be in gmail to talk to someone else in gmail. The norm is so powerful, it'd be unthinkable to change it. All email is interoperable. Social media could've been this way.

Zines printed 🖨️ and getting ready to ship 📦

For people who want to see a screen reader in action, it can be helpful to start with this demo from Hadi Rangin of the University of Washington's IT Accessibility Team. Among the things Rangin discusses are ARIA landmarks, headings, and text content. youtu.be/7Rs3YpsnfoI

Prior authorization—which allows insurers to overrule physicians and deny coverage—acts as a “corporate care veto” that drains tens of billions of dollars each year that could go toward patients. www.commondreams.org/news/corpora... #health #insurance #medicine #Blues

Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...

Erin Brockovich: "If Data Centers are so great, why are they being built in secret?"

I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

The EU is requiring “watermarking” to signal that content was made with artificial intelligence. Big Tech is falling in line. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/arti...

Two major earthquakes have struck Latin America in less than two months, killing hundreds so far in Colombia and thousands in Venezuela. They are the latest in a history of devastating earthquakes across the region. #Infograph