@amicuslegis.bsky.social
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This is a great idea. I think one of the biggest things about the current carceral system is out of sight, out of mind so when folks fight for their freedom we don't know what they're fighting only the characterization that they are criminals.
I personally think before any judge sentences a person to incarceration or detention, they should have to spend a night in that facility themselves.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
And the same goes for the prosecutor recommending the sentence.
I don't care what the alleged crime is. The defendant is still a human being.
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This is a great idea. I think one of the biggest things about the current carceral system is out of sight, out of mind so when folks fight for their freedom we don't know what they're fighting only the characterization that they are criminals.
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See also:
bsky.app/profile/step...
bsky.app/profile/step...
"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
See also:
bsky.app/profile/step...
bsky.app/profile/step...
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Can Chicago businesses refuse to let in ICE? The answer is complex. blockclubchi.co/3WDnyO2
November 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Can Chicago businesses refuse to let in ICE? The answer is complex. blockclubchi.co/3WDnyO2
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Hopefully you've seen the @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social article revealing that Meta makes 10% of their revenue from scams and fraud. Their bullshit PR response adds insult to injury. I chew it into tiny pieces point by point in this week's Platformocracy. 1/3 #meta #trustandsafety #adtech #fraud
Rant: Meta is earning billions from scams and fraud. Their lack of transparency is an insult.
Meta’s newly-revealed carelessness is egregious, but their bullshit response is the Platformocracy at its worst. I am pissed. Welcome to what my coworkers used to call a “Bellack Special.”
www.platformocracy.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hopefully you've seen the @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social article revealing that Meta makes 10% of their revenue from scams and fraud. Their bullshit PR response adds insult to injury. I chew it into tiny pieces point by point in this week's Platformocracy. 1/3 #meta #trustandsafety #adtech #fraud
tuesday was a day of hope, and a somewhat belated indication that there's fight left in us.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
tuesday was a day of hope, and a somewhat belated indication that there's fight left in us.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
seeing all these people that have never worked on or run a campaign opine with confidence unfettered by competence what the takeaway lessons are, though, is exhausting.
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Beyoncé made history & the Grammy’s took a page from the Oscars (The Oscars tried to make a best popular film category the year Black Panther came out.) & made a new award for black artists.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Beyoncé made history & the Grammy’s took a page from the Oscars (The Oscars tried to make a best popular film category the year Black Panther came out.) & made a new award for black artists.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
Nothing says “America isn’t racist!” like making literal separate but equal awards for black creatives.
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Cuomo's entire platform, in both the primary and the general, is 'vengeance - especially for me personally, but also vicariously if you're an alienated rich white man'
November 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Cuomo's entire platform, in both the primary and the general, is 'vengeance - especially for me personally, but also vicariously if you're an alienated rich white man'
when organized labor's power is at its nadir, we get a depression.
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
when organized labor's power is at its nadir, we get a depression.
our market has never been free, and never less free than now. capitalism, which is objectively predatory, is untenable when the owners of the means of production have used the gov't to gut the power of Labor, making us all a captive market to whatever rigged pricing they wish to impose.
LoL almost like the state could fund and run grocery stores without a problem. And provide vital nutrition and good paying jobs to areas that lack these things...
Almost as if "the free market" is just a lie to keep people desperate, poor and starving...
Almost as if "the free market" is just a lie to keep people desperate, poor and starving...
NEW — In response to the pause in SNAP benefits scheduled for Nov. 1 due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, Gov. JB Pritzker signed an order to designate $20 million in state funding for 2,600 food pantries across Illinois.
thetriibe.com/2025/10/prit...
thetriibe.com/2025/10/prit...
October 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
our market has never been free, and never less free than now. capitalism, which is objectively predatory, is untenable when the owners of the means of production have used the gov't to gut the power of Labor, making us all a captive market to whatever rigged pricing they wish to impose.
this is going to wreak havoc on a number of industries, and while purportedly for finding "bad intent" or "fraud," will force more to work under the table, which is how profit likes them, because they're cheaper and more vulnerable.
gross.
gross.
The new policy will go into effect Oct. 30, and will apply to people applying for renewals in the future.
Feds end the automatic renewals of most immigrants’ work permits
The new policy will go into effect Oct. 30, and will apply to people applying for renewals in the future.
n.pr
October 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
this is going to wreak havoc on a number of industries, and while purportedly for finding "bad intent" or "fraud," will force more to work under the table, which is how profit likes them, because they're cheaper and more vulnerable.
gross.
gross.
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Aside from recommending this thread because it’s good, this also reminded me how much time/money/effort has gone into ensuring that average Americans actually know little or nothing about labor histories in their country.
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Aside from recommending this thread because it’s good, this also reminded me how much time/money/effort has gone into ensuring that average Americans actually know little or nothing about labor histories in their country.
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Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Independent outlets like @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @thetriibe.com, @unraveledpress.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are doing a TERRIFIC job reporting on what's currently happening in Chicago. Folks should support and follow them.
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Woman sues amusement park after being struck by a duck on a roller coaster
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
October 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Woman sues amusement park after being struck by a duck on a roller coaster
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
Excuse me miss. You were in his home
i expect to see this shamefully regressive approach across media as a whole, if not most industries. it confirms what we all knew (or should have known) to be true.
This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.
October 30, 2025 at 1:21 PM
i expect to see this shamefully regressive approach across media as a whole, if not most industries. it confirms what we all knew (or should have known) to be true.
the entirety of the "conservative populist" movement across the world is rooted in racism, rejection of accountability, and greed.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 AM
the entirety of the "conservative populist" movement across the world is rooted in racism, rejection of accountability, and greed.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
the virulent insecurity of white mediocrity is trying its damndest to be an extinction event for us all.
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If you really show up to try and whataboutism me on whether people who work to survive "consent" to work, I'm going to immediately decide that you don't grasp the concept of consent and block you because it isn't my job to teach you about how different forms and levels of consent work.
A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
If you really show up to try and whataboutism me on whether people who work to survive "consent" to work, I'm going to immediately decide that you don't grasp the concept of consent and block you because it isn't my job to teach you about how different forms and levels of consent work.
"on trajectory" is an astonishingly optimistic way to describe it.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn
A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"on trajectory" is an astonishingly optimistic way to describe it.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
pretty sure that shit has landed.
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Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop
October 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
we simply do not talk enough about how much of modern capitalism has pivoted away from providing goods and services in exchange for money and into inconveniencing and harassing people with fees, surcharges, and delayed invoicing for long enough that they give you money just to make it stop
even the skynet in this timeline is underwhelming.
Character AI “argues that the words produced by its chatbots are speech, like a poem, song or video game. And because they are speech, they are protected by the First Amendment. You can’t win a negligence case against a speaker for exercising their First Amendment rights.”
A Teen in Love With a Chatbot Killed Himself. Can the Chatbot Be Held Responsible?
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
even the skynet in this timeline is underwhelming.
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Nobody ever believes us about anything
And now here we are
And now here we are
Black folk have been talking about ”digital Black face“ for at least two decades, IIRC. And those clear eyed warning went unheeded.
October 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Nobody ever believes us about anything
And now here we are
And now here we are
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I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.
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tent big enough for landlords, islamophobes, & transphobes, but not big enough for a single Palestinian; LGBT+ may only be seen, not heard
don't let them fool you, that's what they mean. when Melissa starts advocating for complete liberation, centering marginalized voices, only then listen to her
don't let them fool you, that's what they mean. when Melissa starts advocating for complete liberation, centering marginalized voices, only then listen to her
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
tent big enough for landlords, islamophobes, & transphobes, but not big enough for a single Palestinian; LGBT+ may only be seen, not heard
don't let them fool you, that's what they mean. when Melissa starts advocating for complete liberation, centering marginalized voices, only then listen to her
don't let them fool you, that's what they mean. when Melissa starts advocating for complete liberation, centering marginalized voices, only then listen to her
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Okay maybe just one
October 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Okay maybe just one
while i agree that we should be working on a broad coalition, and not litmus testing everything to death, this position is more often than not a ploy to force rightward movement, or to table issues that aren't really debatable, like intersectional human rights.
Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.
October 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
while i agree that we should be working on a broad coalition, and not litmus testing everything to death, this position is more often than not a ploy to force rightward movement, or to table issues that aren't really debatable, like intersectional human rights.