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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
January 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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Boozhoo Books is a publishing imprint that publishes exclusively Indigenous authors. We are currently seeking novel length genre fiction (thriller, horror, romance, fantasy). Agented and non-agented submissions are welcome.
January 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Boozhoo Books is a publishing imprint that publishes exclusively Indigenous authors. We are currently seeking novel length genre fiction (thriller, horror, romance, fantasy). Agented and non-agented submissions are welcome.
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Are you a library worker–or do you know one–impacted by the California wildfires?
Urban Libraries United is offering two peer support network opportunities this week for those impacted.
Details & how to sign up --> bookriot.com/emergency-li...
Urban Libraries United is offering two peer support network opportunities this week for those impacted.
Details & how to sign up --> bookriot.com/emergency-li...
Emergency Library Worker Support for Those Impacted by California Wildfires
Library workers impacted by the California wildfires are invited to attend either or both of these upcoming peer support network meetings.
bookriot.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Are you a library worker–or do you know one–impacted by the California wildfires?
Urban Libraries United is offering two peer support network opportunities this week for those impacted.
Details & how to sign up --> bookriot.com/emergency-li...
Urban Libraries United is offering two peer support network opportunities this week for those impacted.
Details & how to sign up --> bookriot.com/emergency-li...
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By the way, Freydis Moon has a new book coming out in which this white person writes about subverting slavery by having a Black man owning a white woman. Like Freydis has the depth or the right to write something like this.
January 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
By the way, Freydis Moon has a new book coming out in which this white person writes about subverting slavery by having a Black man owning a white woman. Like Freydis has the depth or the right to write something like this.
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“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”
Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?
Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?
January 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”
Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?
Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?
My reading goal this year is 100 books again. Finished my first book and it was v good (How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell)
January 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My reading goal this year is 100 books again. Finished my first book and it was v good (How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell)
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Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
December 27, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Speaking of shut the fuck up Friday, I’ve been seeing some people say that the FBI has contacted them for questioning after seeing social media posts, and my extremely urgent advice is that you should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES talk to the Feds without a lawyer.
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baby girl nosferatu
December 25, 2024 at 8:02 PM
baby girl nosferatu
Roasting some poblanos and Anaheims today for tamales— ready for some Spicy Air
December 19, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Roasting some poblanos and Anaheims today for tamales— ready for some Spicy Air
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10,000 workers at 10 Amazon facilities are organized with the Teamster. So far 8 facilities have announced strike authorizations and it looks like all ten might do it. Hopefully it’s the start of something massive.
BREAKING: Amazon drivers at a major Atlanta facility have voted unanimously to authorize a strike.
They join @teamsters.bsky.social in NYC, Illinois, and California in authorizing strikes at Amazon in the lead up to Christmas — the company's busiest days.
They join @teamsters.bsky.social in NYC, Illinois, and California in authorizing strikes at Amazon in the lead up to Christmas — the company's busiest days.
December 18, 2024 at 5:45 PM
10,000 workers at 10 Amazon facilities are organized with the Teamster. So far 8 facilities have announced strike authorizations and it looks like all ten might do it. Hopefully it’s the start of something massive.
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Russia “invades” and “occupies” Ukraine, Israel “militarily advances ” into a “Syrian buffer zone”
Israeli forces will stay in Syrian territory they seized following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s government until the establishment of “a new force” that meets Israel’s security demands, the Israeli government said on Thursday. nyti.ms/3Do4ZH1
December 12, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Russia “invades” and “occupies” Ukraine, Israel “militarily advances ” into a “Syrian buffer zone”
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UPDATE: NYPD have arrested at least two of those faculty members. Arrests ongoing!!
‼️BREAKING: 3 NYU faculty at today’s peaceful rally outside of Bobst Library have been declared PNG and barred from campus. No warnings or explanation of alleged policy violations. Incidentally, all the faculty are Jewish. Order came from Provost Georgina Dopico. More to follow.
December 12, 2024 at 5:44 PM
UPDATE: NYPD have arrested at least two of those faculty members. Arrests ongoing!!
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✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
December 11, 2024 at 8:06 PM
✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with @nytimes.com, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
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It took a year to scour every local office for every record of a migrant death on the Texas border w/Mexico. The results are devastating amid a Texas border crackdown. >1K drowned btwn 2017-23, many children. We tell the story of a 4yo lone survivor of a family drowned in the Rio Grande last year.
Border drownings rose as migrants rushed to cross and Texas clamped down www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
Border drownings rose as migrants rushed to cross and Texas clamped down
An investigation found more migrant drowning deaths than the U.S. or Mexico have reported. Many were in Eagle Pass, where Texas’ border crackdown is focused.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:34 PM
It took a year to scour every local office for every record of a migrant death on the Texas border w/Mexico. The results are devastating amid a Texas border crackdown. >1K drowned btwn 2017-23, many children. We tell the story of a 4yo lone survivor of a family drowned in the Rio Grande last year.
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The thing about right wingers is most of them don't actually like the capitalist system they're supporting that's why right wing leaders so often lean on cultural issues and racism and misogyny
December 6, 2024 at 11:44 PM
The thing about right wingers is most of them don't actually like the capitalist system they're supporting that's why right wing leaders so often lean on cultural issues and racism and misogyny
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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
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One of the easiest and most impactful things the Left can do rhetorically is stop positioning ourselves as outsiders. Stop talking about "the workers" like you're not one of them. Start thinking and talking about your life, and why you, as a working class person, believe the things you do.
December 4, 2024 at 6:59 PM
One of the easiest and most impactful things the Left can do rhetorically is stop positioning ourselves as outsiders. Stop talking about "the workers" like you're not one of them. Start thinking and talking about your life, and why you, as a working class person, believe the things you do.
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I am being so sincere: please make an effort to go to museums in your area and also libraries and places where culture exists physically. I don't think it's a hot take to say that letting all of culture exist by algorithmic dictate on our phones is Not Good. This is an easy way to counteract that.
I love a weird little museum. Please support your local weird little museum.
December 1, 2024 at 9:46 PM
I am being so sincere: please make an effort to go to museums in your area and also libraries and places where culture exists physically. I don't think it's a hot take to say that letting all of culture exist by algorithmic dictate on our phones is Not Good. This is an easy way to counteract that.
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Any Gazan asking you for help would rather be doing almost anything else
December 1, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Any Gazan asking you for help would rather be doing almost anything else
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when Tracy Chapman sang "crying on the doorsteps of those armies of salvation" she was drawing a line straight from the Starvation Army's days of union busting anf the contempt with which they treat the poor.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 30, 2024 at 4:49 AM
when Tracy Chapman sang "crying on the doorsteps of those armies of salvation" she was drawing a line straight from the Starvation Army's days of union busting anf the contempt with which they treat the poor.
Going from reading maybe 20 books a year to this year so far reading 110 (yes I listen to audiobooks I count them) makes me incredibly happy. And being in 6 different book clubs helps 😭😭
November 22, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Going from reading maybe 20 books a year to this year so far reading 110 (yes I listen to audiobooks I count them) makes me incredibly happy. And being in 6 different book clubs helps 😭😭
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Unions belong in every workplace. There shouldn’t be a choice between buying local and buying beer brewed by someone who has a pension and healthcare.
The overwhelming majority of craft brewery workers remain without unions at a time when they’d most benefit from them. But to paraphrase an old labor saw: the best time to organize for better working conditions is before shit goes bad; the second-best time is before shit gets worse.
The Best Time to Unionize Your Craft Brewery Is Before Anheuser-Busch Shuts It Down
In 2018, I wrote a story for Splinter about the craft brewing industry’s vexingly low density of labor unions. Workers I spoke with back then were frustrated about low pay, bad or nonexistent healthca...
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November 22, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Unions belong in every workplace. There shouldn’t be a choice between buying local and buying beer brewed by someone who has a pension and healthcare.