"where are all the protests?"

read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is bragging about distributing N95 masks. Yet, just 6 months ago Bass proposed a ban on masks in LA.

“brain infections have been documented. Cardiac risk has been documented…You can also make a case that SARS-CoV-2 infections are directly carcinogenic”

Govt getting away with harming you bc Covid ailments are years away. Health insurance & hospitals are salivating at all that new business! MASK UP😷

🧵Rapid Response: Air Filters for LA

We are providing fans and filters to help LA residents breathe cleaner air during these devastating fires. Follow this thread for updates and how to get involved.

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has revoked the driver’s license of a transgender content creator who publicly shared how they updated the gender marker on their license.

A new annual prize given by @dagfoundation.bsky.social will award $20,000 to “an early-career prose writer whose work expands the possibilities for American writing.”

During our Black Summer, more than 1,000 people came from North America to assist in firefighting efforts.

The overlap in fire seasons in both hemispheres has huge implications for how we fight fire.

Australia needs its own fleet of Large Air Tankers (LATs).

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From the intro of my forthcoming book (May 2025): *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*: "Maritime escape was a long, slow-moving, and unstoppable oceanic wave of resistance, bigger and more powerful than we have ever known."
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The new law guarantees fundamental rights for sex workers, including the ability to refuse clients, set the conditions of an act, and stop an act at any moment.

🚨 We are the only abortion fund open right now in the Southeast outside of Florida & we need help! We are being slammed w/requests &our budget just isn’t big enough to handle it. Anything you can contribute will help these callers get the abortion care they need.

www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

The Louisiana Abortion Fund—the only one of its kind in the state—gives direct funding to people across the state who need to access abortion care. Right now, this Black-led org is trying to raise just $1,500 and any help is appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Amazon employees around the world are demonstrating between Black Friday and Cyber Monday to call for improved wages and working conditions, including unionization rights.

Workers are striking in 20 countries including the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, and India.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

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Why would the NYPD ever let protests remain peaceful when turning them into a warzone can make everyone so much money?

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Just a reminder about how fair Wisconsin’s elections have been. Outer circle is vote share; inner circle is subsequent legislative majority.