@sw550.bsky.social
Prioritizing care over capitalism and consumption.
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You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
Do people not watch what jokic is doing to the best defenses in the nba?
December 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Do people not watch what jokic is doing to the best defenses in the nba?
Wolves were up 9 in overtime, right? Nuggets without three starters and still win?
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Wolves were up 9 in overtime, right? Nuggets without three starters and still win?
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42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses
The Trump administration wants to build seven large-scale deportation hubs to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
42 Democrats voted for the Laken Riley Act knowing full well this was the plan.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.
December 24, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻♂️
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In this parlance, to arrest a woman is to to RESCUE her. So when you see a story saying that “X number of sex trafficking victims were rescued by police” what that almost always means is: the cops arrested those women/girls. Put them in handcuffs. Put them in jail cells
law enforcement across the country does it all the time, always under the banner of "helping." it does not help that many law enforcement agencies rely on the ideas that girls have a form of stockholm syndrome and thus NEED to be arrested to be saved.
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
In this parlance, to arrest a woman is to to RESCUE her. So when you see a story saying that “X number of sex trafficking victims were rescued by police” what that almost always means is: the cops arrested those women/girls. Put them in handcuffs. Put them in jail cells
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the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
Happy solstice, everyone!
In four days we can celebrate that the sun has, indeed, reversed course and will not disappear from existence.
In four days we can celebrate that the sun has, indeed, reversed course and will not disappear from existence.
December 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Happy solstice, everyone!
In four days we can celebrate that the sun has, indeed, reversed course and will not disappear from existence.
In four days we can celebrate that the sun has, indeed, reversed course and will not disappear from existence.
Shooting 47 free throws in an game is wild.
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Shooting 47 free throws in an game is wild.
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A key point in my book is that many sheriffs, in particular, believe that they are doing their job for a higher power. Law Enforcement Baronial Class -- not just a job, but a calling.
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
Border Patrol, ICE and Christian Nationalism
Agents who believe they are fighting for God.
jennbudd.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A key point in my book is that many sheriffs, in particular, believe that they are doing their job for a higher power. Law Enforcement Baronial Class -- not just a job, but a calling.
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
jennbudd.substack.com/p/border-pat...
So much horrible news out there and felt a need to pass on something positive.
Julius Randle is finally eligible to be traded by the wolves!
Julius Randle is finally eligible to be traded by the wolves!
December 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
So much horrible news out there and felt a need to pass on something positive.
Julius Randle is finally eligible to be traded by the wolves!
Julius Randle is finally eligible to be traded by the wolves!
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“we do better as socialists and leftists when we have a clear platform and the reactionaries get to debate us on that,” says robin wonsley. “we should never run on vibes. our whole thing is to set the terms of the debate with the reactionaries, the ruling class. because they have nothing to offer.”
December 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“we do better as socialists and leftists when we have a clear platform and the reactionaries get to debate us on that,” says robin wonsley. “we should never run on vibes. our whole thing is to set the terms of the debate with the reactionaries, the ruling class. because they have nothing to offer.”
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'do you believe that ppl can redeem themselves?'
yes
but most ppl don't
yes
but most ppl don't
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
'do you believe that ppl can redeem themselves?'
yes
but most ppl don't
yes
but most ppl don't
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In my life, when experienced women of color have said that something is bullshit, it's been bullshit.
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
In my life, when experienced women of color have said that something is bullshit, it's been bullshit.
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I don’t think people with salaried jobs have any fucking clue what people who offer ~luxury~ services are experiencing
hairdressers, therapists, tattoo artists, piercers, nail technicians, masseuses, bartenders, waitstaff, house cleaners, & yes sex workers are being absolutely ratfucked rn
hairdressers, therapists, tattoo artists, piercers, nail technicians, masseuses, bartenders, waitstaff, house cleaners, & yes sex workers are being absolutely ratfucked rn
December 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I don’t think people with salaried jobs have any fucking clue what people who offer ~luxury~ services are experiencing
hairdressers, therapists, tattoo artists, piercers, nail technicians, masseuses, bartenders, waitstaff, house cleaners, & yes sex workers are being absolutely ratfucked rn
hairdressers, therapists, tattoo artists, piercers, nail technicians, masseuses, bartenders, waitstaff, house cleaners, & yes sex workers are being absolutely ratfucked rn
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I wish more people understood the importance of making a distinction between decriminalization and lack of punitive consequence.
We see it all the time- ppl promoting the Nordic model because it "decriminalizes prostitution"
But does it count as decriminalization if you're still legally punished?
We see it all the time- ppl promoting the Nordic model because it "decriminalizes prostitution"
But does it count as decriminalization if you're still legally punished?
December 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I wish more people understood the importance of making a distinction between decriminalization and lack of punitive consequence.
We see it all the time- ppl promoting the Nordic model because it "decriminalizes prostitution"
But does it count as decriminalization if you're still legally punished?
We see it all the time- ppl promoting the Nordic model because it "decriminalizes prostitution"
But does it count as decriminalization if you're still legally punished?
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Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab, says satellite images revealed "at least 140 large piles of bodies" in Sudan's El Fasher after the city was seized by RSF fighters in October. "They've been burning and burying bodies for the better part of five weeks."
December 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab, says satellite images revealed "at least 140 large piles of bodies" in Sudan's El Fasher after the city was seized by RSF fighters in October. "They've been burning and burying bodies for the better part of five weeks."
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the people ripping out their hair over "Somali Fraud" do not bat an eye at MPD being $19 million over budget, because their so called values are as fraudulent as the schemes themselves
December 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
the people ripping out their hair over "Somali Fraud" do not bat an eye at MPD being $19 million over budget, because their so called values are as fraudulent as the schemes themselves
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People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.
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Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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There’s no safe jail for pregnant people because there’s no safe jail. Put people in jail; people die.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There’s no safe jail for pregnant people because there’s no safe jail. Put people in jail; people die.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
I think people want to feel okay about “some” people in jail and no, you shouldn’t feel okay. People are in death institutions; there’s not a nicer word for it.
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Minneapolis
The Supply Depot is looking for someone to sponsor 150 hygiene kits. Demand is outpacing our ability to supply them. Do you know anyone who could?
December 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Minneapolis
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Once again UBI works
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Once again UBI works
I find it weird when former county prosecutors think they did no harm and now portray themselves as social justice warriors.
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I find it weird when former county prosecutors think they did no harm and now portray themselves as social justice warriors.
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Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.