Solidarity is beautiful

These professors’ actions are truly moving. Also: incredible that Columbia sending in the NYPD backfired so spectacularly that they not only ended up shutting down their entire campus but also sparked a nationwide movement…and now NYU is like, we’re doing exact same thing! Lmao

A lot of social media discourse is an attempt to ignore the meaning of stories like this. cnn.com/2024/04/22/mid…

This is the new chad meme template

At arguments in Grants Pass, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson are pummeling the Gibson Dunn attorney defending laws that punish homeless people who sleep outside.

Sotomayor asks: If homeless people aren't allowed to sleep anywhere, are they supposed to just 'kill themselves'?

It’s actually WILD to me that we live in a country where a university openly and proudly invests in weapons manufacturing. It breaks the brain. Why? What business does a university have in killing machines?

Scores of people, many of whom are children, are being killed in Gaza every day by US-made weapons, but the most comfortable and powerful people in the world are focused on how dangerous it is for college students to protest this state of affairs. Really makes you feel insane.

The scandalization on thin grounds of actions on university campuses is a near-repeat of the late 60s. Then as now, Marcuse was at least half right: students (of a certain shrinking class) are dangerous because they are not yet bound to a workplace and can associate freely.

Fain: It's not a CEO that's going to save us. It's not a president that's going to save us. It's not me and it's not you. It's us. It's a united working class is how we're going to win!

As a member of the “Jewish community” referenced here, I find this White House statement on Palestinian solidarity protests at Columbia University completely unhinged, deranged, zero connection to reality. Also just bad look when so many faculty have condemned Shafik’s crackdown!

A farmer in Texas spread fertilizer made from human waste on his property. His neighbor, an organic farmer, tested a calf in his farm and found PFAS that were 152,000 times higher than EPA’s PFAS limits for drinking water. The ensuing lawsuit, and more: grist.org/agriculture/th…

i’m sorry but this absolutely slaps

I get chills when that guitar riff starts. One of the best albums ever.

More union staff jobs should be remote

Just got a sick UAW ad on Tubi 😎

'...replacing fossil fuels with renewables as a primary energy source will not be enough. If we use renewables to sustain the same landscapes we have now, we will have the same fire problems, though perhaps tamped down by lessened global warming.' scientificamerican.com/article/we-are…

The provision effectively grants the NSA access to the communications equipment of almost any U.S. business, plus huge numbers of organizations and individuals. It’s a gift to any president who may wish to spy on political enemies, journalists, ideological opponents, etc. 3/10

“The UAW is sending a strong signal that big change may be coming to places where most thought the labor movement was dead and buried.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

fascinating and informative episode