Calling all Apple workers and patrons! Tomorrow, December 24th, 2021, Apple workers are staging a walkout/callout to demand better working conditions. Strike funds are available for participants: coworkerfund.org/netflixapplefu…. Don't cross the picket line. #AppleWalkout 🖤✊

Here's a book rejection that we just received from a prison in Tennessee: "Malcolm X not allowed." This is part of an insidious pattern of targeted bans by prisons against Black authors and against literature critiquing the prison system and power structures in this country.

A short thread on Bert the Turtle. I've shown clips of the movie before in class to demonstrate the use of fear during the early Cold War era, but for some reason never saw the short Civil Defense comic book until now. I'm thinking this might be just as frightening as the film.

Still a good idea. Today is day 676 of my pandemic journal; what about yours?

The correct way to phrase it is "Sen. Kyrsten Sinema does not support the voting rights bill."

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Miami is next.

[COVID and schizophrenia thread 🧵] did you know that the strongest risk factor for dying of COVID is age? probably. did you know the SECOND strongest risk factor is schizophrenia diagnosis? let's talk eugenics bc i have schizo & covid and i don't want to die out here.

Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, & said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”

Material culture/photo nerds: tell me what I should know about these images of my paternal grandmother, circa 1930s. Originals are tiny, no more than 1.5 x 2 inches (smaller, IIRC). What kind of camera made these? A photo booth perhaps?

If you’re a developer working on this quit your job.

That was fast. The new Florida Board of Education appointee praises a parent for reporting a teacher’s Protect Trans Kids shirt as “unacceptable attire.” This took place yesterday on #TransDayOfVisibility

Elon Musk told the United Nations he would give them $6 billion to end world hunger if they showed him a detailed plan of how they would use the money. They called his bluff and gave him their plan— and then they never got the money. Now he’s buying Twitter for $45 billion.

Musk buying Twitter is a merely symptom of a disease. The disease is control of public discourse by billionaire kleptocrats, extremists, and backers of mafia states. It’s the potential loss of documentation and the ability to track our own history, much less build our own future.

I’ve spent my career documenting state crimes that were clear as day when they took place but the documentation of which is now buried, rewritten and skewed by elite reputational rehab (and attempts to destroy reputations of journalists.) Twitter is an evidence trail. Protect it.

So what they’re saying is that he couldn’t even keep a filing system in order. My undergrads could do better than that.

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