Reposted by Strangebird ValentineLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 15/01/2026“Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE” is a sentence that shouldn’t exist. 14604217
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJustice Committee @justicecommittee.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Justice Committee has #ICEWatch #CopWatch resources on our website and hosts both in-person (NYC) and virtual trainings. Follow & stay tuned for our next one! www.justicecommittee.org/cop-ice-watchjusticecommittee.orgCop/ICE Watch Guide | justicecommitteeLearn more about Cop Watch and ICE Watch, the legal practice of monitoring and documenting law enforcement activity in order to deter or de-escalate abuse. Download our guide to recording the police &... 084
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/09/2025Rather than permitting the Trump administration to frighten us out of resisting, we must understand this broad, vague, and performative executive order as an effort to intimidate. It should catalyze us into urgent organizing, not paralyze us. Only collective action can keep us safe and free. 191214426
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 18/09/2025i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue. 423184319
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineQ. McLamore @ghawinriver.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I'd point out that Media had thousands of opportunities to care about incels, gamergate, Groypers, anti-trans movements, new conversion therapy, fascists, proud boys, and eugenicists, and that they had to ACTIVELY refuse to pay attention to not know all of this beforehand. 636787
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/09/2025as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated 4851231138
Reposted by Strangebird Valentineonion person @junlper.beer · 12/09/2025like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane 258114962752
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12/09/2025last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X) 8650591449
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/08/2025Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...wheresyoured.atHow To Argue With An AI BoosterEditor's Note: For those of you reading via email, I recommend opening this in a browser so you can use the Table of Contents. This is my longest newsletter - a 16,000-word-long opus - and if you like... 652434721
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineAmílcar Tavares @amilcartavares.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Here's a quick script: share.google/sxOKnVqeKgsj...share.googleGitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI 10796256
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineAlexandra Lanes @ajlanes.bsky.social · 28/08/2025This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”quaker.org.uk 6533391332
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology. 14665165
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2025There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.” 171088309
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineACLU @aclu.org · 24/07/2025BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities. 88268513688
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/07/2025i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons 1684713488
Reposted by Strangebird Valentinemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization 6251111653
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/07/2025people who use AI as a replacement for thinking, learning and communicating should be shamed and punished. the same way we shame and punish drunk drivers, or people who negligently discharge firearms. it is bad to misuse tools in a way that damages society 513430865
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineTrans News Network @transnews.network · 21/07/2025Please donate to our LAUNCH fundraiser here with FREE gifts! Your tax deductible donations serve a dual purpose: Keeping trans journalists out of poverty, and funding high-quality exclusive journalism the trans community needs that you won't find anywhere else. Share it with your friends!transnewsnetwork.networkforgood.comLAUNCH FUNDRAISER: Help fund trans journalism with a donation to Trans News Network!"With your help, I can actually build myself a solid future - one without being left on the streets, wondering where I'm gonna sleep that night." Trans News Network , the newsroom formerly known as Ma... 112883
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineChristopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 22/07/2025got this quote at a neo-Nazi event at the University of Florida in 2017, & in the nearly 8 years since it goes viral like this every few months — I suspect because it's a pretty good summation of where the GOP has gone 564443962
Reposted by Strangebird ValentinePrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS." 936332049
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJosephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/01/2025Sleep well, king 👑 2456981821
Reposted by Strangebird ValentinePossible Worlds Games @possibleworlds.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system. 5496773855
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineScarleteen @scarleteen.com · 14/07/2025Protecting nonbinary lives is not up for debate. Nonbinary lives are sacred and we cherish you today and everyday. Happy Nonbinary people’s day! 🖤 112243
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/07/2025Damn right we are. Honeymoon here we go :) 764325115
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineBoston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Want to support our street outreach? Here’s an Amazon wishlist with the most requested supplies! www.amazon.com/registries/g...amazon.comUnhoused Aid Distro List | Amazon Gift List 172
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineBoston Sex Workers and Allies Collective (BSWAC) @bostonswac.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Our first street outreach day at Mass & Cass was a success! We saw ~25 people and gave out: - 48 water bottles - 46 chip bags - ~50 condoms - 25 makeup pieces - ~10 outfits Have something you’d like to donate for our next outreach day? Let us know! ❤️ 1306
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineMeredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 13/07/2025I think about this constantly 7186742981
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe. 373121404363
Reposted by Strangebird Valentinemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/06/2025dems are still operating on a paradigm where politicians on both sides are assumed to be working to make their states and constituents richer. today's republicans are trying to make everyone poorer because their ideology is to crush the labor market as part of The Plot to Enslave America. 192409451
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/06/2025Well I'm Jewish I don't agree with @ericswalwell.bsky.social's decision to be a fucking liar, and I definitely trust Zohran Mamdani more than I trust Eric Swalwell's defamatory ass 221251219
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Democrats have been asked to disavow Zohran more than Republicans have been asked to disavow the guy who murdered two Democrats. Says a lot about how profoundly fucked up our political and media situation is right now. 5667121773
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...npr.orgAround 100,000 march in Budapest Pride event in defiance of Hungary's banMarchers gambled with potential police intervention and fines to participate in the annual Budapest Pride, which was outlawed by a law passed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing governing part... 202781764
Reposted by Strangebird Valentineemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025if you have a D senator, take 1 minute to call. you can be quick. “senator _____ must to raise a point of order on the floor & challenge budget section 71114's anti-trans medicaid ban." want to say more? last week’s D all-star ran an explicitly pro trans care campaign! it's not a losing issue! ⬇️🧵 6384243
Reposted by Strangebird Valentineemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 28/06/2025hi, cis folks! the GOP put the all-ages trans medicaid ban back in the budget, despite it being struck. they did it to force dems to challenge it on the floor. if you've been paying attention, you know dems need to hear you want them to actually stand up to the GOP. contact info at reps.fyi 🧵 8740542659
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineEliel Cruz @elielcruz.com · 25/06/2025I pitched the NYT on this and they passed cause "all democrats are good with LGBTQ people" 273872629
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/06/2025trump remade the Republican party in his own image over the course of like six months so yeah, i do think political parties can pivot to do things that work 774112563
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/06/2025We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps 10751732301
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 27/06/2025people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school 4860521347
Reposted by Strangebird Valentineelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/06/2025At her school. They strip-searched a 15 yo black girl at her school in east London. But don't worry everyone: "the panel, chaired by a senior police commander, found that race was not a factor" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comTwo Met officers dismissed for gross misconduct after strip-search of black schoolgirlDisciplinary hearing finds police officers’ search of Child Q, 15, was disproportionate and humiliating 02210
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/06/2025They closed schools for five years for racism but people are still mad that their schools were closed for as little as three months to stop people from dying during a global pandemic 210535
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/06/2025Spectacular news - the Medicaid ban for transgender care is OUT as a result of the Byrd rule. 292240519
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/06/2025PLEASE SHARE 🧪‼️ Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. Scientific American has published a guide to the EVIDENCE-BASED vaccine recommendations in place BEFORE ACIP members were removed by the administration. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...scientificamerican.comHere’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by ScienceThese graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults 4230512165
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist. 718260147059
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineCrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 23/06/2025This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government. Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.crimethinc.com"Women, Life, Freedom” against the WarGenocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us. A statement from Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani feminists. 71065338
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2025New from 404 Media: 'FuckLAPD.com' is a website that lets anyone use facial recognition to instantly identify cops. Point camera, take photo, upload to site. It provides their name and salary information. Creator also rebooting their tool for identifying ICE employees www.404media.co/fucklapd-com...404media.co‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify CopsA free tool that allows anyone to upload a photo of an LAPD officer to get their name and badge number. 4332691337
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineJason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Beyond parody at this point; the week these guys picked sex predators and warmongers over your future 2504895956
Reposted by Strangebird ValentinePuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/06/2025I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end. 394932948
Reposted by Strangebird ValentineMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime. 22191522162