Reposted by SerendipMEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h'I Exist LOL' by contemporary US artist Martha Rich #WomensArt #FridayFeeling #UnlockingWomensArt 057688
Reposted by SerendipMEMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1hCharlie Angus: In just a year and a half, Canadian purchases of vehicles made on the American side of the border dropped 30%. If you take the American export auto economy, Canada’s number one. If you take the next 10 countries and put them together, it’s still less than Canada at number one. 21587195
Reposted by SerendipMEDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 4hThis baby chimp's reaction to reuniting with its caretaker after months apart will wreck you 762467381
SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 2hI love pitbulls so much. They are just so in-tune with their owners and so loving. 000
Reposted by SerendipMEalexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 6hDog refuses to leave his unwell owner's side. Loyalty 1214621527
Reposted by SerendipMECarrie N Baker @carrienbaker.bsky.social · 21hA new PBS series, inspired by Ms. reporting, explores how medications used in abortion and emergency contraception could transform women’s health and why patients are still waiting after decades of feminist advocacy. msmagazine.com/2026/10/01/a...msmagazine.comAntiabortion Politics Blocks Research on Fibroids, Endometriosis and Breast Cancer. The Media Is Finally Paying Attention.Mifepristone is known as the abortion pill, but it has other uses most Americans have never heard about. For more than three decades, scientists have known this medication could do far more than end a... 1127
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026He's banning and prosecuting political groups, invoking anti-terror laws (which Obama supported and promised would only be used proportionately and wisely) to chase his grassroots opposition underground: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...whitehouse.govDesignating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist OrganizationSection 1. Antifa as a Terrorist Threat. Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States 1411
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026Of course, Trump is doing everything he can to extinguish *both* small p politics *and* Big P Politics. It's not just his wildly illegal voter suppression tactics. 1485
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026But even if you accept the Green Lantern apologetics, the fact remains that Obama *could* have had a clamoring army of ardent supporters in the streets, defending his agenda against recalcitrants in his own party and wreckers in the GOP. He *chose* not to have that army. He sent that army home. 18710
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026And his promise to hold the phone companies to account for their complicity in the NSA's mass domestic surveillance: www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... He stepped up secret drone warfare: www.cfr.org/articles/oba... And unconstitutional domestic surveillance: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...pbs.org 1592
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026He shielded the CIA's torturers from scrutiny and prosecution: journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/2009/04/... He reneged on his promise to shut down Gitmo: www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...journals.law.harvard.eduObama Publishes ‘Torture’ Memos, Immunizes CIA StaffThe Obama Justice Department has released four memos detailing the harsh techniques used on some detainees during the Bush administration. The memos – three written in 2005 and another in 20… 1703
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026He let the bank executives who created the Great Financial Crisis off the hook and encouraged them to foreclose on the homes of millions of Americans, the very same public that had bailed them out: theweek.com/articles/624...theweek.comThis is Obama's biggest failureHe could have used law enforcement to protect homeowners from bank fraud. He didn't. 2814
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise. 28912
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026If you've ever wondered why your vote seems to accomplish so little, I think you can blame the near-abolition of small p politics by Big P politicians of every stripe. 28315
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026Which is to say, Big P politics matter, but to *make* them matter, we need a lot of small p politics. That means that democracy isn't something you do every couple of years with a ballot paper (though that's an important aspect of the process). Democracy is continuous. 28913
Reposted by SerendipMEBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026From the Magna Carta to the Constitution to the Emancipation Proclamation to 19th Amendment, voting rights (what you might call "Big P" Politics) were always downstream of protests, riots, petitions, mass movements, strikes and good, old fashioned community organizing (that is, "small p" politics). 111822
SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 4hWHY IS HE NOT FIRED! I mean, I get it, we don't have a mechanism to fire a voted -in person. Even a total POS. Jfc, the political system in this country. 000
Reposted by SerendipMEAmateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026lmao! capping & cropping bc i don't wanna skirmish this morning, but how do you think Movement Conservatism built (partly) its 50-year advantage against the liberal-left? churches! mega-church "third place" orbits! it's called "civic association" & yes some people find intimate connections there 47112
Reposted by SerendipMEjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6hnot that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.talkingpointsmemo.comChris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a ThingTo the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in... 2345261990
Reposted by SerendipMEabby emerson @abbyemerson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My book will be out in the world before I know it! Want to celebrate with me? All welcome - RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 0199
SerendipME @serendipme.bsky.social · 6hI hope he countersues. He was shot IN THE BACK. He may be paralyzed for life. Take it to a court of peers. This is outrageous. Delivery driver shot by ICE agent faces federal charges share.google/AufYdVw1UgR9...share.googleDelivery driver shot by ICE agent faces federal chargesA Venezuelan delivery driver shot by an ICE agent in Austin is faci... 000
Reposted by SerendipMESmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right” 6288881679
Reposted by SerendipMEhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21hYall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow 315181954454
Reposted by SerendipMEMike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 01/10/2026US mortgage rates jump the most in four years amid bond sell-off www.ft.com/content/2277...ft.comUS mortgage rates jump the most in four years as bond sell-off hits Main StreetHomebuilders and prospective buyers continue to face challenging market conditions 178
Reposted by SerendipMEGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel. 210760
Reposted by SerendipMEThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/10/2026A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a report about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues:bit.lyIs College Getting Less Safe for Women?A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a Wired story about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding. 103716
Reposted by SerendipMEChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yup. Though I think the more troubling aspect is that it's not that nobody *can* stop him -- it's that those who can, don't want to, and therefore will do nothing to rein him in. 6842153
Reposted by SerendipMEChuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes. 1546176
Reposted by SerendipMEPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening. 101271404
Reposted by SerendipMEMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution 1730136
Reposted by SerendipMEKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill. 543004740
Reposted by SerendipMEPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"But the problem isn’t that lots of people read the Times. The problem is that lots of liberal activists and elites are having their perspectives shaped by the Times in 2026." 123644
Reposted by SerendipMEPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026On Twitter, many years ago, I suggested that the GOP had to be completely destroyed as a U.S. political party. This was PRE-TRUMP. This led to SEVERAL days of a pile on by LIBERALS who tried to run my off the site, lol. Good times... [turns out I probably should have left the site, LOLOLOL] 637531
Reposted by SerendipMEWarwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"... to discover the global wealth of women’s writing, and the prowess of the translators who bring it to our doors.” The prize is supported by the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures & the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund at the University of Warwick, and @bcltuea.bsky.social. 132
Reposted by SerendipMEWarwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"They include rediscovered classics and urgently contemporary works. They range in time and place from late 19th-century Japan, the post-First World War Netherlands, and 1990s India, to Norway, Hungary and Gaza today. We hope that our selection will encourage readers to join us on this journey..." 132
Reposted by SerendipMEWarwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"... open to work from all countries, territories and languages; open to all translators, whoever and wherever they may be; open to all kinds and genres of excellent writing, past or present. Our chosen titles span poetry, novels, short fiction and memoir..." 132
Reposted by SerendipMEWarwick Prize for Women in Translation @womenintranslation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6 25329
Reposted by SerendipMECusszin Vinny @cusszinvinny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Here’s a picture from a few days ago. Just a hint of color on the horizon as the sun was feeling a bit under the weather. Taken from my iPhone and digitally modified to my liking. #photography #iPhonephotography #scapes #photographersofbluesky #sunrise 3366
Reposted by SerendipMEGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comAbandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George MonbiotChanges in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot 17925231728
Reposted by SerendipMECharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 11470872037
Reposted by SerendipME🌺HippiesRule🌺 @teresa555.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They just don't care. 743282999
Reposted by SerendipMEMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you've ever wondered how ridiculously profitable tech companies avoid paying taxes . . . 771643782
Reposted by SerendipMEAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Way to go, California! Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill yesterday banning law enforcement (ICE) from using electric shock gloves. 21793631911
Reposted by SerendipME@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My phone is terrible with distance photos, but always fun to see a bald eagle. We have lots here but seeing one never gets old. 772962226
Reposted by SerendipMEMr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Erin Hanson (b.1981, USA) "Autumn in Gold" 2014. Oil on canvas. 151311186
Reposted by SerendipMEElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that. 19466811288
Reposted by SerendipMEMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/202653 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.youtu.beMayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYCYouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office 15078501475
Reposted by SerendipMEwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026First US female photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, preparing to take a photograph, Austrian Pavilion, 1904 St. Louis World's Fair #WomensArt 4781148