Reposted by isaacNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 6hThis is fucked up and I don't believe any politician who claims to oppose this unless they call for prosecution of the people doing this, and I think pseudo-opposition to this is part of the problem. 0196
Reposted by isaacPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6hShutting it down for the night. Good night to all. Thank you to those who have donated to REBUILD. I am happy to say that we have raised almost $8000 of my $40,000 goal. ALSO, there's a match of $5000 on the table for all donations by 10/15. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...mightycause.comSupport REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on MightycauseREBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color. 14116
isaac @sevier.io · 6hThis bums me out quite a lot and i think about it often as the spectrum of allies that we have. The spectrum is presented as a static classifying tool but folks mapped onto it are being changed all the time and becoming more or less active, differently, some more quickly and some more slowly. 160
Reposted by isaacShani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 6hdissentmagazine.org/online_artic...dissentmagazine.orgDeath by Data Centers - Dissent MagazineI’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A... 066
isaac @sevier.io · 6hLots of folks have plenty to say about "The Left" and what it (lol) should stop doing at a time when fascists are disappearing people in record numbers and there is no actual force stopping them or the fossil fuel industry that they are in league with. 113621
Reposted by isaacCorinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 7htears at this. so grateful for people who do right knowing they'll be done wrong. it doesn't always turn out like this. harm reductionists are the best fucking people and there is absolutely nothing stopping you from being one of them. 27617
Reposted by isaacDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 9hICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Backtruthout.orgICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back.“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington. 0114
isaac @sevier.io · 9hFolks wash your hands as often as you can, seems like (anecdotally anyway) hand foot and mouth disease is having a big year 091
isaac @sevier.io · 9hAll i know about climate week, now that it's over, is that our work for public power came up multiple times, so thank you to everyone who gave us a shoutout somewhere (the check is in the mail)* * for legal purposes: this is a joke 0100
isaac @sevier.io · 10hIf you hang around me long enough i WILL recruit you into doing something with the global movement for public power 1212
isaac @sevier.io · 18h"After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being off." 084
isaac @sevier.io · 18hMany eddies in the current of this ongoing debate swirl around any conversation among organizers today and I encourage everyone to keep having it, without splitting into fractions that have decades long beef with one another. 111
Reposted by isaacKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I had a conversation w a colleague recently where she pressed me about why there isn't more political science about AI given its importance. A possibility we discussed is that the uncertainty & possibility horizons around it are so huge, it's v hard to say anything that won't make you look foolish. 1152
Reposted by isaacÉireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026and publications, letters, music, art if we can't get in those rooms for a while. make things. material things. make them with others. then send them to others. make a room of attention across distance 073
Reposted by isaacdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026exactly this. if we can no longer broadly agree, as a social unit of social creatures, that human endeavor and human dignity have worth and are in fact likely the point, why bother? what is this world we are constructing. why is anyone even walking around and going anywhere 1052049
Reposted by isaacKim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026guys my big talk at the Mütter Museum is coming up soon and I am EXCITED, there are a few tickets left so tell all your nerdy Philly friends! 🎪 muttermuseum.org/events/meet-...muttermuseum.orgMeet & Geek: Strange GirlsLife, Love, and Disability in the American Freak Show 15513
isaac @sevier.io · 28/09/2026I'm someone who deeply loves a plan. Making a plan. Poking it full of holes. Filling those in again. And right now I survive by simply putting one foot in front of the other and trusting that our collective wisdom works. It feels good for me but I'm also longing for a little bit of space to pull up. 060
isaac @sevier.io · 28/09/2026Folks are in motion and people are making invitations for others to get involved everywhere 0121
isaac @sevier.io · 28/09/2026It really matters that we continue to make spaces - physical irl places we can see and touch and occupy together - to organize in, unmediated by a screen. 0145
Reposted by isaacDylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For @theslingutah.bsky.social, I reviewed new books from @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @isabellamweber.bsky.social, two of my personal econ policy heroes! The two of them are working to recenter human welfare in economics and just maybe save the discipline from itself.thesling.orgIt’s the Economics, Stupid: A Review of Gouged and Anti-Fascist Economics - The SlingWeber’s Anti-Fascist Economics and Owens’s Gouged help to flesh out a heterodox way of thinking about economic policy. 11610
Reposted by isaacAsh-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good mornin’, good people, Haymarket Books is offering discounted tickets to this conversation with Angela Y. Davis. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Sarah Haley, and Ula Y. Taylor about the Combahee River Collective and its legacy for activism today. 1187
Reposted by isaacWe Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/09/2026🚨BREAKING Heidi Alexander has just announced that, for the first time since rail privatisation, the government will consider public ownership of rolling stock for all new trains This is wonderful news. They shouldn't only consider it; they should deliver it 15512
Reposted by isaacBright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 27/09/2026For most Leftists, what is in the public interest is nearly always at odds with the hoarding of private interests. But when crafting financial objectives + strategies, we rely on concepts designed for private finance. To serve public ends, public finance must develop a new language and logic. 🧵 23613
Reposted by isaacTruthout @truthout.org · 27/09/2026I am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for being transgender. buff.ly/PBwtahjbuff.ly“Restrictive Housing” Is Wielded as Punishment Against Trans People in PrisonI am being locked up 23 hours a day with no human interaction. I believe I am being punished for being transgender. 07439
Reposted by isaacKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Divestment from genocide is ON THE BALLOT in our beautiful city of Providence thanks to a lot of people's very hard work. If you want to canvass to introduce it to people who may not have thought about it yet, you can sign up here: www.reclaimri.org/canvass-for-...reclaimri.orgCanvass for Divestment with PVD 4 Palestine! - Reclaim RI 1155
Reposted by isaacWill Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Employment is a poorly provisioned public infrastructure, not an individual achievement 13710
isaac @sevier.io · 26/09/2026She has been imprisoned since August 7. "Both the NCAA and Kentucky State University have benefited from the excellence of Aminata Seck in both her studies and her athleticism. Yet, in her moment of need, they seem to have abandoned her." @nsharma101.bsky.social 02516
Reposted by isaacTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game. 91726323
Reposted by isaacKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026This is an observation not a critique. But whenever I express a desire to go plastic free in a very specific niche way (usually involving heating plastic) people often suggest things that include plastic. And it just seems to me that a lot of people don't "see" plastic anymore. 811514
Reposted by isaacCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My broader take on all three German state elections and why focusing only on the success of the far right is both incomplete and self-defeating.theguardian.comLook again – there’s more to Germany’s election trends than far-right success | Cas MuddeDefeatist narratives abound. Yet Germany’s latest elections suggest voter dissatisfaction is benefiting the left as well as the right, says the political scientist Cas Mudde 1123986
Reposted by isaacJan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hundreds of Austrian unionists @fsgyounion.bsky.social @epsu.bsky.social send a message of #solidarity to German workers today on the streets across the country against destruction welfare state with @social.verdi.de @dgbbbr.bsky.social Success! 084
isaac @sevier.io · 26/09/2026Parts of the climate movement have been building ecosocialism— a future without oil corporations and without utility corporations. We aren't going to stop and more people are joining us all the time. 1216
Reposted by isaacPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/09/2026RSVP to attend. This is going to be a rare opportunity to learn from both @amylittlefield.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social. And to be in community with like-minded folks. 04934
Reposted by isaacutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026KCPD officer had no issue talking with them. I watched him go back forth with them for an hour. He was really happy to work with them, I heard him say “let me know when you catch them” about the man in the truck who fled on foot. Again. It was a car crash. How did ICE know about it? 5-6 agent cars. 441361
Reposted by isaacutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026Dairy farms in Kansas? Raided. Barton County? Texts about entire hotel blocks rented out by feds for the next weeks. It is a pogrom. This is called a pogrom. 2653211
Reposted by isaacutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 25/09/2026They have been raiding the golden triangle, six hours away, for three days now. I have people there sending me updates. Ghost town. Nobody is outside. People are delaying shifts. Schools are preparing kids for the possibility they go home and nobody is there. Majority latino cities and counties. 441396
Reposted by isaacRevolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.dissentmagazine.orgDeath by Data Centers - Dissent MagazineI’m an oncology nurse in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. My patients and I breathe the same polluted air, and we can’t afford the toxic exposure from the gas-fired plants set to power the state’s proposed A... 26442
Reposted by isaacJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The department’s assistance line, on average, automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of the calls coming in during the first six months of 2026, according to the 19-page complaint." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m...bostonglobe.comThousands in Massachusetts are losing food assistance because of disconnected SNAP calls, lawsuit says - The Boston GlobeThe state's Department of Transitional Assistance automatically disconnected 74 to 81 percent of incoming calls in the first six months of 2026, complaint alleges. 48052
isaac @sevier.io · 24/09/2026Counting the troubles is only valuable up to a certain point and I think that fewer people in general need to use a lot of their time on it. I occasionally pick my head up to see what time it is but the beauty of a structural analysis is that it can help you avoid constant hyper vigilance. 160
Reposted by isaacEmily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m only 3 chapters in since my preorder dropped while I was at a no-device conference but: no shock here that this is an absolute must-read 44011
Reposted by isaacKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/09/2026damnit this is exactly what the "abundance" movement was built to stop! we're doomed now, I tell younews.gallup.comSocialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First TimeSocialism's appeal is at a new high, but it remains less popular than capitalism and well below free enterprise. 39816
isaac @sevier.io · 24/09/2026San Francisco is one step closer to escaping PG&E. I think we should pay them close to nothing for the privilege given how the grid they're "selling" us is in such bad shape. publicpowersf.org/blogposts/bo...publicpowersf.orgBoard of Supervisors Affirms Environmental Review for Proposed Public Power Expansion — Our City. Our Power.SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today unanimously affirmed the final Environmental Impact Report for the City’s proposed acquisition of PG&E’s local electric grid, clearing... 172