Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Giving him the red sabre is a chef's kiss little detail here 517512
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚A.B. Smart @blobrights.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Literal Fascists: *literal coup* Dems: *do nothing* Non-dems who give a fuck: “wtf are you doing? Nothing? I guess we have to protest and riot” Polls: “everyone hates fascists and wants them stopped” Dems: “we did it! Donate now or else.” 0186
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025The other thing is that even if Americans don’t know the word “oligarchy,” now they will. Their preexisting familiarity with the word actually does not matter. After all, “woke” has come to mean something that it never meant before. 030
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion 5564301640
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I'm certainly not trying to reassure anyone, it's a race between full or partial state collapse and fascist dictatorship. "Hope" here is, "maybe they partially collapse the state so quickly they shoot themselves in the foot" 0294
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025elected democrats act like they were promised protection in exchange for their uselessness 421669195
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not 4693892612
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious 261259341
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/01/2025Being a good soldier who avoided public criticism of Democrats appears to have brought us to a fascist takeover of the USA. I desperately need the Democrats to be better so we actually survive this. 3713
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people 573062953
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 25/01/2025How did Kamala Harris lose to the most unpopular US president on record? Winning wasn’t Harris’s primary concern; winning without the left and anti-war movement was. www.stephensemler.com/p/how-the-mo...stephensemler.comHow the most unpopular US president got reelectedPolygraph | Newsletter n°288 | 24 Jan 2025 45805252
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Everyone reading the Colombian President 51634153
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 26/01/2025“Moving to a single-payer, universal healthcare system would likely cost less than current national healthcare expenditure, according to a 2020 academic analysis – and save tens of thousands of lives each year.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.com‘It’s a death sentence’: US health insurance system is failing, say doctorsFirms including United Healthcare have denied basic scans and taken months to reconsider, physicians say 17529196
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 26/01/2025reposted with alt text president of colombia, gustavo petro's response to trump 441855541
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 26/01/2025The leftward swing in Latin America has been beautiful, and the fight back against him from Petro and Sheinbaum could hurt his project and help us meaningfully up here. 225317
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Computer, set stupidity level to maximum 030
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 22/01/2025Shoutout to @teenvogue.bsky.social for this explainer on how to track ICE activity in your neighborhood. 3351197
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Look, I’m not Catholic, but a lot of (Republican) family members are, and this is kind of a middle finger from the Vatican to these fundie Catholics. A tug on the leash, as it were. People like Vance are going to be put in a position where they have to actively defy the Church. It’s a good move. 18765115
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 05/01/2025you’re doing the thing i fear 312310
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025When I read the news, I was suddenly reminded to check if Tim Gill had migrated over yet. Looking forward to getting tips on writing during every possible second of your life 151
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Youtube algorithms pushed Bolsonaro's extremist videos, helping him get elected in Brazil, which is to say that Google helped destroy the Amazon rainforest and indigenous rights there, eyes wide open. Silicon Valley destructiveness takes many forms. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/11/w...nytimes.comHow YouTube Radicalized Brazil (Published 2019)YouTube built its business on keeping users hooked. This has been a gift to extremist groups. An investigation in the company’s second-biggest market found serious consequences. 101274421
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 31/12/2024It is an interesting data point that our (progressive) Mayor and DA were successfully recalled on a "not tough enough on crime" campaign even though crime "actually" went down in Oakland and Alameda county in 2024, in terms of the actual statistics people use to measure it. 48217
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Japanese American leftists really should take more advantage of kami/commie wordplay 140
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024“'The idea was to give the people of Iztapalapa the best,' Luviano says. 'To give them what they thought they could never have.'"theguardian.com‘Living proof that you can spend money on the poor’: Utopia comes to Mexico CityA visionary mayor has harnessed her imagination to promote health, wellbeing and culture in one of the Mexican capital’s most impoverished neighbourhoods 010
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/12/2024Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practicesdemocracynow.orgAmazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to End Unsafe Labor PracticesThousands of Amazon workers on Thursday launched the largest strike against the retail giant in U.S. history, pressuring the company at the height of the holiday period to follow the law and bargain with... 2033597
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/12/2024A Dictionary of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures, Katharine Mary Briggs, 1976. 522825
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Kate Sánchez @ohmymithrandir.bsky.social · 24/12/2024I feel like this misses the key fact that Rosé is a native Englsih speaker and was born in New Zealand...she is literally just a woman of Korean descent making English language music....you know...like she grew up listening to. 36515
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Some people: it is offensive to compare Israel to the Nazis IDF soldier taking part in the Gaza genocide: “I felt like a Nazi. It looked exactly like we were the Nazis and they were the Jews.” In an Israeli paper by an Israeli interviewing Israelis. archive.is/2024.12.23-1...haaretz.com'When you enter Gaza, you are God': Inside the minds of IDF soldiers who commit war crimes | Opinion*** 17711343
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Aashis Joshi @aashisjoshi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024"The Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income." 1/2 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgRich countries drain ‘shocking’ amount of labor from the Global SouthWorkers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap 12621
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 23/12/2024A fellow anarchist Zoe Baker said He Zhen was the greatest feminist you’ve never heard of. She was a great anarcho-feminist in China in the late 19th and early 20th century. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/he-y...theanarchistlibrary.orgThe Feminist ManifestoHe Yin Zhen The Feminist Manifesto 1907 Translated by Meng Fan and Cynthia M. Roe 2274
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Quite honestly, this might be the most perfect imaginable expression of Orientalism www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... 2315
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚PaAAAAAAAAH!!!z Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 22/12/2024I am obligated by the gods of holiday commerce to remind all last-minute shoppers that I wrote a book you could buy as a present for people you love who like literature with 3 genre descriptors OR people you don’t really care about but have to give a present to (neither I nor the gods are picky) 1169
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25 14492453974
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · 19/12/2024holy f*** like, yes of course they do, but wild to actually hear it in this way 0113
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Luigi Mangeone, alleged to kill one man, a corporate CEO, treated as Public Enemy Number One. Anthony Blinken and Joseph Biden, confirmed to have supplied the weapons that have killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, are statesmen. Biden will get a Presidential Library. 6368105
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024US official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-offic…middleeasteye.netUS official resigned after being 'tired of writing about dead kids' in GazaMike Casey told The Guardian he resigned in July, saying the US lets Israel do what it wants to Palestinians 37642
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Hot take: the only deadlines that really really matter are the ones that have to do with bureaucratic requirements (ie submitting grades to registrar and having enough lead time to mark). Otherwise, all other deadlines should be flexible. Most profs ask for extensions for journals, too. 360
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024It’s better than the original. Way better. 020
Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚 @takeoriveraphd.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I mean tbh the NDAA is a blood-soaked imperialist bill every time even without the transphobia 020
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/12/2024If you are interested in learning how this mindset came to dominate the Democratic Party to the point that “move right and be Bipartisan” is the only lesson it is capable of learning from anything I encourage you to check this out. bookshop.org/p/books/chao...bookshop.orgChaotic Neutral: How the Democrats Lost Their Soul in the Center a book by Ed BurmilaA recent history of the Democratic Party that identifies its chronic errors--the "pathologies" of the New Democratic mindset--and argues urgently against a return to the status quo Why did the Democ... 613031
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Feminist Studies at UCSC celebrates its 50th anniversary by disestablishing the department. This article gets at 1 of the key issues: joint appointments & workload. Altho I think there are some very specific institutional/structural factors in this case, that it may be made a precedent is worrisome. 2229
Reposted by Takeo Rivera 🐋🍉🌹📚ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18/12/2024Cool. Biden won’t pardon Leonard Peltier but he can pardon Meera Sachdeva, the Mississippi oncologist who scammed Medicare and diluted her patient’s cancer drugs for years, gave expired ones, and used dirty needles, giving a patient HIV. 714539