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this is basically the most effective thing you as an individual can do to fuck with ICE and good on this dude for dedicating his retirement to fucking with them
November 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
this is basically the most effective thing you as an individual can do to fuck with ICE and good on this dude for dedicating his retirement to fucking with them
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Think we’re starting to see the effects of a having a primary challenger
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Think we’re starting to see the effects of a having a primary challenger
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I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.
IG bscomedian
IG bscomedian
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Federal science
1. is better when its work force is diverse and
2. is worth saving.
1. is better when its work force is diverse and
2. is worth saving.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Federal science
1. is better when its work force is diverse and
2. is worth saving.
1. is better when its work force is diverse and
2. is worth saving.
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Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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This morning alone I have received two emails from Wiley, pushing AI to remove noise from my data and to improve work flow. Look, all these things will make stories sound better than they are. I have also yet to meet a person that *really* became more efficient at their jobs.
November 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This morning alone I have received two emails from Wiley, pushing AI to remove noise from my data and to improve work flow. Look, all these things will make stories sound better than they are. I have also yet to meet a person that *really* became more efficient at their jobs.
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This certainly feels off from the job search side of things....
A ‘Great Defection’ threatens to empty universities and colleges of top teaching talent
Political attacks and other problems appear to be driving an exodus of Ph.D.s and faculty from higher education, threatening a diminished experience for undergraduates.
hechingerreport.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
This certainly feels off from the job search side of things....
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"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
West African Woman Attempts Suicide After U.S. Deportation to Non-Native Country
Attorneys say African migrants, deported under controversial U.S. policy, are facing life-threatening danger.
capitalbnews.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"Dozens of deportees have been sent to Africa from the U.S. since July after the Trump administration struck largely secretive agreements with at least five African nations — including Eswatini, Rwanda, and South Sudan — to take migrants under a new third-country deportation program."
here to whine that Hasan Piker was just like yapping about Mexico being a narcostate that isn't able to cure itself and then shrugging like it was like just a fact that the Mexican people have to live this way and like
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
here to whine that Hasan Piker was just like yapping about Mexico being a narcostate that isn't able to cure itself and then shrugging like it was like just a fact that the Mexican people have to live this way and like
I am so tired.
I am so tired.
"You are simply repositioning yourself for continued dominance."🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
If your apology does not come with a full-throated denunciation of the myth that shaped your violence:
You are not safe.
You are not accountable.
You are not changed.
You are simply repositioning yourself for continued dominance.
You are not safe.
You are not accountable.
You are not changed.
You are simply repositioning yourself for continued dominance.
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
"You are simply repositioning yourself for continued dominance."🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊
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especially Black people, non-white people, and anyone targeted by her violence, perform forgiveness so that whiteness can return to its preferred roles: hero or victim.
Never the villain.
Redemption maintains the myth.
Redemption protects power.
Never the villain.
Redemption maintains the myth.
Redemption protects power.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
especially Black people, non-white people, and anyone targeted by her violence, perform forgiveness so that whiteness can return to its preferred roles: hero or victim.
Never the villain.
Redemption maintains the myth.
Redemption protects power.
Never the villain.
Redemption maintains the myth.
Redemption protects power.
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Which brings us to MTG.
White media is already bending over backwards to cast her as “self-reflective,” “evolving,” or “finally taking responsibility.”
But let’s be absolutely clear:
“Redemption” is a weapon of the myth of white supremacy.
It’s used to demand that others,
White media is already bending over backwards to cast her as “self-reflective,” “evolving,” or “finally taking responsibility.”
But let’s be absolutely clear:
“Redemption” is a weapon of the myth of white supremacy.
It’s used to demand that others,
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Which brings us to MTG.
White media is already bending over backwards to cast her as “self-reflective,” “evolving,” or “finally taking responsibility.”
But let’s be absolutely clear:
“Redemption” is a weapon of the myth of white supremacy.
It’s used to demand that others,
White media is already bending over backwards to cast her as “self-reflective,” “evolving,” or “finally taking responsibility.”
But let’s be absolutely clear:
“Redemption” is a weapon of the myth of white supremacy.
It’s used to demand that others,
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the deep, unexamined belief that white women must always be seen as good, pure, innocent, misunderstood, or redeemable, no matter the harm inflicted.
And this belief doesn’t live in isolation.
It is a feature, not a bug, of the myth of white supremacy.
And this belief doesn’t live in isolation.
It is a feature, not a bug, of the myth of white supremacy.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
the deep, unexamined belief that white women must always be seen as good, pure, innocent, misunderstood, or redeemable, no matter the harm inflicted.
And this belief doesn’t live in isolation.
It is a feature, not a bug, of the myth of white supremacy.
And this belief doesn’t live in isolation.
It is a feature, not a bug, of the myth of white supremacy.
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If you’ve read White Women, Get Ready, you already understand one of Amanda K. Gross’s core truths:
Whiteness, particularly white womanhood, relies on the fantasy of endless redemption.
It’s baked into Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome:
Whiteness, particularly white womanhood, relies on the fantasy of endless redemption.
It’s baked into Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome:
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
If you’ve read White Women, Get Ready, you already understand one of Amanda K. Gross’s core truths:
Whiteness, particularly white womanhood, relies on the fantasy of endless redemption.
It’s baked into Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome:
Whiteness, particularly white womanhood, relies on the fantasy of endless redemption.
It’s baked into Post-Traumatic Mistress Syndrome:
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"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
Really lovely defense of higher education—focused on local colleges but applicable more broadly. Higher Ed is so crucial to economies, to people, to imaginations
Opinion: How higher education now powers the Lehigh Valley
Opinion: Colleges and universities function as anchor institutions in the Lehigh Valley
www.mcall.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"When we undermine our colleges, we are not “owning” some distant ivory tower; we are weakening our talent pipeline, our innovation capacity and our civic fabric."
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Yeah integrity ain't profitable & honesty will have your ass flat broke.
November 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Yeah integrity ain't profitable & honesty will have your ass flat broke.
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yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump
November 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
yes, and: there is an entire generation of voters out there that don't know what politics is like without Donald Trump
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If you have thoughts, questions, or concerns about the upcoming "AI" bubble, @the1a.org is doing a show on the idea in about 30 minutes, and your should call or write in with those thoughts, questions, or concerns:
the1a.org/segments/the...
the1a.org/segments/the...
The fact and fiction surrounding the AI bubble
Four tech companies have promised to collectively spend $380 billion in the AI space in 2025.
the1a.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you have thoughts, questions, or concerns about the upcoming "AI" bubble, @the1a.org is doing a show on the idea in about 30 minutes, and your should call or write in with those thoughts, questions, or concerns:
the1a.org/segments/the...
the1a.org/segments/the...
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
When I worked at Walgreens this man was yapping me up when I was working the front desk but as soon as he saw a young mom get in line with the baby formula and the specialty gallon of water he paid for that immediately, no questions asked. It was the specialty baby formula.
Community is the answer!
Community is the answer!
The interaction couldn’t be recorded for obvious reasons; but -
I am utterly unsurprised that churches are saying no to a starving baby and the plugs are immediately saying yes. This tracks perfectly with my experience.
I am utterly unsurprised that churches are saying no to a starving baby and the plugs are immediately saying yes. This tracks perfectly with my experience.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
When I worked at Walgreens this man was yapping me up when I was working the front desk but as soon as he saw a young mom get in line with the baby formula and the specialty gallon of water he paid for that immediately, no questions asked. It was the specialty baby formula.
Community is the answer!
Community is the answer!
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Roughly 1 in 4 domestic violence homicide victims in Tennessee’s five biggest cities were allegedly shot by someone who was legally barred from having a gun. @paigepfleger.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died duri...
www.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Roughly 1 in 4 domestic violence homicide victims in Tennessee’s five biggest cities were allegedly shot by someone who was legally barred from having a gun. @paigepfleger.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
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This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This was not a surprise to anyone who followed me and other actual reporters who know Supreme Court procedure.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
The only places it succeeded were to generate donations for Liberty Counsel and to prompt clicks through ragebait headlines from your favorite resistance grifters.
Sorry, it's true.
Community is always the answer and yet the vast majority of y'all still have yet to realize that the Democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to NOT be in community with the average American for the last 40 years. Wake up!
November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Community is always the answer and yet the vast majority of y'all still have yet to realize that the Democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to NOT be in community with the average American for the last 40 years. Wake up!