The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

Louder for those in the back.

The people behind @thecontinent.org have launched a new paper focused on South Africa called @thefridaypaper.bsky.social and the cover story is about gold and Johannesburg's new gold mine.

You can read it for free here: www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

"POSTING MEMES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD WHILE THE WORLD ENDS 2025", 21.9"x34.5, charcoal & graphite on paper

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Also reason why it took so long to build the Green Line. Can't have those folks from Anacostia being a quick ride to upper NW.

So Trump is defunding the police.

"And Klein just. Didn’t. Get. It. His argument was, 'But we have to win.' And I’m like, 'Who the fuck is we, Ezra?' Because I’m not now and will never be on the side that negotiates away basic human rights. Even if that means I’m in a party of one." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Which brave press pass haver is going to send Pete Hegseth into a debilitating identity crisis by reminding him that he is a secretary?

Yesterday, I finished watching Andor. Highly recommend for the very reasons why MLK talked about the long arc of justice.

I haven't finished watching the Klein/Coates convo, but my initial take is that THC was extremely patient with Klein insisting that things *must* get better.

Also worth noting: Pula is the reason for the blue in their flag. And the black and white lines were specifically chosen to highlight Black and white people working side by side (in direct opposition to Apartheid SA).

David Cross didn't hold back...

Unless I’m missing something, all but one of these incidents were meant to avenge Kirk, not harm his defenders.

Just chiming in to add 'iFi or Fosi?'

cc: @swiftonsecurity.com

The prevalence of college profs (and medicine in particular) of "consulting" is a huge issue. Getting paid to write articles supporting this or that intervention.

Assume that this wasn't a "one-off." As in he's been doing this a while. $150k just happens to have been his going rate at the time.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Will the nyt ever get as mad at trump about anything as much as they got mad at a black lady being president of Harvard