A LOT OF GREAT QUEER POP CULTURE STUFF TO CELEBRATE EVEN THOUGH THIS YEAR WAS HELL

Working-class Americans have grown more progressive over the past two decades—not just on economic justice but also on immigration and civil rights. Today’s working class stands farther to the left than when it helped elect Barack Obama in 2008.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

The surviving films of early Black American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux get a 5-disc deluxe release from Kino Lorber.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian.

Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way.

Don't comply with unjust laws and practices.

#FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social

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"For queer people of colour especially, carving out space for themselves has been an essential and political act of survival, and a fight that continues to this day without any signs of easing," writes Aurora Sol (@atomicnumber88.bsky.social)

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Incredible Soviet animated short about the abject cruelty and destructiveness of American imperialism.

#Filmsky

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𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘓𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘦𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯 has the quaint “band versus the world” narrative of an Amazon Prime rockumentary aimed at boomers—only with better archival footage

Per his attorneys, Mahmoud Khalil asked to address the court at his immigration hearing today, where a judge gave the green light to the Trump admin to deport him.

“This is exactly why the Trump administration has sent me to this court, 1,000 miles away from my family.”

I had mixed feelings about the White Lotus finale but it was smart to time it to the economic collapse

sometimes the side chick ain’t even a side chick

#OtD 6 Apr 1968 17-year-old Black Panther, Bobby Hutton, was murdered by police in Oakland, California. The first recruit to the Party, he was unarmed, shirtless and had surrendered to police when they shot him at least 10 times. More on the Panthers: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

This track, Hum Along, and Dancing Machine all on one album... the rent must have been due in 1973, and Berry Gordy was coming to collect!!!!

#Musicsky #Funk #Motown

The Jackson 5 - Mama I Gotta Brand New Thing (Don't Say No)

As we write, DOGE is reportedly inside the gates of the IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services), where Keith Sonderling, Deputy Secretary of Labor and “somehow now Acting Director” of IMLS is dismantling the agency that helps libraries be libraries. /1

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Part of the reason the right — and neoliberals — fight to make sure college isn't free is because the debt acts as a discipline mechanism. It's easier to punish campus protest when school costs money. The Trump playbook today is the same as Reagan's. That's why we need—

There is no substantive difference between a government shutdown and what Republicans are already doing and intend to do in the future.

The only thing that’s changed is that the GOP can now claim to have bipartisan assent for their wave of mutilation.