Luigi the tiny tabby, exhausted after a long morning of keeping track of every move I make 🥰
#CatsOfMastodon

July 4th 2027 will be the bicentennial of Emancipation in New York State.
"N.Y.'s 200th anniversary of emancipation"
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/05/n-y-s-200th-anniversary-of-emancipation/

Been sitting inside for days to hide from the ridiculous temperatures, thinking most people were doing the same. But between here and the library and hardware store, the streets are teeming with neighbors going about their business. I keep forgetting what a privilege it is to be able to work from home!

Chose more books than I had planned to, just so I could sit in the ac and start reading through them.

Made it to the library, which is open today as a cooling center, and they had to ruin the experience by having a tv playing Couch Fucker Vance giving a speech. 🤮
#USPol

He hungry
#caterpillars

Easily the best, most beautifully written book I’ve read all year.
The Chosen and the Beautiful - Nghi Vo
https://nghivo.com/books/the-chosen-and-the-beautiful/
#Bookstodon

Imagine if Biden or Obama had made 327 stock purchases in a single day and then, the next day, announced a policy change guaranteed to boost those stocks, while announcing “GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!”

Any previous president would have been quickly impeached and convicted, by both parties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-stock-trades-before-tariff-pause-rcna352723

Dead or alive, he's not coming back. https://kolektiva.social/@IsMitchMcConnellDeadYet/116852389529454076
#USPol

*Sent via Signal, so I assume the snooping was through Android & not the messaging app.

I receive US mail for a friend living overseas, and I just had to message them a photo of their replacement credit card. One hour later I get an instagram ad for the same credit card. Google is definitely snooping on my camera roll and selling what they find 😠
#Privacy #surveillancecapitalism

NPR has an article ready to go as soon as Alito retires. Is it in the obituary file? How do you accidentally hit "publish" on someone's professional obituary?

Correction: the story was published by mistake. Not true.
🤦🏽‍♀
Alito retires. Trump gets to appoint another #scotus. Fuuuuuck!
#USPol

Neighbors are pulling off branches of the mulberry tree to get to the ripe fruit, which means next year the lowest remaining branches will be even higher & harder to reach ☹️

come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeologylab! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live. the theme this year is Creative Misuse. Read the full prompt (https://drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view) then apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4rrs5G-ZQGGOmq4RuoWo9agTbgGl-5e_o-4eTvlol1Vv8-g/viewform

RE: https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/116824010104234726

Remember freedom of speech & freedom of the press?

That was pretty cool, right?

Seems like the kind of thing that you use it or you lose it, so... make some #zines, print some #stickers, etc. Fascists hate that shit & fuck 'em

@gbargoud @YakyuNightOwl @wonkothesane @roadskater @Netraven @ArtemisWinter Thank you, this thread has been very informative!

What should I know about serving on a grand jury? (I can google, but wondering if anyone has personal experience.)

@samuteki an amazing documentary everyone should see,Jonathan Demme’s film The Agronomist about Jean Dominique and Michèle Montas who started Radio Haiti-Inter and a social democracy movement that was violently shut down with help from CIA.

(some parts at beginning are in French without English subtitles, but most is in English)

It’s a great movie everyone should see especially Americans, on how CIA destroyed nascent social democratic movement in Haiti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWR1TaDNGgk

The fact that you think Haiti is a failed state and yet know as little as possible about how it got that way is an indictment on your country and its historical narrative.

The US was one of the countries most invested in ensuring the failure of the Haitian state from the very beginning—they still had slaves. They didn't want Haiti to become a beacon of hope.

The Haitians won one of the biggest underdog wars in modern history and were immediately pressured by the US and other White countries to pay reparations to the French.

Reparations. To their former masters. For the theft of their own bodies.

Haiti was immediately cut off economically at the knees. There is a long history of the US interfering with Haitian affairs ever since. When we say Black people can do anything, Haiti should be example number 1: because when we do amazing things, there's always White people who want to stop us.