This is a torch song

Workers from Starbucks Workers United put their bodies on the line Nov. 19, shutting down Starbucks' distribution center in York, PA, the largest in the US.

Stand in solidarity with these working-class heroes, DON'T BUY STARBUCKS ANYWHERE UNTIL THEY WIN THEIR STRIKE!

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Don't overlook the online processors - even more than Visa and Mastercard they are the ones pressuring online retailers. PayPal is the one that's been pressuring Patreon over the last year or so.

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It goes direct to a voicemail box, and the message encourages you to reach out via email, but you're able to leave a message and they may call you back, as that's what happened to me.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

in my words:

for now it's just minor archival data and some older data, but YOU can make a change to that.

we have three bits up already. the below article will be updated constantly. contact info at the bottom of the article. we promise anonymity and general source protection.

“Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days...”

For anyone who's confused today, I won't spoil/explain what the 25th of May is in the Discworld fandom, because I think a big part of what's special about it is the way the plot unfolds in the book.

What I will explain though is that it'll make sense when you reach a book called Night Watch, which is the 29th book in the overall series and the 6th book in the City Watch subseries. If you haven't got that far yet, just take your time and enjoy the series! If you want to start with the City Watch stories then the first book you should check out is Guards! Guards!

“Big Beautiful Bill” Effect on Income Groups

We also created an action form that makes it easy for you to send your members of congress an email asking them to reject the bill.

Economic inequality and military spending are at historic highs. Nevertheless, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a budget reconciliation proposal that would take money away from low-income people and working families and redistribute it to wealthy oligarchs and weapons companies.    This unconscionable bill would fund tax breaks for the rich, military weaponry, and detention centers. We must demand that Congress reject this proposal, along with any other bill that places greed, exclusion, and militarism above our rights to healthy food, clean water, health care, education, affordable housing, and good jobs for all.  ...Where will the money for these new benefits for the wealthy come from? Congress plans to make enormous cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical programs that are relied upon by people all over the country. One estimate suggests that this bill will take $1,000 a year away from the poorest people in the U.S. while giving a shocking $390,000 to the richest 0.1%.