Worth noting that the only reason the US has any sort of free school breakfast is that we collectively freaked out when the Black Panthers began successfully implementing one outside of government infrastructure

Side note: some folks have been building secular alternatives to churches as sites for social services, incl. antifascists, anarchists, and abolitionists. But center-right America considers those groups' beliefs so fringe that they get ignored or even prosecuted for their work instead of supported.

"Enforced patriarchy (and its concomitant protection of powerful male abusers) gives women a very good reason to leave their churches...Who wants to attend a church full of incels?"

CSwww.bugbeardispatch.comSep 28, 2024 11:49pm

More Gen Z women than Gen Z men have left the church. That’s big news! Here’s why I think it’s also the wave of the future: www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/the-remark...

The Remarkable Religious Disaffiliation of Young American Women and What it Means for the Future

Underneath all the buzz about the (allegedly) extremely corrupt and definitely just plain weird NYC mayor Eric Adams, the devastation of hurricane Helene, Israel’s operations in Lebanon, and the other...

It is so, so very clear and simple that this should not be allowed. AI is close to useless as a technology, and absolutely catastrophic for the environment and the power grid. And yet, it is being shoved on all of us. Kill AI. Kill it dead. Exceptions only for things like identifying cancers.

Hhypervisible.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 2:58pm

“The tech industry is pinballing from one market to the next looking for places with the capacity to connect campuses that would consume up to a gigawatt of power—about as much as San Francisco uses. Some requests are as much as four to five times as large as that.” www.wsj.com/business/ene...

that is somehow still widening with no end in sight

US gov offering free covid tests by mail again special.usps.com/testkits

Terrorism brain has got to be one of the most insidious conditions ever to infect "Western" culture. Red scare brain was/is similarly intense and pervasive, but it's the ways that terrorism brain interacts with and accelerates racism that make it just so extra shitty and deadly.

"Emails between fossil fuel lobbyists and lawmakers in UT, WV, ID and OH suggest a nationwide strategy to deter people...from peacefully disrupting the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure by enacting tough laws with lengthy jail sentences."

Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US

Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests

aka Cringe-a-palooza

Grew up in DC not far from that neighborhood, had no idea. Thanks for writing this up.