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Farewell to the Nib, which I've loved being a part of these past ten years or so. This week's comic was my last to appear on the site, though I'll continue plodding on through the media doomscape. https://thenib.com/tuned-in/
Tuned In | The Nib

What if there was a channel on TV for workers?

The Nib

@ProPublica

That's why they don't let me be editor of publications.🤷🏿‍♂️

Because if I were your editor, I would tell you to go back and try again because you missed the story.

Who is paying to fly these Proud Boys around the country? How many of these angry speakers are not even authentic members of the community? What is the ultimate goal of disrupting school boards? Why did federal law enforcement not take action against this clearly concerted and coordinated effort to disrupt school boards?

Gorsuch is defending Smith from compelled speech despite the fact that she never received an order asking her to design for a gay couple. That request came from a made up applicant. Thus Gorsuch is defending the constitutional right of a person who never had their right called into question. For those keeping score, this is the definitive meaning of "Judicial Activism".

Let's be clear: nothing happened to the plaintiff in 303 Creative, the whole "case" was a hypothetical exercise, and the GOP Justices used it as a vehicle to undermine every single federal, state, county, and city anti-discrimination law in the country.

There's now a special exemption for any bigot who wants to claim their work is "expressive," even if the work they do doesn't express any message at all.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf

"Today, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.

The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

“This is the first bail fund to be attacked in this way,” Regan, whose organization has worked to ensure legal support for people resisting Cop City, told me. “And there is absolutely not a scintilla of fact or evidence that anything illegal has ever transpired with regard to Atlanta fundraising for bail support.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protesters

Organizers working on a bail fund and legal support for protests against Atlanta’s Cop City were raided and arrested.

The Intercept
Kindly asking people to STFU with defenses of Target that are like, "They're just trying to keep their employees safe!" Because this will only encourage more attacks.

"While Big Tech fights regulations that would protect children, its leaders apply a different standard for their own offspring" writes Katie A. Paul in this Fast Company opinion piece, highlighting the hypocrisy of tech execs.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90900166/tech-social-media-protection-children

#BigTech #OnlineSafety

If things were reversed and it was the Rs who needed to raise the debt ceiling, they'd already be accepting trillion dollar coins in the vending machines at the Capitol by now.
Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933) https://www.openculture.com/2023/05/helen-keller-writes-a-letter-to-nazi-students-before-they-burn-her-book.html
Helen Keller Writes a Letter to Nazi Students Before They Burn Her Book: “History Has Taught You Nothing If You Think You Can Kill Ideas” (1933)

Helen Keller achieved notoriety not only as an individual success story, but also as a prolific essayist, activist, and fierce advocate for poor and marginalized people.

Open Culture
Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network

It can no longer be denied.

The Atlantic