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Always exciting to see another worker-run cooperative, especially when it consists of laid-off journalists. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtonwww.washingtonpost.com The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

exciting development! please share. please give!

Myself and five brilliant cofounders have put a lot of “love, sweat and dreams into it,” as one put it, and now we need your support to get it off the ground. If you care about DC, local news, or worker-led ventures, please donate and share! givebutter.com/The51st

Help Launch The 51st: Local Worker-Led Newsroom in D.C.givebutter.com Donate to support a new worker-led nonprofit newsroom launch in D.C.!

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I’ve been up to something really exciting in recent months—launching a worker-run local news outlet in DC!! News cooperatives are a bright spot in a bleak media (and everything?) landscape & we need them more than ever. Read about our crowdfunding launch in The Washington Post t.co/R1s2UOmJfO

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtont.co The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

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Prisonculture

Because whatever happens in November, we're going to need people in the coming years. Find a group of folks and plant some roots for a few years. See what happens.

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Adam Gorham

he looks uncomfortable

djt campaign texts (which apparently i’m blessed with because gop contact lists confuse me with someone in my family) today: ‘I will always love you’ ‘FEAR NOT’ exciting times with a messiah on the loose

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paul

People, including public figures, are entitled to block whomever they want for whatever reason they want. Nobody owes you or anyone else attention.

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This is extremely important as we need to talk about our wages more to help everyone out and prevent others from being used. Participate if you can spare some time!

It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us. Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same! cartoonist.coop/2024USsurvey (art by Phil McAndrew)

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We have just 12 hours left to raise our final $1,641! Reader support is what keeps The Rumpus going, and it's what will help us TRIPLE our contributor pay budget. Today is your LAST CHANCE to donate to our summer fundraiser. Help us Raise The Rumpus at bit.ly/raisetherumpus

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I have nothing useful to say on the Biden dilemma, because I really don’t know. So, from a purely observational and empathetic point of view: it is really hard to watch, the derision and mockery of an older person. (And I know he’ll be fine. I am talking about this particular message sent.)

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Paul Tobin

such hands, lord

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✪ Shin Megami Jonathan H. Gray: VENGEANCE! ✪

It sucks but any time a space goes right wing like Twitter did or shit the bed completely like Tumblr did or algorithm itself to death like Insta did it just means we need to move on. Tech in particular is run volatile (especially now) so no space is guaranteed. Adapting + your own spaces are key.

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Gonna start calling xitter, “yesterapp”

I can't spell particularly well, letters all over the place, and often get words slightly wrong when in a rush. Anyway, almost just typed "yesterweek" and there really isn't enough coffee.

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Greg Pak

yeah, they really don’t

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G. Willow Wilson

not an answer unto itself, but something to take seriously nevertheless: bsky.app/profile/hell...

Our very own Esther Wang spoke about the growth of worker-owned news outlets with Laura Flanders: "We're the ones who make the decisions about what to publish. It's all of us, the journalists, who decide how the company is run." Watch the full segment here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwFZ...

Meet the BIPOC Press: Is Worker-Owned Media the Future of Journalism?www.youtube.com YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends

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One of these days I’m gonna be smart enough to write a comparative analysis of Israel, Liberia, and Taiwan as refugee-colonizer states, and then it’s gonna be all over for you bitches

politico: extremism triumphs, darkness falls

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This is terrible. They don't even know what this creative imagination dialogue engine is (it is most certainly not a search engine). And if they ask it, it will lie to them. Infuriating that people have emptied the word "facts" of all meaning. And continue to evacuate meaningful words.

Well this is grim

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jacky! is looking for swe work

rainbow’s end

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Ayo

fundamental

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Soraya Nadia McDonald

he’d have a start on the art thing, maybe, if somebody could help him out with one or two apparent misperceptions about religious practices and sexual mores that built the damn country

“[G]iven the racial shifts in the last decade on a global level and the rise of white nationalism, I think there are more McBrearity types around us than we want to admit. … These people are not outliers, they are the natural consequence of a white supremacist structure. …

My latest on the blog. blackgirlinmaine.com/commentary/w...

When a hatemonger passes on (or, America’s most MAGA dad is no more) | Shay Stewart-Bouleyblackgirlinmaine.com I have been writing about racism for over two decades now. When I started back in 2003, I never could have imagined that my occasional submissions for local publications would end up altering the cour...

“They are the embodiment of the soul-sucking emptiness inherent in cultural whiteness. … McBrearity was an extreme case. Most of these men are not quitting six-figure jobs to become professional hatemongers ….

“But the sad reality is that a life filled with the type of hate and bigotry that seemed to overtake McBrearity is not a life where wellness and health can thrive.”

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Greg Pak

his inclination is Francoist, to put it maybe too briefly — which is anyhow not an obscure thing about Walther would be nice if NYT were investigating (more seriously than it does) rather than publishing Walther & friends, but the evident editorial priority is to court an audience that they bring

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Photo of the finished green hair Tank Girl piece before she flies away to her forever home. She has been adopted! Watch at tessfowler.storenvy.com for a chance to adopt your own!

social.coop/@moonrabbit@...

laen (lily's new name?) (@[email protected])social.coop Attached: 1 image things are really hard right now for so many. it can all seem overwhelming and impossible and like you just can't find the way. but you will. we will. we have to. little steps and ...

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Auction ends tomorrow. 🙏

#PudgyHorse dons a pair of wings. 'Pegapudge', if you will. Brown pencil on plain notebook paper, 122 × 132 mm, 2019. This original artwork is available at auction this week, ending Friday 5th July. Link below and in profile. 🙏

i’m sorry. thank you for the exchange.

We’ll tell ourselves that getting politics right could somehow undo the moral hollowing-out being white begins to mean in a person from the moment one comes into the world. We’ll be wrong. It needs exposing in oneself. And this needs to be spoken. I’m sorry to persist. I am grateful for you.