If U.S. policy makers want to understand how a man trained and empowered by their own security apparatus ended up killing two American soldiers near the White House, they should start with a basic admission: When you run a shadow war for two decades, eventually it stops staying in the shadows.

absolutely tickled to see JJJJJerome come up on my feed

President Trump issued an executive order this year that directed the attorney general to review the placement of 37 people whose death sentences were commuted by Biden. Many are now headed to a supermax prison notorious for its harsh conditions.

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you 🫵 are supposed to help people

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

The goal of the republicans plan is to create a socially Darwinian society that allows the most at risk to die without being seen or heard. It’s all social murder at scale and eugenics all the way down. The republicans are building the tools of mass death and painting them as public health.

normalize name changes for anyone tbh. even if you're not trans, you should be able to just choose a name you feel good about and not have it be a big deal

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Do people remember that this same NYT reporter solicited a $30,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein for a Montessori school and then got pushed out of the Times by Ellen Pollock shortly after? And he refused to share Epstein's contact info with another NYT reporter assigned to do the piece about him.

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

I have been following national Congressional politics since I was a teenager in Obama I. This is how it always works. Regardless of their actual seat totals, The Democrats "somehow" always have just enough moderates (not too many or too little) that they concede to the GOP on every major issue.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

"[W]orld's largest mass grave." "[M]ore than 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces who remain buried beneath the rubble." "60 million tons of debris." "We call on the world to send international teams to recover the bodies of the missing." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military

The average income of the top 5% is $526,000. Trump cut their taxes by 2.5%. Their current tax rate is 23%. Trump killed 600,000 people and gutted our government in order to save people making $526,000 an extra tax burden of $13,000.

There's been a real erosion of local news, but at the same time while NYT doesn't publish lies, they do publish things fully decontextualized leading you to come to false conclusions. A whole story can be made up of nothing but true statements and still lead you to believe a lie.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Once you realize that, everything becomes clear.

For all the (lack of) coverage it's received, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Israel invaded Syria, occupied several hundred square miles, and is now deploying its West Bank tactics to cut Syrian villages off from each other.

Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

when I worked in community services in the US, I helped fill out SNAP applications for people who'd once had successful careers as lawyers, healthcare professionals, bankers. The jaws of poverty can snap shut on anyone.

Think this can't happen in blue states? Think again. This (long, sorry) thread is about "crime free ordinances," which are spreading across blue states. So what are they, and why are they bad? Crime free ordinances were a pet project of notoriously racist AZ sheriff Joe Arpaio, 2/

For anyone reading this: Human rights are not a sports team. The only way to guarantee that "the good ones" have rights is to also uphold them for "the bad ones". That is the line: Everyone gets human rights and owes you nothing for them.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

punctuation is a tool of white supremacy

Shimaa was shot by an Israeli quadcopter trying to keep her baby safe & lost her husband to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Please help her keep daughter, who's very sick & malnourished, alive. Healthcare & food costs are steep, she's all alone & has nothing (no donations for 4 days):

The hardest thing about being good isn’t untangling complex moral dilemmas, but holding to simple principles consistently and unyieldingly, despite the world constantly insisting you would be savvy to abandon them

What has always been true, and is strikingly clear in this case, is this: matters of injustice affect us all, and when we cosign the liquidation of others’ rights, we also, ultimately, sign away our own.

Growing up in California & not being white I don’t feel like I have any ownership of American history, so I feel no outrage over this. I just wonder if those who do felt the same about the thousand-year-old trees settlers sawed and dynamited. Or you know the civilizations we’ll never get to meet.

"Everyone moving in perfect union" is an authoritarian fantasy it's the aesthetics of dictatorship, fascism or reactionary state communism. Individuals making one body is Nuremberg rallies and military parades, it's a modernist fantasy of submission into a giant machine in the name of forward motion

Golf is evil and must be banned.

It is not unreasonable for disabled and vulnerable people to ask the rest of the population to stop killing them, to allow them to exist as part of society. To stop participating in casual eugenics. Current vaccines do not stop transmission or meaningfully reduce risk of brain and organ damage.

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword. We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence. “What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

you could give an infinite number of reactionaries an infinite number of typewriters over an infinite timeline and they would never invent a sesame street

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

In 2009 they stopped selling houses to those who couldn't afford them but now they're doing the same shit on like microwaves and cooking utensils. This year the top 1% surpassed 50% of the total consumption, top quintile are actual consumers, rest of the economy is one giant failing Rent-a-center

"Kodak was also enriching uranium for the Manhattan Project—uranium mined in the Belgian Congo and destined for the bomb that fell on Hiroshima... across the ocean its competitor Agfa grew entangled with Nazi Germany’s machinery of war." I definitely did not know this history!!💥

You can't raid and arrest everyone in an entire apartment building, or even legitimately get a warrant to do that, any more than you could for a whole neighborhood. That would be a general warrant. This is the most specific core the-British-did-it-to-us thing the Fourth Amendment is written to ban.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

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Protesters chant “shame” as feds retreat