#OtD 5 Jul 1852 abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech about July 4th: "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me… this Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...

Notable — Haley Stevens makes no outreach to Mallory McMorrow supporters, while Abdul El-Sayed explicitly welcomes them to his movement:

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This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

By the Burning River Brigade in NE Ohio

nobody in the press wants to address the fact that almost everybody at the upper echelons of tech is a full on eugenist nazi

Antenna tv twilight zone marathon and the bong with the rain >>>>>

I’m crying they’re about to January 6th Trump’s own party

The MAGA reaction is exactly as stupid as you think:

Based on witness accounts, the use of force appeared to be unprovoked. An ICE agent pulled the vehicle alongside the protest area, rolled down the window, fired the pepper ball launcher, and drove away. Witnesses said there was prior interaction between the agent and protester struck.

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...

Me, trying to talk to any normal person:

macpaint, computer art (1986) discmaster.textfiles.com/view/761/Hal...

Happy 4th of July! Here's an unrelated image!

“This is only the beginning. This paramilitary army will one day be used to remove anyone critical of the regime.” Documented ICE Brutality July 1-3, Thousands More Kidnapped open.substack.com/pub/quadzill...

Trump is watching the Fox News feed of himself watching Fox News

This dude is dusted to the eyeballs. He's not scoping shit out he's high as a kite and wondering how long until he can go back to the can for another bump. Gnashing his teeth like James Brown lol

ICE celebrating “Freedom 250” by taking shackled immigrants from our nation’s capital to concentration camps in the South.

Inject it directly into our veins

Country Club Hills is also where a CPD officer working with federal agents recently shot a teenager and lied about it

The stage is falling apart at the rehearsal for Freedom 250's July 4th celebration.

An ICE goon outrageously endangered civilians by shooting at a driver despite not posing a physical threat to them and driving to avoid their vehicles after they escalated the situation by smashing his windows. Of course, ICE propaganda said he "rammed" their vehicle to justify their recklessness.

This poem by Dan Albergotti feels like a manual, a self-help guide A metaphor for what it feels like to be trapped Rather than an escape plan it focuses on how the mind adapts to the situation by creating routine inside chaos, by trying to make sense of the extraordinary #poetry #poemoftheday

Following setbacks in Minneapolis, ICE has changed strategies. Now they are trying to inflict as much suffering as possible without attracting attention. They are escalating right now. We need strategies to confront and impede them—the way people did at Delaney Hall. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...

Not now four black eggs surfacing from the dark heart of the ocean

Does the CBLDF have a purpose? Does the organization even exist anymore? @cbldf.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

Also want to share this page linked from the gofundme just in case it gets taken down freedes.net

This is fucking insane

#OtD 2 Jul 1921 13 anarchists, held for no plausible reason in the Taganka prison in Moscow by Bolshevik authorities, began a hunger strike to the death demanding freedom for revolutionary political prisoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9194...

MINNESOTANS!!! Jury nullification is legal and good. But you can’t talk about it while you’re doing it, and you can’t learn about it after you’ve been selected for jury duty. You gotta read up now! beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

it really stinks that bandcamp, a profitable company that’s enabled something like a revolution in independent music distribution, is just going to get wound down and thrown away because its corporate owners don’t have a use for it

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"The measure ... is largely symbolic, as it doesn't carry the legal weight to compel Trump to comply."

ICE tried to deport families and children to Venezuela mere hours after an earthquake devastated the country. US Rep Castro: "They were woken up in the middle of the night and sent to Arizona on their way to Venezuela." "It's unthinkable to send children and families who have committed no crimes."

The Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office says they’re reviewing the case that LAPD presented regarding Brian Palacios, an ICE agent who killed Keith Porter, Jr. while off duty. Saying “cases like this can take several months or more to resolve.”

Six Portuguese neo-nazis were arrested last year when police seized explosives, firearms and ammunition. Now it’s been revealed that the group’s first target for assasination was a migrant worker who publicly confronted the leader of the far-right Chega party. Read more here:

I think at this point, we should primary most everyone on the supreme court OK, was just informed that "primary" is not what I thought it meant and makes sense everyone was being so chill about what I actually want to happen

BREAKING: Charges for the fatal shooting of Keith Porter Jr. by off-duty ICE agent Brian Palacios have been sent to the DA for review. O’Donnell announced it during a commission meeting just now.

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Kavanaugh's decision on trans people in sports contains a footnote saying it applies only to trans women, by the way. So trans women can be legally segregated (and his reasoning isn't limited to sports), but he explicitly says it doesn't apply to trans men in any gendered spaces at all.

🦇 9-0 Decision saying that trannies can't claim sex discrimination protections. 9 to fucking 0. NINE TO ZERO. That's 3 Democrats siding with the nazis to say that us trans women are really men. Worthless. Liberals are worthless.

I bet when the Dems are having the skin flayed off their bones in the streets for being traitors to the working class they will be crying about how they protected birthright citizenship 5-4.

i'm seeing a lot of ppl on here today defending the Democratic Party to the trans community and allow me to suggest not doing that

We have a little over 24 hours to save the internet. The vote for a package of internet-freedom destroying bills is being rushed to the US House floor on Monday the 29th. Spread this beyond Bluesky, ASAP. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Sister Letty was accosted and detained by ICE goons despite wearing her habit on her way to mass at a church in south Texas. U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez called out the outrageous "hyperaggressive immigration policies in our communities" that "led to the targeting of nuns on their way to Sunday Mass"

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“Well, we’re all workers…These aren’t just things happening on TV. They’re happening at SEA-TAC, at our work. It’s our home, man, and we can do something about it. We have to do something about it.” “If we’re not taking care of our neighbors, then who is going to take care of us?”