somebody’s sweet plums are crowding my icebox somebody’s cold plums are giving me chills

Well my name's Kamala And I'm here to say That I'm down with the kids In a major way!

As much as you might fear and want others to dislike the aggressive, heavily tattooed chain smoker calling to Mussolini all cops, that person’s politics are entirely why you feel comfortable saying “Fuck ICE.” Stop calling the cops on antifascist punks. Footloose-ass nonsense.

Still thinking about the Palantir folks who were SHOCKED that their company was building a massive surveillance system for the government

fellow software engineers this applies to us also btw

once again: lawyers are morally responsible for their professional decisions. people get really mad about this but … you picked the job. you took the money. you own what you’ve done.

Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."

thinking about the dems' plan to fully fund ice on condition they stop doing already-illegal crimes

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Trans people were the proving grounds to normalize the made up term "biological sex"to roll back decades of progress on gender equality. When you get bioessentialist language, suddenly everything from gender roles to marriage becomes an argument about "biology." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

thing about that former british tv guy which kills me is that the tasteless episode he blew his career up over was like... not even that bad for the time period

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

free dril

the guy who financed a propaganda film about the nazi first lady is killing a newspaper that writes unfavorably about her and her husband. this is how the club works.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

Explaining “no you don’t, Oprah” to my father until he tells me how much he loves me

What in the name of the elders’ protocols is this?

Logged on here long enough to see actual discourse posts, my brain immediately produced the line "if you're complaining about trash fires while people are being put in concentration camps you would have helped Hitler rise to power" and am now Logging The Fuck Off Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I guess the mask is supposed to be scary? Intimidating? Clown country.

Every single one of us fights for the children because we've *been* the children. We are the casualties of your worldview in its heyday. We *know* from the scars of our hearts and our bodies the consequences of your cruelty. And we would give all we have to save others that pain.

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

random Yale law professor: jeffrey you naughty dog.... will i be seeing you at this year's Skull Size Forum or will you be busy with your hobbies ;) JE: we must invent trans phobia,,

Speaker Johnson is lying. He knows that counting mail votes is not “magic” or “fraudulent,” it is following the law. Echoing these lies shows how beholden Johnson is to the Liar In Chief, but the Speaker of the House should be above such awful behavior. This is disgraceful.

damn been a minute since i heard "it's heritage not hate"

I'm still stuck on the room with the dentist chair and the creepy masks on the walls

u don't need to imagine it, our political leaders wrote it down in the constitution like 240 years ago and it's more-or-less been how most law enforcement agencies usually operate ever since

hey babes, if you post on here about the agency that claims to be building a facial recognition database, may be suspicious of the "post a picture of your face" trend

I will say gently: every famous counter sit-in from the Civil Rights era was a crime. Nonviolent civil disobedience is quite literally and explicitly a strategy where you commit crimes.

i think if they’re trying to normalize calling people the r word again like it’s the 90s then we should match that throwback and be allowed to normalize curb stomping nazis

I should not have to say this but if you are a legal observer your job is not to go snitch on any and all illegal things. Your job is SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY to record law enforcement brutality, illegality, and overreach. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT to snitch on protests you find too spicy.

Ok, I've had it. We all enjoyed the brief ride but the Stancil redemption is done. Please do not listen to Will Stancil when it comes to street movement organizing, he truly has no clue. I say this as someone who has been doing this for 20 years with both emergent and institutional movements

Not to be too vulnerable on main, but I think what is really upsetting and ultimately hurtful to me about the Stancil stuff is that a lot of us (especially women) have put in a ton of work slowly, unglamorously trying to build the sorts of organizing frameworks that made his adventurism possible.

You all have free range to use this image in response to any transphobia now

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

A community is devastated after ICE raids an LA church and arrests a congregant during a church event. “This was a violation of our Sacred Right to Worship and Serve our Lord Jesus Christ Freely and Safely.” ~ Church officials, in a press release

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crazy seeing bill kristol on here saying abolish ice like man what a timeline we're living in

I reject this. They’re real robots, and they’re alive, and they’re my friends.

hard to explain what this feels like

the confirmation of contemporary transphobia as a political movement has been the brainchild of a boys club made up of some of the most disgusting monsters in recent memory to explicitly keep trans women disenfranchised so as to subjugate and exploit us for their own sexual gain is like a lot, dawg

Lol, lmao.

And unless it's a cost-free government ID, it's a POLL TAX. If you have to pay the government for a document that you must have to vote, that is a POLL TAX.

i feel like there's a subtle nuance between bullshit and horseshit. bullshit is intentional, horseshit is ignorant.

If you aren't familiar with some of idiosyncratic things about Long Island, it helps to understand that almost all of the fire departments on Long Island are volunteer orgs, so the separation between "firefighter" and "civilian" is much fuzzier than in a lot of places