New Survey Shows Majority of LGBTQ Adults Report Harm, Displacement, and Fear Since November 2024 qburgh.com/survey-major...

On January 1, the Israeli occupation revoked the licenses of 37 humanitarian organizations including MSF, the Norwegian Refugee Council and ActionAid, from operating in Gaza, and it has now warned they must “must complete the cessation of their activities by March 1, 2026.”

The Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit is next Saturday! A keynote by Monica Ruiz of Casa San José, 19 workshops, a closing panel to tie it all together, and 20 community groups! Workshops include: COST OF A COP CITY IN PITTSBURGH: IMPLICATIONS FOR RACIAL EQUITY & FASCISM 28thprjs.eventbrite.com

We are still raising money for this asylum seeker! We are about $4000 away from the goal now!

Randy Cordova Flores has been in the U.S. for three years with pending asylum status, family says. Springdale police just turned him over to ICE custody following a traffic stop for failing to use a turn signal. buff.ly/UCtPZ9h

“We are fearful for ourselves and for our community members who are at higher risk of being targeted,” Judah Marroquin told the Allegheny Valley school board after Springdale police reportedly assisted an ICE detention. buff.ly/vFUZQNX

“In some states, providers face loss of licensure or felony charges for providing gender-affirming care for transgender youth.” While this isn’t the case in Pennsylvania, Ansel Bloom argues Pittsburgh medical systems should practice courageous advocacy.https://buff.ly/3octtSW

New: Allegheny County Council is considering a bill banning county cooperation with ICE. But today members were frustrated that they simply don't know how much interaction is currently going on. www.publicsource.org/allegheny-co...

ICE spokesperson Jason Koontz says the detention of Randy Cordova Flores stems from illegal entry and missed court dates. Online court records do not show any law enforcement action involving him in Pennsylvania, nor has he been charged with any federal crime in Western Pa. buff.ly/AZYYnVa

Stop calling it immigration enforcement DHS is carrying out violent crackdowns in our communities. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/stop-calli...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

A beautiful web is being woven in Minnesota: not with new materials but with wisdom that was already here.

Coal plant J.H. Campbell was slated to close, but the federal government is keeping it open.

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Always bombing somewhere 🫩

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

The DHS rushed to rollout a revamped tool to confirm voters’ citizenship status into use while it was still adding data and before it could discern voters’ most up-to-date information. In hundreds of cases, the tool’s determinations were wrong.

I’m just going to leave this here

My statement on the ICE withdrawal from Minnesota.

Another absolute necessity: outlaw the billionaire strategy of dodging taxes by living off of tax-free loans against their stocks/real estate holdings. No more "buy-borrow-die." fortune.com/2026/01/14/w...

ICE is still very active in my neighborhood this morning. They just grabbed someone nearby. Don't believe the propaganda.

Oz's CMS is handing Medicaid data to the regime's child abducting, nurse murdering gestapo. In 28 states, ICE can see your diagnoses, your prescriptions, and where you receive care. No court restrictions at all. I wrote about how this works and what it means. www.patreon.com/posts/150622...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_i... It's interesting to look at how Epstein directly, via hundreds of thousands of emails with his pedo buddies in academia, made US academia incredibly hostile to women for *decades*. How many Emma Noethers never were, even before any of it was put into legislation?

Short thread. This is pure institutional cruelty.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

Don Lemon's arrest while reporting got huge headlines, as it should, but eight other activists and journalists were arrested that day, including a member of the Saint Paul School Board.

Just days after the FBI’s seizure of election data, Trump announced a goal to “nationalize” elections, and instructed his sycophants to take over the elections of 15 as-of-yet unspecified “places.” Fulton County is likely one of them.

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

As long as Ohio Sen. John Husted has been in office, he's accepted over $116,000 from Les Wexner, former Victoria’s Secret CEO and alleged Epstein co-conspirator. Husted accepted $3,500 from Wexner as recently as July—only two months before voting to block the Epstein files release. trib.al/6iNBfAh

"knowledge about how greenhouse gases affect hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, flooding & agriculture becomes more detailed every year. The government’s decision today is 'not based on science,' Howarth said. 'It’s a predetermined political decision.' " insideclimatenews.org/news/1202202...

The Orwellian bill making its way through the Ohio legislature defines "affordable, reliable, and clean" as any energy source OTHER than solar and wind. War is peace.

“Policy of Aggression”: Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

This is just unconscionable man

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Nearly 90% of the economic burden from tariffs in 2025 was borne by US companies and consumers, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found

We need answers to basic questions about the reason for Randy Cordova Flores' arrest and why our government is seeking to remove him from the country. I'll keep fighting for answers and accountability. My full statement ⤵️

DHS SHUTDOWN CERTAIN: Department of Homeland Security shutdown nears, as US Senate remains stuck on funding & leaves DC for recess @ashleymurray.bsky.social and Shaueen Miranda www.newsfromthestates.com/article/depa...

Medicaid cuts working as designed.

Allegheny County Council wants to know how much county employees interact with ICE as they consider a bill to ban many forms of cooperation. buff.ly/fXFGVzC

One study showed that coal power plants led to nearly half a million U.S. deaths over a 20-year period.

We're living a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us. Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

Canada is uniquely positioned to break the siege of Cuba—we should be leading a regional coalition to ship oil and aid to Cuba, and prevent the humanitarian crisis that U.S. regime is attempting to deliberately trigger. I wrote about it, and the history of the blockade, for @policyalternatives.ca

Trump likes to talk a big game, saying he wants to send out $5,000 DOGE checks and $2,000 tariff rebates. In reality, he is suing the federal government he heads for $10 BILLION – and YOU would pay that bill!

Argentina's Senate has approved Javier Milei's labor reform bill, which allows for extending the standard workday from 8 to 12 hours. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The Arkansas constitution forbids officials who were appointed to a position from running to keep it when it next appears on the ballot. Next month, two state supreme court justices are working around that – by running for each other’s seats.

A UCLA professor's emails to Jeffrey Epstein have led to protest on campus -- and threats against the professor -- as national fallout continues at colleges confronting ties to Epstein, who donated tens of millions of dollars to university research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Yikes & vision of future under fed vouchers… “Last school year, Ohio sent Columbus City Schools $166M to educate the district’s 41,587 students. Meanwhile, the state sent $328M to pay for the 30,085 students enrolled in Charter Schools and private schools.” open.substack.com/pub/10thperi...

States buying into voucher schemes spend more money sending rich kids to schools that can discriminate and have no regulations than those states spent on public schools open to any and all. That's the dream. It's already here.