"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

As usual, @senatorharckham.bsky.social is absolutely right. If we're talking about affordability, we need to talk about more solar. NOT ignoring the state's Climate Law with this ludicrous all-of-the-above approach and radioactive false solutions. nystateofpolitics.com/state-of-pol...

$170B could have paid for meals for schoolkids for a full decade. $170B could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over. $170B could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ yrs. Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.

Why write so many words when you could just say “I am a paranoid cultist”

The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism

Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas

Rochester is in the top 10 snowiest cities in the world, and is a sensible place, so for my trip downtown today I of course just walked the 1/2 mile to the Fairport station to take the metro, transferring to the green line at East and University Station.

I dunno but if I was a Democratic member of Congress, I would not vote to fund the government while the president is writing himself checks from the treasury for $10 billion and also is apparently in sole control of an offshore bank account of stolen Venezuelan oil money.

Take all of the Trump-inflicted shit out of the news and the suffering of people in the South due to this weather pattern is 100% the news. In these conditions, its barely registering. So fucking grave.

This unprecedented militarization of America could cost more than $1 billion this year if current domestic deployments continue.

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

I know it seems sad, but tax breaks for billionaires and death squad ain't free. Those elder home care worker fat cats will just have to pay their way.

Thanks to @markriceny.bsky.social for posting this on another site. A needed dose of optimism. So many of the seemingly intractable problems we have faced have been solved. We can do this if we decide to work together. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...

The simple truth has always been, it's cheaper and simpler to help people. Give people universal healthcare, give them a livable UBI, provide housing and utilities, give them food and education. Safe transportation too, public and private. No means testing, just "Here you go, live well."

THIS

The paltry half-measures proffered don't even come close to reducing the harm Democrats already did, knowing what Trump would do. They voted to keep more immigrants in jail so they would be easier to deport, and so that people would suffer and die.

Because many people on here are talking about making demands, it might be worth thinking about the goal. Body cameras, unmasking, and making it easier to sue will not reduce the number of people arrested and condemned to jail to die, suffer and/or be deported.

The passage of the Laken Riley Act was immensely harmful, and Democrats are acting as if they had nothing to do with the current situation. Maybe some Democrats should have thought about this very moment when they voted to pass it.

A change of heart is good, and we should foster it and encourage it wherever we see it. However, be cautious of somebody who claims a change of heart but refuses to walk in a new direction, or insists that somebody else carry them down the path.

An inexhaustive list of agencies Trump unilaterally cut funding for: - USAID - Dept of Education - NIH - National Parks Service - EPA - National Cancer Institute - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau None of which have agents murdering people in the streets

“Privately packing heat is already priced into the maintenance of America’s system of government. The rounding errors are measured mostly in the lives cut short by suicides and murders, not in the fits and starts of a revolution waiting to be born.” www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-buy-a-g...

I think what a lot of folks miss is how profitable deportation is for the corporations involved & the politicians they're backing. Holding people, physically removing them, is cost for the taxpayer & profit into the pockets of the worst people you can imagine.

This editorial is way too kind to Homan. He has given speeches about collateral arrests he called inevitable and deporting kids with their parents. He did nothing to stop due process abuses. The record on this guy is clear.

What I saw in Paris this summer. Lots of cyclists pedalling safely on separated bike lanes. What I didn't see; helmets and hi -viz. Instead, people cycling in normal clothes like normal people doing a normal thing.

This hit so fucking hard today.

I mean this also illustrates how far we've come, from "AI supergenius machine" to "AI cheap intern"

If this is the shit ICE is willing to do in public while the world watches, imagine what those fuckers do when there aren’t any cameras.

This is what Trump's ICE Gestapo does on their day off. They just switch costumes. The White Nationalist Patriot Front was at the National Mall on Friday. Like all good Nazis, their response to protestors was, "Are you Jewish?" Trump's America

It’s just like reporting climate change: On one side is evidence; on the other side are liars.

Many U.S. businesses ban unaccompanied teens, and more and more cities are enacting curfew laws—a reflection, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues, “of an adult society that resists taking responsibility for, or even tolerating the presence of, children in public”:

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Law enforcement as the protected class -- if a regular person kills someone, no penalty is harsh enough. If a cops does it, training and a new safe space.

This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit. It's all white supremacy and greed.

This is what being a man should be about

"I have privilege. I was medically retired, I'm a combat vet, I'm white, I'm middle class. If I can't advocate for people who need it, then who else is going to do it? Who else is going to stand up and speak truth to power?" abcnews.go.com/US/army-vet-...

“Only 25 of the world’s 300 largest cities have female mayors. A tiny 5% of municipal leadership positions are filled by women. Despite these figures, many of the cities that are making the most progress to become greener, cleaner, more equitable and liveable are led by women.” READ: bit.ly/4rbmcHu

If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.

Song for today: “My tears are always frozen I can see the air I breathe Got my fingers painting pictures On the glass in front of me Lay me by the frozen river Where the boats have passed me by All I need is to remember What it means to feel alive” -Aurora “Winter Bird” dai.ly/x5iem9u

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

This continues to be the best post ever made on Bluesky and every Democratic politician should follow this advice or fucking resign.

this is not a tiktok it is a documentary

one of the strangest and most frustrating things about being alive today is that we have science and research on basically every issue, but it always gets pushed aside in favor of some guy who thought about it for one minute and thinks he knows the answer