Let’s gooooo

These people are evil.

lol I don't think a lot of white people believe that Black people are reliable narrators of our own stories. And IMO this comes from white people wanting to downplay how much anti-Black racism shapes Black people's lives.

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

If he looks like a Nazi and talks like a Nazi and acts like a Nazi…

“Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality ... He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.” Body cameras on ICE/CBP agents are not going to fix this.

This is the second incident of physical violence against a Black congressional democrat in the past few days.

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

more courage than every sniveling university president in the US combined

The depth of his hate for disabled people is and always has been breathtaking. It’s born of an arrogance I’ve rarely seen-he believes that he is some kind of ubermensch, and the only way he could ever become disabled is if some insidious conspiracy did it to him. Evil, evil man.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

“abolish ICE” does not even begin to capture the type of change that needs to occur here

he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.

If you're in New York, please take two minutes right now to call Governor Hochul and tell her to support and sign New York 4 All, which would prevent state and local agencies from collaborating with ICE. 518-474-8390. This is important.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

The regime will lie. That's what fascist regimes do. It will continue to murder people in different ways. That's also what fascist regimes do. Regular people will continue to refuse and to not cooperate and to fight back in all of the ways we can.

New video shows the man who was killed moments before the shooting. He was peacefully standing in the street observing before ICE agents started pushing him for no reason.

All the ways ICE is going to rationalize an execution in the streets will be how cops always do it. They had a gun. They were no angel. They had health issues. All common tactics used by cops for years to discredit someone after they killed them.

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

I don’t believe in hell but these people really make me wish I did.

Reminiscent of how they removed mention of trans people at the Stonewall National Monument

There's a scene in the Sound of Music where Max says, "what's going to happen is going to happen. Just make sure it doesn't happen to you," and Captain Von Trapp snaps back: "Max, don't you ever say that again." And by the end of the movie, Max is using his position to help obstruct the Nazis.

This is perfection

If Hakeem Jeffries really votes to increase funding for ICE when ICE and CBP agents are shooting people in the street and the Democratic base wants ICE abolished, then I think Chi and DSA actually do have to challenge him this year.

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

“The officer feared for his life” line that we can all so clearly see as a lie here is the same excuse used when cops shoot Black people. It’s worth considering why more people see the lie for what it is when the victim is white & the shooter is ICE, vs when the victim is Black & the shooter a cop.

I watch that video and I see my mom, I see me, I see my friends and comrades who do ICE watch. @tobitac.bsky.social is exactly right. Renee could have been any of us.

She could have been any one of us.

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

For too long, a badge has been a permission slip to commit murder. ICE agents. NYPD. Over and over and over again. It's all reckless state violence, and until the individuals and agencies face real consequences, it will not stop. NO MORE state-sanctioned murder.

Per these internal docs, Canary Mission sees its focus as “attack[ing] the messenger, not the message,” an cheers on deportations and people “forced to flee” as part of their “impact.”

ha - NYT has now changed this sentence, managing only to amplify the absurdity and offense of the original: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro describe themselves as socialists, though the policies Mr. Maduro presided over in Venezuela differ starkly from those Mr. Mamdani has vowed to pursue."

Happy Inauguration Day everyone!!!

Reminder that if you still have FSA funds to spend this year, you can spend them at FSA store: fsastore.com - you can purchase menstrual products for example to donate to your local pantries and homeless shelters. I have $130 left and that's what I did yesterday.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

it's shameful regardless. Larry Summers is not the bar

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Batya is probably gnashing her teeth that she didn’t get to write this piece first

If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did). But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:

Not that we didn’t already know, but the fact that this was necessary emphasizes just how un-targeted and arbitrary the U.S. govt’s bombing campaign of Venezuelan boats is.

If we are going to dig through people’s social media, I suggest we start with ICE and Border Patrol.

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...