Seems clear that the regime is using counter-insurgency tactics to punish cities for their legal & institutional opposition to the fascists.

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i have been spending more time lately pointing out things that are morally wrong and yelling about them because i thought everyone knew and stopped doing it and it turned out if you do that everyone forgets

wrt to some of the replies to this post, part of why the media has “moved on” is because it has become extraordinarily difficult to document ICE activity on the ground, outside of them arresting citizens.

Yeah, and when you expand this globally like it’s a little funny, the American middle class complaining about our standard of living, but I’m not surprised that most millionaires in the US feel middle class, especially those on the lower end

There were more black journalists in the early 20th century than now. Not just per capital, as a total too.

It’s The Commute Shed Travel Patterns, Stupid: Making The Case For Canadian Regional Rail

Apparently ICE is setting up near us. Time to break the whistles out.

During the early years of the Holocaust, Poland was under German occupation, but violence against Jews did not come only from occupying forces. Nazi informants, collaborators, and bystanders existed alongside a small number of people who chose to help. #EternalLight 1/10

Chuck Schumer and Sara Jacobs are both in the same self identified ideological grouping but Chuck Schumer believes that Israel *has the right* to do it as pleases to Palestinians and Sara Jacobs does not. As an example.

And also the vast majority of the general liberal public doesn't identify with Zionism or anti-Zionism but they do identify with principles which stand in basic juxtaposition to the Zionist consensus. This is why AZs should leverage this juxtaposition.

This is what I mean by the self sorting mechanisms btw, the vast majority of Zionists whether explicitly or implicitly believe that Israel has the right to dictate to Palestinians. It's not axiomatic but it is self sorting for a reason.

The underlying political consensus prior to Oct 2023 in the US was that Palestine was an internal issue which the Israelis were entitled to managing for the indefinite future. This was the view of all in DC but literally just a handful. The divide was on the *preference* for *how* Israel managed it.

The enduring irony of this extremely dumb era of politics is gonna be that a non insignificant amount of voters voted for Trump bc "burrito taxi too expensive" and then he got into office and burrito taxis only got more expensive (alongside everything else)

Never Forget

“When our country grew tired of the broken people it called heroes, they went to Alex Pretti at the VA. He found them on their worst day and asked them, “are you okay?”” www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...

It's important for Dems to try to run *everywhere* in 2026, because this election is shaping up to the be the kind of environment where Rs might be defeated in some unsuspecting - even shocking - places. Waves don't hit a coast uniformly. In some places they wash further ashore than others.

this should be a tradition

*taps the sign*

Tuberculosis has been circulating in ICE prisons for months. I wrote it back in August and there is no doubt in my mind that there are way more outbreaks than we're aware of. We have to get people out of these camps.

This underscores that the root of many bike/pedestrian conflicts is the fact that we are all sharing small amounts of space not allocated to cars. The best solution is infrastructure that reduces conflicts between modes of travel.

God why does transpobingo have to be in the Hell Month

Warner: "There is a very real threat without reforms at ICE that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations. And people say, 'Why would that matter if they're all American citizens?' We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos ... you don't need to do a lot to discourage people from voting"

"full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism" sounds less like a threat and more like a winning platform, tbh

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

A huge part of the Skokie story is that the weirdo Nazis at the heart of the story are just presumed to always lose. What if they didn't? What if they started hurting the Jewish population? What if they had the police to help them? What if city hall had their back? What then?

My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE. Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.

hatred of unhoused people is genuinely a pipeline to fascism. if the wealthy can get you to dehumanize your own neighbors, then they can get you to do it to anyone.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

“Triple-tap” here means the IDF bombed the journalists at the hospital and then bombed emergency responders not once but TWICE:

Not mine but sighted in dc

This is really how I thought social media would change the world when I was 17. I really believed that we would just become more comfortable with 'sometimes, people who work together do not get along' and 'we are all complex and messy'....as opposed to well, what has happened in the next 17 years.

Those sentiments (“sometimes, people who work together do not get along” and “we are all complex and messy” ) go hand in hand with democracy working.

News from Greeley, CO, that Horace Greeley would be proud to hear.

I've mentioned it before, but when I volunteered for my local library's literacy program, one of the most commonly cited reasons older adults cited for participating was to "read my medication labels."

ICE and DHS were new agencies created in the post-9/11 panic. The legitimate functions they carry out existed before and can continue to exist after.

We’re currently cheering everyone who has been locked up by @govpritzker.illinois.gov’s goons at Broadview, cuz there’s a few in the congregation.

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

Other murals have just been abandoned. One postal nerd found a mural discarded on the side of the road. He rescued it and sent it to USPS for restoration. If USPS rejects it, he plans to restore part out of his own pocket. It’ll cost $30,000.

👀 What if I told you there was a hidden art gallery scattered across the country? What if I told you some of its treasures had vanished? What if I told you that I found them? A project three years in the making (🎁 gift link):

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

ICE all over Northside this morning. Almost like they need to get their shift in before the Super Bowl.

The degree to which many white Americans live in cultural segregation is underappreciated, I think. You might say Bad Bunny's music isn't aimed at a white audience, but that's what I mean. Black and brown Americans are familiar with white artists; this purposeful insularity only goes one way.

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

March for Life? More like Danse Macabre. AMIRITE. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

(Also, it's been a fact for ages that undocumented immigrants paying social security taxes on their fake SSNs have kept the system afloat for the very people who cast them as moochers)

There is a strong strain of this in the Indian left and it’s part of the reason we can’t fight fascism effectively at home.

This article is fantastic AND those of us who’ve been organizing since early December are oh-so-very tired. Time for the second wave of folks to jump in and take on more so we can rest a bit. If you have capacity, plug in with whatever’s happening in your neighborhood.