Important perspective from Greenland.

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

What everyone doesn't want to admit in the entire "West" is we all got the same exact problem. Everywhere. It is not just an American problem. We have a bunch of weak status-quo politicians unwilling to do anything about the fascist organized crime syndicate that has seized control of our planet.

I think people should be allowed to vote from prison too

Imagine if there were even 5 Republicans in Congress that would put their country before Trump...but nope.

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

JUST IN: Virginia's legislature just adopted a constitutional amendment that would end Virginia's rules that ban people from voting for life. Virginia currently is the only state that strips people of voting rights for life for any felony. Youngkin rolled back reforms. Now going to a referendum.

National media covering MAGA event: "Look at this normal person who is mad" (10 seconds of googling shows they're chair of the local GOP) National media covering Twin Cities community members who have never been politically active but now stand watch outside a preschool: "Look at this activist"

And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD." People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.

Bro they got Rachel Maddow posting crimethinc links

Venmo @ziibiing to help Ashley pay for cloudfare so this runs more smoothly! I put in $25. Maybe you can match me? $5 is good too!

Her comment — FREEDOM of SPEECH

A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

Trump cheered China for Tiananmen Square (violent crackdown on pro-democracy protestors) and cheered Russia for invading Ukraine (unprovoked aggression in pursuit of conquest). Minneapolis and Greenland shouldn't be a surprise. But for whatever reason, tons of people chose not to take him seriously.

I become enraged at random moments. When I think of all the left/progressive people who encouraged everyone not to vote for Clinton in 2016. They were incapable of saying a vote for Clinton wouldn’t be about Clinton. That you SHOULD vote for the lesser of two evils.

If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help. The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later: thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/

Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country. They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration. They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest. It's so clear and yet still...

Trump-backing billionaire Miriam Adelson at the Israeli-American Council, asked how she exerts (buys) influence with American politicians: "Can you allow me not to answer? I want to be truthful, and there are so many things I don't want to talk about."

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

ICE agents love to wave around paper that looks official. Most of it is a scam — administrative forms signed by ICE supervisors, not real judicial warrants signed by judges. Let's go through what that scam paper looks like versus a real judicial warrant.

There are many terms to refer to a person’s sex: sex, birth sex, natal sex — and more contentiously, assigned sex at birth and biological sex. Here's our expanded guidance for journalists interested in reporting accurately about trans and intersex people: www.transjournalists.org/why-biologic...

Was not aware that Warren was a straight up traitor. What the fuck, she's telling Trump how to message on affordability now? What the fuck is wrong with her?

Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

A Russian soldier records a large group of African mercenaries who have been recruited to fight in the war against Ukraine.  While filming them from behind, he quietly remarks in Russian:  "Look how many disposables are here."

@mta.info is there a reason why I can’t load money on my Omni card? I’ve been trying for the past couple of days. Normally it randomly works and puts the money on my card.

Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in the face, is local. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is local.

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

"In extraordinary moments such as this, too many journalists behave as if they have more in common with billionaires destroying journalism than the 80 or so people killed in Venezuela by Trump’s airstrikes. If we’ve learned anything this past year, it’s that proximity to power does not equal power."

The U.S. is a rogue state which should be sanctioned and condemned by the international community for our flagrant violations of international law and the peace of the world. We won't be, because imperialists tend to stick together. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

No more photos, no more feeding Altman’s or Musk’s or Zuckerberg’s or anyone else’s rape computer, no more masturbation fodder for these freaks, no more. If no one in power will do anything then I’m slamming the door behind me. I am opting out. I encourage other women to do the same.

The truth is that they have won. Every man with money and power is now the man who assaulted me. I do not have the power to fight this kind of mass enabling of rape culture by the world’s richest men. There are very few options left for me to maintain my bodily autonomy online. So I’m picking one.

After all my work in trying to love my body, my trans body, my woman’s body, they can’t let me have it for myself. It has to belong to them. After all my work in healing from that night, I am gutted to learn that any man with an internet connection can put me right back in that bathroom.

Men have felt and will always feel entitled to control women’s bodies. We see this everywhere, from Twitter to the Supreme Court. Generative AI simply offers another vector for attempting to exert that control. A mere photo of your face online now means you can be in porn against your will.

I have done the hard work of therapy and healing and growth. I have tried to love myself and my body more. I have worked to internalize, with varying degrees of success, that it was not my fault. But the experience proved that at the end of “passing” is just being a woman. From pariah to property.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Sometimes I wonder if we are quantum particles, like quarks, to someone or something else. Perhaps galaxies are mere water droplets in a fog to someone. They’d be indifferent to whether earth survives or is destroyed by their actions because they don’t even know we exist.

“Black Axe has since morphed into a sophisticated multinational criminal enterprise with cells in the United States, Canada, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Ireland, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, among others.”

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Justine Paul spent years in jail awaiting trial even as the evidence against him fell apart. Afterward, he lived on the streets and nearly overdosed 10 times. “They took seven and a half years of his life, and I think it broke him,” his lawyer said. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, @adn.com

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Bluesky's a progressive suburb It's nicer and quieter than the Big City, and a lot of folks mean well in trying to make it a more inclusive place, but for one reason or another it is pretty hostile to genuine diversity and will likely remain a small, quaint place

Olive grove by olive grove, sheep pasture by sheep pasture, village by village — over the past two years, Israeli settlers, often with Israeli military support, have escalated their unrelenting campaign to seize land and erase its Palestinian presence. Paywall free: nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9