In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

You can say ICE is being used as a political cudgel to demolish democracy, or you can recognize that’s all they ever have been since their inception.

In Memory of Jamal Khashoggi 🙏🕊️ 2018 #Khashoggi

Zohran won for a lot of reasons but I think a really huge one is he actually likes NYC. Conservatives and liberals both act like I live in a war zone instead of the coolest place on the planet. But Zohran told the truth: that living in a city, but especially this city, just fuckin rocks.

Made my calls. Paypros cannot get away with debanking adult creators without some degree of pain and cost to them. Please be part of the wave that tells paypros not to mess with our livelihoods.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

16% of graduates students in STEM fields in the US are Chinese nationals. If we cut funding from any professor who has been the graduate advisor of a Chinese student in the last 5 years RETROACTIVELY, research in the US will grind to a halt.

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

This is bad. Sarah Kendzior is one of the scholars that most understands authoritarianism and our current moment in the US.

At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.

I'll just let the experts do all the explaining. #SNAP

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

“biological pronouns” is probably the most “yeah we know that gender/sex is socially constructed but we’re gonna continue to cruelly enforce it anyway.” shit i’ve seen in a while ngl. completely fucked

The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires. Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?

They literally ruin everything they touch

The real angle is that it’s draining money and resources when SNAP is gonna end. Anyone that supports Trump does not care about the sanctity of it as a symbol and anyone that already hates Trump is in the same position they were

*screams*

I will repost this forever.

Fuck these people man

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

When I was homeless in 2019, the Salvation Army shelter refused to give me a bed (even though they were available), because I was on immunosuppressant meds and they didn’t want to be responsible or liable if I got more sick or died on premises. They’d rather I die on the street.

we need to abolish this shit

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members. They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

Mutual aid is a lot easier to get started with than people realize. I started by going to where the tents were and just walking around, getting to know people, handing out cigarettes, water, and asking what folks need And then just keep coming back, every week, for 4 years. A group will form.

A quick reminder: The Salvation Army is an international organisation and the national branches are not administratively or financially independent. Australian Salvos may be (usually) less overt in, or better at getting away with, the fascism they do, but if you support them then you support US ICE.

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every fucking time

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

#BlueSkypiea I wonder if Teach has Xebec's logbook, but it never mentions that he has a wife and child or the Davy Clan in case it was taken to the wg. So Teach is a fan of Xebec but doesn't know that Xebec is his father.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

they’re intenionally advertising to and recruiting far right loyalists. they post and reply to explicit groyper memes. they’re not super subtle about what this government is

I am once again calling on state governors to mobilize their National Guards to escort congressmembers into ICE facilities so they can DO THEIR LAWFULLY ASSIGNED FEDERAL DUTIES

This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

A government which has as its mission committing as much harm as possible on its populace and never helping them one iota is not a legitimate government and must be replaced with one that is.

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

I saw a lot of people mocking Mia Wong for her “Moreover, ICE must be destroyed” thing back earlier in my time Online, like around 2021, 2022 or so They’re all real quiet now

whoops.

Cyclist in collision with truck. Pedestrian struck by bus. The driver is absent from the account. The vehicle is given agency. The vulnerable road user is positioned as the active party. A subtle but powerful way of shifting blame, shaping how we think about road deaths diminishing accountability.