„What if we just didn’t accept that these programs must infiltrate every part of our lives? Or at least not the products currently being sold to us, literally sold to us so megacorporations can make more money, but also metaphorically sold to us as inevitable.“

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Love has never been a popular movement. I'll never have buildings named after me but I'll be damned if the memory I leave isn't that of someone who chose to do something, anything, to alleviate suffering as often as I was able. It's really just that simple.

Don’t leave anyone behind.

One must laugh. Sometimes.

Please donate if/as you are able. Thank you in advance. www.gofundme.com/f/help-sydet...

After 7 paragraphs musing about potential Hamas 'ceasefire violations' like 'not finding bodies under all the rubble quickly enough' we get a casual mention that the IDF has killed 38 people in paragraph 8

The future is bright with gaslighting

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m sorry, why are we using “critics accuse” language here? These are factually, unambiguously, extrajudicial killings. It’s not an opinion. It’s not a disputed or disputable claim.

We're gonna need a complete teardown of the media, same as with the ballroom. And I say this as someone who has been part of that machine for many years. It's moldy all the way through. We have some wonderful independent pubs doing real work but everyone else needs to be tossed in the fucking bin

Latest: I wrote about the DHS Office of Public Affairs shameless lies about ICE arrests and all the times it's lied to me and other reporters lately. DHS did not respond to my request for comment about all the lies it's told. reason.com/2025/10/22/h...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

This looks absolutely amazing. I cite @talilalewis.bsky.social’s work constantly (truly just cited them in a guest lecture on Friday). This is pay what you want, October 23rd and October 30th 2025. Two consecutive Thursdays at 5p - 7p PT // 7p - 9p CT // 8p - 10p ET.

Hey so about that whole elections thing and the reality that republicans are already blocking newly elected democrats from being sworn in a full year before the midterms.

"Radical educator and philosopher Paulo Freire wrote, “The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can better transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled.” 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾 - Chapter 9

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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The judge: it is hereby ordered that you are in fact, not like us

I put together a 4-page doc for those wary of the rush to integrate in K-12 schools (though much applies beyond). Four of the main arguments for teachers using AI tools & introducing kids to AI as early as kindergarten are addressed with rebuttals linked to sources.

We can't contain the takeaways from this panel that wove together disability & historical/contemporary white supremacist violence because WHEW 🔥 Really, you'll have to watch the video — we'll link it when it's released. And follow @talilalewis & @emkerrison. #BeyondCoercion

Turning Point is a race-baiting right wing propaganda op aimed at normalizing race violence and misleading young impressionable kids you can throw the establishment press' failure to explain this on their funeral pyre along with the five-hundred other recent failures to do their job

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

Correct. He’s staging “left-wing” attacks—or more accurately, trying to provoke them—to give him an excuse to use violence against his opposition.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

Carr has been demolishing media consolidation limits, consumer protections, and corporate oversight and pretending it's improved government efficiency it's pure regulatory capture and corruption, but outside of places like the Ars and The Verge, most outlets parrot his efficiency framing

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Over the last few months, we have hosted several focus groups to connect with Black & racialized disabled folks across Ontario to better understand what their experiences with the healthcare sector have been like. We are hosting two virtual focus groups in the month of December to further this work!

Link was on my team about fighting ableist language & trying to get people to see its direct relationship to eugenics, it's hard for disabled people to try to speak on that without having support because we always get antagonism.

Every single time Chantal tries to educate folx about how ableism and fascism are interconnected, defensiveness abounds galore so many of you could benefit from this Pay-What-You-Can virtual Disability Justice training, featuring @talilalewis.bsky.social: www.healthjusticecommons.org/fall-politic...

This has been an issue for years now and they have more data than a lil bit of who to ask

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

The courts are not going to help us www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

There is no acceptable excuse for zip-tying children! None. This shouldn’t even have to be said.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

The way you stop the outrageous thing is by dismantling the institutions and conditions that brought it about.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I deeply appreciate all the lessons I’m gaining from this. Deeply.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

THREAD 🧵 #OnThisDay 25 years ago, Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza as his father tried to shield him from bullets. The moment shook the world and turned al-Durrah into a symbol of the second Palestinian Intifada ⤵️

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

American media is not just complicit with fascism. It is a direct part of the machinery of fascist un reality and part of that reality is absolutely downplaying the state violence being used against cities and states they see is the enemy.

generative AI and cognitive offloading of the kind offered by generative ai is a deeply authoritarian project to strip humans of their true humanity and imagination in an effort to rationalize behavior in the neo reactionary“world system”they believe is the future. It’s phase 2 cognitive colonialism

We need to be very clear here and outline that this is a coordinated attack on our ability to understand and know the truth, and is Parton parcel with the fascist ongoing attacks on our collective sense, making our ability to know what is and what is not real. It is a key part of the broader attack