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Reposting this meme from @lowrhoufo.bsky.social with alt text: bsky.app/profile/lowr...

Here are 3 minutes from Yes, Prime Minister, a BBC sitcom from 1986, that I would show to every single Congressional Democrat if I could

Today I noticed a Maria Tallchief (𐓏𐒰𐓐𐒿𐒷-𐓍𐓂͘𐓄𐒰) commemorative US Quarter Dollar coin, and enjoyed reading the Wikipedia article about her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_T...

Fascinating new interview of Philosopher Rowan Bell by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social asks whether the concept of gender identity is outliving its usefulness, and what might come after. Food for thought. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

"The report cites evidence of mass killings, summary executions, torture, abductions and sexual violence against civilians. These amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity, it says." @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

As expected

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Saying the Epstein files are proof of a secret Jewish cabal controlling the world, instead of simply proof Epstein and his cohort were horrible, is antisemetic and shitty. Also don't engage with the larger truths those files are revealing about society and power. Leave Jewish people out of this.

Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

Israel violated the "ceasefire" in Gaza nearly 400 times last month www.wsj.com/world/middle...

It took more than 6 months, but it turns out you can grind low level trash mobs in real life too. aftermath.site/switch-2-citib...

First, the Trump administration said it detained Leqaa Kordia for an immigration violation. Then, they used her participation in a pro-Palestine Columbia protest to justify it. Now, they say she supports Hamas because she sent money to family in Palestine. She has been detained for nearly a year:

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

I hear from people who are surprised I'm still talking about ICE, they thought they'd withdrawn from MN. No, they have not. In some respects they've escalated. Some asked why MN is a target. Are there are there a lot more illegals or criminals here? No, it's not about that. It's about a grudge.

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[Dentist waiting room] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other patients: teeth, TEETH Secretary: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Some years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...

They get mad over on twitter about following federal law, in this case 8 U.S.C. § 1158

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

I donated platelets for the third time this year today. Also, I walked by the site of the Boston Massacre the other day. It feels relevant.

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

I don't want to celebrate how Ilhan Omar was ready to throw down. Tired of valorizing Black women as fighters, that dude should have been stopped and stomped out before he got close to her.

Please call 913-954-4540 to be connected to the Congressional switchboard, so that you can tell your Senator(s) to vote no on any additional funding for ICE and DHS. It only takes a few minutes.

Be safe and stay warm, New York.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city. The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis. radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

If you’re feeling helpless amidst the ongoing horrors being perpetrated by ICE… engage in mutual aid. Donate to someone in need. Give to a community library or food bank. You could also help Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held by ICE for a year. His story is often forgotten:

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

They’re losing

Echo's of "A Call for Unity" from the white clergy of Birmingham, King's famous letter from a Birmingham jail was respond to it. "We further strongly urge our own Negro community to withdraw support from these demonstrations, and to unite locally in working peacefully for a better Birmingham."

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."-Elie Wiesel

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Every time the 'paid protester/outside agitator' concept comes up, I wish the media would push back and ask why they've never been able to prove it every time they say it. If it were happening, it would be so trivial to infiltrate.

I needed this today.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

The story is not that there are two conflicting versions of what happened. The story is that the federal government is lying about what happened. There is plenty of evidence. Your job, our job, is to sift that evidence and describe what actually happened ffs.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

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.

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

Things worth really hammering to any family and acquaintances whose reflexive attitude is “but we gotta enforce the law”: (1) Lots of the folks being targeted came here legally; the administration has retroactively declared them “illegal” despite having done nothing wrong

Yes, you should be outraged that the government can seize people's children, but they've been doing it 1000 times per day for decades, and the laws permitting this go back to reconstruction and the sudden realization that there was no longer a legal way to control Black children and families. 1/

Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans. Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror. Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.