Luke Ganger, Renee Good’s brother: “In the last few weeks, our family took some consolation thinking that perhaps ‘Nee’s death would bring about change in our country. It has not.”

This is Noam Chomsky talking about Cambodian refugees accurately describing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge that they’d escaped from. This line in particular is why I’ve hated Chomsky for so long.

175 billion for ICE and detention centers in the GOP's billionaire bill. This is what they're doing with the money. Building concentration camps. And it's not going to be used for immigrants only. migrantinsider.com/p/how-the-pe...

You don't get it sir. They ARE trained. They're trained to brutalize. Police are trained to brutalize. They're all trained to brutalize.

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These are government employees. So our tax dollars are funding ICE to flash white supremacist cards at vulnerable POC as an intimidation tactic. Who is giving this direction? There’s something deeply sinister happening in this country right now, and I don’t think we can take three more years.

They don't give a single fuck about their own supporters. It's particularly galling that they no longer care if they live or die.

Arkansans are being sent back to prison through unfair parole revocation proceedings — no lawyers, no real hearings, and no chance to defend themselves. This lawsuit is about due process, dignity, and stopping a system that quietly fuels mass incarceration instead of justice.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

📌 Released Palestinian prisoner Khaled Al-Sayfi has died a week after his release from Israeli prisons in critical condition, from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, Shehab News reports. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says Israeli prisons have been turned into a coordinated network of torture camps...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump urged Republicans to seize control of elections and place voting under national authority Monday — one of his most explicit signals yet that he plans to interfere with the workings of democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Next commenter remarks on the kidnapping of an 11 year old in Little Village and how no parent can rely on the police to protect their children. Crowd is uproarious. Chanting, "who do you serve? Who do you protect?" Two CPD officers are watching from behind the bar in the back.

Thousands of protesters marching through NYC right now in reaction to the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good (1/8/26)

The city centre of Shahin Shahar near Isfahan is now under protester control.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola: “The world is once again witnessing the brave people of Iran stand up. “Europe stands by their side.”

Another Tehran photo, from before the blackout.

I sure wish this WASN’T the surprising bit.

It’s easy to think that schools in Minneapolis are closed because the Feds murdered someone in the street but no, the actual reason is that while that was happening, the Feds were busy doing other heinous shit across the city like tear-gassing a school

The derisive tone when the right says “poet” in relation to Renee Good is pretty telling of the world of ugliness they wish to live in.

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

I can’t say that all of this isn't connected to the feminization of the public health workforce

Got this fantastically clever Christmas gift. It's a dedicated algorithm free music player that you can carry around without the distractions of your phone, and it can hold thousands of songs without needing an internet connection. The UI is so simple anyone can manage it. Fantastic

this contrarianism so often comes from white people who are personally insulated from the consequences of politics & too self-centered to fight for anything beyond the status quo that protected *them*. no room for “the groups” in that tent

Please help out a Pakistani trans woman if you're able <3

“bsky is boring!” 1) good 2) social media should not be a cornerstone of your everyday entertainment 3) I find new artists to follow every day and look at pretty art endlessly on here when I feel like it 4) get a tactile hobby where you create something with your hands 5) read book 6) walk outside

I forget to post here all the time,,, perpetua anyone? #thebandghost

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I remember the "touch grass is ableist since some of us don't have access to grass" debacle and I feel like that broke something within me.

This chills me more than any other video I have seen in the last few weeks. These 30- and 40-somethings are about to become federal judges for the next half century.

Someone walked into a classroom at Brown in broad daylight and committed a mass shooting that killed 2 people and got away. Now, the suspect has been linked to the murder of the MIT physics professor. No one knows who did it and the FBI is completely incompetent and can't catch this person.

"Ah ha! Now you see that AI doesn't work!" Except it did, didn't it? It dropped costs massively. Now they can hire somebody who'll have to work ten times harder to produce results ten times worse but they're only paying five percent of what they did before.

Our dumbest cat is also our gayest cat. Yes, everyone is long fixed and good friends and all, Internet. Horny guy even has other cats to harass.

Wait, so those of us who wrote the frat bros’ papers, for extra money in college…as we listened about what losers we are for wanting to learn just because learning is good, & they wanted to learn bc that’s how you Get Money Faster, Like Dad…we are…needed? For what? Like…for getting money faster?

PAINFUL to watch. There’s a clear Trump judicial nominee loyalty test. They must forever deny, deny, deny that he lost the 2020 presidential election. Fragile.

Just take the damned Gift.

Taken with the news of Operation Lone Star increasing police drones too and we’re going to see US skies buzzing with these like a war zone.

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

I agree with this, but, also and, even when there's no rejection, merely a confrontation with the existence of a non-white person that is more educated, experienced, skilled, etc.? That's also rage inducing. Even if they're lateral in hierarchy. Ask me how I know.

An air raid alert is on in Kyiv, and I’m showing you the Didukh. A traditional Ukrainian Christmas symbol made of grain sheaves, it is brought into the home on Christmas Eve and represents ancestors, family continuity, and gratitude for the harvest.

DC statehood now.

It’s a profile of every Good Woman you have ever known. “Catholic lite” is EXACTLY how my own grandmother described her church Good god. She really thought she had REFORMED THE BASTARD. FIXED HIM, finally. Finally fixed one. Yep. Oldest daughter. YEP. I remember my dad listening to her dad