ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

The Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women is withholding $150 million meant to help survivors of domestic violence. Gender-based violence service organizations across the country report radio silence on the status of applications, some submitted over a year ago.

Because people want to delineate between the “good” policing they support and the “bad” policing they oppose in that particular moment.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

Also this same federal judge asked clerks to decide civil cases without his input, which is, IMO, an incredibly serious violation of judicial duties. I personally do not understand why this guy still has a job.

The earth itself is enveloped in the colors that trans people have identified with. We are as old as humanity itself and blessed by the same chaos and peace of the world that gave us life.

God damn it, stop killing us. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

AAPI LGBTQ+ youth are facing discrimination from multiple directions, which carries real mental health consequences. But when they had access to even one affirming person or space, their risk for self-harm dropped significantly. Read the full study: https://bit.ly/3RDmuu5

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

The Momnibus Act was previously known as the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act, but the word 'Black' has been removed from the title and appears only once across the latest package

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

Worth emphasizing that this was in reference to the Voluntary Work Program (a program which is often involuntary in many private prisons), which is not typical prison labor; it's basically cost-cutting for the private companies, letting them offload housekeeping/maintenance cost to detainee labor.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

There's actually old Protestant theological thinking tangled up in here ("salvation by faith alone" --> what's in my heart is what matters) which here conflates inner state + outer action. Are those bones racist?!? Which lines up perfectly w/power, accountability, maintaining status quo ofc

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

I do wish people would use FREE Healthcare instead of AFFORDABLE. WE desperately need to unshackle our political demands.

Defamation laws and how they are interpreted are literally part of the legal apparatus that determines what counts as legally protected expression and speech and what doesn't This judge just said you can't even tell a white person that something they said is racist without worrying about being sued

This is the result of decades of organizing in the conservative legal community that’s been allowed to flourish in plain sight as anything but a committed ideological movement.

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

A new study finds that abortion bans in the U.S. are likely associated with increases in deaths during or within one year of pregnancy. Researchers found a possible 9.2% increase in pregnancy-associated deaths in states with abortion bans, about 68 excess deaths by the end of 2023.

They’ll always find a way to blame women for men being predators, manipulators, abusers, and rapists. Men who travel to other countries with the sole purpose of sleeping with women are predators and rapists targeting vulnerable women.

"Chicago police officer Carlos Baker sat in a stairwell for more than 90 seconds after shooting his partner Krystal Rivera last summer, leaving her bleeding from a gunshot he initially said had been fired by someone else."

Time and time again Dems don’t unite their party to get anything done. Repubs always seem to get the few Dem votes they need to continue wars, ICE violence, Trump appointees, etc. These politicians are playing in our faces to further their violent, white supremacist, global terrorism agenda.

“I want to support white supremacy but not in a way people can judge me.” US politics.

still happening btw. sure it's funny that Trump said the Pope is weak on nuclear weapons, but that doesn't make the Pope any less evil, and you don't have to say you think he's "woke" or you like him just because he isn't disagrees with Trump on some issues (but clearly not on others).

The important part of the automatic draft registration is that is shows we’ve always had capacity for automatic voter registration and benefits disbursement. We simply choose not to.

Massacre upon massacre in Beirut in the last hour. AUBMC announced a “code disaster.” Over 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes across the country. One hit right behind my house. Sirens ambulances & the smell of sulphur. The city is in total chaos the people in complete panic

In case anyone is wondering how LAPD is doing tonight at following the injunction against arresting or detaining journalists. He was cut loose, I spoke with him after. He said he had asked multiple officers earlier for a supervisor and they refused — also a violation of injunction.

I beg “No Kings” Americans to discuss a general strike. Break your economy. You can’t be serious about ending this regime while you keep spending disposable income and propping up the economy as a consumer. You wanna break it? Stop buying new things. Repair things. Buy used. Don’t eat at chains.

When I say that large swaths of public life are now cut off for me, I mean it

ICE CBP Are Felons October 14 2025 CBP in Chicago engaged in a dangerous car chase for 18 minutes against orders to stop. Video shows that agents ignored repeated direct orders to stop the pursuit, and crashed due to a tire blow out. They lied on their reports. unraveledpress.com/border-patro...

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

Man, the effects of the ICE occupation are vast and ongoing. A family I am helping, like so many others, is trying to figure out how to rebuild their lives. Trying to make rent, needing to find work, adjusting to an existence without family members. There may be less ICE but these are huge wounds.

and there are tens of thousands of these families

so what's the ask? there’s a few things you can do. if you're in NY state, reach out & tell AG letitia james to enforce the state constitution NOW. she can sue the hospitals-california AG bonta did this last year & got care restored. one angry letter to one provider without action isn't enough! 🧵

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

the way that black women specifically have been targeted for the "crime" of trying to control their reproduction is one of those things that makes me all the more persuaded that one should understand the 13th Amendment as a broad right to bodily autonomy.

THIS PART. When I graduated from high school my counselor (who was great) told me it was good I wanted to be a physicist because I'd never be a great writer. I was also the worst writer in my frosh expos course. I am now an award-winning writer. BECAUSE I PRACTICED!!!!!!

I regularly go to New Hampshire to hike and ski. If this is enacted, I will not comply and will dare them to enforce this on me. I've been using the women's bathroom without issue for a decade. I'm not letting them push us backwards. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Rep Stansbury: “The president & his admin can’t explain a legal justification for an eminent threat that gave them the authority to use the military— They can’t provide an explanation of their war plan — they can’t explain why they’ve killed over 200 civilians — the president needs to be impeached”

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

Several universities have finally begun rolling out information to faculty with more know your rights training stuff. One thing they emphasized was that, so far, no one had come onto any campus. So I get to email some people to update them.