the U.S. government illegally killed him. His relatives say Alejandro Carranza was on a routine fishing trip, and his wife told reporters he left home to fish and had no ties to drug trafficking.

Whatcom immigrants are feeling scared as the federal government introduces a slew of measures following the shooting in Washington, D.C.

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal. Chiefs unanimously pass emergency resolution backing oil tanker ban and First Nations on B.C. coast www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

"Most were loyal supporters of [Trump], who carried their home of Montour County by 20 points in the 2024 election. But they bristled at Washington’s push to fast-track artificial intelligence infrastructure, which has driven data-center growth in rural areas around the US where land is cheap."

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

"[Climate change] hasn’t arrived all at once as some biblical apocalypse but as a creeping drain on rents, utility bills, and grocery prices." An excellent longer analysis from @katearonoff.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Marie Lorenz has spent 20 years removing debris from New York City’s waterways. https://bit.ly/3KpDGQy

“We have zero interest in co-ownership or economic benefits of a project that has the potential to destroy our way of life and everything we have built on the coast,” Marilyn Slett, the president of the Coastal First Nations (CFN) #Haida #CDNpoli #Carney #Pipeline

Today is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. One can support the people of Israel while simultaneously advocating for the rights and freedoms and dreams of the people of Palestine.

"[F]irst of its kind." "Woven Project, led by Indigenous environmental leaders, features a new global Indigenous advisory council on climate change that aims to center Indigenous solutions and knowledge." "Land back is a regeneration of these spaces." #Brazil #Alberta #Canada #Climate

“It reflects the same thinking that once justified westward expansion. The ideology did not disappear; it simply learned to present itself in new ways.” truthout.org/articles/the...

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Our immigrant neighbors deserve safety, dignity, and a future — and we stand with them. We keep each other safe ✊🧡

#OtD 25 Nov 1960 the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered for opposing US-backed Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. The UN later set 25 Nov as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9779...

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

“There is literally no legal means by which he can do this. It’s not a presidential power,” wrote Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council advocacy group. “TPS by law cannot be terminated early. Somali TPS is not set to expire until March 17, 2026.”

“queer not as being about who you’re having sex with (that can be a dimension of it); but queer as being about the self that is at odds with everything around it and has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live.” -bell hooks

"Every sunrise brings another attack, loss, and reason to wonder how much longer this small community of just 200 people can bear the weight placed upon it." "But we remain rooted — like the olive trees they tried to destroy." #WestBank #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Housing #EthnicCleansing

Several Indigenous short films will be streamed for free by the National Museum of the American Indian from November 21 (5 PM ET) to November 28, 2025 (5 PM ET). americanindian.si.edu/native-cinem...

The art is washed away every evening, but the artists are back every morning with enthusiasm.

Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts. "When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"

The extent to which the tech companies are becoming energy companies is one of the biggest stories of the year.

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A Charlotte bakery: "We didn’t close during the pandemic, we didn’t close during the recession." The ICE raids have forced them to do what they've never had to before. More on Charlotte under ICE in the latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/485sLDr

This is The Great Climate Insurance Collapse coming at us. Republicans look away because it’s what their fossil fuel industry donors demand. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Creating-- art, music, food, whatever-- can be such a powerful trauma recovery tool because it requires us to step outside of the roles & expectations of others. It requires us to go off autopilot & connect w/ our True Self, which is what gets devalued & buried by trauma.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

@commonjustice.bsky.social is accepting applications for Communities for Safety Collective, a civic engagement & leadership development cohort that builds community power to find solutions to violence. Deadline 11/21 - commonjustice.org/civicengagem...

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Don't forget about LA. The feds never left (& won't be leaving until at least 2028). The people will continue to fight. * data below as of November 1 from @lapublicpress.bsky.social

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

...than 18-million acres to oil and gas development. We need to overwhelmingly say NO! @earthjustice.org makes it easy with a comment you can personalize and they'll send for you: earthjustice.org/action/the-w...? It takes just minutes to save those lands for generations. Comments due by Nov. 21. 🌎

Data Center Growth Drives Locals to Fight for More Say in States Like Pennsylvania | Lancaster’s residents are worried about the amount of energy required to power data centers — which could drive up electricity rates for the entire city, reports @stateline.org.

Rev. Michael Woolf is right. This is in fact a spiritual emergency🩸🤲

Via @charlotteobserver.com: Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship “Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.” www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

💥 Victory: Three oil fields in the North Sea declared illegal “This is a huge victory. Today’s children and future generations will reap the benefits of the courage the judges showed today. It proves that our struggle for climate justice has real force" PRESS RELEASE:

By ignoring massive corruption by the fossil fuel industry, and massive wrongful subsidy of fossil fuel by allowing “pollute-for-free” business model, Gates gave aid and comfort to the deniers: “Bill Gates says innovation is going to solve this,” I often heard. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

Palestinians call for better tents and other supplies as Israel maintains restrictions on aid to war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Imagine the Civil War, but with Southern states still represented in Congress, voting against any spending on the war.

We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Today is World Kindness Day, "highlights the power of kindness — to others, to yourself, and to the world." "Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” Henry James

Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

Goddamn Pennsylvania politicians (all political parties)… when will you stand up to the fossil fuel-death lobby and their insatiable greed? When will you realize that at this point you cannot wash away the blood dripping from your own hands?

When access to health care, housing, or support is unequal, “choice” isn’t freedom—it’s coercion. CRDJ’s MAiD Report exposes how systemic inequities, racism, and poverty shape who feels forced into MAiD, and how injustice hides in plain sight. Learn more: www.crdjustice.org/maid [1/8]

Highly recommended reading: A deep dive into the ecological disaster being created by this AI insanity (literally, it is insane and suicidal). “Underneath the sleek campuses of today’s tech giants, the Valley contains more Superfund sites of toxic waste than anywhere else in the U.S.”

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️