Did this general just say that the intelligence community worked hard to find Maduro’s pets? U.S. imperialist violence against Latin America is a bipartisan tradition, but this is deeply absurd as well as deeply horrifying.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

Watching Trump speak and justify why the US is entitled to invade another country and kidnap the president makes me think that when we started talking about the “post-truth” era, we had no idea of how deeply post-truth it’d become. Perception of reality is now random and optional.

Marco Rubio loves regime change in Latin America but Trump’s speech is so unhinged he looks like he might gnaw off his own arm to try to escape

Check out Jeanette Vizguerra and Jennifer Piper of @afsc-org.bsky.social on today’s episode of @democracynow.bsky.social “This demonstrates the fragility of their hold over everyday people when we stand up together.” www.democracynow.org/2025/12/24/j...

I am personally having a national energy emergency listening to this Trump address. But I do truly enjoy that the TrumpRX.gov website he just announced is actually just a photograph. You literally cannot click on anything.

Lol James Carville says everyone will forget the shutdown by midterms but dems lose cuz ppl used the word “Latinx” in 2020? I suspect the DNC branding problem has more to do with neoliberal policies Carville spent his life championing. We don’t need rage, we need wealth redistribution @nytimes.com

There’s a unit of the IDF tasked with linking journalists they murder to Hamas. This will surprise no one: they regularly make shit up. These are then reported by many Western media outlets as fact. www.972mag.com/israel-gaza-...

I just wish #SCOTUS would do this with more children's lit... "The young reader is guided to feel distressed at Sam-I-Am's insistence on eating the green eggs & ham, and then to celebrate when the meal becomes desirable in numerous locations including box, train, and in the presence of a goat."

Shameful. This is Border Patrol taking their tactics to the interior. A rogue agency for over 100 years, sees no problem with putting babies in harm’s way. If only Republicans AND Democrats hadn’t funded them for decades. Now they have free reign.

This hit piece on @chasestrangio.bsky.social is offensive and inaccurate, but it’s also totally ridiculous. If a trans person was struck by lightning, @nytimes.com would give @nickconfessore.bsky.social 2000 words to explain how trans activists had bet against electricity and lost. #scotus

NO WAR ON IRAN! The U.S. and the international community must make every effort to stop Israel’s violence and expansionist agenda in the region.

Currently, 9,900 Palestinians are imprisoned by the Israeli occupation under the authority of the Israeli Prison Service. Including: 400 children 27 women 3,500 people held under administrative detention All without charge or trial. #PalestinianPrisonersDay

URGENT ACTION NEEDED! On Monday ICE detained activist and mother Jeanette Vizguerra, who is now being held at a for-profit immigration jail in CO. The Trump admin appears to be systematically targeting activists: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/u... @afsc-org.bsky.social #GiftLink .

In the early hours of March 18, 2025, Israel began conducting extensive airstrikes across Gaza. More than 400 Palestinians have already been killed, including many children.

Israel is conducting airstrikes across Gaza. 34+ ppl already killed. This comes after Israel refused to honor terms of #ceasefire deal, refused negotiations, and blocked all food & aid. This is a genocide. The US is paying for it. #ArmsEmbargoNow #FreePalestine www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Rather than escalating violence and destruction, risking regional escalation, the Trump Admin. should be putting pressure on Israel to uphold the ceasefire deal. This includes allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza and returning to the negotiating table for a permanent ceasefire.

We don’t need a rearranging of the deck chairs on the Pentagon’s titanic budget. We need fundamental change. Check out our latest op ed in @commondreams: www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum... @afsc-org.bsky.social

Another example of the absolutely shameful efforts of the mainstream media to erase a genocide.

The US spends as much on its military as the next 9 countries combined. Rather than making the world a safer place, this has fuelled wars and imperialism. Our flagship state of power report investigates current shifts in geopolitics. https://www.tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism

Excellent piece by @rtraister.bsky.social! ➡️ "Woke" is a rightwing dogwhistle. ➡️ Some leftists have been real quick to parrot these talking points without evidence (looking at you @sunraysunray.bsky.social). ➡️Pallid insincerity is ALWAYS a losing strategy. nymag.com/intelligence...

1. Three sexual abuse nonprofits have removed all or nearly all references to trans, queer and non binary people (h/t @devtesla.bsky.social) I wrote a second article today to document and archive some of the impacted pages. www.madycast.com/p/capitulati...

This is obviously bad but the absurdity of WaPo using the AFPM ad as their EXAMPLE is really tickling me.

In January, we launched a petition demanding the U.S. State Department intervene for the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-t...

One of the reasons we work to free our neighbors from jail is that pretrial detention causes irreparable harm to folks who are already struggling, such as unemployment, homelessness, and loss of custody of children. It destroys families and plunges people deeper into poverty.

Check out Robin DG Kelley interviewing Mohammed El-Kurd about his new book “Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal” from @haymarketbooks.org www.youtube.com/live/FXcqfLs...

Trump is probably just saying stuff, but if the US, Russia & China actually cut their military budgets in half, the benefits for everyone on earth would be tremendous. afsc.org/newsroom/qua...

Nine paragraphs into today's NYT story on the situation with the Gaza ceasefire, readers are informed that Israeli officials and international mediators "said that Hamas’s claims were accurate."

It's time to stop pretending DOGE is about efficiency and trimming expenses. The difference between a haircut and a visit to the guillotine matters, and this is all going to be very expensive for all of us (if not for them). Notably gutting CFPB. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

"Palestinians have spent more than 75 years demanding justice and asserting their right of return and self-determination. They have endured 15 months of genocide. They will not give up their land and their rights."

Right now the Trump Administration is sending the first plane of immigrants to #Guantanamo bay where they plan to construct 30,000 bed detention camp. Instead of sending people to camps, we need a humane immigration system for all. Stop the deportations: afsc.org/deportation

Is @nytpitchbot.bsky.social actually just writing for @nytimes.com now? “Attempting to unilaterally dismantle the entire social safety net in the name of transphobia & racism might be bad. But the real problem is big government.”

Trump is trying to criminalize & deport pro-Palestine activists. We strongly oppose this order & any effort to persecute & silence ppl who speak out against injustice. We will continue to work in solidarity with student movements and call for an end to genocide & occupation." @afsc-org.bsky.social

"ICE has no place in our schools. As the full impact of last week’s executive orders unfolds, I hope other school districts follow Philadelphia’s example. All kids should be welcome in the City of Brotherly Love — and in schools everywhere." www.inquirer.com/opinion/lett...

On the anniversary of the ICJ ruling of plausible genocide in Gaza, aid agencies report on the extreme barriers imposed by Israel that delay or prevent lifesaving humanitarian support: afsc.org/sites/defaul... @afsc-org

Okay there are so many things wrong with this op ed that maybe this is beside the point, but nowhere in here does he offer any evidence that DEI impacted real world outcomes. @nytimes.com how about an editorial headlined “Bret Stephens will not be missed” instead…

I wrote about the importance of defending sanctuary cities and why any policy that make it harder for ICE to detain or deport people is worth fighting for. truthout.org/articles/let...

GO BIRDS!!!

Was listening to Up First @npr.org podcast this morning and disturbed to hear them play a clip from white supremacist Dan Stein, who heads the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR is classified as a hate group by @splcenter.org. @sergiomarbel.bsky.social @amartinezla.bsky.social 🧵

I’m a total fair weather fan who doesn’t really know that much about football, but GO BIRDS! And while we are at it let’s also ABOLISH ICE!

“Even with union density at a low point, unions still represent 14.4 million workers. That is a massive base for resisting attacks on undocumented workers. Our unions and worker organizations have the might to apply political pressure in creative ways, and there are many tools in our toolbelt.”

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

I worked with Joyce Ajlouny on this op ed about NYT's refusal to run an ad from @afsc-org.bsky.social referring to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Huge thanks to @thenation.com and @jackmirkinson.bsky.social for continued coverage of mainstream media's complicity in genocide.

Highly recommend this interview with @kojokoram.bsky.social, who explains an incredible amount about transnational corporations & colonialism in ~50 minutes.

Contemporary restroom signage reflects the “woke” ideology that gender can be determined by subjective features like PANTS SILHOUETTE and DRESS SILHOUETTE. Pursuant to Trump’s EO on “Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” all signs should be changed to reflect biological facts.

"It’s telling that anti-trans campaigners must continue to find new language to cling to, to push an exclusionary binary, when science fails to draw the clean line between men and women that they wish it did."

The Biden administration made at least 100 arms deals with Israel since October 2023 that fell below the value that would have triggered the requirement to notify Congress of the details. watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/p...

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

If we don’t exist does that mean I can stop paying federal taxes?