"A death count on par with the Oklahoma City bombing is relegated to the back page."

The US has no credibility to talk about human rights while it disappears people at home, murders people in Latin America, and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unilateral attacks on neighboring countries. Last year, Israel bombed Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Qatar.

Trump says he wants regime change in Iran. History shows us that regime changes imposed by imperialist violence are devastating failures even on their own terms. Attempting this in Iran would almost certainly require a protracted war with US troops on the ground.

The justifications used by the Trump admin are lies: ➡️ Iran has no long-range missiles that can reach the US ➡️ Iran had not restarted nuclear weapons production ➡️ The Iranian government has repeatedly said it has no interest in nuclear weapons and is willing to negotiate.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

We’re really emphasizing the MAN in MANIFEST DESTINY in tonight’s #SOTU 250 years of racism and imperialism. Here in Philly we say: #AbolishICE #FreePalestine #GoBirds

Like Biden before him, Trump is continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza. Israel is killing people daily and blocking lifesaving food and supplies while the Trump Administration draws up plans for resorts and concentration camps on top of the rubble. #FreePalestine #SOTU

And now for the hating trans people portion of #SOTU. Gender affirming care saves lives. Trans rights are human rights. Please just let us and our children be ourselves and live our lives. #ProtectTransKids

We've gotten to the virulently white supremacist explicitly fascist portion of #SOTU. We need to #abolishICE, abolish border patrol, and end detention &deportation. We need investments in education, healthcare, jobs, the environment, and all the things that ACTUALLY keep our communities safe.

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Okay so the ACA was a huge gift to big insurance companies when what we urgently need is #MedicareForAll. But taking away subsidies that help people afford overpriced insurance punishes regular people and keeps insurance companies rich. #SOTU

It doesn't matter how many authoritarian charades USA Men's Hockey attends, thanks to #HeatedRivalry hockey is now officially gay. #SOTU #ProtectTransKids

During the State of the Union we will hear anti-immigrant rhetoric from an administration that is tearing apart our families and communities. But people across the U.S. are coming together to protect their neighbors and #AbolishICE afsc.org/news/what-yo... #SOTU

Tonight is a good night to remember that #AbolishICE is polling better than both Trump and the Democratic Party. #SOTU

I will know I have finally gone to enough therapy when I stop feeling compelled to watch the State of the Union live. #SOTU

But on the other hand, @washingtonpost.com accidentally gets it right. Though “no power” seems a little harsh, I like to believe that we have a lot of power if we can figure out how to collectively wield it. #AbolishICE

Is @nytimes.com having another BAD TAKES competition? I am not sure that “confidence” really defines the nature of the crisis here… Also Thomas Friedman should relax, he already has the BAD TAKES lifetime achievement award. Truly thought the subhead was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social #AbolishICE

ICE does not belong in our communities. We will defend our communities in Minneapolis and across the country in our struggle for peace and justice. #AbolishICE

stakes are extremely high, literally life or death. We do NOT need ICE or CBP to have more training or oversight We do need all border, policing and military angencies to be defunded; end to fed & state partnerships (like sec 287g agreements); end to all detentions & deporations. Abolish borders.

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