sure they’re tear-gassing toddlers but what do the polls say

bsky is a horribly shitty platform, jesus it sucks, there are so many problems before we get into the nazi misinformation and censorship ** i lost everything i was replying because i left the page** wtf? that's not just trying to control information, that's manipulating it this is fascism

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Kind of contemplating doing a thing where I ask local electeds I like how much money I would have to raise for them here to get them to make their comms team use Bluesky on a daily basis

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

Literally conceptualized as a “living room for residents” tons of free supplies for art and crafts projects free courses free places to host things just incredible and huge oodihelsinki.fi/en/

My weird 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon in all this is that our pro bono defense lawyers in the Daylin Leach SLAPP case were also Gawker's defense lawyers in the Hulk Hogan case

Interesting admission by Biden administration official and Kamala Harris NSC advisor earlier today

Maybe if you beg harder the pedophiles in charge will not hurt kids.

I helped conveners organize a community meeting for a fifteen block area, with "Preparing For ICE" as the theme. Less than 48 hours before the event we had to switch to Zoom. First meeting, so no email list to notify. And we STILL peaked at 234 people on the call at once. People are *done*

At one point I had to gently suggest to someone that she probably should not try to organize full-on street barricades in an open Zoom chat

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial view of a LARGE group of cyclists who have gathered in Minneapolis for an Alex Pretti memorial bike ride 📍Minneapolis, Minnesota

This was happening in Seattle at the same time hundreds of cyclists were biking for Pretti in another part of town, after almost a thousand biked in solidarity last night. There’s many different protests happening even within a single city it’s getting hard to keep track of them. That’s very good.

@democrats.org You can't reform this. I will not vote for, endorse, campaign for, or donate to any candidate or party that endorses the continued existence of the Department of Homeland Security. I will not vote for fascism. I did not stutter. I will not negotiate.

About 100 people cycled through Houston on Saturday to protest federal agents' killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last week. bit.ly/4q6g56f

Y'all are never going to guess who this Person Who Did Horrible Things is 🙄

My oldest asked permission to skip class and walk out with his classmates on Monday, of course I said yes. The local indivisible group is organizing to be lookouts for them bc teens protesting earlier this week got drive-by pepper sprayed.

Is it possible instead that you've latched your hopes onto an empty avatar of cruel centrism and you refuse to shake that shackle because the rattling may awaken things within your mind you'd rather not interrogate?

this is what's on the mind of the senior united states senator from the state of (double checks notes) minnesota

we absolutely need to know who he sent this to. how is this something the public is being kept in the dark on???

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somebody's gotta say something on behalf of whom, now? precisely what category of people are you describing? I want an operational definition.

No. No no, no no no. See, I stopped talking to a friend because he wouldn’t give up saying misogynistic shit about his mom. Anyone having friendly chats with Epstein after his conviction in 2008 for *procuring a child for prostitution* absolutely deserves scorn at the very least, Mark.

this happened over 15 years ago, so i just did a google search for the first time, and... uhhh... yikes www.khou.com/article/news...

i went to high school with this kid, we were never that close, but when i found out he was convicted of pedophilia, you literally couldn't bribe me to have any association with him ever again bare minimum: it's a moral failing of everyone in the files

I promise you, even if someone is your mentor and friend, you should have the ability to say they made a mistake in FUCKING COMMUNICATING CASUALLY AND ALL FRIENDLY WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN NOT WRITE AN EIGHT POST THREAD ON HOW WE SHOULDNT JUDGE

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Never forget that the people who convinced you trans people are a threat to your children all belong to a network of child rapists.

Immigrants and drag queens.

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived & incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children" "for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds" LORD

‘No minimum age’ | Former child brides demand California set 18 as the minimum age for marriage www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sri2...

I can't believe I lost income because of the Internet's biggest pedophile ring

ICE has published a message telling people to report immigrants in their area *if they want their housing*. Like, at what point is it okay for us to call these people Nazis when they are literally deporting us because they want more living space for white citizens.

A thought, using misogynistic language towards a vile, despicable woman means that misogyny is acceptable when the woman is 'bad enough'. It's reaching for the oldest, laziest move available...and is honestly beneath us. Be better, y'all.

Apollo gives the strongest pattern recognition to the most ignored Cassandras

Me in 2019: it feels like /pol/ is used as an intentional incubation chamber to refine fascist culture war tactics and was the launch point of every major attack from Gamer Gate to propping up Trump to attacks on trans rights as a precursor to gutting all LGBTQ rights Everyone else: that's stupid.

Key quote from the judge's order releasing Liam Ramos & his father: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned."

this reminds me of the time bush was trying to get support for his wars and called france saying it was their holy mission as christians to stop "gog and magog", but chirac was confused and had to have it explained to him by a protestant www.tumblr.com/schmaniel/80...

When you’re trans, people treat you like you’re 2 years old and need the concepts “legal name” and “document” explained to you literally every time you interact with any government or organization

I'm just sick of it. I'm sick of being lectured by people who told me that my needs didn't matter and your needs didn't matter and that bombing civilians was both acceptable and desirable, while telling me it's my fault. Those people are not my allies and not my friends.

amy, i’m more concerned about our neighbors that have been kidnapped, assaulted & murdered by the federal agents in this current occupation; i’m also concerned about the neighbors who live in hiding out of fear this will happen to them & are vulnerable to eviction we can worry about coffee later

But this isn't true. That's not how either democracy or freedom of speech works. You can totally not vote, and then complain. People who try to sell this, are usually people trying to get a racist, transphobic, fascism-lite Dem candidate over the line with a "Trump is worse!🤡" positioning.

I remember a college professor of mine going on a rant about how the world was owned and ruined by “five old white men on yachts” And I remember thinking, well, it’s probably more that people don’t examine their own actions, it’s not like a couple of people control the world But you know what

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

"always"? Et tu, Letterboxd?

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.