I love how people finding out the Hay-tee is just the Americanized pronunciation and the actual pronunciation for Haiti is Ayiti(eye-e-tea)

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

“Suspected political message” 😂 Oh god, never change, Fox News.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Joyful, fuck yes chills.

Sign me up for that america

they performed American Idiot

Green Day up there playing American Idiot. Great album from a dark time and sadly still relevant. Ready to dance!

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

I'm not soliciting venmo donations today and am instead highlighting a GoFundMe for a family sheltering in place in Minnesota right now with a NEWBORN BABY. They need about $2,000 more dollars. Can people get them there? www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...

Homan wouldn’t be complaining about the blockades if they weren’t working. At the very least, they buy time, create inconvenience, and enable vehicle identification. Keep it up, organizers!

I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company. Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

As a library worker, but more importantly a human, I am absolutely gutted by this news. @umichlibrary.bsky.social was so lucky to host her last year. She was central to my core beliefs on how work should intersect with life, which made me a better union organizer & advocate. May she rest in Power.🧵

The little cloth bags that pillow case sets come in are great for storing earbuds so they don't get tangled in your work bag, and for bunches of cotton balls or pads for travel. I dunno, I'm always trying to figure out ways to use things instead of throwing them away.

Tear gas is also a known abortifacient, and negatively impacts reproductive health.

Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Oh thank god

I hope these kids have decent aunties and uncles because they sure got the shit sandwich of parents.

It's been abolish ICE and the DHS since 2002, and we will say it every day until it is done. No retraining. No reform. ABOLISH.

Webinar on the book "No Neutrals There: US labor, Zionism and the struggle for Palestine" by Jeff Schuhrke Attend for free via zoom - organized by People’s Voice newspaper, The Canadian Freelance Union, Labour 4 Palestine, and New Labour Press. events.humanitix.com/no-neutrals-...

When you’ve been together a really long time and are kind of high… Me: Am I going to be 47 or 48? G: You’re not 48. Me: How old are you, then? G: I don’t know. I was 21 in 2000. Does that help? Me: It doesn’t. Just two ancients on a Sunday.

On Tuesday I made a video explaining to people why it's important that they read this book, which is a Black-ass love note to trees and the power of reckoning with history. #BookSky Earrings by Crystal Galindo Pillows by Shanequa Gay

The march in Chicago has continued on past Trump Tower and is turning back south into downtown. The snow is coming down hard now. As it does, the column chants, "say it once and say it twice, we do not fuck with ICE"

People can we stop with this now please like you would be OK with them killing maiming choking & ripping families apart so long as you can see their faces while they do it like you could see Good & Pretti’s killers?!? Like the cops were ever gonna stop other cops?!? Stop wasting everyone’s time

Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.

Biden willingly funded the genocide of Palestinians, smeared protesting students, expanded policing through cop city (protesting citizens saddled with RICO charges), and told governors to divert "leftover" Covid money to hiring more cops. The racist treatment of Omar and Tlaib fits his agenda.

The way Biden and his party treated Omar and Rashida Tlaib was reprehensible. Openly contemptuous and racist.

“There are no words to fully capture the pain, fear and disruption this causes for our scholars and their loved ones,” Zachery-Ross said. “To see our families targeted in this way is a violation of the sense of safety that every member of our community deserves.”

Ferguson.

Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

This includes the entire state of Michigan.

I urge anyone running a committee to significantly adjust expectations for our present. Committee work is extra, and will get done when we collectively have capacity - that includes mental & emotional capacity. Work won't save us from reality, especially when we are not institutionally supported.

Join me in donating to Safe Haven, MN gofund.me/abe187fea

Couldn't ask for a better illustration of my point. Also the links to donate to everyone are in the thread.

derek chauvin was a minneapolis police department trainer too

Amy, Uncommitted worked to push the Dems to defund the genocide in Gaza & many voted for Harris in the end. You're thinking of the "Abandon Harris" movement. The numbers don't implicate Stein voters either, but they DO implicate white women for who voted for Trump. Hope you learned something!

I'm seeing this profile pic from friends. I know the intention is good, but we need to talk about it. I am mourning the loss of Pretti and Good, horrified by what is happening in Minneapolis. Two people have been publicly murdered by the state, many white people are feeling shocked and horrified.🧵🧵

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement:

Rams coach, Sean McVay, and Hank Scorpio…Am I late to this conversation?

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

They cannot even comprehend of people pooling their resources and being in community with each other. Sharing. Contributing. It works well. Instead. everything is presumed bankrolled with strings attached because that’s the extent of individualist “community”.

🎶 People in the United States have been getting treated this way the whole time 🎶 It’s not a boomerang, it‘s an expansion

I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.

So they killed a straight white man lawfully exercising his gun rights and the Dems finally changed their position on funding ICE. Thank you. Next time, please listen to us sooner.

The NBA has already postponed the game tonight. We all know Steve Kerr’s family history and his consistency speaking up, right? If not, go look him up. Players unions are very strong. They need to vocally and visibly join the strike.

There are Democrats like @booker.senate.gov who insist that more training will fix this shit. THEY ARE WRONG. Oh, and this police chief can also get fucked. We see that MN local and state police are inciting violence.