'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Taking a break from the horror of the world to yell about how bad someone’s election blog is. THATS NOT WHAT THAT MEANS. #a2council

oh my

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

“Agents are at my door right now” In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)

Ah so we’re at the arresting the press stage of this. How fun for us

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

For the 40th anniversary, I interviewed six Black journalists who covered it in some capacity. BTW, the PPD dropped the bømb from a PA state helicopter. www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

was that not already banned

This is sort of a throughline in cases of excessive force used by law enforcement. The civilian is supposed to perfectly adhere to some unwritten code of conduct; the armed professional supposedly trained for such situations is only human & must be given lattitude if they succumb to fear and rage.

I already shared this article in a very serious way, now I will circle back to something equally important: props to the photo editor for picking the most iconic image of Ypsilanti they could yes, we have a historic water tower that looks like a big penis, and it stands tall just like we do

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

Reminder that you can easily add alt text by using the voice-to text-function. Click a button and verbally describe the image. Easy Peasy.

There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity. They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability. My bill with @markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.

Some good news in the midst of everything!

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

Ice is going to the Olympics to make sure this doesn't happen. 1968 Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos after winning Gold and Silver in the 200 meter race.

‘The state has moved from telling us what we cannot teach to telling us exactly what we can…giving our students a really impoverished version of the discipline,’ Katie Rainwater ‘[Students] will be getting a sociology text, a sociology course without a soul…It is a sanitized version,’ Matt Marr

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

ugh why is everybody calling my masked armed death squads who kidnap kindergartners the gestapo

With data from the top 150 US cities, the consensus couldn't be more clear: build housing --> lower rents. #annarbor #michigan #A2Council @abundanthousingmi.bsky.social

Here are a few ways to support our immigrant neighbors in Washtenaw County, from the Washtenaw Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights (WICIR). #a2council

“Ace of spades cards, which have been used by white supremacist groups as a racist symbol and were called ‘death cards’ by some during the Vietnam War, were found in at least two vehicles after those vehicles were pulled over by ICE agents”

15 years ago I borrowed a bulletproof vest from a reporter so I could report from a war zone. I held onto it after I returned. Last week the reporter finally asked for it back because he is headed to Minneapolis.

Both Philando Castile and Alex Pretti were licensed gun owners. What Second Amendment? At this point, the Bill of Rights only seems to apply to the authoritarians.

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

“They will lie about you and then kill you and they will kill you and then lie about you.” www.pbump.net/o/the-killin...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Snow emergency! If you need to move your car off a public street to a garage, you can text 734-328-1705 for a ride from one of our volunteers. #annarbor #a2council

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Chuck, I have terrible news. The feds shot the Baileys. Point-blank range, right in the face. They're gone, Chuck. You let them die. You have the Baileys' blood on your hands.

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.

He was a nurse.

Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence

For those of you who missed it, since leaving council Jeff has shown up to public comment to confidently compare a change to council rules to the 3/5 compromise. When someone tells you who they are… #a2council

A few weeks after Arends wrote that note, in which she boasted that "Hayner and I have shared goals of being part of the healing of our environment," her pal Jeff gave this doozy of an interview, in which he used a racial slur with an Mlive reporter. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

Before she was a 1st Ward candidate, Rebecca Arends was a vocal Jeff Hayner defender, even writing a long email to #a2council defending him as "a devoted father, [and] compassionate neighbor" and arguing that his use of a homophobic slur in a FB post was "none of [Council's] or my business."

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

This happened all day today and has been happening for weeks and I’m supposed to teach tomorrow lol

seeing the Inuit get ignored in all of this, even by people who claim to care about indigenous rights, is really driving me nuts

waking up to the Belgian PM quoting Gramsci at Davos re: Trump www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

"Racial inequality is produced by zoning rules that restrict affordable housing, by transportation systems that isolate neighborhoods... These systems are often described as neutral, efficient, or inevitable. Yet their effects are deeply racialized."