Incoming from Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar: We must adequately fund CPD so they can buy their own lasers and train in how to use them.

Once you notice how many Lifetime movies are filmed in university buildings you can’t not see it.

Azerbaijani President Aliyev's authoritarian regime has jailed two US-affiliated journalists for the crime of truthful reporting. I hope the VP — who lectured our allies about free speech — got a commitment for their release. Or is free speech only for his ideological allies?

The erasure of symbols is a symbol of erasure.

"Zamyatin lived under totalitarianism. Orwell read about it from a distance and turned it into moral theater for English readers. And that’s why 1984 feels so clumsy. It isn’t a realistic fear—it’s a bad thought experiment that doesn’t even obey its own rules." T.S. Carney on dystopias in We & 1984

The political party that just really cares about the First Amendment sure seems to like locking people up for protected speech.

Tomorrow on The Rooster: A visit to Ohio State’s Right-Wing Free Speech Centers ends with a vicious assault from an … assistant professor?!?!

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It’s extremely important to put Elon Musk and Trump in the context of having killed hundreds of thousands of children in the last year

To make space for voices that publishing too often overlooks, phoebe journal is offering free submissions for BIPOC and underrepresented writers starting today, January 22nd, until January 29th.

There is a major political organization allied with the president that got so mad a Latino artist was tapped to play at the Super Bowl they made a whole alternative show. We should all take a moment to reflect on that. It is so blatantly racist.

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Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

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Whistleblowers are essential to a democracy.

Natural-born American from a place with over three million US citizens illustrates "immigration."

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Joe Bob Briggs & Darcy the Mail Girl #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post. Q:  "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?" Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake." He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."

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Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself” @alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation: www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...

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"The blue-haired K-pop singer took it to the next level by having his right femur removed. Suddenly, even soccer moms wanted in on the craze." Love the wicked, imaginative humor in this. @keithjpowell.com. Bone Removal in 30 Minutes or Your Money Back www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/keit...

They're targeting people for First Amendment activity (again) www.rawstory.com/homeland-sec...

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Speaking as a lifelong Democrat: That's not what we want, you dumb fuck

So far, it is indeed our female Olympians making the most direct anti-ICE statements. More of this please. And it is definitely worth violating an IOC rule to do something on the medal stand. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

Should I be concerned that instagram is aggressively serving me ads for injectable ketamine?

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BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism? BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

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The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

Very important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.

Solidarity with every single person participating in today’s general strike against ICE’s terror campaign. You’re changing the world ✊🏽❤️

Swapping Bovino for this clown is like shitting your pants & changing your necktie

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

lander should run against schumer. i'm serious. schumer has to invent imaginary friends and lander is out there making friends and doing retail politics like a boss.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Worth remembering that Ohio State's independent investigation into the Dr. Strauss reign of terror cited Gee a total of 33 times, including as ultimately culpable for ignoring documented allegations for the sake of the university's image. www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

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

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.