Good morning. Immigration is good. Trade is good. There are nuances but they are narrow enough that free and open movement of people and goods should be the default.

melania watching Erika like lord I've seen what you've done for other people

the state is fundamentally unable to protect the vulnerable from harm because its nature and purpose is to do the opposite. the state will never protect us, never liberate us, never have our interests in mind.

How many deported or detained immigrants have "two beautiful children"? And why are we never called upon to empathize with them and their children in the way we are being asked to think of Kirk's family?

everything be feeling like this lately

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

truly we live in the most biblical of modern times stormwaltz.net/@Dandelion/1...

lubna has 3 children to feed, please help her in any way you can!!

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

Alas, nope. 96% of US farms are family farms. Most of the so-called "corporate" farms are family farms. The families that own them just happen to be wealthy & have a lot of capital.

We don't have freedom of speech bc I'm not allowed to post what I think Vivian Wilson should be allowed to do to her dad

Stories like this are why I’m an anarchist. the government is indistinguishable from a protection racket, Trump is just the logical conclusion of that system.

ultimately what they want isn't the free speech of a fractious society, but the norms of an academic cocktail party--where any topic is fair game, so long as we all admit it kind of doesn't matter and this is just a little post-dinner diversion we're engaged in

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen

The American right operates on a remarkably sophisticated level of subliteracy that involves holding up pictures of words and playing the sounds of words to each other while agreeing not to treat those words as language.

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

Paradoxically, freedom of speech must be unnecessary for its antidote. Rather, the principle of freedom of speech ought to be: if you don't allow the idea of resisting abuse to be articulated in a society, eventually that society will break down and a lot of people will suffer and die because of you

The neighborhood children are in my house pretending to be a family of cats adopted from the shelter together

trans people are the vanguard of human freedom, pioneers in morphological liberty and conscripts in the fight against the most intimate of tyrannies: nature everyday they liberate themselves from the shackles of biology to live as they choose not bound by tradition or cruft; everyday a prison break

fascism is a collective game of make believe that the fascists dictate and force the rest of us into at gunpoint

*taps sign* "political correctness," "woke," etc are pejorativized floating signifiers that magically turn: 1. countercultural commitments to relational egalitarianism and inclusive freedom into stodgy conformism; 2. retrograde commitments to hateful authoritarianism into libertine rebelliousness

The idea that you're a poor, set-upon victim, while you're in fact ruthlessly brutalizing people who you deem your inferiors, was central to Nazi propaganda during the first months of their rule. It's time to recognize that cavils about "political correctness" were always selling exactly that idea.

george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh

"mom, why is JD Vance an autocrat?" "because people didn't like his movie, dear. now put the sandbag up on the street."

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

Wait, this man is *still* talking about us???

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

"i'm old enough to remember when" is a meme but seriously i am old enough to remember when we used to drive home the key message of online safety for kids is anonymity above all. never tell anyone your name, age, location, never send pics, never answer personal questions etc

age verification and deanonymization of the internet is bad for everybody but i cannot stress enough that it is specifically bad for vulnerable populations of which children and young people are the most vulnerable

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

My child, just now, unprompted: "polio used to make kids REALLY sick" (They have a book about viruses from the library)

technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight

Fascism is never full. It eats laws, neighbors, memory, until there’s nothing left but the chewing. It will never stop on its own—only when enough people say “no” together, loudly, stubbornly, even stupidly, refusing to be swallowed. Mass noncompliance is the only diet fascism can’t stomach.

If you wrote this for TV they'd tell you to tone it down

This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."

A full ban on vaccines, esp childhood vaccines, was on my list of of red lines that would trigger and automatic "we have to leave" and it was also the one we all kinda thought was the most unlikely and yet here we are moving briskly in that direction

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If I win the powerball I'm gonna buy a supreme court judge

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression crimethinc.com/Safeguarding Donald Trump has signaled that he is expanding his offensive against immigrants to target critics of his regime as well. Everyone should read this guide spelling out concrete steps we can take to prepare.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

If journalists and dem politicians aren't going to show some spine then maybe at least folks in the entertainment industry will???

all fascists are cowards, if you tell them no they run scared, if you try to appease them they sense weakness and attack harder

On a work training zoom: Presenter: "if folks just want to share in the chat their name, pronouns, role, and an ancestor they're bringing into the space today" What plays in my head:

"Woke" -- changing norms through social pressure -- is not, contra the reactionary centrists, another form of tyranny. It's the *alternative* to tyranny. It's new norms winning through the marketplace of ideas. The alternative is what we see now: enforcing norms via the threat of state violence.

Would they be able to get away with all this if we didnt have to go to work? Do work, rent and bills only exist to produce profit, or is it just as importantly a function of social pacification, punishment and control? Is the economy just about money, or is it also about power?