Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

BREAKING: Workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant just secured a landmark union contract — a major labor win in the South! This historic win shows what’s possible when workers organize: higher standards, real protections, and a stronger voice on the job. https://seiu.co/4rIneeh

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

🙏🏻Cajun Manna from heaven🙏🏻

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

we’re not doing this under Woke 2 sorry not sorry

Hmmmmm, indeed.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

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🧵 1/ We’re devastated about the layoffs at The Washington Post, which are gutting D.C. reporting. These journalists are an incalculable loss for our city. The 51st’s mission has always felt urgent, but now we know it needs to kick into high gear.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

Mackenzie Scott and Melinda Gates both have the opportunity to do the funniest things, respectively.

Seconding this, with perhaps adding in some room for arts/books coverage.

Terrible day for many amazing, hard-working, intelligent journalists at the Washington Post. I'm still here and trying to figure out how to best support my colleagues who have lost their jobs. If you feel able to share or contribute, please do: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

this whole thing is on Bezos, a perfect example of why billionaires will not save us for years he supported the Post and then he decided destroying it utterly at the altar of a wannabe dictator better served his personal ambitions, so he did institutions shouldn’t live or did at one man’s whim

anyone who defends this as a business decision is simply lying Bezos personally made the decision to kill the paper's endorsement before the election, Bezos chose to gut the opinion section, he's the one who told the paper's audience they should leave so they did, and now he burns down what's left

The Washington-Baltimore News Guild strongly condemns the layoffs announced today at The Washington Post. These cuts represent yet another blow to a newsroom that has already been pushed to its limits and a disservice to the readers who rely on The Post for rigorous, independent journalism.

One of the throughlines in this Post news (that anyone working in journalism will recognize) is how the people at the top take no responsibility for what is happening.

the fourth-richest person in the entire world. he could fund countless Washington Posts if he wanted to with his pocket change. but it's not about money for any of these people. it's about control.

This is the pattern. Purchase/Take Over a media source that has informed the public. Then dismantle them to the lowest form: 1. Twitter 2. Meta 3. Washington Post 4. CBS-60 Minutes/News 5. Public Broadcasting 6. Tik Tok We are up to our necks in state run media.

The war on work from home is in large part a war on women having a career btw

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month. Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

A friendly reminder that this has been a universally agreed-upon standard for millennia. Don’t let rich people convince you that it’s changed.

People that touch kids don’t get to participate in society. People who help other people touch kids don’t get to participate in society. People who help other people escape accountability for touching kids don’t get to participate in society.

I’m sorry…the new mayor is blaming the inexperience of the snow plow drivers for the city’s poor response to the storm?????? lol. lmao, even!

in general it is very strange for anyone — even gutter racists — to imagine the mediterranean world as somehow looking like northern europe.

no better summation of America's unrepentant rape culture than that one of the biggest stories of the last decade is about the abuse of women and girls and every single stakeholder working on it couldn't give less of a shit about the actual victims of the story

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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

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the violent normalization of racism, islamophobia, and xenophobia at work, thanks to far too many politicians of both parties. she has faced more vitriol & violent threats than pretty much anyone in politics yet you never hear the same concerns about her *safety*, i wonder why

I've said many times over the past year that the task before the left of center is to build new, functioning institutions in place of the old and failed ones. I think Minneapolis is the perfect example: state and local govts no help, courts a mixed bag, but the people built their own networks

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There's apparently body cam footage of Alex's murder. Do people know this? This lets you know that a demand for body cams is USELESS and in fact just a way to give more money to the killers.

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve...The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In MN, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once."

Fetterman now calling for the firing of Kristi Noem this morning, accusing her of "trashing" Trump's border legacy. Fetterman is one of 7 Dems who voted to confirm her as head of Homeland Security last year.

And what's more -- now that the people did it, the politicians are noticing and starting to follow suit. Reminds me of the old line (attributed to various figures): "There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader."

The people of Minnesota defeated ICE's invasion. Bovino losing his job is an enormous win for the people: it shows others in the regime they could actually face consequences if they alienate enough popular support. The movement deserves to claim these kinds of huge wins!

A lot of misconceptions many Americans have about the civil rights and anti-war movements have to do with their effectiveness at changing opinion. A lot of the successes had more to do with top-down elite buy-in due to Cold War competition over societal narratives than bottom-up changes in opinion.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

hard to express fully how growing up surrounded by Neo-confederate loser white men like Tate Reeves has shaped the person that I am. when you are othered by them early enough you learn very clearly that there is no way to meet in the middle with them. the rot is inherent in the systems they build.

You can tell they know they’re losing because Pretti went from “would-be assassin” and “domestic terrorist” to “tragically died” over the last 36-48 hours.

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

Target in Minneapolis has pulled Hispanic employees off of pick-up order duty after ICE arrested two US citizen Hispanic employees while on the job. “I’m literally a U.S. citizen!” one shouted as they escorted him into a van.

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

The @wsj.com in an editorial wrote today: "...Pretti attempted, foolishly, to assist a woman who had been pepper-sprayed by agents" According to the WSJ, it's "foolish" for a nurse to assist a person in medical distress. Incredible www.wsj.com/opinion/time... (gift link)