I talk to MAGA voters a lot. They are open and honest about supporting mass deportation. They think it's a good thing, and they support the mission of ICE. The language they use to justify it and to excuse the horrors, is *exactly* the same language that centrist Dems use to justify US policing.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

deporting a 2 year old on her own — citizen or not — should not even be a phrase that exists

No one deserves detention. No one deserves deportation. No one deserves prison. No one deserves to be separated from their loved ones. No human is illegal. Free them all.

Trump: COLUMBA IS AWFUL Columbia: [slaps student] Trump: COLUMBIA IS ANTISEMITIC Columbia: [kicks student in groin] Trump: NO MONEY FOR COLUMBIA LOL Columbia: [punches brown student in nose] Trump: WE WILL CLOSE COLUMBIA Columbia: [reaching for another student] okay this time it will work

Guy On Doomed Planet Mostly Concerned With Skin Color Of People In Movies theonion.com/guy-on-...

Anti-ICE protesters are blocking both sides of the 101 Freeway near the Alameda Street exit in DTLA. The CHP has since closed that portion of the freeway.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

This post seemed spot-on:

It’s not enough that the Biden admin supports this genocide, they also have to bully others into complicity as well. What a disgusting & shameful wrap for this administration before they hand the country to Trump.

Opinion | Here is why I will be proud to attend President Musk’s inauguration. by Ro Khanna

he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

You mean the same liberal donors who helped blow it in 2024? Those donors???

#NeoFascisme1 samengevat:

I feel like so much of our politics can be explained by the fact that Daniel Perry is hanging out with Trump and Vance, while the liberal establishment is flummoxed by Luigi Mangione’s appeal.

Or don't do war crimes

Agree. one should be hesitant to extrapolate The State of Things based on one guy with a silencer but someone who’s radicalized because they’ve been (presumably) screwed over by the system is a very large pool and is unlikely to be A Perfect Leftist (me) who just coward posts in any event (also me)

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

what's coarser: people doing posts online or people dying because their health insurance sees their death as more profitable than their life

this is so perfect youve gotta think it was intentional

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

"When the rich rob the poor it's called business, when the poor fight back it's called violence" Poster spotted in Brunswick, Melbourne

just kind of thinking about the fact the nyt sent a breaking news alert when a college kid said something dumb about Zionists but not when Amnesty International said it had determined that Israel is committing genocide

The world’s largest human rights organization is now affirming the growing consensus among credible experts: Israel is indeed committing genocide in Gaza. In a better world, it wouldn’t require courage to speak the truth. But in this world, Amnesty International deserves credit for speaking up!

Try not to live a life that has most people celebrating your death

Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Burger King does revenue on the order of billions. Fines for violating labor laws like this should not be so small that they are effectively just a line item. Treating this as a petty crime while throwing the book at shoplifters is crazy.

John Brown was executed #OTD in 1859. His embrace of violence as a means to empower enslaved people to take their freedom occurred within a system of violence that made slavery possible and in which it thrived. That's something to remember next time you dismiss Brown by calling him a "terrorist." 🗃️

You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers

In the past 2 days, Israeli forces have: –Killed 3 World Central Kitchen aid workers –Killed a Save The Children staffer –Killed a Gaza Soup Kitchen chef –Killed an ICU director –Attacked & killed hundreds of displaced Palestinians –Shot a 10-year-old girl

We’ll see amnesia the other way, as well—Trump will claim credit for something Biden achieved, while liberals imagine that brutal treatment of foreigners is unique to Trump. As on so many issues related to nationalism, Trump may have pioneered exclusion but Biden consolidated and systematized it.

Why would Israel shoot a 10-year-old girl in the chest? This is horrific.

Israel killed 100 people in Gaza today. I listened to NPR this evening, and this wasn’t even reported in passing. There was even a report about an initiative to save endangered wolves somewhere, but no mention of the 100 people who were killed in less than 24 hours.

Powerful message to the CDN news media from a group of healthcare workers returning from Gaza: “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It’s time you started saying that.”

It's true that bluesky isn't great for news and commentary about Palestine. Maybe it will get better, maybe it won't. But we have to keep trying because it's crucial to talk about Palestine precisely where it feels unwelcome.