I am certain that there are Governors, Senators, high ranking administrative officials, plenty of people who are legitimately disturbed by what they see is happening. But police impunity must remain absolute. If it’s breached, the entire thing is at risk.

I’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops

Fun fact: Black Panthers doing perfectly legal (at the time) open carry in CA in the 1960s spurred then-Governor Reagan to sign the Mulford Act into law in 1965, prohibiting it. These people have no consistent politics outside a desperate, leering need to keep hold of power and privilege.

Skyline! This fundraiser is 3 years and 3 months old, but it's down to the last 9% and $5990. Being at the mercy of rideshare algos because I cannot afford more reliable transportation to the births I'm attending all over the greater (read far) Chicagoland area is eating me alive. Everything helps.

You want the con to be safe for literally anyone who is not a cishet white person? Ban trump hats, @furcon.bsky.social

If @furcon.bsky.social cannot ban a person for wearing the modern American equivalent of a swastika, then it's up to con attendees to make Nazi furs feel uncomfortable showing up.

So, I have been told by both con ops and flare that an attendee wearing a hat emblazoned with "47" and a Turing point USA symbol is protected by the first amendment and cannot be removed for wearing a hat that can EASILY be argued to be a hate symbol. Thanks for letting the safety for queers erode

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On tongues stilled, voices quieted, and the endless cry of the silenced.

Apparently I feel like I should push this??? Lmao. Look at me doing self promotion. (I'm actually quite proud of this. Someone should probably trash it in case I start growing self esteem.)

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Thought about history/perspectives on BW being home/doing communal care work (compared to working for yts)…but during CRM “domestic workers became central to the movement’s success.” Care work is racialized and gendered, why some ppl downplay its role in movements vs. protest, hypervisible roles.

So real at one point in my teams I took every family picture of me I could find and cut myself out of it because I couldn’t bear to see me around the house

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Second man shares horrific story of being blinded by officers at anti-ICE rally in Santa Ana www.latimes.com/california/s...

important to note that this insane poppers lie is an AIDS denial conspiracy dating back to the early 1980s, when people were trying to find a way to blame AIDS on the actions of gay people to blame them for the pandemic.

this is so blatantly targeted, Jesus Christ.

this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.

Excessive force by officers is not new. What is novel for the United States is the use of federal power afterward to stifle investigation and shield wrongdoing. That path is unprecedented and indefensible. trib.al/SRjZES5

practically every dem president for the past 20 years (and every dem candidate) has walked along the southern border with a heavily militarized border patrol to try to bolster a "tough on immigration" image today, finally, abolishing ICE has net positive favorability. democrats are squandering that

got some blocks over this so i want to clarify: pumping the brakes on an objectively popular push to destroy ICE is self-sabotaging behavior. nothing the republicans will do will buoy ICE's popularity. the only people keeping ICE's prospects alive are folks trying to rehab it with training & reforms

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

This is so infuriating! As a working homeless person in the U.S., I did everything I was "supposed to" and fell short so many times and not because personal choices. The book does a fantastic job of documenting cold raw truth and experience and this person chose to jump the gun on judgement. Agony.

“To put it another way, the vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence.” The above ties in nicely to Talia Bhatt’s most recent essay. Please read it substack.com/@taliabhatt/...

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Should be a General Solidarity Strike nationwide for this.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

This is the primary reason I went out of my way to point out how the queer vote was the deciding factor in Mamdani’s win over Cuomo. Exit polls show non-queer voters were near perfectly split, while more than 80% of LGBTQ folks went Mamdani. In many cities, we are the deciding vote

**record scratch** "lower marriage ages" wat. **insert edited honking goose chasing meme of "what did you mean by that?!?!" here**

She’s also a huge transmisogynist but that’s been going on for literal decades

"Speaking truth to power" is about targets with systemic power, not like, a big follower count. In case someone needed the reminder.

I asked Alice if she felt like they were targeted for being queer, especially after ICE murdered Renee Good right next to her wife. She said it didn’t occur to her shortly after, and she told Sofia “You know, I just realized that they probably knew Renee was a lesbian before they shot her.”

Once at the ICE detention center, Alice and Sofia were questioned separately. An agent asked Sofia if she had had a sex change and if she had a penis. Sofia told Alice back in the cell that she answered truthfully to both questions to avoid the officers from groping her for answers.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.

NEW: A federal agent with ICE shot a man in Minneapolis last night. Immediately after the incident, neighbors and community members flooded the scene, chasing off the agents involved and uncovering sensitive operational details left behind by the agency. [Video]

Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests. This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.

After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas. ICE agents abandoned vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, and operational plans.