The wellness to eugenics to fascism pipeline is well documented. It’s why disabled people beg you to stop treating us as expendable. Health supremacy devalues other human beings. It leads to deciding some lives are “worth” more than others. It paves the way for atrocities.

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this is also why so many powerful american men's idea of "freedom" looks more like "impunity"

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The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

They think good is weak & evil is based, because they are wicked. ICE is doing wicked things & hiring wicked men to do them. It is difficult to look such a thing in the eye, but that is all there there is to them

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Jeffrey Epstein was a weird freak. His emails do not offer any particular insight into the Jewish psyche.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been making this point for a while and does not paywall her work. I so appreciated that when I was too broke to pay and am happy to do so now that I’m a bit better off. Pretty much everyone I know got a copy of her latest book for Xmas this year from me.

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

This Nancy Guthrie story is a 90s news story happening in the middle of the downfall of the Republic. Like if OJ was happening during Vietnam.

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

The governments pushing the moral panic the loudest are doing so because it's an excuse to further the destruction of anonymity and privacy and further advance the surveillance state.

The people pushing the social media moral panic the loudest genuinely believe it because it is a simple, reductive explanation for a complex, nuanced, and multifaceted problem that also allows them to blame people they don't like

beautiful thread, and it sparked a thought in me: it's already been said that this admin, and their peers, are deeply cynical and nihilistic people. sometimes i wonder if they're trying to make a point whenever the best of humanity comes out, like in MN. i wonder if they want to wear us down (cot'd)

{whispering} people convicted of violent crimes also do not deserve to live in these conditions

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It's weird that they're both posting as if they don't live in puerto rico, where they both moved to avoid paying taxes

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Evil. This administration is full of bad, vindictive people. Dare to beat them in court and they will just keep coming at you. Utter shits unfit for civilized society, and they can all go fuck themselves.

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

It is simultaneously devastating and vindicating to have thousands of pages of proof that everything women feared was true was, in fact, true. We aren't seen as equals, we aren't respected. Men resent our demands for equity the way they would if their dog demanded a Ferrari.

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

Almost like billionaires are the disease

A company with $1 trillion in market cap should be required to pay a living wage. That market cap is based on profits that are dependent on corporate welfare in the form of public assistance to its workers.

Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/

yeah, everything coming to light now was published in sarah kendzior's books years ago. i encourage people to read them anyway, so you can see the trail of evidence and not give in to the temptation to dismiss any of it as baseless conspiracy theorizing. or a distraction.

Yes, they did and they are. And note here that Epstein says, “Brexit, just the beginning.” It’s all part of the same piece.

i would like to know when we can have diana back

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school. Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools. “I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

It's almost as if money is hoarded by the already wealthy and the lower middle to lower class uses it to.... BUY things.

i am so tired of these genital obsessed freaks wasting public dollars to fund these stupid laws so they can inspect the genitals of children. these people are freaks. they don't belong in polite society. is this all you do all day? a government salary to inspect genitals? fucking weirdo freaks.

"There is a vast difference between law and justice. Every autocracy has rule of law. None have justice, and many democracies hide their attempts to suppress justice behind bullshit legalities."

I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.

Twin Cities has Been Through It 2016 Police kill Philando Castile 2017 Police kill Justine Damond 2020 Police kill George Floyd 2020 COVID 2021 Police kill Daunte Wright 2025 Annunciation massacre 2025 Assassinations of Melissa &Mark Hortman, attempts on John &Yvette Hoffman 2025-2026 (gestures)

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

what the fuck ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?

More tribal citizens are being swept up during ICE’s operations in Minneapolis. A Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribal citizen was arrested by ICE agents on Saturday while protesting ICE’s killing of Alex Pretti, with DHS claiming he was an “agitator”. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Minneapolis has seen a stunning 1,646% spike in calls from families who can't pay rent because they're afraid to leave their homes to work. This is state violence manufacturing housing precarity in real time. People should not be facing eviction when their city is under occupation.

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Conservatives really, really hate liberal and leftist white women. Their anger is rooted in misogyny, but it’s not entirely irrational—white women staying in line and fulfilling their ideal role are a pillar of the conservative project. And they intend to beat us into submission. I hope they fail.

So, it looks like we need to chat about the pseudo-science of "hysteria," and how it's been used for centuries to gaslight women into believing--it's not the patriarchy; it's you. 1/🧵

whether by nature or nurture, there is a class of people who will always prefer death and destruction over a reduction in profits. they cannot be reasoned with. they cannot be taught empathy. they will watch young people shot, dismembered, and buried alive, and they will say that god is good.

nestled in the bushes nearby with zero fanfare stands a single solitary monument. there are monuments just like it all across italy. what stuck with me was not just the cruelty of the nazis. it was the callousness of the turncoats, who never stopped believing that they had done the right thing.

in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism. the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.

The federal government is executing American citizens in the middle of the street for exercising their constitutional right to freedom of speech. This is tyranny. No free people can accept this kind of government. We need to bring an end to the Trump regime.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.