The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...

Some people, mostly Black, Brown and Indigenous, suffered, lived, and died working to expose and protect their communities from the violence of law enforcement in this country. Don't be jerks about the work of others and act like no one knew.

The man who literally wrote the book on the use of vehicles as ramming weapons says any claim Good used hers as such is false, and that her execution, followed by the false claim, is "death squad behavior."

Just mentioned this piece on air, in relation to Vance’s attacks on the media: they not only try to create a narrative while facts are being determined, they then use that narrative to cast conflicting facts as untrustworthy. www.pbump.net/o/trumpism-d...

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

I'm afraid this is true.

This isn't just this administration's CIA. The CIA has always supported right-wing dictatorships.

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

We know the foundation of the Right/MAGA is an ever-strengthening mix of racism, misogyny, vengeful and authoritarian Christianity, and oligarchy. So this fits perfectly. Arguments about hypocrisy are useless; they almost always have been.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

🚨 The White House is now actively covering up a murder.

Links in comments.

Heads up for all who vote by mail.

we are going to hear a lot from rahm because “serious” washington pundits like him

Wishing us all a New Year that brings more kindness and compassion, more justice, more generosity, more creativity, and less human and ecological suffering. youtu.be/SUlNixgSQIA

It’s not “let them die,” but worse: let’s remove any possibility that Palestinians will live.” Genocidal.

Truth ⬇️

But…but…the MAGA flunky appointed to headache Center sez performers have no right to refuse to perform for all the public. These performers must have missed the memo.

Rights Group Warns Israel’s Genocide Isn’t Over in Gaza truthout.org/articles/rig...

“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

"Everywhere I went in Chicago, there were community members patrolling streets, following government agents, warning victims, and pushing back any way they could — and always, the whistles around their necks, the sign you’re around allies." (via @hammerandhope.bsky.social)

I see the Panthers are being invoked. I like to remind people about what the U.S. government and local police forces did to the BPP. This recent book is useful. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I wonder if people in this country know that the VAST MAJORITY of people in the US did not contribute to the Black freedom movement. I'm always taken aback by how people talk online. Folks, your grandparents & great-grandparents DID NOTHING or they were in OPPOSITION, lol.

If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.

happy holidays, all!

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

Bombing on Christmas. Yeah that tracks for the dude who gave himself a madeup Fifa Peace Prize.

In our home, Christmas always includes Yorkshire pudding. Merry and happy everything, friends!

As the saying goes, the freedom of the press (including false/deceptive use of AI) belongs to those who own the press. Support indie movement -oriented media.

AI makes up books that don’t exist - at least some on this list -even though the authors do. Read comments. Not the first time this crap has happened.

you have to imagine that this probably also happens when there doesn't happen to be a Herald reporter randomly sitting there to see it happen

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The administration's policy: "Let them die, especially those who are Black, brown, Indigenous, Muslim, poor, with the 'wrong' political/religious beliefs. Their deaths mean more of everything for 'us.'" So much for "pro-life." This is pure evil in the service of supremacist hierarchies of worth.

We cannot survive another neoliberal president. We CANNOT *TOLERATE* Another neoliberal president. This is unlivable and inexcusable. If you think for one second voting blue no matter who will save us, you are LYING to yourself. THIS is what they do and we MUST fight to change them.

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

For folks curious re the news re gender affirming care for trans youth I wrote a quick summary in the BDNH newsletter It’s NOT a national ban. it creates no new civil or criminal penalties, it is a proposal to wield the power of the purse to discriminatorily deny care mailchi.mp/interrupting...

"As @lewispants.bsky.social describes in @objectivejournos.bsky.social, “fascist leaders thrive on an ill-informed public.” Wallace, citing @dreanyc123.bsky.social, notes that movement journalism’s 'purpose zero' is 'to challenge fascism and authoritarianism by fighting disinformation.'"

Don't bother asking Sen. Bill Cassidy if this bothers him. He already sold what was left of his soul to help make this happen when he could have put at least one wrench in the works. His purported "concern" as a physician turned out to be hollow.

This week Inquest explored what gets lost when attempts to quanify the "success" of reentry focus only on recidivism, and share our recommended reading list of decarceral books. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

🧵 1/12 Many progressive folks argue that "domestic terrorism" laws should be used to support "us"; that the problem is that they aren't properly enforced. Yet those laws always end up working against the progressive/left. Here's how/why (links follow)" truthout.org/articles/wha...

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy. If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends. Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

Disabled people tried to warn you We pleaded you to see the eugenics of the “let it rip” strategy & the rise of Assisted Dying policies A death with dignity can’t be provided when there’s no guarantee of life with dignity In Canada, you can get MAiD in less time than it takes to see a specialist

This is going to be great!

Eugenics. This isn't just a case of retributive and anti-DEI political action. It's yet another in an ever-expanding set of steps being taken by RFK, Jr./ the Trump administraton to dismantle public health infrastructure. The message: "Let them just die."

The winning argument for Dem leaders could be "they want to fear monger about trans people and trans healthcare because they don't want to talk about why your life isn't as good as it could be and have no plan to make it better" — except that most Dem politicians also have no plan to make it better.

@propublica.org, this is disgraceful. As a longtime reader/researcher/sharer of your great investigative reporting, I am sickened by your stance on these issues. Support the workers AND readers by not replacing real reporting with AI at management whim. That’s how you become untrustworthy.

Re: the ICE actions in south Minneapolis Monday. DHS said "rioters" attacked officers with rocks and pepper spray. Note: I received lots of evidence and didn't see any rocks, the only pepper spray I saw was ICE agents sometimes spraying each other. I did see snow and possibly ice being thrown. (1)