One way to judge a society's investments is asking: "what kinds of people and relationships will this investment create?" Sit with this question. Investment in repressive bureaucracies has become so normalized that we are desensitized to how far away from the best parts of humanity it takes us.

Lotta folk saying FAMU should fight back & resist or whatever but FAMU & other HBCUs above all else need to Remain Open. That is their job right now. To remain open. Harvard should fight. Yale should fight. Ivy League schools with war chests rivaling small countries should fight. They fell first.

I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest. Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something." Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.

Preach!

Once again, Trump thinks they just let him screw things with no repercussions

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

@fetterman.senate.gov DHS must be shut down. They are supposed to work for the American people, but they lie to us. You must vote against any new funding. 15206

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.” share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

I’ll just have to save him. Because, after all, A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

“We outnumber them”

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

I wonder what % of my taxes went to the concentration camps

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Great! Now let’s do this for the hundreds, maybe thousands of other children locked up in these camps.

If legitimate, this email correspondence seems to show billionaire Richard Branson advising a convicted paedophile how to make a PR comeback... after raping a child. #EpsteinFiles #OpDeathEaters

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...

if you feel like passing around a link today and helping fundraise for rent that will actually get paid today (and in the next few days for families who have a grace period) you can send here. we will be going hard all day. i won’t be posting about it because I don’t want to flood your feeds.

Context matters… Dr Oz is using his position with the US gov to target the Armenian community in LA. He’s of Turkish descent and has publicly engaged w/Turkey and Erdoğan. Armenians are victims of genocide at the hands of Turkey. A historical fact they deny. Oz doesn’t acknowledge the genocide.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Something, something, something the sanctity of life something something

Don Lemon being arrested, along with the arrests of people in Minneapolis who’ve been trained as observers, amid a negotiation on a DHS bill where you able to just pocket a CR as a reprieve is a good demonstration of why a hardline against funding here is not only morally necessary but smart as well

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

@fetterman.senate.gov Please don’t be fooled by this. They are coming for naturalized citizens soon if we don’t stop them now. If you don’t love your wife anymore, you could just get a divorce; you don’t need to have her deported. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 15206

Days after the killing of Renee Good, Stephen Miller and DHS began bragging that ICE agents have immunity from being held accountable. There's a bill sitting in Congress that would end that immunity - and Democrats could right now use their sudden leverage to force its passage. Pass it on.

Find time in your day to listen to the fantastic @equalityalec.bsky.social talk copaganda

Links to fundraisers follow in the thread below. Please help the families who are, for a variety of reasons including race and immigration status, receiving less attention.

I think Ds should ask for the firing of RFK in the budget negotiations. It's a big, easily understandable ask, which would massively benefit the American ppl, and I think it would split the gop, many of whom want rfk gone anyway. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/demand-the...

Antifa was the PTA all along

Close the ICE death camps!

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

We definitely don't hate Elon Musk enough. I'm serious. There are, at most, two or three people more responsible for the current state of the world than that man. He should be persona non grata everywhere. Instead we pretend he's some kind of strange genius. He sucks.

Keep pushing

🤔 I dunno. Maybe ask Kyle Rittenhouse.

@fetterman.senate.gov It is possible to stand up for American citizens. Please do it.

Is America ready to give up something to get something? You had your Christmas are you able to give up your spring break and your summer vacations? Are you able to say no to the corporations and stop spending on anything but your absolute necessities. Are you ready to get in some good trouble?

Hi I'm a visual forensics reporter at The Washington Post. Do you have any footage of today's ICE shooting? Please reach out. DMs open.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social You need to stop this. You have the power to speak and act against this. Silence = complicity Defund ICE; they are murdering us!

@fetterman.senate.gov You need to stop this. You are a Senator; you have the power to speak and act against this. Silence = complicity 15206

“abolish ICE” does not even begin to capture the type of change that needs to occur here

They literally pay taxes for services they can't draw from. Do you think undocumented immigrants have some "get out of sales tax free" card? Do you think they're exempt from property taxes? Do you think they don't have income and payroll taxes withheld from pay? If you think that, you're wrong.

Florida and Texas have many more undocumented persons, but Minnesota has Ilhan Omar and Tim Walz.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.