The New York Times described a harrassment campaign that helped drive a young trans woman to suicide as "online criticisms." Today on Assigned, @evanurquhart.bsky.social responds with contained fury to New York Times piece on the suicide of Lia Smith. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Defunding the police was always a good idea. The bipartisan rejection of it helped lead us to where we are now. Until we recognize its necessity, we will continue our downward spiral. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Ganz on X as reality distortion field: open.substack.com/pub/johnganz...

After the killing of Ms Good, Greg Bovino of the CPB led a raid on a Minneapolis HS. An official there said: They don’t care. They’re just animals,” I’ve never seen people behave like this.” All MPLS schools now closed for the week. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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?

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just out-of-control barbaric stuff www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Today, in Providence:

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

If our fascist police state would lynch a rationally concerned white woman in her own neighborhood who posed no threat to their lives, and then gaslight the public that it was "justified" even though it was caught in 4K and we all saw the video... then they'd lynch you, me, and everyone we love too

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

Renee Good, who was murdered in cold blood today by ICE, was a queer woman. June "T-Rex" Knightly, who was murdered in Portland, was a queer woman. The ICE detainees who were sexually assaulted in Louisiana are queer women and trans men.

Dems are still approaching this wrong. I just saw a BBC host ask a state senator if Tim Walz should call out the National Guard. He says, "No, because Minnesotans know how to protest peacefully." THAT'S NOT WHO THE GUARD IS FOR. THE GUARD IS TO PROTECT THE PROTESTERS FROM LAWLESS FEDERAL AGENTS.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

One outcome we need to see is every single ICE employee standing in front of a tribunal for their part in ethnic cleansing, which is certainly not going to happen today, but it's a good goal to put up on the board, because it helps us think about everything that needs to change so we can achieve it.

Senate Democrats talking about affordability while federal storm troopers seize cities and murder Americans

A local law professor who was at the protest with his family was outraged when no charges were filed against the truck driver. "Any competent prosecutor could have persuaded the grand jury to bring charges here based on the video evidence alone," he wrote.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

An "opposition" that refuses to clearly, insistently communicate what is happening—a party of Nazi pedophiles murdering Americans and traumatizing their children—should disband immediately

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

In 2019, a correctional officer drove his truck into a group of peaceful protestors outside an ICE detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. That incident, too, was caught on video. The Rhode Island AG later announced that no charges would be filed against the driver.

Federal agents blocked a man identifying himself as a doctor from reaching the woman killed by ICE in Minneapolis, video shared with HuffPost shows www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Who do you vote for when racism and violent imperialism is a bipartisan project?

A decade ago, a Judge had to ORDER Customs and Border Patrol to stop putting themselves in the way of fleeing vehicles to create a "justification" for shooting people. A fucking DECADE ago. ICE thinks they can just murder us all if need be. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/new-dir...

I'm sickened and heartbroken by ICE shooting an unarmed woman in the head in Minneapolis. We can never accept this violence as normal or accept anything short of justice for these victims. We will continue to show up — together — to protect each other.

ICE’s public violence should be a reminder that they commit brutal acts in private facilities too. Every report has been horrific and we only have the smallest glimpse into the horrors.

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

Multiple international crises with Trump taking a Russian Flagged ship, threatening to take Greenland by force, and kidnapping a foreign head of state. Now, CBP murdered a US citizen in Minneapolis. We aren't even a full week into 2026 and it's one horror show after another.

This is just murder.

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

“Grok is generating at least one non-consensual sexual image every minute”

One problem with calling X a "CSAM generator" is that normal people have no idea what CSAM is. However, they might stop using it if everyone described what it really is: A free, on-demand, deepfake generator of child sexual abuse material.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

this is really obvious to any trans individual, but if you're cis and want to learn more about trans rights issues, GIVE THIS A READ.

"Grok Is Generating About ‘One Nonconsensual Sexualized Image Per Minute’. Regulators around the world are looking into Elon Musk’s xAI after its chatbot began ‘undressing’ celebrities and underage children at the request of users." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"They take your kid, they keep your kid, they change your kid" is the oldest and most vile conspiracy theory in the world and every group targeted by it suffers untold horrors as the public stands idly by.

If I could RT this 20 million times it wouldn’t be enough. The consultant industrial complex largely composed of barnacles that hung onto Bill Clinton and Barack Obama is killing the party and America

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

It’s so fucking sick that Stanford is *felony* prosecuting their own students for a ONE HOUR PROTEST inside the president‘s office. Crime? Barricading themselves for ONE HOUR

I wrote about reporters’ refusal to use “act of war,” “invasion” or “coup” when covering Trump’s brazen attacks on Venezuela, instead echoing WH-approved euphemisms, and the broader trend of our press dutifully giving Trump’s lawlessness the vague whiff of international legitimacy when it has none.

People harassed Lia Smith's parents after she completed suicide. The level of hate and dehumanization of trans people is obscene.

Dear @nytimespr.bsky.social. Your press release re comments I gave to @transnews.network includes many errors but one assertion is true: “TNN featured an interview with a former editor on the International desk at The Times who was not involved in these coverage decisions.” That is the problem

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Suppose we should start considering what the word "soldier" actually means in this context since DHS is about to force a debate over the 3rd Amendment

Children will die with RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendations. We're NOT doing the "experts disagree" game. The US vaccine schedule was painstakingly constructed through a deep & thorough process by experts with unquestionable expertise. This is policy by fiat. It is pre-meditated murder. 1/

An estimated 440 deaths are attributable to the Los Angeles wildfires that set the area ablaze in January 2025—a much higher toll than the 31 deaths reported in Los Angeles County records, according to the first-ever study estimating excess mortality during that period. (from Aug)

They won't even use the term transgender regarding their coverage in this statement, they use the term gender identity. I think the Times might be making a shift towards an editorial stance that pathologizes trans people.