In extraordinary message, Fed chair announces that he’s being extorted/coerced by the US government under color of law.

Seeing disabled people call out ableists using ableist slurs that don’t apply to them (e.g., autistic people without intellectual disability using slurs that used to be diagnostic terms for “low IQ”) physically fucking hurts.

The thing about all these people they hate — the Somalis, the Haitians — are some of the most generous people you’ve ever met. Whose cultures are predicated on hospitality, whose kindness is entirely unmatched.

In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.” This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to. 2/2

sometimes someone in my discord is is so self-hating, stating as fact such nasty shit, that they become hostile to any kindness at all. "i'm shit and if you say I'm not you're lying to me" type shit. you have to change your outlook before your helplessness becomes real in a way you don't expect

My friend Alice Wong was a civil rights & disability justice activist, community organizer, & author. She was unapologetic in her pursuit of building a more just world & shining a light on issues society hesitated to address. She is deeply missed, but her legacy carries on.

A free Palestine is a disability justice issue.

hey i'm a trans woman in minneapolis and shit is getting really scary here. resharing this in the hopes that some of you are able to help me stay afloat.

protect and reinforce our supply lines

Swastika Night is an incredibly disturbing and necessary read, especially now

Been cleaning like a fiend all weekend because I recently got notified by my building management company that they’re about to do pest control, and the pest control company will report back to the building manager on apartment cleanliness. I’m nowhere close to done cleaning. I’m so fucked.

If you can't express any nuance when you talk about Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) you should really shut the fuck up. I am seeing too many people praising Denmark just because of what is happening with Trump/the US and Kalaallit Nunaat. None of these people have spoken to a Kalaallit Inuit person.

once again: ICE is operating as if they have a general warrant, the specific type of warrant the founders were most concerned about when drafting the 4th Amendment

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

I’m exhausted and ashamed to admit this… I can’t afford my child’s medicine. I wake up every day failing my family, watching my kids need things I can’t give. This isn’t pride anymore, it’s survival. If you can help or share, please don’t scroll past 💔 chuffed.org/project/155233

Shit like this is why they'll lose, in the long run. It's just a question of how many of us survive their defeat.

One thing we have to recon with as a nation is despite the law, what politicians say, what judges have ruled, and generational affirmations/revaltions—there has never been a moment in U.S. history where people left of center could practice politics or protest without being surveilled.

Diminish a band Blackwater Swimming

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

You have two choices when marginalized groups inform you of harmful language. You can listen, learn, and adjust yourself to be less harmful. Or, You can say "nuh-uh" and keep harming people. Which one you choose reflects what type of person you are.

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

The gamerculturification of the American right has made it so that a federal agent can kill a queer woman while calling her a fucking bitch and antisocial, angry streamers and politicians will unanimously agree she deserved to die because of pronouns and nose rings and being a woman.

This is the tiny one; we have a larger one, if you've got small kids in your life or just want a bigger one, just toss a note that you want the larger one.

This is incredibly intense. It reminds me of the first time I watched Sophie’s Choice. Those pigs circled her house like sharks, but had to leave empty handed because they had no warrant.

@talilalewis.bsky.social has the best definition of ableism, which applies here! 👀 If you are newer to thinking critically about ableism, please take a moment to check out the Disability Justice framework of 10 interconnected principles that we ALL need to invest in: sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

Israel is currently holding over 11,000 Palestinians in detention, most of whom have never been convicted of a crime. The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.

Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk, after the final match at the Brisbane tournament, used the moment to draw attention to the harsh conditions Ukrainians are enduring right now due to Russia’s ongoing attacks on critical infrastructure.

It is not too late to do better. Deprioritize your short-term discomfort for the sake of long-term justice. Wear an n95 in public spaces to protect yourself & those who are higher risk & less resourced for recover. Recognize that our resistance must be as intersectional as the impacts of fascism.

In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet. youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPto

Yes, but then oil executives would have to make do with only 3 houses rather than 6, and many will be forced to sell their yachts.

“There’s no defined ‘high risk’,” Ault said. Because of the high hospitalization rate for babies with no preexisting conditions, simply being an infant should make them eligible for the shot, Rupp and Ault both said. Dr. Ault says all infants are high risk therefore all infants should get them.

Just to drill this a little deeper: A married couple just dropped their kid off at daycare. The highest levels of US government would have you believe that they then went into some kind of unhinged lesbian blood-frenzy and decided to drive their toy-filled SUV into as many ICE officers as possible.

This, the most important thread you could possibly read today, is the skeleton key that unlocks the United States' essentially extortionate and terroristic role in global economic affairs for the entirety of the past half century.

Alternative autism “treatments” not only are largely ineffective with poor evidence bases (often single dodgy papers)—but they also tend to overlook potential harms to the autistic kids/adults being “treated.” New research: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #autism #pseudoscience #neurodiversity

We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:

Thousands are at Powderhorn Park in south Minneapolis rallying against ICE. Video by Alex Kormann

We’re applying rabbinical logic to bodybuilding now I see

EVERYONE DO THIS SURVEY MAKE DISCORD PANIC AND REGRET AND REVERSE COURSE DROWN THEM IN YOUR HATRED FOR GENAI

Trump is bringing together former enemies, healing decades-long divides, uniting the world (against us).

One of my favorite bands, which is based in the UK, wrote a song about this issue: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWcQ...

I saw CBP kick a child with a broken leg into the Rio Grande. For years, they’ve destroyed emergency water access in the desert. Meanwhile, being here without documentation isn’t even a criminal offense. “Protecting the homeland” has always been a weak cover for sadistic, bloodthirsty hate.

extraordinary ratio on this, and rightly so, bravo

Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in the face, is local. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is local.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Exactly. They are arresting legal residents for no reason.

I think we won’t really free up the space to imagine a way out of American fascism until people grasp this: most of what the “opposition party” has to offer them is their preferred actors for state violence

People need to understand this reality

It's so wild how misogyny is central to their entire construct of masculinity, power, and control.

discord is asking everybody about how they feel about AI. have at it folks

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.