“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur

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No self-respecting world leader wants to sit through a war criminal's speech.

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

Across the red US, clean energy projects face a) effective bans from many state/county governments, and b) MAGA swarming approval hearings to kill projects. This is putting pressure on Dems to vote for upcoming Repub federal laws that would expedite both fossil fuel and clean energy projects. But...

Congratulations, Cynthia!

Press freedom is under serious assault in the US. Has been, for some time. But mainstream liberals worry only about Kimmel.

Pulling a gun on unarmed civilians is a serious human rights violation, and should be treated as such by state and local government.

Our statement on Trump's most recent Executive Order, promoting the death penalty in DC.

I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others. Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here. Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

No one wants AI data centers in their communities, and most people don't want the shitty AI products these data centers are used for, either. But the tech industry wants to force it upon us anyway. And they claim to believe in a "free market."

This administration has gone from the Horst Wessel martyrdom playbook to the Reichstag Fire playbook. It took the Nazis three years to make that leap. This administration is doing it in three weeks.

Dwaign Tyndal of ACE, spoke at the #ClimateWeekNYC panel “Climate Justice in the Age of AI“ about the generational impact that the build-out of AI data centers and power plants is going to have on our communities. Learn more about AI and data centers: climatejusticealliance.org/ai

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist. It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil. No executive order can change these facts. However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

If you want us to stop calling you fascists, stop acting like fascists.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Good that we have extensive video evidence of their crimes, for the Nuremberg trials that will inevitably follow.

yes, the brave soldiers who murdered 300 almost entirely unarmed Lakota, including 44 women and 17 children who they had told to make camp they took them down with the 1890s version of a machine gun as they tried to flee the first shots

The only ones being aggressive and unlawful are the executive branch of the federal government.

Looks like the fascist US regime is planning to use the murders of people they're persecuting as their Reichstag fire.

The Secretary of War Crimes.

Trump's Climate Liar Chris Wright claims that there's no scientific disagreement with his DOE climate change report, which was found to misrepresent of the science of climate change in an over 400+ pg analysis, written 85 US & international climate scientists. Such a shameless liar!

Gustavo Petro is a rare example of a head of state with a spine.

NEW: Today, a tribunal in El Salvador found the five Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges innocent of all charges. ✊ International Allies against Mining in El Salvador celebrates this outcome and demands that all civil liabilities are finally dropped. Statement:

Powerful piece by my @ips-dc.org colleague Feleecia Guillen exposing "blue state" governors who claim to be committed to climate action, but license more drilling & fracking, and push false solutions such as hydrogen and carbon capture. www.commondreams.org/opinion/blue...

The US President spewing garbage conspiracy theories at the UN General Assembly. This deserves to be mercilessly mocked by the rest of the world.

The executive branch of the US government is an organized crime syndicate.

What's really wild is that I think there's a fourth! The legal bubble for AI is counting on a too-big-to-fail protectionism from a corrupt judiciary... and that may not last long enough for the golden parachutes to get handed out

The tech industry wants us to think of them as innovators, and of their products as representing the inevitable forward march of progess. It's our collective job to dispel this dangerous, false narrative.

Climate action groups staged actions on Thursday and Friday across Washington DC over increasing methane gas and oil emissions. Groups staged actions at FERC and EPA over its policy which contributes to worsening global climate. dcmediagroup.us/2025/09/19/c...

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

These people seriously think they can beat the fascist regime by opposing solely the economic policy agenda of the regime, and acquiescing to the rest of their agenda. You can't beat fascism with economic reductionism.

All they had to do to circumvent the 1st Amendment was outsource the censorship to the oligarchs. The oligarchs have seized control of not only the media but the very platforms and algorithms used to disseminate information itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

We must support our colleagues working in autocratic regimes

Crony capitalism is a defining feature of fascism.

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

Racial profiling is deeply unethical and disgusting. It's also very, very unpopular.

Bluesky Friends: Another reason to stop subscribing to the oligarch's fancies!

Propaganda rag owned by world's second wealthiest guy fires progressive Black woman for speaking the truth.

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Yes, the same Indian right wing troll account galaxy that propagated misinformation about the youth-led Bangladesh revolution of 2024.

"All of the above" energy policy was/is a disaster for planetary climate. Here's still more evidence.

There's a global epidemic of fossil fueled fascism.

Ask Republicans if it would be OK for the Mexican military to blow up a US fishing boat because they believed it was smuggling deadly guns into Mexico and offered zero evidence. “It’s a ‘river of iron’ that has slaughtered hundreds of thousands!” Would that be acceptable to them? If not, WHY not?

This is how countries with a functional legal system deal with fascists who try to stage coups to remain in power.

This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

White on white violence has a long, sordid history, from the Roman Empire to the World Wars. But the white supremacist view of history misses this, and pronounces other parts of the world as mired in endless wars for centuries.