This is a policy of genocide.

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There are a lot of people who resent the entire concept of subject matter expertise and believe that they, a person who read a breezy overview, know just as much and because they're a Great Thinker, should be trusted over actual experts.

This thread is now dedicated to organizing aid for trans refugees If you need help or have help to offer, please @ me Instructions and updates to follow in below 🧵 www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.” (Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...

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Thanking this lawyer for the public service of this detailed, frightening 🧵. There are so many people actually fighting the fascist tyranny.

Shit.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Read this🧵 immediately. Seething

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

I don't live in NYC anymore, but there is real power in a politician who a. can think on his feet while still speaking his good ideas clearly and b. visibly actually likes children and understands what they do. Cheers, hometown. Hope is good.

Why aren’t more people warning about the GOP’s SAVE Act, including its requirement that states launch new voter purge programs??? History shows that Rs “love* over-broad purges. Tellingly, SAVE proposes *no penalty* for faulty purges but potential *prison time* 4 a single faulty voter registration.

Tell me five classes you took in college. Introduction to Linguistics Ritual Drama Astrophysics Anthropology of Travel Ensemble Creation

Will SOMEONE in this godforsaken Congress actually take their oath to protect and defend the United States constitution with the same degree of seriousness as every person in Minneapolis?

The Syracuse city council has unanimously voted to endorse the New York For All Act that would prohibit local police cooperation agreements with I.C.E.

it’s not a coincidence that government agents are executing people in the streets at the same time as a significant spike in “legal” executions. 47 people executed last year! 5 in gas chambers! 3 by firing squad! as public support for the death penalty sits near historic lows!

folks, we can take the W with the concessions democrats are extracting right now while ALSO demanding they pledge to abolish once they have the power. this isn’t complicated

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

FYI, a masked, anonymous, armed paramilitary force denying due process and breaking into people’s homes to arrest and detain people in camps is exactly what fascism looks like.

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

If you read one thing today, let it be this: “An Elegy for My Neighbor, Renee Nicole Good: Fellow poet Danez Smith memorializes the Minneapolis mother's call to witness” ❤️💔 www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

The Trump administration is excusing murder by ICE using the same lies as those told by Maduro’s regime. These lies are part of the logic of death squads. Govt controls the story & the next murder is easier. And suddenly this is normal and people simply disappear. snyder.substack.com/p/maduro-in-...

I don't think starting World War III should be considered "a distraction" from other things even if it does distract from other things.

One hundred thousand people a year and y'all using past tense when you talk about Covid now jfc

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Good 🧵 on nuanced reading of individualism and collectivism

This is so true and a huge contributor to my theory of societal disaster

Boom.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

“As a writer…you are the freest person that ever was.” Don’t let genAI ever take away this freedom.

"I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife, who ...fears retaliation from federal officials. "They are so rude to him... They treated him like he was a murderer."

Bada bing.

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

6/ We know what works. We just need to do it. You can read the whole article here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this.

We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.

Killing Section 230 will kill free speech on the Internet. It's obvious, and all of you must realize it. At at time when we face an authoritarian threat, how dare you give autocrats new tools to stifle speech and dissent and crack down on information?

Glad to be a member!

"Lincoln: 'There has not been a pedagogical rationale stated. This isn’t about student success. OpenAI wants to make this the infrastructure of higher education—because we're a market for them. If we privilege AI as a source of right answers, we are taking the process out of teaching and learning.'"

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Welp.

Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...