I’ve been a member of @demsocialists.bsky.social for nearly 10 years. I’m reposting these clips from 2017 in the hope they find themselves to some of the people targeted by this racially-manipulative, billionaire-directed & funded attack.

My first article for the brand new LGBTQ Community News. I hope you enjoy this piece exploring how the intersectional identities of 3 activists: @mynameisjro.bsky.social, @jawanza.bsky.social and Yanery Cruz impact their work in The Resistance. lgbtqcommunitynews.nyc/2025/10/06/f...

I cannot express enough how grief is not unaffected by genocide, mass confusion, authoritarianism, and the increasingly bleak future.

We will not be gaslit. Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!

Hundreds of thousands of NYers will lose their health insurance as soon as January 2026. Governor Hochul and state lawmakers can mitigate the funding cuts by taxing the rich and passing the New York for All Act. SPECIAL SESSION NOW! @jawanza.bsky.social @investinourny.bsky.social

Today, we are at Foley Square with the @investinourny.bsky.social coalition to let @governor.ny.gov and Legislative Leadership know that NOW is the time to protect our communities from the Federal Budget Scam. #InvestInOurNY #NY4All @vocal-ny.bsky.social @jawanza.bsky.social

Gift link! Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V. By @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Low- and middle-income countries will be able to purchase an effective preventative at a reduced price. The arrangements may help stem the epidemic 40 years after it began.

We will not be gaslit. Trump and his admin are the greatest terror threat we face!

We're shocked –– shocked we tell you! –– that @nyscomptroller.bsky.social found that the Federal Budget Scam hurts working-class New Yorkers while benefiting the ridiculously rich. Anyone else think it's time for a special session to #TaxTheRich?

Join us! Visual AIDS presents: Harm Reduction Today- Needle Exchange, Abolition, and Sex Parties, Oh MY!! MoMA PS1 Saturday, September 27, 2025, 4:00pm–5:30pm #harmreduction #drugsky @vocal-ny.bsky.social @jawanza.bsky.social @flordepascua.bsky.social (See alt text for description of event)

“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinian!” #ArmsEmbargoNow

Happening Now: pro-Palestine, anti-genocide, anti-war demonstrators gather in Manhattan to call for an immediate arms embargo on Israel, and and immediate lift of the siege on Gaza and the resumption of UN-controlled humanitarian assistance. #FreePalestine #UNAssembly

More than 20,000 children have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli military since 2023. Nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed by the same government via human-caused famine. They were starved to death.

Do *NOT* join ICE. No amount of money, even when we are poor, is worth the destruction of your own soul or the violence of attacking people via the authority of a nation founded by genocide and land theft; a nation built and defined by ensalvement, fascist authoritarianism (Jim Crow)

Benjamin Netanyahu, his admin, and any Israeli supporting his diabolical plan to steal ALL of Gaza are genocidal war criminals who deserve nothing less than the full application of existing international law and they should be the precedent for new law that the world needs.

Today marks 80 yrs since the United States dropped the first of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima, Japan. Instantly incinerating ~80,000 people. Thousands more died later. Nukes have got to go. We couldn’t afford the first bombing, nor the second. If another drops, it will be annihilation.

Just learning that ICE is offering $50,000 sign on bonuses and student loan forgiveness just made me nearly hyperventilate. They have stolen from us and They have played in our faces. R A G E

Israel must immediately stop its genocide that has evolved towards extermination of Palestinians in Gaza. LIFT THE BLOCKADE IMMEDIATELY

This is going to be a tumultuous time for newsrooms and media workers. The onslaught of legal attacks and the expanding costs associated with accurate, fact-based reporting in the face of endless evasions and deceptions will require all of us, in some way, to become Media People. Do what you can.

Yes. Genocide does not go nearly far enough to describe Israel's goals. They are absolutely willing to bring about the complete annihilation of all life on this planet.

Palestinians are being starved to death. I S R A E L ‘ S right-wing, fascist government (not too diff from ours) is engaged in a protracted campaign of not simply genocide, but extermination. Bisan calls on us to make our demands louder than the lies!

We may have to do a mass march to the Everglades Concentration Camp before hurricane season is in full swing to free those detained there. It would be our responsibility. They’re in harms way.

They built a glorified tent in a remote, hurricane-prone, 100MPH+ winds and flooding, and claim that it is *not* about homicidal intent? We need the International Criminal Court to do something. The world should be sanctioning my country for this alone. Until our government stops this terror.

Fascists build ghettos and jails; Alligators are animals threatened by the same techno-fascists who continue to destroy (see AI fresh water use/pollution) their habitat for the same reason they are kidnapping people: PROFIT.

Try using “Everglades Concentration Camp” instead of “Alligator Alcatraz,” if you’re interested in the truth and against fascist manipulation.

Trying to escape detainment, especially politically-motivated detainment, is not a warrant for death.

The so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” is indeed a concentration camp. We should be calling it exactly what it is. The facilities are inadequate. It’s built for a politically persecuted set of groups (immigrants/migrants of color) and “alligator” refers to homicidal intent. G E N O C I D E!

Wait; so Octavia Butler’s”Parable of the Sower” is a premonition?! Why didn’t anyone tell me!!? I’m reading and I’m floored.

The Trump Admin and the GOP has launched a series of genocidal campaigns against immigrants of color and trans people in particular. And Neoliberalism, Dem included, produces the context for such horror. We should call it what it is: G•E•N•O•C•I•D•E — if you disagree; go and define the word.

Perhaps if Defund the Police campaigns in 2020, like the anti-genocide encampments at Universities across the U.S. throughout 2024, had been respected and understood as they were intended and not manipulated, maybe the infrastructures of this authoritarian period now would be weaker, not stronger.

Did trans people in Russia go too far?! Or is state mandated elimination of trans healthcare a unifying theme in illiberal authoritarian countries? It's the latter.

Remember, we can see the missles over Tel Aviv on CNN because celebrity-anchors like Anderson Cooper are on the ground; yet, recall, they weren’t and haven’t been in Gaza because Israel wouldn’t allow them.

Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...

As a U.S. citizen, I condemn U.S. support to Israel’s ongoing genocidal campaign against Palestinans, that is now extermination. I do not consent to war with Iran. -End ALL military & financial support to Israel -an immediate ceasefires in the region -and the end of the occupation of Palestine.

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

To every Trans person, esp every trans youth under attack, in Tennessee & beyond: I LOVE YOU. Don’t allow the lies, hate, confusion, & murderous-intent of so many make you think that ANY thing about you is wrong, or evil. You are holy and you got a FUCKING RIGHT TO EXIST. You are not alone.

HE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK HAVE SPOKEN, AGAIN. THERE ARE NO KINGS. ALL YOU FASCISTS ARE BOUND TO LOSE! #Democracy #Freedom #Truth #DumpTrump! Follow @indivisible.org

Beyond honored to have been a lead chanter here. My heart is full and my spirit is singing.

Even in a hyper-militarist society, remember, the people are *not* their State, and even the worst of us can be transformed. We don’t celebrate death; we contextualize violence towards its elimination. The first step is to remember that the goal is repair *not* retribution.

EVEN IN A HYPER-MILITIARIST SOCIETY, REMEMBER, THE PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR STATE, AND EVEN THE WORST OF US CAN BE TRANSFORMED. WE DON’T CELEBRATE DEATH. WE CONTEXTUALIZE VIOLENCE AND WORK TO ELIMINATE IT. THE FIRST STEP IS TO REMEMBER THE GOAL IS REPAIR NOT RETRIBUTION.

Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

I watched at LEAST 6 hours of cable news coverage today. I only heard about the ongoing genocide in Gaza once, and of course, that was on Democracy Now!

Tens of thousands march in Chicago against ICE raids. Protest grew from several hundred to thousands over the course of a few hours. #news #Chicago #politics #Immigration www.peoplesworld.org/article/tens...

Listen up: there is no justification. “People voted to deport violent criminals” as a retort from Dems is indicative of the deep depravity & insufficient party politics and its reluctance to face the harsh reality of American politics: we have a serious race issue, still. It must be confronted.

For all the confused commentarians, especially on CNN & MSNBC: The optics that we are all overzealous, hyper-nationalist, assimilated American-Flag wavers is what also ENTRENCHES the fear of the other, so yes, protesters SHOULD use flags that mean home. You should contextualize, not direct.

I wrote this last year about the military in our streets for domestic issues; this is not only a Trump issue. Like always, the Dems too made this more likely to happen.

We cannot allow people to think it is okay or normal to have the military installed in our streets indefinitely.

Determined to create crisis, Trump sends the Marines into Los Angeles. In violation of the Constitution, he adds Marines to his illegal callup of National Guard. #news peoplesworld.org/article/dete...

Thousands of people marching through Lower Manhattan now demanding ICE get out of New York City.