I'm appalled but unfortunately unsurprised to hear that ICE is targeting my neighbors in Rogers Park today. Unidentifiable and unaccountable agents are roaming the streets with their faces covered targeting schools and community centers. It needs to end. Abolish ICE.

As a matter of relevant context and well documented fact, I would like to remind everyone that the Vice President is already on the record as being willing to make up fake claims to get attention in support of his political goals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Latest from NBC: “He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,” said Noah Jahn, Joshua’s older brother. “I didn’t think he was politically interested,” he said. “He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I know it is Wednesday but I am calling for "Shut the f**k up Friday" early this week. We don't know anything for sure yet. Don't say things on the internet that are under-informed and will spread misinformation. Of course please do share well sourced information.

by the way though , Kurt Cobain was a girl

my favorite thing is how we're all just supposed to believe these assholes when they equate gov't and academic censorship with "someone was mean to me on the internet"

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Jeffries: The government is scheduled to shut down on October 1st. The House was scheduled to vote and be present in Washington, D.C. on Monday, September 29th, and Tuesday, September 30th, in advance of the possible shutdown. And Mike Johnson has said, stay at home. That’s ridiculous.

If you are the person taking 5 year olds hostage to use as bait for their parents, there is no way on God's earth for you to be considered anything but a villain.

Surely keeping someone in containment while depriving them of basic human necessities is against NY State law. Can't ICE agents be charged for violating state laws? The recent CA law about officers in masks leads me to think they could. Resist ICE Abolish ICE Prosecute ICE

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Happy visibility day to all my bi friends! Y'all are awesome! Your sexuality is very cool; you are your own full and perfect flavor of queer. You aren't partial, you aren't kinda. Whatever relationship—including none at all—you are in or want, is a queer relationship. Bisexuality is a blessing.

Abolish ICE

Antifa is a posture. It isn't a person It isn't really a movement It isn't an organization It isn't even a politics Antifa is only ever resistance to fascism. It is a ghost and it is clearly haunting the dreams of those who are trying to establish fascist rule.

We’re gonna need a bigger reconstruction.

From Muppet History.

Yes, it's this. When I look back at the people I've known who have talked themselves into supporting Trump or, at least, convinced themselves that you gotta hand it to him, this is the most predictive feature.

If life were a video game then being trans in America today is like playing an easy level on hard mode. *other things are also like this.

Story of the century and our media fails to even act.

It's like they made a clone of Goebbels but somehow the volume got stuck on "screeching banshee"

if you haven't read Sexed Up yet, perhaps you should!

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Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

🎼God of the poor, friend of the weak, give us compassion, we pray. Melt our cold hearts, let tears fall like rain. Come, change our love from a spark to a flame. #transinchurch

Go fash, lose cash

MAGA wants Americans to be more outraged when someone says "Charlie Kirk sucked" than Americans were when Charlie Kirk said "MLK sucked". This is how white supremacy works.

Same with trans people. And I say that with 100% awareness of the shameful fact that the single out transgender member of Congress is one of the people who voted in favor of it. Transgender Americans deserve better.

What happed after Türkiye shut down a russian fighter jet that violated its airspace? Multiple choice: A. Türkiye was promptly nuked by moscow B. russia declared war on Türkiye C. Türkiye gained respect and moscow never messed with it again

Graft and Corruption

Why Washington Post fired me open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Blowing up boats in the Caribbean without any legal authority risks dragging the United States into another war, and provoking attacks against American citizens. I'm getting ready to force a vote with @kaine.senate.gov to ensure Congress' power to declare war is not so easily trampled.

If your rep voted out of fear of reprisal that is called cowardice. They are elected to do their job with integrity. If they chose their vote out of fear then they chose the fantasy of safety over the uncertainty of integrity. In that case they should be primaried & replaced by someone brave.

When I went through basic in 1991 we had a class specifically about that, how “I was just following orders” would not absolve us of anything. As far as I know that part of training has always been included.

Autumn has arrived. Flannels are broken out. I will burn a green leaf on a bonfire tonight and bid farewell to the freedom and heat of summer. And queerness is a blessing.

Lol she ignored trans people completely, leading voters to think she was hiding something. The consultant class Dems currently use is just rancid at politics.

And *this* is why "The View" didn't mention Jimmy Kimmel being forced out in violation of the First Amendment, even though it was the biggest news of the day. The hosts' paychecks will always come before informing you.

And they had better be told at that time, if not now, that they do in fact bear personal liability for killing people regardless of their orders or guidance.

There goes the First Amendment.

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

FWIW I have long since reached and passed the "Any politician who wants my vote will need to run on a platform of prosecuting and locking up every ICE agent who has been complicit in the human and civil rights violations we are witnessing" level of radicalization.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

i guess not I'm surprised that Ken Jennings is really good here, i just wouldn't have predicted the host of Jeopardy being a voice of moral courage on this specific issue.

A word to my progressive Christian friends (especially pastors): This hasn't happened yet but it's 100% where they want to go. So I am begging you to decide now what you will do if supporting trans people becomes legally grey. Think through these questions... 1/ open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner