Fed abduction of US Citizen Amanda Trebach, a nurse who lives in Long Beach

Armed, masked federal agents violently abducted U.S. citizen & activist Amanda Trebach in San Pedro for monitoring ICE. This political kidnapping is an attack on our rights. Demand her release now! #ICEOutOfLA #FreeAmanda zurl.co/xCaiw

Free Amanda Trebach

if you're mad at a trans person for saying they won't vote for Gavin Newsom too damn bad! this is our lives! it's not a purity test when it's our lives. of course we're a one issue voter, it's our lives you could just not nominate Newsom! but everyone knows the risk of that now, you have no excuse

Dems: you can't just DO things in government Trump: [declares himself king, every institution in the country rolls over, does whatever he wants] Dems: ah! well. nevertheless..

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.

"How does the government have an interest in forcing people to wear a certain kind of underwear?"

California Senator Alex Padilla was physically assaulted by federal law enforcement and detained for attempting to attend DHS secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA.

Take a moment to read more about the experience of our reporter, @abemarquez.bsky.social, who was on the ground in Downtown Los Angeles this weekend covering the protests.

Pretty clear they didn't allow female soldiers either. It's all primarily white men.

Facebook banned @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for this essay, "Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence." So, make sure to read it and share it! "The Trump Administration is a huge surge of almost every kind of violence." www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

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Marine veterans are speaking out against the troop deployment in Los Angeles. Across the country, they’re taking down their American flags that have flown in front of their homes for years. Remember, we have friends everywhere.

Whether creating its own memes or working with celebrities like "Dr. Phil" McGraw, the government is treating a volatile situation in Los Angeles like content. www.wired.com/story/realit...

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

The FIRST question in 2025 about any new "innovation" has to be "how will fascist billionaires and politicians use this against us." This isn't academic. This is our world.

"I don't know any trans women. Nevertheless, I have an unshakeable belief in where they should and shouldn't be in everyday life, including mine. And if they want to disagree with that, they owe me an explanation. Also, I have kids. In case you were worried I lack moral authority."

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

The medical evidence review, published by the Department of Be Careful What You Wish For.... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

oppressing a minority is not a woman's right. vilifying a minority is not a woman's right. smearing a minority as rapists and pedos is not a woman's right. stripping a minority of internationally recommended healthcare is not a woman's right.

y’know when you see bad people talk about the “social contagion” of being trans? what they’re talking about is closeted trans people and eggs seeing us out and joyous trans people and knowing they can do it too it’s about wanting us to disappear and we need you to shut that shit down 💫

If you’re wondering why young people are trending right it’s because youth orgs on the left are struggling to keep the lights on meanwhile TurningPoint and Charlie Kirk have enough money to waste on events in schools that vote 80% Democratic.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

no more appeasement, no more concessions. it's time for "fix your hearts or die."

there are trans kids testifying in front of grown ass congresspeople about how they should be allowed to continue their lifesaving medications and being kind and gentle and good despite their trials, so please forgive me if I’m a little impatient with 16 year old cis boys gravitating to Andrew Tate

The Gaza Government Media Office says Israel is systemically targeting civilians as part of its “war of extermination” against Palestinians. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ps1p28

If transphobia had anything good or worthwhile to offer, then the more responsibility it gained, the better outcomes we would see in the world around us. Instead, transphobia was put in charge of major governments and now the world is falling apart around us as they lethally mismanage all of society

I wrote about how Elon Musk is pretending he's leaving a job he supposedly doesn't have to return to the job he supposedly never left, and how basically everything about him is made up nonsense. www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/e...

you’ll note from gender critical target selection that they are always ‘saving women’ from some outgroup, whether it’s trans people or immigrants, and never addressing male violence or structural inequality or anything else that might actually threaten the status quo or their position within it

Popes are chosen by God, making them the ultimate Dei hire

Gift article Six Fascist Dumbfucks Are Charged After Teresa Borrenpohl Was Illegally Dragged From Idaho Town Hall: Paul Trouette, Russell Dunne, Christofer Berg, Jesse Jones, Alexander Trouette IV, and Michael Keller. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

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Pascal about JK Rowling and the anti trans law on UK: ‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’

How to opt out of airport facial recognition … to the tune of Solidarity Forever?

YOU CANNOT RULES-LAWYER YOUR WAY OUT OF A HIERARCHY. You cannot expose a "flaw" in reasoning that is post-hoc and flimsy by design. The point is to exclude us, to dehumanize us, to deny us legibility. Understand *that*. Attack *that*. Defend us on *those* grounds.

The hatred against trans women probably makes me as sad as anything else happening in this world. Have never encountered a transphobe who doesn’t also reveal their homophobia and racism with the slightest scratch. Transphobes devote their lives to hatred. My contempt for them is total.

Stop saying "Will trans men be welcomed into women's spaces?" as some kind of rhetorical gotcha, as though trans men have not been beaten and KILLED after being FORCED into women's spaces. Your ignorance of trans men's oppression due to their invisiblisation does NOT a clever comeback make.

Centrists are beginning to call for an uprising against Donald Trump. Yet they helped create this situation by working to suppress the powerful social movements of the past decade. To involve enough people, any movement against Trump will have to address the material needs of the oppressed.

do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state

When you stack your administration with incompetent sycophants, you can push things for a while. They’ll threaten your enemies and make all sorts of mischief. But when shit goes down, it’ll go down fast. They’ll fall all at once like a house of cards because loyalty to a crook is all they got.

Sadie Vice reserved a hotel room online but was turned away when she showed up. Now an employee is offering up excuses.

Whenever I talk to dissidents from Russia, Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, they all have deja vu about what's happening in the US. Worse yet, they all say that the opposition is doing literally the exact same things that failed to stop budding dictators in their countries.

NYC: You have 8 mayor candidates who aren't sexpests, criminals, or creeps. Rank your top 5 among them and ensure that the city has a mayor it's proud of. Mine: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @nycspeakeradams.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social @jessicaramosqns.bsky.social @zellnor.bsky.social

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