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Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

I don’t think you could grow a more useful idiot in a lab.

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

I have a raised since kittenhood cat who goes around trying to fight my former stray and doesn't even understand that the reason he's not been getting a fresh beatdown every day is because he isn't even taken seriously enough to be considered a threat & it's a great example of maga vs masculinity

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Many local police do this too. It’s actually touted as a “reform”

This is the path to genocidal madness actually. You can see it with Israelis themselves.

Installing ICE at airports is a grade a level stupid idea but it also advances the larger issue, which is a private, unaccountable army funded by and ideologically loyal to a dictator that spreads militaristic oppression to all forms of public life.

Chris Murphy: "This is nonsensical. This is what happens when you put real estate developers and talk show hosts in charge of American national security."

Chris Murphy: "It's just disgusting, it's so heartbreaking that we have a president who is cheerleading the death of American citizens. Mueller is amongst many who have been trying to hold this president to account. He's the most corrupt president in the history of the country."

Air travel is about to become more dangerous for people of color. This could get really bad. This is another PR intimidation tactic from the Trump regime led by President Stephen Miller. In response the Democrats should dig in even more.

This machine kills fascists

I love her. She took the criticism she received for speaking up for the children of Gaza and said “I will increase the thing”

Concentration camps. Use the term. Do not stop using the term until this current American regime falls and the camps are liberated. Then use the term in The Hague. This is Trumpism. This is white nationalism. This is he moral gutter into which America has fallen.

Something I didn’t anticipate about living under full Federal fascism is how quickly I would forget things. Things that happened a week ago are quickly memory-holed because we have to endure a daily firehose of bullshit. Yesterday, I decided to watch/listen to Bruce’s Streets of Minneapolis again.

Giving away the game here that ICE is his own mob he will deploy if his demands aren't met.

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

Shoutout to everyone who writes their own shit. You rock.

the celebrating will absolutely fill the streets, a mass of unfettered joy and relief.

my god the sheer sound will be deafening

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

I know it's fun to make fun of Elon Musk but I hope everybody also knows that tweet is white supremacist signaling all the way down

I know this is an obvious thing to say but we should talk more about what a racist this guy is. He’s as racist as George Wallace or Strom Thurmond but unlike them he often escapes having racism mentioned as a leading cause for all his decisions.

If I seem to be talking about water a lot this week, here's why

“Ideology-free populist who can’t be trusted” is one problem. Handing Republicans a giant whatabout that will resonate with both media and less engaged voters is another. It’s not tattoo proves devout Nazi. It’s why would Dems want to muddy the picture on who’s pro- or anti-fascism in this moment?

This kind of ignorance is really frustrating. There is reporting that he knew. There is circumstantial evidence that he knew. There are indications it came up in the Marines. There is also his appearances on (and praise of) extremist podcasts. Don't comment on this if you haven't bothered to read

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

THIS

Being antisemitic results in: ✅ empowering fascists, ✅ sapping any power from one’s point or position, ✅ taking attention from & undermining serious issues like genocide or Islamophobia, ✅ dragging others into hate & bigotry, ✅ becoming the monster you despise, ✅ & looking like a fool.

This basically every day over and over

Oh, I like this: state law requiring ICE to waive supremacy clause immunity if it wants to contract with local agencies?

It's almost like this was a very foreseeable and obvious problem that Democrats didn't have to saddle themselves with. You might call it an unforced error.

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Best you can do is cut off access to the pipeline to others. Flood the zone with counterinfo, directly challenge garbage rhetoric where it happens, public shaming, etc. Cut it off and help your friends/loved ones clear up the confusion on the latest facts being obscured by garbage.

I think it’s notable that a whole lot of Jewish (and non-Jewish!) folks are saying that the antisemitism here is as bad as it’s ever been and getting worse maybe worth paying attention to the voices of people who live this stuff

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I tried to push back on a follower of mine defending using "zio," got accused of being one, and then blocked. So to make it absolutely clear: stop fucking saying that shit. "Zio" was coined by David Duke. The way in which so many of you have so easily slipped into this kind of antisemitism is BAD.

A crucial part of anti-Zionist rhetoric is that the Israeli political project does not actually represent or protect all Jewish people. You are undermining anti-Zionism when you go around acting like all Jewish people automatically support Israel. The percentage that actually do isn’t relevant here.

the internet is one single bar. this is a post about that nazi bar metaphor

amaze amaze amaze!

He knew what playing Dumbledore would mean, had trans ppl tell him what it would mean, he considered not taking it… but did anyways. His desire to secure his legacy for cis children mattered more to him than trans kids lives. Ironically, this role is the thing that will most tarnish said legacy.

What if we all, everywhere, just agreed to have no things happening anywhere, for like a month. Just for people to remember what it's like.

The war in Iran could trigger a global food shock • More than 1.1mn tonnes of fertiliser and fertiliser inputs is currently stuck in the Gulf • Shortages are starting during northern hemisphere’s planting season, raising the risk of lower harvests for staples like rice www.ft.com/content/1054...

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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