This is constantly happening. A paramilitary force is violently enforcing second-class status for nonwhite people the United States with the support of police forces across the country. Sure, ICE must be abolished, but so must every institution that supports such brutality. & this cannot be reformed

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

These are the ridiculous things that happen in our country when a child is uninsured. Even short gaps in coverage put families at risk of huge, devastating medical bills. I've been working on this issue for 20+ years now and I am tired of reading stories like this. We can do better.

"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached." "Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse. But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000. Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home. Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.

Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26 He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

ICE raids are driving a looming eviction crisis for LA immigrants. Calls for a countywide eviction moratorium are growing after immigrant tenants in LA report lost wages, falling behind on rent and landlords threatening to call ICE on them. lapublicpress.org/2025/09/ice-...

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all. Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

I know there are mayors out there, including my own (ostensibly), who are serious about protecting their constituents from ICE, and this is a repeatable strategy that they can organize.

Update: protesters moved the lady in the wheelchair to safety as police pushed forward. @ShotOn35mm

In the middle of all of this, I have been so heartened by the dedication of the principals and teachers at our LAUSD schools, who have taken every opportunity to reiterate loudly and firmly that they are here for *all* our kids.

You don’t need to be in LA to fight back. Rapid response rallies are happening across the nation to demand David Huerta’s release and an end to ICE raids. actionnetwork.org/event_campai... #FreeDavidHuerta #FreeThemALL

THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.

The Ag Committee's part of the Reconciliation Bill raises the SNAP work requirement age for able-bodied adults without dependents from 54 to 64. It also changes the definition of "dependent child" from under 18 years to under 7 years old to determine "Able-bodied adult without dependents."

They are really gonna try and socialize ideas being illegal. These folks believe the demographic shift is making way for “bad ideas” winning. This is starting with pro-Palestine sentiment and will expand.

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

There have been 9 deaths in LASD custody in the first 9 weeks of 2025. LA County has still not set forth the MCJ closure plan from March 30th, 2021. This report outlined how to close the jail in 18-24 months. Join us on April 1st at the board to demand #NoMoreDelay, #CloseMCJ!

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Like what would happen if we actually thought in class terms and admitted that Black and Indigenous and Queer folks as various classes Aren’t “canaries in coal mines” But the very first step to egregious exploitation and racism in ignoring it is the way white labor keeps losing

Also remember that Gitmo has a long and bleak history of immigrant detention. I wrote this in 2018 about detention camps there from the GHW Bush and Clinton presidencies, before the war on terror had even begun.

"Legality" is cold comfort to me, because I remember that many of the greatest horrors in human history were 'legal'. And proceduralism similarly offers cold comfort, because I am deeply familiar with the 'slow violence' of administrative processes designed to disenfranchise marginalized people.

The team going after price-gouging landlords is now tracking renters facing eviction due to the fires. Fill out this form and you’ll also get connected to resources: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is us. We are pushing back. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Not what I thought I'd be writing about when I picked the name Torched. Thanks to everyone for checking in. We're fine. Many of our friends are not fine. I tried my best to describe what's happening with the fires and what LA needs to do now www.torched.la/zero-percent...

Remember that California voted to keep legalized slavery for incarcerated people. Many of those fighting these fires are effectively modern day enslaved people. They're forced to risk their lives for their freedom.

I wrote a book with @prisonculture.bsky.social about the kind of work that's ahead of us. No matter what happens next, let's get our learn on and think strategically about the work of collective survival. Isolation incubates fear. Together, we are strong, and we will fight for each other.