Below are photos of Alaa Abdel Fattah free and at home with his sister, Sanaa, and mother, Laila. It’s wonderful to see his beautiful smile again! (Photos via his sister, Mona, on X) #FreeAlaa

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

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Trump can't wait to play with nukes. "Trump threatened that the US could resort to warfare if the nuclear talks between the two countries fail." Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Washington 'cannot have a say' on the issue.

We all know this isn’t “legal” but we also all know that “legal” doesn’t matter to the fascists or their lust for retribution and terror. The goal now for the fasciets is terrorizing society into compliance or action.

A reminder as you tell people to "find community" that most of you do not give af about accessibility. In some places (like my state) anti-LGBTQ laws (targeting trans & nonbinary) overlap or are even identical to ableist "ugly laws" & cut off access to transit/public accommodations/housing/work.

"In 2025, murder videos circulate regularly. The victims are usually poor and unknown until their posthumous fame. Dead human beings are scrutinized, analyzed, and ... degraded, on plastic rectangles of sacrilege. People used to carry snuff in their pockets; now they carry around snuff films..."

The latest from the indispensable @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "[T]here is no longer 'news' in the US: only speculation, propaganda in oligarch-run newspapers, dark money posts disguised as articles, the occasional well-researched but paywalled piece, and independent reporting blocked by algorithms."

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

They're not buying TikTok to make money (although they'll certainly try), they're buying TikTok to shut the people up. For all its sins, that platform has been immeasurably important on raising awareness for a lot of issues we care about. That's why they're fucking with it.

The United States also already has a major physician shortage, which is bad now and projected to worsen to pretty extreme levels as Boomers continue to age. Making H1-B visas dependent on a $100K bribe is going to cause thousands of medical students & residents to stop coming here every single year.

NEW: Discharging patients who are at risk of harming themselves or others is illegal. But dozens of psychiatric hospitals aren’t honoring the law — and the government isn’t following up.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Because the far right takeover of media has occurred globally

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This is preposterous.

"While Trump's foot soldiers wage a campaign of fear in our streets, Chicagoans are continuing to organize." organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-a...

Highly and gratefully recommended. "Reverend David Black . . . was standing on the sidewalk, pleading with agents . . . to have a conscience and stop abducting our migrant neighbors. Within minutes of my arrival, the agents began firing at the reverend, striking him in the head with a pepper ball."

Please read. A semester's worth of counter-intuitive insights into the broligarch economy encapsulated in a 300-character post. (I. e., another gift from the indispensable @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.)

Please read. A semester's worth of counter-intuitive insights into the broligarch economy encapsulated in a 300-character post. (I. e., another gift from the indispensable @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.)

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

sinclair pulled its kirk tribute six minutes before it was set to air on its abc affiliates

🎯 In the house that Sarah built.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵‍💫 Then they called her a “risk.” 🤡 karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...

Wayne Connell, Chief HR officer for @washingtonpost.com, voluntarily put his name on a letter informing a Black woman that men who believe she is genetically inferior are a protected class and that she engaged in misconduct by criticizing men who have historically advocated for lynching Black people

Karen Attiah made critical comments about *men who are white supremacists* and @washingtonpost.com said that they are a protected class Be clear about what they were saying That white supremacists are a protected class

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

The Raid. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

The latest 🎯 from @michaelharriot.bsky.social for @contrabandcamp.bsky.social. “[T]he same people who are grabbing their pitchforks and torches over Jimmy Kimmel did nothing when these corporations capitulated to right-wing outrage and threats from Donald Trump by silencing Black voices.”

Cannot escape the feeling that people would care more about the nightmare unfolding in Chicagoland if Trump had actually sent the National Guard. People hung all of their ideas about fascist escalation looks like on that. Meanwhile, agents hunt our neighbors and gas protesters here.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani...

nothing is the "whole ball game." Every fight is a fight. We're going to lose a lot of them. None of us can fight every fight. All of us can fight some of the fights. When we lose, we move to the next fight, building community and opposition as we go.

Stacy Davis Gates: "Solidarity is the antidote to white supremacy. Solidarity is the antidote to anti-immigrant fear. Solidarity is the antidote to homophobia and transphobia. Solidarity is the antidote of people not having and still needing. Solidarity is what reunites us."

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

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Okosimaan = Squash or pumpkin Ojibwe word of the day! Learning languages is fun and honors our ancestors and future generations. Follow #Ojibwe WOD: www.youtube.com/@anton.treuer Miigwech (thank you)! #squash #pumpkin

Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who's the despot of them all? 🫠💀

every "ancient tradition" was invented between 1848-1870 and every "modern perversion" is so ancient that it predates writing

the GOP for my entire adult life: We hate minorities. We hate abortion. We hate education. we love theocracy, we want a dictatorship. the Democratic party for my entire adult life: we must reach across the aisle and work with our Republican colleagues to achieve their goals!

“She’s mine.” Watch this whole interview with Andrea Velez, a US citizen arrested by ICE while on her way to work. youtu.be/AmfpngmLIzQ?...

It shook me that white man at Fox News was allowed to say all homeless people should be killed. On live TV. I WAS homeless a decade ago. The isolation you experience after being cast off by people is why I refuse to speak to anyone who knew me back then. It’s unforgivable what the homeless endure

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

I would ask you to consider that buying a book by trans creators about trans characters sends a more powerful message about what a publisher should care about and spend their money on than not buying one.

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Cloaked in the flag and carrying a cross.