Would they be able to get away with all this if we didnt have to go to work? Do work, rent and bills only exist to produce profit, or is it just as importantly a function of social pacification, punishment and control? Is the economy just about money, or is it also about power?

Gonna say this very very very slowly The main issue with putting your name on a protest list is not whether the government has your name It is you providing information about where you are/will be That is *legally* actionable

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

You probably failed at "building bridges" if millions of people think that your life's work was destructive and terrible and if your supporters have to threaten people to keep them quiet about said legacy.

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.

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Not just crazy, but rank and file are motivated by greed. How cares if the fire is out of control I am getting 2 grand

the reason rightwingers care so much about the cracker barrel logo change and take it as a personal attack is that most conservatives areas don’t have any actual community and the only semblence of identity these days is based around consumption

As always, the proof that AI will have no lasting impact on the arts is that it has produced nothing of value. It has been used in the creation of nothing of value. It has nothing to offer the pursuit of beauty and understanding.

Once we sacrifice the trans and the illegals and the poor and the disabled to the fascist regime they will stop going after marginalized groups and then we can fight back. After they’re defeated we can just tell all those people “sorry, protecting you was the idea of perfect.”

All that money people threw away so Harvard could hand it over to the Trump administration could have gone to transition funds, abortion funds, travel funds, food kitchens and pantries, Palestinian fundraisers, and more. Community care is more important and effective than giving to Harvard.

We should change the american flag to a tongue licking a boot

If you can't tell the difference between propaganda storylines put out by ideological hacks and actual journalism (hint: one regularly involves people admitting and correcting mistakes), you have no business being in journalism.

so the people who kept telling us that college men raping their schoolmates isn't a big deal want us to freak out about a table?

If Democrats truly want to appeal to young men, they should probably start presenting themselves as the party that definitively *won’t* draft you into an illegal war.

10 reasons not to rank Andrew Cuomo *at all*

1 — ZOHRAN MAMDANI 2 — LANDER 3 — MYRIE 4 — A. ADAMS 5 — BLAKE DON’T RANK CUOMO. EARLY VOTING SATURDAY & SUNDAY. PRIMARY DAY TUESDAY. LFG.

The feds kidnapping and trafficking people is a violent crime. Protesting it is fighting back against abuses of power. The government claiming protestors started the violence is DARVO—Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. It’s what abusers do when they face consequences.

But—and this is really the thing that kills me about this sort of discourse—the fact that her first desire is not to fix the problem now that it is here, but rather to be let off the hook for helping cause it ... this is what shows me the motives were bad from the start. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

Five years ago we put this very same president in a fucking bunker and we'll fucking do it again. Happy Pride everyone long live the uprising Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Ruth Asawa's 1940s internment camp ID card, from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

When there is nothing to eat, the chuds will always turn to cannibalism

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Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

Once you really fully recognize that this isn't "identity vs biology" but rather individual self-determination being suppressed in favor of an ideologically constructed schema, it becomes infinitely clearer what's going on.

For my Patreon post this week, I wrote about why TERFs are still complaining about not having friends. www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

One side believes the people other side shouldn't be allowed to exist while the other side wants to play sports, yet somehow no one is willing to compromise. Yes, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.

The Republicans literally ran on racism. Racism drives the majority of Trump's policies--including immigration. Racist propaganda is how Trump was able to win over voters. How is sticking your head in the sand about that to talk solely about eggs and cell phones going to help you?

12 Dem Senators and 48 Dem House members voted for the Laken Riley Act—allowing US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime. As you see those 60 Dems complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or Kilmar Abrego Garcia, among many more—please know they enabled this fascism.

I’m not in the US so not at these protests but I peeled off a ton of moms to more radical politics from the Women’s March and they showed up with gas masks and shit 4 years later at the Breonna Taylor protests

This entire thread from last week is becoming more and more prescient and I hate it. But the reality is those of us who have studied and worked within the academic side of countering authoritarianism in the far right have known this for a long time. bsky.app/profile/brai...

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Russell Brand has spent the past few years aligning himself with the American right as allegations of sexual violence were made public against him. He knew he would find defenders and protection among their ranks. That should tell you everything you need to know about what the party represents

Elon Musk: The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy Also Elon Musk:

Hot to go, indeed.

So Newsom's podcast is basically a tour de transphobia, huh? Guess he took the "become a podcast bro" to heart. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Watching an administration of violent, sieg heiling christo-fascists use Jewish vernacular while enacting Nazi policies against a marginalized group is more obscene than anything I could ever draw. Hope they all get what they richly deserve. 👍

Eat shit Ben Dreyfuss