Columbia will never be free of this stain.

Our political science colleague and friend Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is being targeted by anti-speech and anti-academic freedom forces after defending her student’s right to protest. Consider donating to her legal fund if you have the means to do so.

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

My college macro economics class was right before lunch (and over 20 years ago) so I might be wrong but I don’t think gold prices creeping on $5k is a good sign.

Transphobia destroys your capacity to evaluate the world and politicians. This is what it leads to: voting for a man who hates you, because he swears to destroy those queers you despise.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

When Renee Good said "I'm not mad at you" what the ICE goon heard was "I'm not scared of you." That's what enraged him. The populace wasn't fully terrorized and cowed into submission yet, so he acted to make that happen.

Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.

Vague resemblance to the plot of the 2011 film, Contagion. Except in this case the deadly virus is the federal government (in the form of Proud Boys with badges).

Valuable analysis and it will be necessary to create an archive of these actions. After 2 years of watching a genocide life streamed on our phones (and ~5 after watching Floyd murdered by police just blocks away) I’m sadly not too optimistic about any future systemic changes.

Charlottesville, remember Heather Heyer

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

If only there were recently a movement calling for the exposure of lies that governments tell to justify extrajudicial assassinations 🥲

I remember when an avowed white supremacist killed Heather Heyer like it was yesterday because it’s also today.

There are people who still don't understand that you can do everything right--you can do everything they tell you--and you will still be shot in the face.

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

Can’t help but think that if our fellow MAGA citizens can dehumanize a white mom in a Honda CRV, we are well beyond “first they came for the communists”

one net effect of this will just be to make life a little harder for Americans in ways, they can’t quite put their finger on, because some of these organizations do the invisible work of multilateralism that enables contemporary life; another will be to hold up progress on most shared global goal…

I lived in Minneapolis just short of a decade and I can tell you that if a Minnesotan drops an f-bomb on national TV then they are PISSED.

People don’t talk enough about how Trump’s anti-trans witch hunt is deeply offensive to trans AND non-trans women. Just look at his impression of women weight lifters to see what he and the GOP really think about you and your mothers, sisters, wives, and gfs.

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The context here btw is he's mocking a transgender woman

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Excited to announce I’m now a senior editor for policy, politics, and ideas at @vox.com! I’ll be commissioning outside pieces, so email me if you have pitches or writers to recommend. Everything from quick hits off the news to opinion essays to reported features are welcome.

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

No trans journalists is ever involved at any level in nyt news coverage about trans ppl; we are purposely excluded. The nyt has not hired or assigned a trans journalist to cover trans news for at least five years. Your publisher and top editors are well aware of that.

Boosting this. @anjalikdayal.bsky.social is my go-to for all things related to the UN and international law.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

It’s really rich that the New York War Crimes had the audacity to publish this story about a trans athlete, Lia Smith, who took her life in the face of anti-trans bullying and harassment fomented and normalized by that same paper’s deeply stigmatizing “reporting” on trans people.

Riley Gaines has become a main figure in the anti-trans movement. @zeinmurib.bsky.social (Fordham) & Ronnee Schreiber (SDSU) comment on how her message fits the broader right-wing project. Learn more from @msjpauly.bsky.social, @motherjones.com & @pablo.show:

Riley Gaines claims trans athletes are the biggest threat to women’s athletics. Is that true? Or is it coaches who use power to sexually abuse young women while universities look the other way? @msjpauly.bsky.social in @motherjones.com with an excellent take: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

this was posted four months ago. the lesson? Ignore the appeasers. they are bad people. and they don’t know how to win.

For those of you who don’t know, the residents of Paterson are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. newjersey.news12.com/bomb-threats...

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts. Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

There's literally never been a trans woman who has ever competed on any US Olympic team despite trans people having been eligible since 2004.

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Never left. Positive & negative eugenics have been consistent features of U.S. economic, social, and health policy. - Work requirements - How "families"/"households" are defined for the purpose of eligibility for benefit (e.g. tax credits) - The coupling of employment status & healthcare insurance

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Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?

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“Laws without morals are useless” indeed @upenn.edu

these people have literally never met a muslim outside watching Homeland

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