Great visualization showing the power of the Great Lakes to store and release heat energy that affects the weather.

if you take your cellphone to a protest, even turned off in your backpack, that's a self inflicted surveillance pwn on your part

Gassing protesters in the U.S. is a fully bipartisan project and this has been true for a long time...

Such a good read for those of us trying to be brave and not sure what to do next. ❤️💪🏻

Guys, it’s a “windbreak” not “wind, break!”

Marimar Martinez was shot by ICE & ended up with 7 bullet wounds A TikTok influencer was shot today in south LA A 15 year old autistic boy disappeared & ended up in federal custody Chemical munitions are being used ICE not only targets disabled people, their actions may be a mass disabling event

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

The Supreme Court has clarified the Administration's theory of checks and balances: a blank check is a kind of check, and a negative balance is a kind of balance.

Hi. Once again reminding you that adoptees are often left without support, and that we are at far higher risks for suicide. Please help. If you can't donate, boost or share. Please. 🙏💚

Please read about the terrible impact(s) of tear gas which is a weapon of WAR: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

"The best way to honor Charlie [Kirk]'s memory is to continue his work" this is yall's presidential candidate?

Chicago forever

Talk about how this is all being staged to set Chicago up for a military occupation. Talk about how they are planning to attack cultural gatherings, picnics, and parades, knowing that people will cling to their neighbors and family members—and that Trump will use those acts of decency as an excuse.

Scotland will no longer provide grants to arms companies that supply Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/scotland-will-no-longer-provide-grants-arms-companies-supply-israel

Trump's hedging comments about whether the National Guard will be deployed in Chicago shouldn't calm anyone's concerns. We're expecting hundreds of federal agents on the ground, attacking our communities, whether the Guard accompanies them or not. In D.C., feds are the ones doing the real damage.

Centrists: "Defund the police" is a bad message. *proceeds to dramatically increase police funding, funnels Covid money to the police, expands ICE, gleefully incorporates army into the police force*

We're at the stage that if you have a better idea of what people need to do, then you have to do it. And maybe it starts with a couple of people and grows. YOU really have to do it.

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago. Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.

Y’all I need 700 now 🙏🏽

I just wanted to quickly note that this piece was an all-women effort, start to finish. From the reporters to the witnesses and even the lawyer who reviewed it, seven women working in different capacities were able to bring this story of gross malfeasance to life. Proud The Handbasket can do this.

I drew something for the first time in over a decade :P

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about. I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.

He started his career as a segregationist, has also abused children, and was so loud in the 70s-90s about wanting to eradicate Palestine that even *Israel* asked him to tone it down, so YES

I realize NO ONE else has this take, but I'm gonna say it: The National Guard are scabs now. These are potentially union jobs, many of which were outsourced, now they're insourced, but without union labor.

Really think one of the most dangerous sentences I’ve ever heard in my life is “this would never happen here.”

and this happened

"People detained [at the new immigration jail] will almost certainly have their basic rights violated while caged in tents under the brutal West Texas sun, with extreme heat that puts their lives at risk ... This is not just dangerous — it's cruel."

I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add. Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.

Oh no! This #invasivespecies keeps spreading. Need to get rid of the major host Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven).

the complete lack of leaks from ICE, CBP etc, to me reinforces how they’re entirely staffed by true believers who are willing to do almost anything for the cause.

BREAKING: The Cop City domestic terrorism charge against Jamie Marsicano has been dropped. DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams issued an order Thursday, stating that the 29-month delay in moving the charge forward violated Mariscano's speedy trial and due process rights.

Summer 1987: New York City mayor Ed Koch announces a bicycle ban in midtown. Slow-ride protests led by bike messengers fought the ban, and city residents sided with the cyclists. The ban was lifted before it ever went into effect. 📷Carl Hultberg

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

"Who's gonna protect you if we defund the police?" I dunno, man, who's protecting anyone now?

Michiganders👀 tinyurl.com/no-fema-dete...

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew