men will really go on the public internet and show more sympathy for a guy who got exposed for being a rapist and domestic abuser than for literally any of his victims

It is parallel to why I am always uncomfortable with this argument that because Republicans flagrantly violate the rules that Dems should do it too. You cannot use abuser tactics without becoming an abuser yourself. It just doesn’t work that way.

“Anyone who cares about progressivism, or purports to want to build a better world, can’t treat sexism as an acceptable trade-off….In a moment when that fact is up for debate in half the country, we need a movement that’s crystal clear about where it stands. (And it can’t be just short of rape.)”

I'm on vacation so I'm not going to go deep on this awful, intentionally misleading and elitist piece.. but I just need to show some side-by-sides of data shown in this article vs the "working paper" it cites. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/o...

"July is Disability Pride Month, so I wanted to focus this newsletter post on how my Disability Justice lens informs all of my work, in case tangible examples could help others to think more critically about how oppression limits access." www.equitableforall.com/articles/7-w...

Anyway there is no "middle." There are just actual policy positions and POWER.

As someone who actively organizes, I think of metrics in relation to resources expended all of the time...

Alex James, a Minnesotan activist, went viral after being hit by a car while protesting at Delaney Hall, Despite her injuries, James remains undeterred in her fight for human rights, returning to the picket line the same day she was treated by doctors. She continues to advocate for detainees.

Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee, spent more than 14 months locked in an ICE camp. His health declined rapidly. Having been in the US since he was two, he never saw himself as an immigrant. He didn’t see himself as disabled. Now that he’s out, he’s advocating for both groups!

“The Trump administration is considering cutting HIV relief to Zambia if the country fails to meet a list of demands. Key to those demands is the U.S. receiving more access to Zambia’s natural minerals, according to The New York Times.”

This morning at Hancock High, seniors headed to the floor of the gym to receive their caps and gowns, each from a teacher they had chosen. Stacy Campbell waited there, holding her student Israel Makoka's cap and gown. But he wouldn't come. He and his brother, Max, 15, had been taken by ICE.

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water https://theonion.com/report-every-place-on-earth-has-wrong-amount-of-water-1851544516/

9 GW is flat out insane. If you assume 80% utilization, that's 56 TWh of electricity. That's more than 26 states used in 2024.

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I just don’t think things will dramatically improve until middle-class white people are willing to give up their perks (retirements, property, huge vacations, etc.) in this culture in exchange for housing and food and security for all. And we have a long way to go before they get there.

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

If you're engaged in organizing that needs more people to join, share those opportunities in every way you can. Invite people to join in. Keep making the invitations because most people don't join the first time you ask. For every 10 people you invite, you might get one person who will take it up.

I went to the floor to tell Steven's story. Steven is a 14-year-old constituent of IL-03 with autism who was detained at Dilley for 66 days.

setting this as my auto reply

A lot of people come to organizing because they were hurt by something and don’t really fully process that organizing is not where you do therapy or work out your traumas

A member of ACT UP said that during the peak years of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s: “We went to funerals and buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and then fucked danced and partied all night.” Because the world is on fire, it’s on us to live out loud. We need to do it all.

The Rubaya mine produces about 15% of the world’s coltan, used to manufacture smartphones, electric car batteries and other devices.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!

I’m calling it now: Republicans will try to make hormonal birth control illegal for teenagers

it's hard to process this level of cruelty to children

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Each time I've done a ride-along with the Dallas Police Department, every call has been mental health-related. You think you'll get a bank robbery or murder, but what you actually get is a guy with a machete jerking off on a highway median. People are struggling and there are few safety nets.

Who’s afraid of Thorstein Veblen?

Friday night news dump: Trump just opened a marine national monument to commercial fishing. Environmentalists worry that fishing in the area could damage sensitive ecosystems and habitats for endangered whales and other species. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

Oh please please please do this

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

One of the women denied prenatal care in ICE detention had been released. Updates and support here: www.gofundme.com/f/SupportMyP...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

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jesus christ.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

I think this a good time to remember that the only reason immigration laws exist in the first place is to suppress wages globally. If they can trap people in poorer countries, businesses can jump from place to place to bring down wages everywhere.