Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The people who do this kind of shit need to be jailed.

I had croup and had to be put on oxygen twice as a toddler, I had multiple infections that required antibiotics, I would absolutely have been one of the "died before age 5" childhood mortality examples. This is only one of many reasons I have no patience for the "natural is better" idiots.

Reminder that blocking humanitarian aid is explicitly a war crime and is addressed by the Geneva Conventions, Rule 55. People who block aid are war criminals and should be dealt with as such. ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary... The Geneva Conventions exist for a reason.

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

Oh mheart. Oh love . now the other kids And the names of the guards who took them in the first place

How many of Rowling's friends are Epstein clients?

Admittedly there are challenges to police protecting or pursuing justice for their residents against their federal colleagues, but to do and to say that they can do nothing is a choice, revealing an allegiance. That allegiance is not to their residents but to other police and to authoritarianism.

Best ever.

the civil rights movement did not win by awakening the secret virtue of Southern whites by appealing to their better nature. it won by producing a demonstration of their brutality Northerners could not ignore

The regime’s inability to change course reveals some key weaknesses. The Trumpists have bought into their own propaganda – they really believe they represent the “will of the people.” And they exist in a rightwing information bubble that constantly affirms such nonsense.

We need a better way to get the 3800+ kids out of ICE detention than this. We know Liam’s name and we can advocate on his behalf, but that isn’t true of almost any of the other people stuck in detention centers. We have to stop ICE on a systemic level.

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

We need these. *I* need these.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

Literally doing the thing.

Reminder: *Israel* have killed more journalists in Gaza than any other country in any other modern conflict, or indeed in most 20th C. conflicts combined. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... The assertion that banning journalists is for their safety rather than to conceal atrocities is brain rot.

Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”

and which of course we all know is false, as the loved ones of Breonna Taylor will remind you

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

“Heartbroken but also very angry… sickening lies by the administration… reprehensible and disgusting… Alex is clearly not holding a gun… please get the truth out about our son, he was a good man…”

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Can someone on the ground near a detainment camp start a volunteer transport network? People could sign up to drive refugees home, one leg of the trip at a time. Animal rescues have moved dogs cross-country this way for years.

So true. “Had the world stood up to Netanyahu as he illegally annexed more and more of Palestine then we wouldn’t be talking about the U.S. colonising Canada and Greenland” Dr Daniel Goyle

Honestly, the only way forward for the EU - and indeed the rest of the world - is to route as much of the economy as possible away from any dependence on the US. The US has succeeded in destroying ~all~ pretense that it is trustworthy, and is in the process of giving up all soft power.

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

Let's look at how all the people who lost their friggin' minds over any *percieved* curb on the "absolute" rights of the 2nd Amendment, often based on the myth that guns were needed to fight against any authoritarian government trampling rights, now think that the 1st & 4th Amendments aren't real.

This is very important. If you're giving rides to people or dropping off groceries, as best as you can, don't use DMs and SMS (texting). If you can connect via Signal that's ideal. If giving rides, don't put someone's exact address into your GPS. Navigate to a nearby landmark and verbally confirm.

I am forced to note, here, that the AI used to create nonconsensual porn and CSAM is still given more right of reply in the media than ordinary transgender humans are in pretty much any story about a "trans controversy."

“It’s like half of y’all ain’t never seen Star Wars or a Disney movie. How do you not know which side to root on?”

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What the fuck are we actually doing here?

The animating principle of representational democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of deranged rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.

Evergreen: The first thing cops say after an incident is always a lie.

not to be all shouty but THEY ARE GOING TO SHOOT SO MANY MORE PEOPLE IN THE FUCKING STREETS IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH THIS ONE

Show up, create chaos, scare the shit out of the citizens, and when one freaks out and tries to run, shoot her. The death penalty for disobeying ICE. Then, when you go to court, lie about how "in danger" you felt. Didn't we just claim we rescued Venezuela from a dictator attacking his own citizens?

I see that the BBC are uncritically repeating ICE lies about the murder. Not even hinting that the video does not support the "official narrative" at all.

What will NATO actually do if the Trump administration decides to try to invade Greenland? Genuine question, because I honestly have no idea.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

The last thing that Republicans want is a truly informed public. America is still on its slide to becoming a new version of North Korea.

Thinking this morning about the various and assorted people who spent last election shrieking about Harris being a warmonger and telling me that Trump was peaceful and didn't start wars. I mean, I get the hate for Harris's foreign policy, I really do. But how's this working out for you?

If the Epstein files have proven anything, it’s that the justice system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it was built to do: to shield the rich and powerful from accountability while victims are buried, ignored, or silenced.

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even among really smart folks, i think ppl have greatly underestimated just how much resources the ultra-wealthy have put into culture war bullshit to get us to fight each other instead of them

STOP CALLING IT AN IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN! TAKING CITIZENSHIP FROM EXTREMELY VETTED NATURALIZED CITIZENS IS NOT A CRACKDOWN! IT'S BETRAYAL.