🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on. You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

Some folks want to write fanfic for a federal judge instead of grappling with reality. I get why that’s more comforting, but “She’s getting ready to spring her trap next time” is an inadequate response to bright lines being crossed and neighborhoods being tear-gassed. I hope most of us see that.

Finished Rhacel Salazar Parreñas' new book, "The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers." It's brief, but is packed with examples and explanations of how culture, gender, laws, and savior complex combine to enable trafficking of domestic workers by regular folks. …

hostile reminder that body-cams are bullshit. they are possibly the most classic example (after "more training") of transformharm.org/ab_resource/... more money to cops. technological fake solutions. actively used to criminalize people. used to support arguments for more cops.

Mutual aid groups, food banks, etc are about to be under even more pressure in the US. Post your local one's donation link here, and if you're seeing this, and you can spare a few bucks, pick one two to give to.

when things are going from Bad to Worse, it's especially important to look at them without the veil of fantasy that has done so much to weaken our movements' response to the Bad. in particular, the kayfabe of the "rule of law", & the rest of the state-preservationist claptrap it drags in its wake.

just gonna keep saying it: what a state *is*, structurally, is its agents' "discretion" – which never has a damn thing to do with what's on paper as how things Should Be Done. this is a squabble over style, tactics, and power within the regime, not "rule-of-law". meansof.org/2025/04/12/t... 1/2

hi, axolotl lovely / frog K here, internet transfem illuminatus, writer, etc. my steadily declining income is too little for groceries, i have like $20, and my household is losing SNAP. help me get to winco already cash.app/$asimplefrog ko-fi.com/frogk (to paypal) rb's & any help welcome <3

just one more thing before i go back in my well for the day: goldman voters could easily shift to lander **if** they pay attention to his actual record: co-sponsoring the city council's anti-BDS resolution; pushing hard for More New Jails; constant votes for more cops and bigger NYPD budgets; etc.

these ghouls are trying to market chatgpt not just in spite of its ability to severely damage the mental health and threaten the lives of vulnerable and isolated people, but through quietly pushing that as its unique selling proposition

Cuomo, in one of his final attempts to cling to political power, has correctly linked opposition to sex work decrim with support for racism and bigotry www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Why are Maryland public libraries spending public money to depress the wages of public sector workers? My latest for @truthout.org. truthout.org/articles/lib...

I wasn't able to find this in settings on Android but did find it on the web interface, fwiw. It was checked as "use as default"

LRB: always good to have this reminder on (yet another) day when Democracy Now is crossing the picket line (like so many others).

good thread & proud to have joined these writers in this boycott too

This report by @rebeccaburns.bsky.social raises troubling questions about the role of the landlord in the federal raid on the apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive. Agents "appear to have received advance information about the building’s occupants that led them to target certain apartments"

well, i guess i will be the one to say: this is a strong indication we're likely to be looking at de blasio 2.0 (unless betraying a large part of his base just plain sinks mamdani, in which case we're getting giuliani-on-worse-drugs).

Today is Primidi the 1st of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate apples.#JacobinDay More information on apples

I keep seeing headlines about US MARSHAL SHOT BY ICE but this buries the lede. ICE shot multiple people including a witness filming them attempt to abduct someone AND all of this happened outside of a school

Please come out to support Rumeysa Ozturk tomorrow, Tuesday, October 21, 8:30 AM at the JFK Federal Building in Boston. This is Rumeysa’s hearing to try to restore her right to work. #Tufts #RumeysaOzturk #indivisible #ICE

"Don't think that all of these politicians across both sides of the aisle, corporate interests, and these institutions have betrayed you. Calling it betrayal suggests that someone ... on your side has abandoned you. These forces weren't on your side to begin with. They were steering us toward this."

Here it is, the call for submissions for my next anthology, ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK: Stories and Strategies from a Movement to End the AIDS Crisis, to be published by @haymarketbooks.org! Please forward widely!⚡💕⚡💕⚡ Here's the link to the call: www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/other

Today is Décadi the 30th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate the barrel.#JacobinDay More information on the barrel

this short and sharp classic seems relevant as various ppl supposedly on the left make body cameras for ICE brownshirts a demand. body cameras are a quintessential empty reform, right up there with "implicit bias training". transformharm.org/ab_resource/...

No Kings No Crown Jewels

Such a weird way to spell the word "violation," but what do I know, I'm an anarchist publishing collective, they're the Associated Press.

Don't let anybody (including your self-doubt) hold you back from doing the things that need to be done or building the things that need to be built. If you and others want more, then you can work to make more a reality.

Cancel SPOTIFY. They are running ICE ads. F them. www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners wapo.st/4nVB9fn

Tonight’s zine folding and whistle packing party at Nighthawk was even more packed out than last week’s.

Reminder since the resist accounts are at it again pushing dangerous misinfo. If you plan on attending a rally tomorrow do not under any circumstances sit down at a mass rally especially if you are facing fascist terror and police. It is one of the most dangerous things you can do.

Refaat Alareer’s family is struggling. They returned to find their home demolished. If you have quoted a line from his poetry, retweeted something, or mourned his death, please support his family today. chuffed.org/project/1093...

Long overdue story on Leqaa Kordia. Read it, read her words from prison, and donate to her legal fees (both in our thread). www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Pretty cool, a global pandemic that killed millions didn't teach liberals that basic political intersectionality includes ability and disability.

"crazy kids who don't know any better" are the larval form of an invisible insect that pupates into "a product of their time" when the human host body dies

may be more relevant as a vibe shift than as policy shift—because decrim requires changes to state laws, and also because there will be no meaningful decrim in NYC with the NYPD we have. I would be asking a lot more re: how he'd get the NYPD to abide *any* policy change he wants to make

lrb(s): and the same goes – even more so – for all the strains of photo-focused arrest-based lobbying that have done so much to weaken the tactical and strategic imagination of the palestine solidarity efforts of the past two years.

this is where movements become moments & die: people see the display of a radical tactic and, not comprehending the tactical purpose, adopt only the display as an echo of the fight. it becomes an empty, consumerist meme: buy an inflatable and dance around and that’s how you fight ICE!

the spectacle as a deescalating tactic, absent anything to deescalate, can easily devolve into stuntery and cosplay: nothing materially impacted, but people pat themselves on the back for the sweat from dancing around for a couple hours, as if they had done something other than tire themselves out.

clownery/absurdity in the face of extremism and violence function to take the wind out of the sails of whatever volatile opposition is being stood up against. that tactic, though, only works if there’s a direct confrontation.

One thing I haven’t seen reported about the ICE building protest: they have 10-20 costumes on a rack that anyone is free to use. Put it on, inflate it and protest!

I'm probably going to write more about this after class, but on today's Indigenous People's Day I am thinking of Ayiti and its people past and present. First Caribbean island to be hit by European genocide, the first free Black nation in the Americas whose leaders renamed it for its Indigenous name

Police in the US are comparable to the Iraqi Hashd ash Shaabi/PMU. Ostensibly part of a state security service run by elected civilian leadership, but in practice serve as an independent paramilitary completely unaccountable to civilian democratic control.

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS. This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Yes, we are all glad that the fuhrer didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's almost like they did their best to choose someone who wouldn't offend him.

as ever, crankily pointing out that this only seems "extraordinary" bc state-preservationists insist on fantasizing about "the rule of law" instead of looking at and talking about actual concrete structures. on the most basic level, this is the entire structure of how "crime statistics" work: 1/3

A map of Gaza shows how Israeli forces will withdraw under the first phase of the ceasefire plan while remaining in control of nearly 60% of the besieged Strip aje.io/kekalb

Exhibit #1 million that you can just DO THINGS. These folks came up with an idea and have now implemented it. We can all do something where we are. I just donated to their efforts.