I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza

“As starvation spreads, Israeli killings of civilians has increased…the Israeli military has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians trying to reach food distribution sites since the end of May.” every day another conscience-shocking horror

great opportunity for downward mobility (hell)

A friend sent me an AI slop video thinking it was funny :( now I have to kill him

This story reported by @bgirledukate.bsky.social is horrific.

unsettling when you find out that someone whose work you follow and respect is also very hot

“You could lose access to your 21 years of Gmail history” don’t threaten me with a good time

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

If you approach a brown, Arab, Palestinian, and/or Muslim person and demand they confirm they aren't antisemitic and won't harm Jews - you are a racist.

messy bratz doll is goals

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Muslims are my brothers and sisters and anyone who speaks about them as though they’re less than that can go fuck themselves

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

age / sex / layer of hell

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

call your senators right now. tell them to vote against it, tell them to scream about it—make them they understand that protecting trans healthcare is a major issue and that there is no defensible compromise position.

1 in 5 trans adults are insured through Medicaid - and this is what happens when they can’t use that coverage for gender-affirming care 19thnews.org/2025/02/red-...

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

BREAKING: DOJ claims that the Trump administration did not violate a court order barring it from third-country removals without providing process when three people were sent to El Salvador b/c the Defense Department sent them to El Salvador on March 31, not DHS, and DOD isn't a defendant.

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

this is fucking vile

we need to be saying again and again and again that even if 100% of these people had a criminal record none of this would be okay. people who are criminalized are humans and deserve human rights. people are systematically criminalized based solely on the color of their skin, poverty, language etc

This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

this story is awful. but it would also be awful if he had a criminal record—criminalization does not make someone disposable or expendable

No human being belongs there, and no one should have been sent there. We need to keep repeating those parts, too.

"The U.S. Government has no legal authority to snatch a person who is lawfully present in the U.S. off the street and remove him from the country without due process. The Government’s contention otherwise, and its argument that the federal courts are powerless to intervene, are unconscionable."

The Trump administration "cling[s] to the stunning proposition that they can forcibly remove any person—migrant and U.S. citizen alike—to prisons outside the United States, and then baldly assert they have no way to effectuate return."

Officers recorded over 25,000 stops last year, a 50 percent increase over the previous year. Nine in ten people stopped by the NYPD last year were Black or Latino. --New from @nysfocus.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/04/02/n...

By this standard, the administration could move to detain me tomorrow exclusively because of my reporting and no federal judge could intervene. Not an extrapolation, that's their explicit argument

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

Every face scan is a “unique opportunity” to assert your rights, EFF’s Saira Hussain told @huffpost.com. If more people keep declining face scans, maybe TSA will think twice “about whether it’s actually effective to roll out programs like these.”

No matter your station in life, there is astoundingly little separating you from those men in that cage behind Kristi Noem. No charges, no attorneys, no hearings, no trial. Just conjecture and brute force could be enough to justify completely dehumanizing you, too.

Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention, subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held "like sardines in a jar," as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

WHOA. On March 15, a Cornell PhD student with UK and Gambian citizenship, here on a student visa, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Trump's EO aimed at foreign students accused of "antisemitism. Last night, the DOJ emailed asking him to come to ICE to be detained and put into removal proceedings.

There is no way to fight back that doesn’t challenge ideas like ‘terrorist,’ ‘gang member,’ and ‘criminal.’

when there's a cat:

traumatizing, heartbreaking fascist shit