On #MLKDay, the UFW remembers the legacy of a hero. #MLK's words are as powerful today as when he wrote them in 1958. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Elon Musk: "I'm a free speech absolutist!" Also Elon Musk: "Anyone who teaches students that America was built on stolen land is guilty of treason and should be imprisoned." Look, some of us tried to warn people that Elon Musk doesn't care one bit about free speech. But did anyone listen?

just keep thinking about my colleague's @racketmn.com piece that Fort Snelling, this building where ICE is HQ'd, is the site of a concentration camp, part of institutionalized genocide against the Dakota.

BREAKING: Minnesota and Twin Cities sue the federal government to stop ICE enforcement surge after the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis school system will offer families the option of remote learning for a month. Officials made the announcement Friday in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out in the city.

The casual appropriation and indifference to Black suffering are vile. It's morally vacuous to demand people "say her name" when they are, in fact, saying her name. How quickly did we learn her name? How long will we remember it? And yet how quickly we forget Sandra Bland and the names of so many...

Nice to see someone doing bread and roses after so much time watching the worst people on earth doing their damnedest to pave over all the rose gardens

I mean.....how do you think "America" was born or what's been going on here since 1492? NATIVE AND BLACK folks have been sounding alarms for centuries, warning that what you allow to happen to us will come for you too and now here we are.

Watching more than 100 clergy and faith leaders demanding peace, and justice, demanding that ICE needs to leave our state. Knowing there's hundreds of Minnesotans out on patrol right now, protecting neighbors. It's bad here but there's also so much good, man.

Renee Nicole Good

ICE has shot and killed a community observer in Minneapolis. Sending all of my love to the people of Minneapolis and the folks defending their neighbors there. This is heinous, and I am so sorry. To everyone else: REMEMBER ICE LIES ABOUT EVERYTHING. THIS IS DOCUMENTED.

Remember that precident tells us that every ICE statement around this will be a face-saving lie. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

We have to impeach him.

"That’s DPDR for you - except now we get to wonder if we’re interacting with reality or with the output of a power plant that’s draining freshwater lakes to line the pockets of filthy-rich billionaires." dpdrdiaries.livejournal.com/1214.html

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

Sending my heart out to my trans friends and followers today. You are seen and you are loved.

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

I suggest you all follow this guy. He covers how to spot AI videos & photos and while some are more obviously fake, some of them like the fake B&W security footage are shockingly difficult to notice & you have to rely on body language & consider natural behavior www.youtube.com/@showtoolsai...

The Trump administration: “RADICAL TRANS LEFTISTS ARE TRYING TO ERASE WOMEN” Also the Trump administration: “WE WILL CUT YOUR FUNDING IF YOU SAY THE WORD ‘WOMEN’” 🙄

Now imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion. That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/

I'm grading final discussion posts for the Native history course I taught this term, and one of my students said she is going to start pressuring her representatives in Wisconsin to fulfill treaty obligations while they are writing their budgets. 🙌 This is what makes teaching hopeful!

"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend" Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

we were told AI would cure cancer. that it would bring us quantum computing. instead we get slop, and racist propaganda. the (historically accurate) Luddites were right, man. Smash the machines built with the sole purpose to demean your humanity. Entrepreneurial spirit isn't inherently virtuous.

If you’re looking to support on the ground Jamaican orgs, We Change Jamaica focuses on gender equality and LBGTQ+ inclusion & they are putting together aid packages for queer & trans Jamaicans who don’t feel safe going to shelters. gofund.me/09619a41e

From the AP: places to donate to help recovery in Jamaica apnews.com/article/hurr...

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.

Also still have our ko-fi goal which has been stalled at 22%. Thankfully I've been able to pick up a few jobs this month that allowed me to make payments which have been just buying us time. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

I'm so looking forward to reading this and continuing to learn from @ktgerbs.bsky.social!

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

Below is a collection of many other people of Italian heritage worthy of attention — people who have played an active role in the struggle for labor rights, gay and lesbian rights, human rights, and civil rights. #TeachTruth Defend the #FreedomtoLearn www.zinnedproject.org/materials/it...

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations --stealing data --exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought --killing the environment, and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Emergency ask. It is always so humbling and not in good way to constantly be in financial crisis, especially when I look at all the work that I do. We are at risk of losing our housing and need to come up with 3 months rent by the 1st, which is an impossible ask. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

If white folks all aren’t having these conversations and emotionally processing what is happening that their people were and are so willing to sacrifice the country for authoritarian power, I would be really worried if I were you.

You cannot "bargain" with fascists. I think that everyone should refuse to do this and also to stop supporting people who do this.