If you're a soldier in the 11th Airborne Division being ordered to prep for deployment to Minnesota or Greenland, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the GI Bill Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

People are skeptical about the decline in numbers of people who read books in the U.S. but you only need to talk with high schoolers to see that it's not overblown. It's part of the reason that the revival of zines is important IMO because they make reading and writing less daunting.

If you substitute 'child' for the various drug references in Maduro's indictment, it could also be used for him.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

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I get a lot of good ideas in the shower and today I thought about an app called “Primary Everyone,” in which you could put in your voting district to see who sucks ass the worst and when you can fire them

Now comes the even harder work. But for tonight, let's celebrate.

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~James Baldwin

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Gaza is starving. This isn’t the result of a natural disaster, this is man-made, this is forced starvation. Aid is being restricted and used as bait for massacre. We are witnessing genocide. We are witnessing a Holocaust.

I keep seeing people say things like, “Well we’re not going to HAVE elections,” and with all due respect, I think this is both wildly pessimistic and also wildly naive. We are not going to have free and fair elections. We also have not had them in the past.

You can spend time arguing over the difference between shutting down FEMA & rebranding it but the reality is that the Trump admin has already dismantled FEMA to the point that it could not efficiently respond to a relatively small disaster in a state with a relatively large capacity EM system.

🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car. They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor. Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is. (🎥 ABC 7 News)

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

This is such a critical point that can be tough to make without seeming to minimize the current disaster. This event had a very high death toll for a U.S. disaster and the impacts are severe but in terms of total number of people directly affected and the geographic scope, it’s on the smaller size.

Like, please be serious. @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

the thing we should find abhorrent and vile is not that "innocent people" are being sent to concentration camps. This happens all the time; look at how many innocent people are in prison. The abhorrent thing, the vile thing, what we should all be clamoring to burn down, are the camps themselves.

Another day has passed and nothing from the acting head of FEMA in a disaster that killed 100+ people and I haven’t seen any journalists ask the administration where he is…??? Knowing who is currently leading FEMA strikes me as something the public has a vital interest in…

Can we nip this "Alligator Alcatraz" shit in the bud? We don't need to adopt their cutesy marketing when talking about the concentration camp in the Florida Everglades

Why did one chant ignite fury while another was ignored? The Bear delivers powerful insight and analysis into the double standards shaping public discourse. Read why this matters. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

inspiring, frustrating, and full of actionable items—an incredible piece by @katherinelocke.bsky.social for my darling @kathriller.bsky.social over at huffington post. the power of TWO katherines! www.huffpost.com/entry/scotus...

Thomas Jefferson opposed slavery but owned 600 people. You see it is not enough for you to oppose racism unless it is accompanied by action.

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No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries. Always money for war.

Evergreen.

There is a lot of horrible stuff happening to distract from other horrible stuff happening to create an opening to do even more horrible stuff.

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou

Born in 1975, I represent the one generation of women who had rights. I’m fighting for my daughters and granddaughters. Fuck this shit.

Along with abolishing ICE we should abolish all for-profit prison companies in the country.

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.

What to say to ICE: Never open your door unless shown a judicial warrant. Repeat: AND THAT’S NOT A JUDICIAL WARRANT!” Do not say where you are "from" Repeat: “I will not answer any questions” “Your presence is disrupting our [business, class, meeting, worship service] and you need to leave now”

DONT TALK TO COPS. Their job is to close cases, not to find the truth. If they can pin it on you, they will. All you should say is: 1) Am I being detained? and 2) Am I free to go? nothing else. clam the fuck up.

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

I think it's important to continuously reiterate that federal science funding grants in the US (and elsewhere) are made because the government, with the input of panels of independent experts, have concluded that the work being done is IN THE INTEREST OF THE NATION.

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ICE crossed a line in LA

ACAB, fuck ICE, free Palestine

Her stats line up with CDC data…

A man checked out 100 books from his local library on Jewish, Black, and LGBTQ+ topics. He later filmed himself burning them. The community rallied and replaced the burned books with 1000 more🥹

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the MOVE Bombing, when Philadelphia's leaders agreed to drop a bomb on a row home in a Black neighborhood that left 11 dead, 250 homeless, & a city traumatized. Decades later, many of the remains of victims have only RECENTLY been returned to their family.

sure. fine. that's nice. that's not a scalable solution and it condemns a lot of people to death. we are a collective and a society and it is our right to have safe nonpoisonous food. and we should fight for it.

Don’t only focus solely on the harm this administration is doing, but find the heroes. The lawyers preparing the cases. The educators & administrators protecting their schools. The journalists writing the stories. The whistleblowers who alert the public. The community members serving at the pantry.