"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?" "How do you like the performance?" An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:

“As the U.S. officially breaks 1K measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past *** [I]n just 2 months, the national total [in 2026] is already nearing half of all the 2,281 confirmed cases reported in 2025.” 2/27/26

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran. popular.info/p/deeply-con...

From last year theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

It's estimated that it would take about 40 billion dollars a year to solve world hunger.... we could get that just from taxing one company properly.

Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.

Curious how much ICE is over-paying for property for its detention warehouses? We've got you covered. Sources: State and local property records, land records, deeds, and tax assessment data. tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I’ll also be here this week.

Fork ICE!🍴🧊 🔥 Support the Baldwin Park Three in court! 🙏 🔺 Pack the courtroom! 🙌🏽🫶🏽 These ladies face 3 years in prison for filming ICE! ⏰ Tuesday, February 24 9 AM Courthouse 📍 350 W. 1st St. Los Angeles #firstamendment #freespeech #ForkICE #BP3 #FuckICE

the Black Panthers were right

"But i'm a Pisces on the cusp of Aquarius so I gotta say Take Me To The Water" - Nina Simone (born on February 21] youtu.be/N1xWFo8xEu8?...

Anyway!!

I'll be raffling this mini wall quilt created by my friend Rachel Wallis next week. It will be a fundraiser.

ice is the gestapo and they're creating more concentration camps, we're living in the 4th reich. this isn't hyperbole or any other literary device.

Transracial adoption may be too deep for this show to engage with

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm" www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

For @wired.com, I wrote about how misogyny and homophobia have been used by the right to wage a campaign to destroy Renee Good www.wired.com/story/the-ca...

they abolished the department of education, we do not need a trojan horse to abolish ice we can just do it

“And so we must be clear about the stakes: Our nation teeters at the brink of a particularly dangerous moment, not just for Black Americans but for democracy itself.” www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/m...

The last thing I wrote in my colorblindness piece argued “What we are witnessing, once again, is the alignment of white power against racial justice and redress. As history has shown, maintaining racial inequality requires constant repression and is therefore antithetical to democracy...”

A decade ago, when Trump one the first time, I and other Black writers tried to make us see that racism — both explicit and deeply seeded — was at the root of Trump’s rise. We were dismissed even as late as last year as people attributed economic anxieties to Trump’s wins. DO YOU BELIEVE US NOW?

During those decades, Conservatives think tanks thought through how they wanted to dismantle it. There's no concomitant apparatus among Democrats.

Abolishing the Dept of Ed was a multi-decade project of the Right and it took a fascist regime to finally start to do it. Dem elites and politicians have no such investment in dismantling ICE and we can see that in real time. There's also no movement of its voters threatening them on the matter.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public. Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself. Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

Power is always discursive and its moves to undermine the use of language to tell the truth is central to its narrative strategy against the public. Here, Homan makes calling a murder a “murder” more dangerous than murder itself. Stokely taught us this decades ago about power and police.

They're threatening to kill more of us if we call them murderers. Only a murderer levels that kind of threat.

After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”

The Minnesota Star Tribune identified the victim of the ICE shooting in Minnesota as Renee Nicole Good. Her father, Tim Ganger, told The Post that he and his wife were still processing the news. “She was a wonderful person,” he said.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Narrator voice: “Tim Walz is almost certainly playing.”

Take physical actions please. I love some of you jerks 🕶🖤

Kind of like private equity. Something you think is bad all of a sudden gets that much worse because the entity taking over doesn’t even care about the place or people, only the resources, profit, and their own self-interest.

End BOEING complicity in the never ending usa war machine. BOEING also kills whistleblowers in the 🇺🇸 🌎 #EndUSAterror #ArmsEmbargoForever #EndIOFterror #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

This should exist in every city in the country.

What a time to be a social studies teacher in the middle of a unit on colonialism & imperialism.

*endless screaming*

Whenever I correctly point out that there is no opposition party in US politics, the usual suspects swarm to screech about Dems having no power. If these folks are correct (they are not), then they should BUILD POWER. They aren't doing that.

Anyway, Wag the Dog tried to warn us en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the...

Who needs CBS when Reuters can do state propaganda just as well?

Big congrats to the Nobel Committee for awarding the prize "for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy" just so she could immediately conspire with a foreign government to murder civilians on the high seas then invade and stage a coup.

I’m just waiting for the announcement we’re going to install him as the new Venezuelan president.

Maduro was a brutal repressive dictator who destroyed Venezuela. Trump did not have congressional or UN approval to engage in unilateral regime change. Trump's actions were illegal. All of those things can be true at the same time. Don't let them make this about Maduro.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

White people favorite thing to do in American politics is pretend to be shocked 😭

Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist who captured New Yorkers’ attention and ardor, was officially sworn in.