Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Federal agents are overtly abusing their power to try to intimidate advocates and elected officials. We need ICE out of Illinois immediately and justice for people like Ald. Jessie Fuentes who are defending their communities. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/03/f...

UPDATE Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years, 3 months for attempting a military coup, with plans to assassinate President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, VP Geraldo Alckmin and Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, to stay in power after his 2022 election loss www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Yesterday my high schooler learned about plankton & phytoplankton. & I learned about the origins of abortion as an Evangelical political issue. It wasn't about being "pro-life." It was about the Christian Right’s need to rebrand from being openly pro-racial segregation.  illicittexts.com?p=120

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

There is no opposing Trump while accepting elements of his political project.

Here is that article on Alnabih's search for his friend Refaat's body. electronicintifada.net/content/my-s...

Qraiqea was killed on Aug 10th in the same targeted Israeli airstrike that murdered his colleague, Anas Al-Sharif. He is remembered by Asem Alnabih. Months ago, Alnabih wrote a haunting piece about searching for the body of poet & professor. Refaat Alareer, murdered by Israel in Dec. 2023.

Many news outlets are doing a blackout today, protesting Israel's assassination of Palestinian journalists. Palestinian journalists have had to memorialize their murdered colleagues amidst ongoing genocide. Here is one remembrance of Mohammed Qraiqea. electronicintifada.net/content/moha...

Read this thread. ICE arresting firefighters fighting an active wildfire. ICE is enforcing the fascist white supremacist agenda Trump openly ran on. States/localities are dealing w/federal agencies that are intent on doing harm, not good. May these men be safely reunited w/their families.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif left these words for if he was martyred. I read them shared on Al Jazeera. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

EAT THEM

A spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition tells me: “Chris Smalls is still in Givon Prison and despite repeated requests to meet with the U.S. Embassy has been ignored by his country after being abducted by the IOF in international waters.”

The Israeli man who produced the “date rape” drug and distributed it globally for 20 years has been caught in Israel and sentenced to less than three years in prison. www.ynetnews.com/article/axnl...

GOP terrified of what’s in the files. The Big Bad Betrayal Party has scammed Americans again. Corruption, lies, and hypocrisy. Release the files. All of them.

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25 nations demand end to war on Gaza; slam Israel killing aid seekers Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

Wow—the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named after Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who coined the term genocide) says plainly: "No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits…IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT." "HISTORY WILL DETERMINE THE RECTITUDE OF YOUR ACTIONS."

After losing his green card, this 82yo grandfather was disappeared by ICE at the appt to replace the green card. Inquiries to prisons, hospitals, a morgue, & ICE's online database turned up no info. "It is unclear whether [he] ended up in that Central American country deliberately or by mistake."

This happened this morning in Sacramento in a Home Depot parking lot. No one should fear for their lives when going to work or just existing in their own community. Violent tactics put everyone at risk, especially when carried out with no regard for constitutional rights, safety or basic dignity.

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Betty Osceola, a Miccosukee tribal member and activist who lives a few miles from the camp’s entrance says, “People should be concerned about the secrecy of this...It’s a big deal. Our ancestors were laid to rest in this area, and they talk about it like it’s a vast wasteland. It’s not.”

It maddens me that the image for this article is of a Police patch because w/less information headlines/excerpts it visually suggests the answer is more cops, rather than alternatives to cops.

It’s Tuesday (July 1, 2025) today in Gaza. It’s still 8:52 P.M. there. Israel murdered 102 people since the early hours of the morning.

KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, will no longer do business with two companies, one US, the other German.

Writers: try to find metaphors that are evocative of a larger thing without being too on-the-nose Real Life: not bothered by the "on-the-nose thing"

Def recommend reading this article addressing alleged assassin Vance Boelter's charismatic Christian beliefs & how they intersect with his various (failed/inchoate) businesses and the broader MAGA/Christian movement towards material, not just "spiritual," violence. newrepublic.com/article/1969...

"A friend told @wired.com, of the whole family, 'They're all nice people.'... Boelter may have passed for 'nice' and not 'fanatical' because beliefs that were once considered the province of the far edge of the American right are now more commonplace." newrepublic.com/article/1969...

This detail about the cop seeing suspected assasin Vance Boelter's SUV, trying to talk to the man inside, and then DRIVING away when "[he] just continued staring and said nothing" keeps sticking with me. Zero response and she just...drove away? newrepublic.com/article/1969...

It is very strange that people think Trump's Iran strikes are a personal reaction to his political problems and not 1) directed by Israel 2) approved by both parties, who are both heavily funded by Israel 3) part of a US/Israel plan set in motion in the late 1970s and rehearsed militarily last year.

Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Today's Washington Post opinion page:

On the long-planned Iran War: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-spent-no...

Nothing is ever enough. Palestine gave up 78% of its land and it wasn’t enough. Hamas offered to release the hostages and it wasn’t enough. Iran stuck to the nuclear deal and it wasn’t enough. No amount of peace, negotiation, surrender, cooperation has ever satisfied the Western war machine.

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

I’ve seen this sentiment expressed on X many times by Zionist accounts, but it’s quite something to hear someone say it on CNN:

The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

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So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

Actually just learned this has been changed to 6pm, today June 15.

Tomorrow (June 15, Father's Day) at 1pm in Tacoma, 1623 E J Street. #AbolishIce #FreeThemAll

No Kings Rally -3500 strong in Tacoma WA

White nationalist violence has already been and will continue to be framed as preemptively justified, just like Israel's attack on Iran.