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What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Reminder that I AM LATINA AND PROUD. I am the product of immigration - my grandmother was undocumented and entered the country from Mexico as a baby. My mother was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.

we’ve got a bunch of parents voluntarily guarding the elementary school gates if you want to know how LA feels this morning

Thou shalt not tell others “this is a distraction” from something else you have unilaterally decided is more important. You are not helping. You are attacking your allies for caring.

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho didn't hold back when expressing his anger and "contempt" after agents with Homeland Security attempted to gain access to two elementary schools earlier this week.

Trump responded to peaceful protests standing up for immigrants in Los Angeles with tear gas and rubber bullets. He’s a wannabe dictator using violence to advance his authoritarian playbook. We won’t stand for it.

*being beaten by the cops* Armchair pundit: have you ever thought about making the cop feel less threatened while he beats you?

They will always call us violent when we stop cooperating with our own oppression. From Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba — a reminder for our comrades in Los Angeles and everywhere else: "peace" under capitalism means obedience, not justice.

#GVerse #FuckICE: This enormous peaceful protest erupted in Los Angeles today in defiance of the #OrangeBuffoon's ICE raids. (06/08/2025) This is how it’s done. Please Share, Repost!!!

This gave me chills ✊

the people who felt that having to wear masks and go to school online during the pandemic was fascist, have created an actual fascist state and see no problem with it

The importance of ther tear gas defuser

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process. This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

ICE crossed a line in LA

🦋 BBC coverage of the Los Angeles anti-ICE protests Highlighting the attacks on Governor Gavin Newsom and Trump's deployment of the California National Guard For those who like to see how America is being viewed overseas as a result of Trump's actions 🦋

@nowthisimpact.bsky.social helps spread awareness by sharing ICE Watch. Communities can help protect each other and make sure to document ICE’s actions in the hopes of helping those taken and their families. Watching ICE is not illegal, it is necessary. We are their only oversight now. Take part.

ICE raids hit across Los Angeles today—and locals are rising up. This is what resistance looks like. ✊🏾 This was about an hour ago…

Chicago fighting back against ICE. You love to see it 💪

“We are watching a systematic starvation of 2 million people. A live-streamed genocide & the world's silence is deadly. That is why we have to keep trying everything we can, even if the odds are against us.” Zeteo contributor Greta Thunberg shares moments from the Madleen.

Whoever made this deserves a medal.

What is the role of the writer in times like these? At the 2025 #PENGala, we took the opportunity to pose that question to Rita Dove and @jodipicoult.bsky.social. #writers #writing #freedomtowrite

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

Another legend speaking facts #springsteen

Trump’s attempted takeover of the LOC may also be a test case to see how susceptible congressional Republicans are to his power grab. If they let him install ideologues throughout the LOC, maybe they’d let him do the same to other indispensable legislative entities.

Used books are a low-cost way to see if you like what an author has to offer. If you do find you like them, then you can buy their next book new, possibly from the same bookseller. They're also a way to get books no longer in print. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/m...

That is in fact what this administration has done.

Grateful for reminders that Rahm did his own disappearing of people, especially after just now coming across a clip of Rahm being welcomed to The View table as a possible nominee for POTUS. Nope. "Trump, but with 98% less disappearing!" won't work.

This is why I believe it’s best to run campaigns based on bold, transformational change. You draw swing voters AND inspire new voters to get involved. It’s both good policy and politics!

Best Chicago controversy of the new Pope is the Cubs trying to lay claim to him and his brother having to speak up to clear up that he's a Sox fan. blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/08/p...

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

You know that Twilight Zone episode where the kid has amazing psychic powers and can make people disappear with his mind and the entire town is hostage to him and has to cater to his every whim? That’s us right now.

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

Actual good news! Even if some see fairness as a threat, and are now working on absurd "corrective" measures. lithub.com/the-new-cond... #writingcommunity #authors