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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 37 minutes ago • 117 comments

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 1 hour ago • 539 comments

In general any history of trans medicine needs to start from the fact that, for most of its history, psychiatry believed gender conformity was itself a measure of health. This fueled a long history of institutionalization and medical violence against women, intersex people, and queer people.

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

Rep. Crockett IS THAT GIRL!!! She speaks the truth with exacting precision in laypersons terms. If the @housedemocrats.bsky.social are smart, they will make @repjasmine.bsky.social the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. She is one of the most effective communicators we have!

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

In finally admitting that they're trying to take away our rights, they're also admitting that we have exercised these rights for years -decades- and there hasn't ever, ever been an issue with it

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

IT'S SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY! If you are stopped or detained by ANY law enforcement FOR ANY REASON, the ONLY thing you should say (besides providing ID in a stop and ID state) is: I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. That's it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Masked ICE thugs terrorized Chicago yesterday. They lied to immigrants waiting for their court hearing by summoning them for “surprise check-ins” and then assaulted protesters and elected officials. THIS IS WHAT FASCISM LOOKS LIKE.

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

1. An international humanitarian organization, Human Rights Watch, has issued a scathing report on transgender healthcare bans in the United States. They detail loss of care, people forced to move, and more. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

For all the hand-wringing about closing schools, it wasn't done out of some mindless desire to cause havoc. It literally saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1912 comments

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

submitted 3 days ago • 586 comments

WTF.

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

hahaha our shitty legislators passed a law barring the display of any non-official flags on state property (including schools) in an effort to limit rainbow flags, so my city just voted to adopt the pride flag as one of our official flags. happy pride y'all!

submitted 3 days ago • 90 comments

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 465 comments

no it’s actually because of the slavery

submitted 4 days ago • 780 comments

I got a lot of death threats after I confronted Nancy Mace at a tech conference in DC and I guess it's nice to know that most of them were probably just from her and her bot army? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 553 comments

This was a big part of my paper with Jill Lens. Late-19th century abortion bans were rarely enforced pre-viability b/c they were rarely enforceable and social norms discouraged their enforcement. The post-Dobbs world is actually worse than that in many ways. repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol122/i...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Today is Tridi the 13th of Prairial in the year 233. Prairial is the month of meadows. Today we celebrate peas. #JacobinDay More information on peas

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Reading this interview with Maksim Borisov, a gay Russian dissident who sought asylum in the US last year only for ICE to arrest and detain him in February. He's currently held in Eloy Detention Center in Arizona where he says "trans people… just disappear."

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

This will happen in every city, every town, every corner if ICE is continued to have full jurisdiction without any limits on their use of force

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

San Diego erupts at ICE raiding a local restaurant and detaining ALL staff.

submitted 6 days ago • 788 comments

"Male androgenization" is a very broad term, that would potentially include cis women with PCOS. So, 1 in 10 women would be forced to compete in the male category. This moral panic about intersex people is obscene.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

"After actively failing to take a firm stance on trans rights and allowing Republicans to push anti-trans propaganda, some doofus with a think tank has the perfect solution: join in on the anti-trans propaganda"

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Whenever anyone does the "RFK Jr just wants to solve chronic illness!" song and dance it is vital to point out that people who want to solve problems do not constantly lie about them.

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

I really appreciate Jackson’s honesty here. There’s no sense denying it: the government’s motive, here and in many other cases, is clearly to ruin as many immigrants’ lives as possible before a court gets to the merits (at which point they have reason to fear they’ll lose)

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

i have said this before but this is why it was and is important not to ignore the “NPC” language. these people really believe that other human beings are not real, with all the consequences that flow from this

submitted 7 days ago • 104 comments

This is next level mind blowing. 🤯 The extent they’ll go to feed one man’s ego and destroy anything or anyone that challenges his bs.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

QOTD: If vaccines caused autism, America would have way, way more trains

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

🧵1 Three children (two boys and a girl between the ages of approximately 9 and 12) were detained and zip-tied yesterday at the San Antonio Immigration Court. ZIP-TIED. An immigration attorney captured the event on video and shared the footage at… www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

NEW: European far-right activist Martin Sellner told me last week he was already convinced Trump was enacting his racist remigration policy Now the State Dept wants to create an "Office of Remigration" to oversee his inhumane mass deportation policies 1/7 www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

This Boundless situation keeps getting wilder. Their argument seems to be "we can't pay royalties until our new business is stable", but their new business seems to hinge on honouring the now-void contracts from the old business, that they've already refused to honour by paying royalties. LOL WUT?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

All the people who say you have to sell every body out to win elections never explain what’s so great about electing Dems who can’t stand up for anything. Do they think that once they get elected feeding trans ppl into the grinder they then… stop doing that?

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Insisting on basic dignity is not me policing your language.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the amount of discrimination that OF artists (and all sex workers tbh) get is ridiculous - they can get locked out of financial services, travel, sometimes other forms of employment, payment processors, now elite sports apparently? It’s WILD, and it can follow you even when you retire!

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 7 days ago • 433 comments

Trans people: we would like to participate in society. Anti-trans activists: trans people should not exist. Politico: both sides are extreme!

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Heard this happened yesterday as well. It's completely unacceptable. By law, the courts are open to the public and the media.

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 8 days ago • 934 comments

Just about every Republican/Trumpist complaint about public transportation is a poorly disguised version of “there are too many black people.”

submitted 8 days ago • 125 comments

Once again, it's not "doxxing" to report the name of a government employee.

submitted 8 days ago • 404 comments

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 9 days ago • 502 comments

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

submitted 8 days ago • 246 comments

Folks need to understand that it’s been a goal of the right to destroy higher education for decades, and now they can see it within their grasp. This is nightmarish stuff.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

This conversation about aging leadership is messy & uncomfortable. But we have to keep having it in public because we can't assume it's happening in private. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

It would take forever to get new books for libraries.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

You know, things definitely look bad right now but this has fully convinced me there’s no way these fucking dweeb losers are going to win long-term.

submitted 10 days ago • 200 comments

"We are free as bodies, or not at all. And so health care is a right, one of the most basic... Dying senselessly is no act of freedom. And too many people in the USA do die senselessly because we have the wrong idea of freedom." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 12 days ago • 48 comments

Jefferson Airplane!

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