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Antifascist professor.📚👩🏽‍🏫🗣️#Blackademic. Views expressed are (unfortunately) not those of my employer. Scholar-activist in Charlottesville, Virginia. #BLM. Public history & local🍷+🍺stan. 🏈fan. "Wiry and intense" -- The New Yorker
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The Recording Academy has added a “traditional country” category following Beyoncé’s historic “Cowboy Carter” win

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

Tonight! Review what you should bring to a protest, what to look out for how to take care of yourself and your community!

Fun fact - the new KC leaders gave 500+ seats for free to WH and MAGA staffers with instructions to cheer loudly enough to drown out the boos….

ICE thugs detaining a guy running a fruit stand. This is pure fascism on display.

Nothing to see here, just official government accounts tweeting out a meme created by a neo-Nazi white supremacist.

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

Weird how all those headlines from the right about immigrants getting free houses, cellphones, etc were all lies.

He’ll blame the libs 😂

I am waiting on FIFA and IOC to cancel the worldcup and the Olympics. The US is not the place to hold mass events like this anymore. Boycott the US!

Everybody needs to boycott the Olympics. Heck the LA 2028 olympics should be cancelled.

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

Saw this sticker on a car in Montana.

@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

We feed you. They hunt us.

If you or someone you know works at the Hilton Garden Inn in #Arcadia, it sure would be inconvenient for the management who approved this shit if all of you called in sick tonight.

Turns out you can control how ICE sleeps at night, this is such a good protest strategy.

THIS is how you ice ICE out of your communities. Find the hotel they're staying at--they always have one, unless they're near a regional HQ--then you annoy the piss out of the hotel manager and stage protests outside until they decide hosting the gestapo kidnapping gang is too bad for business.

No sleep for ICE tonight as activists found their hotel again. Hotel managers have to decide whether that GSA per diem money is worth having their hotel completely surrounded 24/7 by protesters.

More scenes from the “big insurrection” in Los Angeles

Sooo, let's talk World Cup. This Dump situation is devolving. Do we really believe that black and brown people want to come to the US to play soccer? When there are deportations to an El Salvador prison? If I am wrong, clue me in peeps.

Absolutely right.

Say what you will, but the City of Charlottesville is getting stomped in the PR battle over a guy drawing a crosswalk with chalk. What would have been easier? Doing the right thing. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025...

Newsday.com/matt

The speed with which the country is disassembling! I keep wondering how the regime thinks the US will function without Black and brown people, in a white fantasia. The people left won’t be able to feed themselves, heal themselves, build their homes, or flavor their food. What a choice!

honestly thank god he got picked up for having a car full of drugs and not… anything else. he’s been deep in what very much looks like a drug fueled paranoia for a month now and was starting to talk about attacking the strangers he believed were gangstalking him.

The contrast and absurdity is so brazen. They're literally raiding Home Depots to find whatever guys are there to get work as day laborers. People eager for work. And the ICE agents has zero idea who they are or any criminal background.

PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153

-A look at fundraising totals in statewide primary races. -A member of Congress and a long list of state legislators sent a letter to Shannon Taylor asking her to recuse herself from Dominion Energy-related matters if she becomes attorney general. open.substack.com/pub/virginia...

While Jay Jones has pledged independence from corporate polluters, Shannon Taylor has taken $650,000 from Dominion Energy. Virginia leaders say it’s an ethical red flag. richmond.com/news/state-r...

If elected AG, Shannon Taylor should recuse herself from cases involving Dominion and regulated utilities — given the $650K+ they’ve already given her. Virginians need to know their Attorney General works for the public, not a private company.

If you hit a cop, you go to jail, unless you're white. Then you get a pardon and maybe a cabinet job.

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

Really Cool how nobody wanted to take this shit seriously

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