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He’s wrong but this is an incredibly common elite pathology: the belief that your voice should be held strategically in reserve, to strike at the right moment and change everything. Then they do and it’s washed away by the firehose of noise. I call it Jim Mattis Syndrome.

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CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

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Heightened Scrutiny, a very good doc about the Supreme Court case that was just ruled on, does an impeccable and infuriating job laying out just how culpable the NYT and Atlantic are for the nation’s transphobia www.avclub.com/sundance-202...

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Brad was there EVERY FUCKING WEEK as have many members of @jfrejnyc.bsky.social. This wasn't just today.

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I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

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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.

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what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

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I guess my antidote to toxic positivity in the face of cruelty is a clear acknowledgement that evil is real, and we are watching it play out before our eyes. I wrote about it -- saschaanderson.substack.com/p/evil

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The pastor “said at least five men dressed in plain clothes with faces covered and bullet-proof vests swarmed a man in the parking lot. The pastor said he came out of his office and tried to find out what was happening when one agent drew a weapon and refused to identify themselves.”

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“We said we don’t want this on our property,” a Los Angeles pastor told mass abduction agents who showed up at his church. “The whole country is our property,” Downey Memorial Church Pastor Al Lopez said an agent shouted at him: spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-...

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"Bothsidesism is 'suicide for democracy.' In becoming stenographers rather than reporters, journalists effectively legitimize MAGA lies, hate, and fascism as just one reasonable side of a debate in which all partisans are equally credible."

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I investigated a Guatemalan man's claims that ICE wasn't treating his colon cancer while holding him in custody. A review of his medical records shows it's clear that he told officials about his diagnosis when he entered Otay Mesa Detention Center beyondthebordernews.substack.com/p/detained-m...

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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.

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From LA to ATX, we rise with our immigrant family. Everyone deserves safety—in their homes, schools, jobs, & streets. ATX won’t back down while this admin tries to dehumanize our communities.

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Y'all know I'm not a superfan of the founding fathers, but...um...it's right here?

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This is a key point. Passivity in the face of authoritarian violence actually provokes escalated and intensified cruelty. Whereas even in the worst case, fierce resistance creates deterrence and changes the calculus going forward.

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‘Gaza being erased’ Only 38% of Gaza’s medical centres remain operational and even those are functioning only partially, according to the UN. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dluec2

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See once you have the boots on the ground, it only further escalates. There’s no de escalation. It’s a fait accompli.

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It’s not a surprise that the man who purposely incited a violent attempt to overthrow an American election would now purposely incite violence on the streets of Los Angeles as a justification for military force against American citizens. Not a surprise at all.

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It’s no exaggeration to say that the president of the United States is goading the residents of LA into a violent confrontation, creating the sort of chaos that would justify a massacre, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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The. Fuck.

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Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

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The police at Florida Atlantic University are the first in the nation to partner with ICE. That means they can interrogate and detain students they suspect of being undocumented. Here’s our @nbcmiami.com report. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/f...

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When our government makes decisions with no cameras, the people are left in the dark – especially on the most consequential voucher bill this session. Texans deserve to witness their government in action, and we have called on the House DOGE Committee to take up this issue. #txlege

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As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵

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Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

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"In Gaza, human shields are used by Israeli soldiers at least six times a day...Today, almost every platoon keeps a "shawish," and no infantry force enters a house before a "shawish" clears it. This means there are four "shawishes" in a company, twelve in a battalion, at least 36 in a brigade. 1/4

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It has long been legal to incarcerate and kill immigrants in this country without due process. It’s long been a bipartisan effort, that has just grown and grown. Yes prisons in El Salvador, and snatching people off the streets is a harrowing departure. But this didn’t come from nowhere.

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Link to the video and also sermon text for today’s Celebration of Trans Joy and Resilience at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City 🔥⚓️ www.transepiscopal.org/blog/celebra...

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Oh: Episcopal Diocese of Rio Grande apparently received a letter from DHS suggesting they were involved in human trafficking. In a video, Bishop Michael Hunn fervently rejects the claims and declares: "We …have been practicing our Constitutionally guaranteed faith." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wl4...

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‘The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice: “The federal government has disabled at least one webpage, and scrubbed language related to Murray’s transgender and queer identities on others, on the NPS website” ⚓️ episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/03/10/p...

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eat every egg like it's your last

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Israeli attacks on women’s healthcare in Gaza amount to ‘genocidal acts’, UN says

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Another utterly unlawful act by this administration. The law is clear that may only be used during wartime, and certainly cannot ever be used to substitute for normal immigration enforcement. There will be immediate legal challenges.

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Today in class, I told a classmate (in his late 20s) that I would chat him a link, as in, put it in our group chat. “Wow,” he said. “Chat it. That’s so retro!” Then he made a dial-up modem sound in my face. Go to grad school, they said. It’ll be fun, they said.

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"If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier." Jeanette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on this day in 1917

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oh good a senate hearing on republican white supremacist definitions of antisemitism that have been imposed on students protesting the annihilation of Palestinians, being run by this administration, that should improve everything

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👇🏽

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Unsurprising that Lance Gooden, the same dude who made racist comments about Rep. Judy Chu and who defended all of his insider trading by saying the individual trades didn't meet the reporting threshold, just straight up assaulted Congresswoman Stansbury on live TV. At what point is enough enough?

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Shout out to all my people who feel like tonight is freaking Christmas Eve. You know who you are. Catch ya on the flip side, alleluia!

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Imagine posting on threads lol

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"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

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