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Lawyer, Environment Guy, UIUC Engineering, LUC Law, he/him. If you're not really into direct action on securing trans equality, radical climate action, and a free Palestine, go away.
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It's of course false to assert, as this reporter does, that leaders of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions are categorically violating the federal harboring statute, 8 USC 1324. The question is intended to introduce some particularly insidious misinformation into the news cycle.

Happy Jackie Robinson Day... “A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind — the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.”- Jackie Robinson.

Don't fire them, try them for treason and prescribe the constitutionally prescribed punishment for their actions. Firing is chickenshit at this point.

I am begging the people who use words for a living ostensibly to describe reality to reach for the obvious ones everyone understands.

according to the declaration of independence? to overthrow it.

It's not being talked about enough that the Trump administration is actively committing hundred of counts of crimes against humanity and bragging about it on television

This is especially bullshit when it comes to trans rights, considering everything the right complains about (trans women playing in women’s sports, kids receiving puberty blockers and hormonal treatment, people using restrooms as they see fit) was NOT brand new, but was in fact the status quo

I would have a hard time actually picking the best three song run on any album, but this one immediately jumped to the front of my mind

Fuck Planned Parenthood

Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

cc Every squish "moderate" Democrat who thinks they need to lean in on anti-trans nonsense in order to be viable in future elections

Forever in my heart (this Scottish goddess, not Thatcher)

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Sex House is one of the greatest pieces of comedy of the 21st century.

this guy should call his senator tbh

This is high art

It is so fucking ANTISEMITIC to use antisemitism as the excuse for attacking universities. The administration is intentionally riling up hatred against Jews, and any Jewish Americans who collaborate with this bullshit are fucking kapos.

Lots of people like to pretend our money doesn’t count, but look at it out there, counting

Does our dog look like Martin Van Buren?

I almost forgot to post this, and it's the perfect day for it.

Measles

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

Glenn once wrote a book about how it was bad that elites didn’t face consequences for their crimes

I wrote about the Kristi Noem’s El Salvador prison video and its relationship to the horrific practice of lynching postcards. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/kristi-noem-...

u.s. rural and small town policing is, I suspect, generally way more corrupt and brutal than urban policing but also reported on much less