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litigating, organizing, doodling. chicana as in border abolition now. i’m 1 of 1 - these are my views 🧿 @/s_phia_ on twitter
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Never forget these people are losers. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Andor has a good argument as the best thing anyone has ever done with Star Wars let’s fucking go

lord knows I try

having few followers on this app is so liberating, it’s like it’s 2008 up in here

Alamo Drafthouse workers in Brooklyn do not fuck around 🔥

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Over the weekend, 2 law professors published a terrible oped on birthright citizenship in the NYT which is being widely read, disseminated. They didn't do the required historical research & never even mention Reconstruction or the legislative intent. I did. Birthright citz is black letter law. 👇

when people are mean to me i’m like why?

I grew up on the NY Daily News. My dad would bring copies home from his store every day for me to read, imbuing me with a deep sense of civic commitment. Well today, my own work got nearly a full page feature in my childhood paper. A younger version of me can’t believe it 😭.

Senator Mark Warner spills the beans about "the real story" of how the TikTok ban went down. Turns out, its passage had more to do with the Gaza war than China. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban...

these are segregationists.

Kuby is a good egg iykyk

If you live in or care about New York state ending ICE detention and wondering how to get involved in local organizing to defend immigrant New Yorkers, this is a great coalition to tap into and a great, very simple yet very effective activity to participate in.

🤩 2 new senators + 2 new assemblymembers after 2 phone zaps for #DignityNotDetention‼️ ⚡ Sign up to join us for week 3, Tuesday, Feb 18, 1-2 pm EST: bit.ly/DNDzaps_2025 Let's keep pushing to get 👏 this 👏 bill 👏 passed 👏 and make New York State a bulwark against mass deportations!

COLLINS: “AP says you banned them because they won’t call it ‘Gulf of America’ — does this mean Trump will retaliate against reporters who don’t use language you want them to, and how does this align with your first amendment commitment?” Beyond parody. Also, chilling.

Just waiting for the other shoe to drop (Cuomo). In any case, time to get Zohran elected www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

Everything we love must be cherished and fought for.

"It's important that New Yorkers take pride in the fact that we are a city that's founded on immigration, and then also understand that the people who are behind the scenes making delicious food for them should be respected and celebrated and protected." hellgatenyc.com/new-york-res...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Is Turning 100 hyperallergic.com/988020/the-s...

Lots of commentary about what won't *save* people and almost nothing specific about how people might save themselves. The intellectual exhaustion is something to behold.

If you want to participate in the June 24 Democratic primary—you know, the one where you get to rank your choices for mayor—you must change your party affiliation ASAP if you're not a registered Democrat.

life isn’t Either/Or to me, it’s And What

I wish more people grappled with dialectical materialism. Idk how to explain it but that shit rewired some neural pathways in my brain or something.

it’s fuck israel all day over here for me no questions asked. byeeeee

Can’t and won’t share many details but I love the legal defense team I work with and the people we defend. Another family reunited despite the odds 💅🏻

I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity." He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

NEW: The Jewish leaders who led the early X ad boycott under Musk released a new letter. We call on: 1. Companies to pull ads from X 2. Google/Apple to drop X from stores 3. People with 100k+ followers to leave X 4. Jewish orgs to speak up 5. Major shareholders to pressure Musk

Sources tell WIRED that the OPM’s top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I cannot stress enough how FEW people actually took any action at all to fight back with others against any injustices in the past. Reading history helps. It's ALWAYS the minority of the minority. It's really really important to know this because this IS the reality of struggle.

Migrants have been held at Guantanamo before — most significantly Haitians who were fleeing a military dictatorship in 1991. Recently, too, a small number was held at Guantanamo (<40 bw 2020-2023 per Hamed Aleaziz’s reporting from last year). So this would be a massive expansion.

Another tough news day for #autistic people, with the confirmation hearing for RFK Jr. In addition to anti-vaxx, he’s attacking both SSRIs & #ADHD medication. He wants to cut millions of Americans off our medications bc he, a man with no medical training, doesn’t believe ADHD & depression are real.

trans rights forever

currently battling the flu. not fun, but rest and recovery is essential.

BAJI has some clear and useful immigration policy explainers that they released today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In response to orders from the Trump White House, the National Science Foundation has canceled all of its grant review panels for this week. This follows the National Institutes of Health canceling its grant review panels earlier. This is a huge disruption to US science.

laken riley bill passed and I truly hate it here.

Minutes ago, the Trump admin revoked the sensitive locations policy that prevented ICE from carrying out enforcement arrests inside churches, hospitals, and schools.

She believes it, as do most conservative Christians. She's not talking about Jewish people having a right to it; she means the state of Israel. To her, Jews are there to hold the Holy Land until Christ returns, when they must convert or go to Hell. I'm not joking; it's standard Christian Zionism.

Remind everyone that also, law enforcement doesn't care, despite their pretend to be "concerned" about "crime."

hi hello

What is one simple act of resistance that will absolutely infuriate any authoritarian determined to make the world ignore pandemics and climate change? Wearing a mask.