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You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

submitted 17 hours ago • 30 comments

If you find yourself parsing which victims of state speech repression are worth defending, you've already taken a wrong turn.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

It's also because we talk a lot about government spending generically and not what that spending actually means. You find the same thing with environmental regulations. When you talk about them generically people oppose them. But when you ask which should be cut people don't want them cut

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

We knew this was coming. We've been preparing for months. Call your reps. Don't give them rest. And you don't need to wait and hold your breath on a bill like this - take sensible precautions NOW. This article offers dozens of places to start.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

Sorry but I really think we should be concerned at the reactionary patriotism and revisionism of US history happening amongst liberals because I’m worried that this recurring notion of the US only being bad NOW is going to hurt those who have historically and currently been harmed by the country.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Events and civic actions for March 2025 www.realhartford.org/2025/02/24/a...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

"You are all survivors of an abusive state. They will try to split this country into parts for resource extraction and they will encourage you to attack each other to make their job easier." Lots of good stuff in @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's newsletter. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-quest...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

If you're trying to read @cnn.com's story about Aleysha Ortiz, a Connecticut high school graduate who was never taught to read or write, the story was originally reported by CT Mirror Education Reporter @jessikaharkay.bsky.social. You can read it below (no paywall!)

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Bezos isn’t “bending the knee.” Corporate media isn’t either. The oligarchs aren’t scared or capitulating, they’re part of a coup in the middle of an aggressive class war. The longer we keep framing it otherwise the worse it’s going to get. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

submitted 13 days ago • 45 comments

Remember the kid who we were supposed to be impressed by because he used ML for scrolls? Well, he manually decided to let people die from HIV/AIDS.

submitted 14 days ago • 19 comments

Perhaps you love babies and want them to have access to diapers? You can support Rain or Shine Diaper Fund that is handing out diapers & other supplies to people who need them every Monday. rainorshinediaperfund.org

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

You can email [email protected] and let them know why your donations have stopped.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

While I'm at it and it's early, I'll also say that FAFO discourse doesn't feel good to me at all. I think that the people who will find out the most are the same people who are always finding out: the most marginalized. I also think that it destroys potential solidarity and solidarity is needed now.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Stop & Shop union threatens strike at New England stores, including its 83 in Connecticut... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/41nsOZd

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A good thing to do if you are flailing a bit right now (as who is not??) is to get in touch with your own values, the things that you find life affirming and necessary in the world. Read some inspiring works about things you value - labor solidarity, scientific achievement, social justice.

submitted 20 days ago • 90 comments

Captain Controlled Opposition Jeffries emerged from the same corrupt NY Dem Party system as Chuck Schumer, Eric Adams, and others. His propensity for worthless political theater, uselessness in confronting the influence of capital, and consistent defense of Israeli interests are features, not bugs.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

For too long the rage that sits, simmering within people across the United States has been stuffed down, delegitimized, squashed. But we need it. We need it now. And we need vehicles to allow its unleashing to topple oligarchs and help usher in a new era. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/your-anger...

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

submitted 23 days ago • 106 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 24 days ago • 416 comments

My weekly list of must-read articles, some resources for folks who want to take action, and my thoughts on Elon Musk's "AI-first" approach to gutting and rewiring the US government.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 24 days ago • 230 comments

The law won't save us. Nearly all authoritarian regimes legitimize their actions within the law and make their acts legal. More lawyers need to realize this.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

you don't have to call it the gulf of america. just don't do it. keep calling it the gulf of mexico. you don't have to do things just because your fascist government tells you to

submitted 27 days ago • 46 comments

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later. guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

submitted 27 days ago • 74 comments

Saw someone say, "End your friendships with people who are going about life like nothing is wrong." I will never understand people who think that further isolating ourselves from everyday people who don't get it is going to save us. It's not. Your judgment and disdain will not save us.

submitted 27 days ago • 351 comments

The entire contents of Waste.gov, the website tracking government "waste" are from a default WordPress theme about an imaginary architecture firm. Musk said yesterday DOGE is "maximally transparent" and all actions are being tracked on website: www.404media.co/elon-musks-w...

submitted 27 days ago • 30 comments

Journalists should be discussing these power grabs in clear terms: this is an administrative coup. Elon Musk is acting outside the law to gut agencies and usurp and centralize as much power as possible in order to concentrate as much wealth as possible. This is a smash-and-grab race to autocracy.

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Before you begin your next 🧶 project, be sure to set yourself up for success: 1 Print your pattern & mark your size. 2 Ensure you have enough yarn. Get more if need be. 3 Practice frowning at those who ask you to "knit me a jumper" 4 Dig holes in your garden for the bodies of those who keep asking.

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

It’s time to organize: “The internet has conditioned us to constantly seek new information, as if becoming a sponge of bad news will eventually yield the final piece of a puzzle. But there is also such a thing as having enough information.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 34 days ago • 18 comments

If you are feeling overwhelmed, it makes perfect sense. I want to once again offer that it's so much better to immerse yourself in only one or two things. Follow the news about just those focus areas. Importantly find concrete small actions to take in those specific areas. Key is consistency.

submitted 35 days ago • 97 comments

Figure out what grounds you and anchor yourself to that.

submitted 35 days ago • 32 comments

Musk and Trump’s actions are harming and killing innocent people globally.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Please read this and share widely.

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 36 days ago • 24 comments

You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.

submitted 36 days ago • 97 comments

If people whose judgement I trust and aren't prone to freaking out are saying this is dangerous re: the Treasury, I believe them.

submitted 37 days ago • 23 comments

It's the second day of #BlackHistoryMonth. I am sharing a zine that I made illustrated by my comrade Mauricio Pineda titled "The Mississippi Black Papers." issuu.com/projectnia/d...

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

zines like this are important work and reading them secures the transmission of history against the efforts of the state to erase it. trigger warning for racialized violence, it's hard but vital reading.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 37 days ago • 166 comments

the fascists are looking to rigidly define gender not just to punish trans people like they claim but to lay the groundwork for the oppression of all women. when gender is legally mutable, it is harder to use it to restrict people’s rights. they want to build a cage around you, made from our bones

submitted 39 days ago • 22 comments