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One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.

submitted 23 hours ago • 61 comments

In honour of the estimated >400 million globally who've experienced Long Covid, please stop referring to the pandemic in past tense. For real, god damnit this is the lowest bar

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

If it was done in defiance of a judges order the technical term for that is "illegal" which means it's not an arrest and deportation - which require those conducting it to at least presume they are acting within the law - but a kidnapping and human trafficking

submitted 16 hours ago • 45 comments

Sending people unconvicted of any crime to gulags in foreign countries is very "We are the baddies here."

submitted 11 hours ago • 20 comments

Emma Goldman was deported along with another 600 anarchists, communists & socialists, while 10k+ more nationwide were rounded up in the Palmer Raids, 105 years ago during the First Red Scare and tbh idek which number Red Scare we're on now www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

every radicalized wine mom from now until 2028:

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

🚨 BREAKING: 11 young people were arrested after Schumer locked the doors on us—we showed him how to fight, but he couldn’t even face us. His cowardly deal gives Musk the keys to our government while working people suffer. If he won’t fight for us, he’s unfit to lead. Step up or step aside.

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

This should terrify every person in this country. The use of machine learning systems to approximate an individuals views on war and then, if they are here lawfully on a visa, tag them for deportation is about as sci-fi dystopian as it gets. www.axios.com/2025/03/06/s...

submitted 4 days ago • 174 comments

BREAKING: Jewish American activists with @jvp.bsky.social have taken over the lobby of Trump Tower in New York to demand the release of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, who faces deportation for protesting Israel's war on Gaza.

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

"how many more new yorkers? how many more new yorkers will you detain? how many more new yorkers without charge?" - Zohran, NY Assemblyman and Mayoral candidate, screams at Trump border czar Tom Homan

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

And this is why you should fight this kidnapping tooth and nail regardless of whether you agree with Mahmoud.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

submitted 5 days ago • 1106 comments

Palestinians are not why Tr*mp is President. He was elected because a majority of white people who vote keep voting for him. That sucks, I know. But it's true. In case, people don't know, white people still make up the majority of people in the U.S.

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

submitted 6 days ago • 29 comments

The campus protests did everything you’re “supposed” to do and they were still despised. There is no way to protest correctly besides going somewhere where no one can see it

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

DOGE officials are becoming concerned about their image, with negative headlines and angry town halls reinforcing how damaging their agency cuts are.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

We're in really different places here and internationally because some of us believe that the US has been authoritarian in various iterations over the years especially at the state level and others do not.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

try to be there if you can

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

I think the more horrifying thing to sit with is this: the every-day operations of the jail, prison, and immigration detention systems are and have been dehumanizing, and we built them, and they lend themselves seamlessly to the fascist business of stealing and caging even more people

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

"Abolish the police" was too radical, we were told. "ok fine how about we just defund the police?" we asked. No, no, still too much. Well here we are and ICE is the gestapo disappearing people for nebulous crimes of saying things.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The comments saying this man deserves this treatment because he (or other Palestinians) didn't vote for Harris are infuriating because (a) HE CANNOT VOTE, HE'S NOT A CITIZEN; (b) collective punishment is morally repugnant; (c) genocide is wrong; (d) human rights aren't transactional;

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 7 days ago • 253 comments

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

submitted 10 days ago • 272 comments

if you are a democrat who is retreating on and abandoning trans people, you are evil and throwing all trans people under the bus won’t stop them for coming after you next

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

If the Democratic party can’t unite behind a disabled, survivor of the Jim Crow US South, and cannot unite against the targeting of an oppressed and marginalized trans population, they will not unite to protect me.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Would like to note that the general tone on the skyline this morning has been way doomier and more pessimistic than it has been all week about the possibility of resistance. This is what the Democrats do to morale. This is what the Democrats are good at. Making resistance seem futile.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

“tHeY cAnT dO tHat!!!!!” ok well they are babe, idk what to tell you

submitted 13 days ago • 86 comments

is it in his power to declare this? no. will universities use this as an excuse to further infringe on students' rights to protest? absolutely.

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK

submitted 13 days ago • 29 comments

Ello, new blog. open.substack.com/pub/jlrigby/...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

On todays disability day of mourning I mourn all of the disabled people who we’ve lost over the last five years. And the ones we’re going to continue to lose as fascism creeps into every day life more and more. Holding space for that right now.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Ableism is often the most accepted and excused form of bigotry. Probably because it’s the easiest thing for people to reach for when they want to disparage other people and ideas they disagree with.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

“‘No Other Land’ reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still persist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.” — Basel Adra while accepting the #Oscar for Documentary Feature Film.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Once again asking ya’ll to wear a mask when you are at a protest. Seeing all of these maskless faces at the Tesla protests piss me off. What about inclusivity for the disabled? Or at least to protect yourself? From the surveillance state? Doxing? COVID??! It's a fucking virus zoo.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 15 days ago • 99 comments

Guerilla advertising seen in the London Metro

submitted 15 days ago • 412 comments

No one wants a paper trail because spending funds Congress has not appropriated is colloquially known as “stealing from the US Treasury.”

submitted 15 days ago • 160 comments

♿Social Security is NOT just for Seniors. It's also for people like me with Disabilities, people who receive Survivors Benefits & Veterans who receive Social Security benefits. Before I became disabled, I PAID into the program with EVERY paycheck. There are MILLIONS more like me & it is OUR MONEY!♿

submitted 18 days ago • 190 comments

Yeah. I guess technically, Biden’s people allowed me for example into the room — if I sat there like a potted plant. But trying to ask Blinken critical questions that the adminstration (and major media) had been falsifying about resulted in this being done to me.

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

It’s well and truly time for that liberal riot

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Seems like a good time to tap the sign once again: would strongly recommend supporting non-billionaire owned news media - especially the independent, local, worker-run and/or reader funded variety