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I’ve spent a lot of time in the company of Friends and Sikhs in the way few years and both of their faiths’ commitment to service has been something really special to witness.

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

just because people act like it’s ancient history… L. Douglas Wilder, the first Black governor in US history, is still alive.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

AOC: We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces — and, in many cases, their identification… The idea that we’re going to allow a paramilitary force to bloom, one that isn’t accountable to the Constitution… we’ve got another thing coming.

submitted 12 hours ago • 654 comments

a democratic politician calling out fox news hosts by name and identifying them as villains is necessary and has been sorely lacking

submitted 25 days ago • 80 comments

Know your history

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Reminder that the primary reason for this was a law passed in the 2000s by Republicans attempting to destroy the post office which said that the post office basically had to budget every new employee's entire lifetime wage and pension plan as soon as they were hired

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

They want you to believe this 80 year old woman body slammed a chud ICE officer.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

submitted 14 hours ago • 77 comments

Stop using "felon" as a pejorative. I have known A LOT of people charged with or convicted of felonies who were good and decent people. When you have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners in a racialized police state, "felon" isn't predictive of anything, character-wise.

submitted 15 hours ago • 47 comments

“spending six weeks”

submitted 14 hours ago • 11 comments

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

submitted 17 hours ago • 121 comments

Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

submitted 14 hours ago • 12 comments

#TeslaTakeDown

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Same goes for colleges and universities.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

What’s wild is … Murphy was actually rather quick with the “ OH HELL NAH” and Booker had already said something

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

100+ folks in Lynnwood AGAIN. The suburbs are not gonna take this BS sitting down. #MuskMustFall #TeslaTakedown

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

They're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to pause much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

To celebrate, why not read the op-ed she was jailed for weeks over, co-signed by dozens of her peers www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Deeply grateful to hear Rümeysa Öztürk was released but we cannot stop until every political prisoner is released and the kidnapping of people is stopped. Just look at the video. She was literally disappeared in broad daylight.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters chant “Free our Mayor!” outside the DHS building in Newark, NJ where Mayor Ras Baraka is being held (Video: @spydermonkeywatch.bsky.social)

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

Folks, this wasn't a protest. It was elected officials trying to do oversight of a PRIVATE ICE PRISON. The ICE Gestapo apparently went for the Mayor after receiving a phone call.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Please spread the correct information about Mayor Baraka's arrest. He had apparently been trying for a few days to visit the ICE prison and was rebuffed. Then the members of Congress tried to visit today and were made to wait in the waiting area for 90 minutes. Then 20 ICE Gestapo showed up...

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

NEW: Rumeysa Ozturk is free from ICE custody. There was a delay as ICE sought to fit her w/ an ankle monitor, prompting a 2nd order from a federal judge clarifying that she was to be released without any monitoring or restrictions. She is with her lawyer; expected to return to Mass. tomorrow.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Here's part of Rep. Menendez's interview. This is where I got the information I shared: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUjf...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

This headline does not reflect the events described in the story. There was a protest. On Tuesday. He was not arrested during that protest. “Mr. Baraka returned on Wednesday and again on Friday to request access to the facility, which is run by one of America’s largest private prison companies.“

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

NEWS: Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was arrested for writing an op-ed criticizing her school leaders' response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, has been released from ICE detention. The judge had stated 'there is no evidence' for the Trump regime to detain her.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

Please share and give if you can. 🙏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Watching the hearing over Rumeysa Ozturk's request to be released from ICE detention on Friday morning, more than six weeks after she was nabbed of the street, painted yet another stark picture of the Trump's administration's actions in her case and others' cases. www.lawdork.com/p/rumeysa-oz...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Fetterman really needs to step down for so many reasons. It has nothing to do with his health. He’s supporting genocide and not doing his job on top of that.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Two things about this: 1) O'Keefe attempted to scam a Trump official about Jeffrey Epstein pedo videos. 2) The attorney general of the United States blabbed FBI business to an undercover operative. www.mediaite.com/politics/att...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The math

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Ozturk’s joyful discussion of her Tufts studies and work and engagement with the community there contrasted starkly with the picture on the Zoom screen: She in orange prison garb with a lawyer by her side, speaking from a bare white room..."

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

While our disgraced mayor was kissing up to Trump in D.C. today, another mayor just across the river was arrested protesting ICE's unlawful operation of a mass deportation facility in his city. Collaboration and cowardice are not the only responses to authoritarianism.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

📢 If you’re able to get to Newark: Protest outside Department of Homeland Security office! 📢 620 Frelinghuysen Ave. Newark, NJ 07114 Organizations and community members on the ground are asking for support and for all of us to stand with them now.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

submitted 1 day ago • 1093 comments

Take a step back here, they've spent the past 4 years hyping themselves up about the Insurrection Act. Shoot a few protestors, suspend habeus corpus, then you can jail your enemies & declare a 1000 year reich. They think it's an instant I-win button when it's the thing that presages their downfall.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This is “breaking faith” in its most classic and cruel form—the government assuring servicemembers they were safe to be open and live as their authentic selves, then turning around and punishing them for their honesty. A massive abuse of trust.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

In the 1950s, polling on interracial marriage was at 4% approval in the United States. Loving v. Virginia is 1967. We hit an above 50% approval rating for the first time in the 1990s. In 2021, 94% of Americans approved of interracial marriage.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Also a valid point. The Library of Congress is in the legislative, not executive, branch.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

For everyone saying this is good because trans people shouldn't serve an imperial military, this is your reminder that I am already seeing opposing counsel cite this as justification for discrimination against trans and gnc people in housing, employment, and determining criminal charges

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

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Most predictable thing ever happened. arstechnica.com/security/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

The MMR vaccine doesn’t contain ‘aborted fetus debris,’ as RFK Jr. claims. Here’s the science:

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility

submitted 98 days ago • 89 comments