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“We cannot lose our humanity. It is necessary for us not to lose our solidarity. It is necessary for us to think a little bit with our hearts.” —Lula I organize healthcare workers with interruptingcriminalization.com. more at bit.ly/BDNHLaunch.
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What should I say to them? Do they deserve all this? They endured difficult circumstances hoping for the day they could return to their warm home. Words cannot describe the extent of the sorrow that Zaina Noor, are living. Offer them the support you can so they can live the life they deserve 🙏🏻💔🔗

This post is gonna be a story about what I went through during this war. I'll share it again after shutting down my first account. I hope everyone can help share it🤍!... 🔗🍉❤️‍🩹 chuffed.org/project/1206...

A disaster.

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

this is just fucking terrifying, Patel has no line he is unwilling to cross the full force of the FBI will be turned against anyone they consider a domestic enemy

Amerah is trying to arrange surgery at a private hospital for Ayool so that she can save the hearing that she lost during the war if you can help her with the costs ❤️

So X has been shaking down advertising agencies warning them of reprisals from the federal government if they don't up their spending on the platform. Corruption at the highest level.

Tommy Olsen, founder of the Aegean Boat Report, is being targeted by Greek authorities for documenting illegal pushbacks of refugees. As @laurenmarkham.bsky.social writes, it's part of the broader move to criminalize not only migrants but also aid workers as “a new layer of border defense."

Our about-to-be next FBI director just called journalism “the most powerful enemy the US has ever seen.”

Detroiters, please share this everywhere and also please send this directly to one or more friends who might be down to do this with us! Our only barrier to opening Detroit Peer Respite is having enough trained peer support workers <3

Hi, hello. In order to grasp the significance of Trump crowning himself a King, you have to understand that he is literally carrying out a plan crafted by Curtis Yarvin, a right wing extremist, to overthrow democracy and replace it with dictatorial rule by a monarch-CEO.

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

If you don't see what you want or like, make your own thing.

Executive orders are not laws. The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has started Executive Power Watch, which includes breakdowns of Trump's EOs on education, what they do and don't mean ,and how to resist. More at the link: academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/how-should...

If you have yet to sign up for this project it’s not too late—far from it, there are still over 70 posts to come from an amazing lineup of authors @writingco-lab.bsky.social

It's just so important to look at oneself first. If you're asking why OTHER people aren't doing something that YOU aren't, you'll find part of the answer in why you aren't doing said thing.

I'm gonna log-off for the day. I've had to work through the weekend and I'm feeling TIRED. But I put in my mutual aid/power building rep by turning a thread into a ton of different mutual aid resources, ideas, proposals and guides for you to use! Now you can do your one thing today too! 😘✌️

if you work for the IRS, i’d like to chat. message me on signal at marisakabas.04

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports that over 10,000 Palestinians are being held in Israeli custody -- 365 children & 16 women with over 3,369 held on administrative detention. More than 56 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention since Oct. 2023. unicornriot.ninja/2025/america...

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Polish foreign minister understands Trump better than 90% of D.C. Democrats.

In Ferguson, they swept phone data from the crowd, then later drove down streets and if there were 2 or more of those people in a house, they raided it.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Yousef. Yousef is only 21 years old and has lived through a lot, including losing his mother prior to the war. He is trying to help his father (who had Type I Diabetes and needs wound care) and his brother’s family with 2 young children.

The Trump administration on Friday toughened the security requirements for sponsors of migrant children, a move that could make it more difficult for minors who cross the border alone to be released from federal custody and united with family members in the U.S.

You'd never know it reading basically any political commentary being offered now, but a year ago, a Marist poll found that 66% of Americans — including nearly half of non-college white men — supported mandatory DEI training. It's reliably polled well. thehill.com/blogs/blog-b...

I spent some time reading Elon’s tweets this morning (one of my least favorite activities) and it’s hard to overstate how much he and his allies have constructed an alternate reality for their audience to believe in. In their world, Elon is a superhero fighting government fraud, like fanfiction

this reminds me of those studies which found that representatives consistently overestimated how conservative their constituents were.

the federal government is explicitly acting as if jim crow is the law!

We either grit our teeth, scale up our mutual aid, + brace to lose so many people to dungeons, exile, murder, and suicide, or we hit the streets so fucking hard we enter The Cool Zone, which will also require us scaling up our mutual aid, so, scaling up our mutual aid is a good call for right now

Holy shit. Another truly reprehensible act.

www.npr.org/2025/02/14/g... 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Reminder: Black history offers many examples of fighting authoritarianism, so one doesn't always have to look to Europe. Nazi lawyers looked to Jim Crow for inspiration for their racist laws. Read as much about struggles against Jim Crow as you do about other examples of resisting authoritarianism

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

I'm hosting this with @interruptcrim.bsky.social - please come through! Meetup: Journalists and Media Makers Concerned About Criminalization. bit.ly/JournalistsM...

CA Gov Newsom to veto bill that prohibits the state prison system from turning people being released from prison over to ICE for deportation. 1/

Major news: Entire first-year class of the Epidemic Intelligence Service must be out by 5pm, sources say. Also: a major CDC contractor "just let go." Others may follow. This is an attack on our ability to detect outbreaks. More, with quotes from CDC officials: open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

I’m the hospital right now, and it’s full of people here for other reasons who are now also battling upper respiratory infections on top of everything else. Staff keep telling me how *everyone* is getting sick right now—how it’s just a constant churn of people getting sick and staying sick.