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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

My theory is there aren't as many protests against cutting Medicaid as there are Tesla protests these days as organizers aren't as in touch with disabled and aging people, who tend to be more isolated.

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Hey folks, I volunteer with the Nexus Moving Company. We relocate trans folk and their partners & families out of unsafe states/situations to safe ones at no cost to them. Please give to and/or share this fundraiser. THANK YOU! #transmutualaid #mutualaid gofund.me/c45668e0

BREAKING: Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek says he is consulting with the Justice Department about shutting down the agency. Dudek told the Washington Post: “Unless I get clarification, I’ll just start to shut it down. I don’t have much of a choice here.”

Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed. Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza. Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽

BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.

We need to tread eugenics with the seriousness we treat the most vile forms of bigotry because eugenics is what turns those bigotries into action items.

I think it’s worth noting it is utterly VITAL this dead child’s mother cling to her anti-vax beliefs. Because otherwise, if she accepts the fact that vaccinations save lives, that also requires her to accept personal responsibility for the needless death of her child. She can’t do that.

“Arafat Bilal is suffering from symptoms and signs of Hirschsprung's disease (colon dysplasia). He previously underwent a colostomy and now needs a colonoscopy with a single stapler. The child's mother lacks the funds to save his life.”

Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education. Greg: Because we're against it.

If you were waiting for a line in the sand, here it is. We can't allow this at and need to prevent it at any cost.

I’m not like a social media expert but I feel like if Bluesky didn’t keep deleting Palestinian accounts and forcing them to recreate them and rebuild their support networks while starving and dying in a warzone there might not be as much “spam”. This site’s actions are racist and cruel. Fuck you.

My fundraising account was unfairly deleted without any warning, and all donations were returned. Please support me on my new account. chuffed.org/project/1252...

israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.

When I wrote my camps book, people sometimes had difficulty understanding how concentration-camp regimes were proud of what they were doing and wanted attention for it, even as they also hoped to keep many aspects secret and terrorize vulnerable classes. Anyway, this is what that looks like.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Sharing with ALT text for those who aren't aware of the ongoing real world implications for trans people in the U.S. "I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state..."

"“Oopsie…Too late,” Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, a Trump ally who agreed to house about 300 migrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country’s prisons, wrote on X. That post was recirculated by White House communications director Steven Cheung." apnews.com/article/trum...

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security. That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

I'm a broken record on this so I'll just say again that you should take every opportunity to [if you can] gather with other people who are trying to do constructive things in the world. Attend the zine fairs, the craft circles, the workshop sessions, food distros, people's assemblies, all of it.

Arafat Bilal is suffering from symptoms and signs of Hirschsprung's disease (colon dysplasia). He previously underwent a colostomy and now needs a colonoscopy with a single stapler. The child's mother lacks the funds to save his life. www.muslimgiving.org/Childsinjury 🙏🏻

Alawieh has now been deported, DESPITE a federal judge's order to keep her in the country www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

In Massachusetts, at Logan airport, immigration thugs stripped an innocent man naked, tortured him, and pressured him to give up his green card.

MUST-WATCH: This is the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil from the perspective of his wife, who is 8 months pregnant. This is federal agents in plain clothes dragging a man from his home as punishment for his speech. @nyclu.org @ccrjustice.org @theimeu.bsky.social

this guy’s distinguishing quality is his boundless contempt for anyone who voices the slightest disagreement with him. you can see in his voice and mannerisms that he thinks he’s better than everyone around him. (which to my mind is just compensation for his palpable self-loathing)

SCOOP: AI scientists partnering with the government are now being told to remove ‘ideological bias’ from powerful models. “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” are no longer required skills. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

When DOGE cuts aviation safety and planes crash, when Medicaid is demolished and your community hospital closes, when trans care is banned through pulling funding, when Musk subverts democracy… These dems own it. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters

Curious that Gillibrand thinks she is averting a shutdown by giving Republicans what they want. The federal government is already shutdown to Columbia University solely at the whim of billionaires. Same for USAID & CFPB. Same for grants and contracts across the country. Why empower more of that?🤔

Three years ago, three other reporters and I ID'd and called any school accused of having litter boxes for furries. We found one (1) in the entire country: Columbine's school district. Cat litter was for a "go bucket," in case kids were locked in during a shooting. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

Alright @aaron.bsky.team, @safety.bsky.app and @jay.bsky.team I am baffled as to why you have labeled @monahijazi.bsky.social not as a spammer (which she isn’t but that’s the usual email they get) but as a fraud. Mona is one of the most documented people from Gaza on here- she will videochat you

BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews and allies have taken over Trump Tower chanting “We want justice, you say how. Bring Mahmoud home now!” and “Fight Nazis, not students.” The civil disobedience is spawned by the ICE arrest of Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil.

Miller and Homan must be so pleased with themselves. Fucking monsters: A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find a way to return to the U.S. and ensure their 10-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, can continue her brain cancer treatment. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

This is who they want to portray as an agent of Hamas.

SCOOP: The US Dept. of Education and GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw will each recognize "DeTrans Awareness Day" tomorrow with events featuring anti-trans activists. In lieu of a press release, I’m told the Dept. event will be covered exclusively by a reporter from The Federalist.

as the story also notes: this secretive unit reporting to Adams became briefly internationally known for their assault on Columbia students protesting the genocide in Gaza—wearing navy jackets and khakis, on some kind of tactical ladder, breaking into a campus building to make violent arrests

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the head of Donald Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), wants massive cuts to America’s core safety net programs.

I'd just like to remind folks that Musk and his DOGE bros have *edit permissions* in Social Security administrative data--they can change the underlying data, such as the earnings that dictate peoples' benefits. They can *create* fraud. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Let's be really really clear. The Trump admin chose a Palestinian activist as the target of its first lawless political detention precisely BECAUSE they believe that will split the opposition. If you shrug at the abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, or worse, cheer it on, you're following Trump's script.

When a fifteen year old kid jokes about bombing schools we arrest them.