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Important to note that they’ve moved the goalposts from “material support for” to “aligned with” Hamas. If you spoke out against Israel violating the Law of Armed Conflict and killing tens of thousands of civilians then you too were aligned with Hamas.

Ironically, this means that the “DEI Army” Trumpworld hallucinated is now 100% necessary because if everyone who isn’t pale, pale, and belongs in jail gets sidelined or purged every 4-8 years and nothing is done to counter it, you end up with a Nazi army after a generation or two, tops.

the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5

I receive: the ability to prosecute all my political enemies you receive: a massive recession on the horizon

How toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?! Musk=Toxic: Nazi Racist Sexist Fascist Oligarch Authoritarian Robber Baron Chief DOGE Thief Save Medicaid, Medicare & Social Security Stop the Steal of US Govt 💲and Your💲. Dump Your Tesla Stock! Dump Your Tesla! #TeslaTakedown www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The increasing inability to fully silence notifications (including not seeing unread indicators) across a range of apps is a really stark reminder of the expectation of instant availability and responses of capitalism.

If you can’t stay and you can’t leave why would anyone come here

Fascinating report from my colleague @yonat.bsky.social as part our @npr.org partnership: a look into an anti-Zionist synagogue. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

When I say they hope to overturn the Civil Rights Act I get looked at like I’ve lost my critical faculties. But here is Rufo, in the New York Times, saying they want to overturn the Civil Rights Act (and use anti-discrimination law to protect white people).

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A lot of us have been saying this moment feels like 2002-2003 but this obvious bullshit is a bit too on the nose

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

The White House, not even DHS, the White House itself apparently, is directly deciding which permanent residents should be detained and deported based on their political speech. If this doesn’t scare you about the state of our democracy and liberties, I don’t know what will.

I hate crossing Lake St (in Minneapolis) & yet I need to get across it for SO many trips. Even at Bryant (one of the safest crossings) drivers are constantly doing dangerous stuff like this.

we're at the "Elon trying to get specific organizers targeted" phase of Elon being mad

#TeslaTakedown is a people's protest, coast to coast and spreading worldwide. There's no 'there' there to stop, no central point of control that can end it. If Musk wants to stop this movement he should dismantle DOGE and stop his reckless and deadly actions.

we should organize and take to the streets over this shit, we should be going to jail over it but we're so cult-of-individualism poisoned that people are like "well, why aren't YOU doing it?" I can't do shit! only we, collectively, have power. this is a time to organize ourselves and use that power

My grandfather was a green card holder from when he arrived in the US in his 20s until he died in his 90s. Having a green card makes you a LEGAL resident of the US. The fact that he has disappeared should terrify you. And the fact that Columbia was complacent in his disappearance is grotesque

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

resharing with alt text. truly terrifying shit in addition to my fear, I feel fury both at the perpetrators and all the facilitators who greased the wheels

Dude was visiting his fiancé, who lives in Vegas. His English isn’t good so he misunderstood the border goons when they asked where he lives, he said Vegas, they took him away for questioning without a translator and now he’s been in a jail for two weeks.

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.

This truck had dog stickers, fuck Putin, a humminbird sonar sticker, and “America was great when we were putting nazis 6 feet deep.” I think its driver should be my friend.

Every single Democratic Senator voted for Marco Rubio as Sec of State!

Democrats voted unanimously to confirm Marco Rubio.

Hint: it’s not okay when they do it to Palestinian green card holders, it’s not okay when they do it to German tourists, it’s not okay when they do it to Mexican people regardless of citizenship, it is not okay. Ever.

Are universities going to start speaking up? Because if they think Trump pulling back federal dollars is an existential threat, they should see what happens when no international students want to come here for fear of ending up in a MAGA concentration camp.

This should be read as a regime commitment to systematic First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and Fifth Amendment violations.

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?

This development is a horrifying and further escalation of the very topic I wrote about yesterday evening: The Trump administration’s move from governmental changes to individual attacks focused on political opponents. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-test...

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

We're going to look back at the Harper's Letter as one of the most craven moments ever.

seriously this is a fucking five alarm fire

we're really not going to recover from this and go back to some "normal." even if we survive this round, we've made it abundantly clear that every four years there's a valid possibility that dumbass magas may tank everything. we are not to be trusted.

Y'all this is REALLY BAD. They disappeared a Palestinian activist green card holder who is married to a US citizen. He could literally be ANYWHERE 🌍 right now! ICE claims they cancelled his green card, something no judge has ruled on yet. Columbia colluded w/ ICE to make this happen.

Everyone reallllly should be wearing good masks, especially while traveling (or getting healthcare or going to the store or . . . ). (But seriously especially in crowded indoor spaces.)

They are absolutely going to lie about the state of the economy www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

New, from me: you were told that the threats to free speech came from wokeness. Some compared it to Maoist China. Now we are witnessing government power being used to silence dissent and censor ideas. Now we know what real society-wide chilling effects look like. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

I think the real “crisis in masculinity” is a crisis of credulity, where young men are looking at guys like Andrew Tate and The Liver King and are thinking “this is a realistic lifestyle I can attain” and not “these guys are full of shit and playing a character for the camera”

Thoughts on boycotts: inflict pain on the corporation. Buying a couple 99 cent ebooks from a self-published author on Amazon is fine. Don’t buy a microwave on it. Purity is never the answer. Restraint though and thoughtfulness is.

This is go to prison forever malfeasance. A guy who is currently a SpaceX employee also serves as an FAA official who cancels a big contract to award instead no-bid to his own employer and starts installing hardware without statutorily required tests and assurances

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

he has such a serious intense face all the time. he always looks like he's about to tell me "there's no time for this, we have to keep moving"

Not the first person to make this observation, but it's so striking how the media covered the crack epidemic as a problem caused by black/urban drug users and the fentanyl epidemic as a problem imposed externally on white/rural drug users.

If you are new to direct action, you will be called "uncivil" at the very least. It's par for the course. Embrace it.