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Call these Senators - tell them the WeThePeople told them to vote NO, but instead they voted in support of crap GOP policies, betraying their constituents who want them to FIGHT!! Now we tell them: get out of the goddamn way. RESIGN NOW We have no use for "leaders" who won't meet the moment

The U.S. is bombing Sana’a, Yemen again, 9 civilians killed and another 9 wounded, per Shuaib Almosawa, reporting for Drop Site on the ground

Check out this important conversation we had with Unity of Fields! We talked about the student intifada in LA, the recent high school walkouts, facing state repression, and shutting the fuck up! Read it here + a zine to go with it: unityoffields.net/pcc-la/

This headline screenshot is from "thenewsglobe . net", a spam site that is banned from most of reddit. Which is why it's a screenshot and not a link I presume.

NEW: The @nytimes.com spoke with Ranjani Srinivasan, the Columbia student from India who fled to Canada. ICE came looking for her after her visa was revoked. “I’m just surprised that I’m a person of interest,” she said. “I’m kind of a rando." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

They really tried to play up this slim minority of Arab Americans who backed Trump to further villainize Arabs in the election as the democrats were already doing. Arabs were simply objecting to a candidate who was actively killing them. Huge numbers of them being down for Trump was hype.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Israel’s “deliberate” curtailing of Gaza’s access to water amounts to “acts of genocide”, according to Niku Lafarnia, a researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW). 🔴 Read analysis: aje.io/zz6chr

cops are not workers. agents of state repression. they aren’t like a civil defense committee or volunteer firefighters hochul supports torture youtu.be/Voi5KxdwshQ?

SCOOP: The Department of Veterans Affairs has quietly rescinded longstanding VHA Directive 1341, which outlined how transgender vets should be treated with dignity in VA facilities. www.advocate.com/news/transge...

You should be ungovernable no matter who’s in office. tomdispatch.com/how-to-resis...

They're moving to classify constitutionally protected speech as terrorism. This is a five alarm fire.

Free Palestine

solidarity 🖤🫡

The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is a warning that no dissenting voice is safe. His detention must be seen as part of a broader effort to suppress activism and silence resistance, demanding collective action in response.

columbia university you rat nasty bitch

man when NATE SILVER gets it and you don't, holy shit

“.. We’re just in such a state of shock. We just don’t really even know how to respond,” Gilkerson said. “Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this.” @nbcnews.com 🚜 www.nbcnews.com/politics/eco...

Successful display of community defense in Portland last night Thread with context 🧵

if you ever feel bad about self-promoting your work just remember that the elon musk, the richest man in the world, was crying so hard about his businesses the president did a photo op for his businesses

Email sent out to Columbia students about 30 minutes ago from the interim president “heartbroken” to announce DHS was once again on campus and had obtained judicial warrants to access 2 student residences. No one arrested/detained.

excited to hear the ADL's defense of this one

learned on the grayzone that shai davidai is a green card holder and he is spewing actual terrorist hate for a genocidal state

New GOP spending bill fully defunds the DOJ community policing program, takes it to zero

This is fascism and if not stopped we all know where it’s heading

if you were involved in dem party leadership in november 2024, you shouldn't be anywhere near it in march 2025. this seems obvious

a new plan to replace dem leaders with magic eight balls

NEW EMAIL FROM COLUMBIA ADMIN: DHS agents were in two university residences tonight — with two warrants "I am writing heartbroken to inform you that we had federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in two University residences tonight." No arrests made.

Wow. Rep. Chuck Edwards is getting torn apart at a town hall in Asheville, NC. “I’m a veteran & you don’t give a fuck about me. You don’t get to do this to us!” Edwards orders veteran to be thrown out. We’re approaching a tipping point now. Anger across the country is going to boil over soon.

This fucker deserves not to have another day of peace in his life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

SCHUMER đź‘Ź IS đź‘Ź DOING đź‘Ź WHAT đź‘Ź HE'S đź‘Ź PAID đź‘Ź TO đź‘Ź DO

NEW: National Park Service staff have received talking points ordering them to describe layoffs as “workforce management actions” and to reassure visitors that changes resulting from the cuts won’t impede “memorable and meaningful experiences for all.” By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social

I'd like an apology from the blue no matter who folks who lost their shit when I said several weeks ago that there is no opposition party in the US.

I love that people are like “well communist is too scary we can’t use that word because of xyz” Comrade in Christ the first paragraph of the manifesto explains why this is stupid. The whole specter haunting thing. That’s literally what it’s about. Communists need to not let others define them.

Warner and Hickenlooper have videos up where they say they are no's on cloture, a good sign that grassroots pressure is working; hit them with some positive reinforcement.

9am tomorrow morning: Scream at Schumer

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”