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NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. www.samiraahmed.com
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i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

C'mon, New York!!

this is not intended as a substitute for trained medical professionals but if you also saw some of the footage going around and thought 'wtf do i even do if i or somewhere near me gets hurt at a protest' here is a guide specifically for first aid at protests activisthandbook.org/wellbeing/ri...

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

i've been trying to see what the right wing platforms (even outside of X) are showing people regarding the protests in LA and i am not sure it can be overstated just how much the AI slop is being used to reinforce the idea that downtown is a post-apocalyptic war zone

This is illegal. This is illegal. Did I mention this is illegal?

ICE officials tout an unprecedented expansion of its 287(g) Program, driven by agreements that allow local officers to function as deportation agents during routine policing. But advocates warn such agreements come at a high cost to communities. With @azluminaria.org

A little more on RFK's new vaccine committee: Malone - claimed vaccines cause AIDS Kulldorff - promoted mass COVID infection Meissner - opposed vaccines and masks for kids Pebsworth - worked at antivax nonprofit Levi - FL Surgeon General cited his paper when recommending not to get COVID vax

Here is a short script you can use to call your representatives and tell them to demand RFKJ’s resignation.

Banger of an essay from @katherinelocke.bsky.social!

This is massively illegal, these munitions should not be pointed directly at individuals.

Reverse Cassandraing, whispering, “Everybody predicted all of this.”

We feed you. They hunt us.

He was also a committed slaveowner who brutalized the human beings he owned. He didn’t fight for honor.

These students - and these parents - and their librarians and educators - SO proud of how hard they've worked for the Freedom to Read. And what a win this is. cc @authorsabb.bsky.social @flfreedomread.bsky.social @sbintegrityproject.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social pen.org/press-releas...

anyway I’m going out to protest this weekend because we haven’t been beaten yet, and I suggest you do the same it’ll make you feel better than reading an endless stream of posts about how we’re all doomed and we might as well offer ourselves up to be processed into slurry for the MAGA AI mines now

You can see why MARINES are necessary.

So the National Guard is to protect the ICE officers from protestors and observers. Occupying communities.

This is disgusting and dangerous.

Wow ABC won't even pretend they're not fascist enablers, huh? Will we hear other journalists speaking out about this?

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

i definitely feel safer with this person in charge of coordinating our intelligence agencies

Just a reminder that joy is resistance. Protesters singing and dancing and playing kazoos is brilliant. Fascists hate our joy b/c they only imagine a world of hate. Our joy enrages them & they also fear it. Don't ever let anyone convince you that joy isn't a part of protest. We protest from love.

If you are in LA and would like to go stand in front of a line of fascists with some friends and play the Imperial March on kazoos, I will ship you a bunch of kazoos right now

So, it's a military occupation. In an American city.

"I want my authoritarian military parade paid for by tax payer dollars and everyone must love it or else!" Has real cringe pick me vibes. Embarrassing.

"Imma peace out, it's getting too real up there" --Lucifer

Hell yeah, Oregon!!

There should no longer be any argument about where we are as a country. We are not "heading towards" authoritarianism. WE ARE THERE.

Every single artist or celebrity should be using their platform to do this. Speaking up always, always has a place. Speaking the truth empowers others to do so as well.

What kind of fucked up person goes to work and is like, cool okay, today I'm going to kidnap some 6 & 7 year olds because that's my job and I'm just following orders. Fuck them forever.

Let me tell you, when LAPD is not doing whatever they can to make protestors sound violent? Wild times.

And this is another reason why we ALL need to be calling our Senators 👇🏾👇🏾

The courage it took to make this stand is amazing. These people are defending the core of U.S. (and global) science, at considerable risk to their own livelihoods.

JFK literally had multiple chronic diseases and spent a significant part of both his childhood and adult life hospitalized and convalescing. RFK Jr. is an embarrassment.

Trump's new “supercharged” travel ban takes effect today. The order amounts to an even more sweeping bar than the infamous travel ban on Muslim-majority nations that President Trump implemented during his first term.

An authoritarian regime disappears people daily, brutalizes people with open glee, fills the streets with armed goons, and people covering this have the fucking audacity to look at protesters and say, “I hope no one lights a match here.” It’s set up to blame people getting killed. Fuck. This.

The arrest and apparent injury of David Huerta, a prominent California union leader, at an immigration protest has drawn condemnation from across the labor movement.

Solidarity with LA. Solidarity with Chicago. Philadelphia. New York. Solidarity with every single protestor standing up, putting their bodies on the line to protect our people and our freedoms. Not everyone can put themselves in harms way & so it's up to us to help how we can. Find a way to help.

This is the most accurate description of Miller I've ever read. He eats his hate.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

Bernie Sanders: "We have a president who is moving this country rapidly toward authoritarianism...to a large degree the future of this country rests with a small number of Republicans in the House & Senate who know better, who do know what the Constitution is about, and it's high time they stood up"

Facts: - Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass both publicly stated they did not request National Guard assistance. - Under normal circumstances, National Guard deployment requires state approval unless the Insurrection Act is invoked, which Trump has not done.

One of these photos is how HBO's The Watchmen depicted a fascist police force back in 2018 The others are real photos of the ICE agents who are rounding people up and disappearing them in Boston, Denver, L.A., and elsewhere

ICE arrested 36 Chinese & Taiwanese immigrants after raiding an LA nightclub. That's them, ziptied on the sidewalk. Yo Asians—if you weren't already outraged and mobilizing on behalf of others, guess what? That "First they came for the..." poem has gotten up to us. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Worth noting LBJ used the National Guard to protect and expand civil rights; DJT is doing exactly the opposite.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

Elon Musk is singlehandedly responsible for millions of deaths across the world. He normalized hate speech. He is a union buster. Under no circumstance should he be allowed anywhere near the Democratic Party. He made his bed, he can lie in it.