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shogarth.bsky.social
Human rights and community legal defense nerd. Anarcha-queerdo mom. Former NYC squatter electrician now mostly in the Catskill mountains gardening and fixing up an old house.
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This is horrific though not surprising. A North Dakota jury has done the bidding of the oil pipeline company and claims the Indigenous-led movement at Standing Rock was somehow instigated and led by Greenpeace. At once racist and designed to silence a major environmental organization.

BOTH of New York 's senators betrayed the first real congressional effort to resist the Trump agenda. We deserve better than Schumer or Gillibrand. But Chuck is a disaster in that leadership role and needs to step down.

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Miriam talks with Andy from Chosen Family Law Center about legal stuff including executive orders, gender markers, how studying law is terrifying but despite the terror, practicing law is all about providing information and care @andyeyeballs.bsky.social

A great resource tracking all the legal challenges to the Trump administration. Includes case summaries and links to documents. 125 cases as of March 15. www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

Just fucking appalling. This queer survivor just threw the award she received from NSVRC out the window.

Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥 Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

24-year-old Black trans man, Sam Nordquist, tortured to death over 2 months in the Finger Lakes region of upstate NY. DA describing it as "by far the worst homicide investigation that our office has ever been a part of." #TransLivesMatter #SayHisName apnews.com/article/new-...

We’ve filed suit against the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Government Efficiency. We are asking the court to block data sharing and force DOGE to destroy any downloaded sensitive data from the OPM database.

A strong statement released today by 16 current or former US members of UN human rights bodies describing "the most extensive assault on human rights and accountability by any U.S. administration in modern history". www.justsecurity.org/107687/state...

“Everyone’s threat model has shifted, in part because of the new administration and the way tech companies are bending over backwards to serve their agenda,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @washingtonpost.com. “The lens of criminality and risk is expanding.”

I confess i didn’t have annex Canada on my bingo card I implore you to follow people from/living in Canada for the real deal on ppl like Ford & cronies It matters which resistance you celebrate @harshawalia.bsky.social @biidaasamose.bsky.social @thellpsx.bsky.social @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

An analysis of Trump and Musk's "shock and awe" moves on the infrastructure of the federal government that suggests that Trump is reaching for the sort of power that Nixon tried and failed to grasp and doing so on an unprecedented scale. nymag.com/intelligence...

Note that this lawsuit is backed by two LGBTQ legal orgs: @gladlaw.bsky.social and @nclrights.bsky.social.

Detailed advice for healthcare workers here. Including: "If a hospital area is closed to the public, it can be closed to ICE." and "ICE does not have an unrestricted legal right to enter patient care areas"

A very good guide to the legal risks of doing ICE Watch-type actions with some important information on how to reduce those risks.

If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one. shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

bumping this from three weeks ago in light of Elon Musk busting out a LITERAL FUCKING NAZI SALUTE at inauguration

Holding on tight to this today (& Kemba & Michelle & Khalida) Things that feel like they might never come to be sometimes do - not because of some magnanimous leader who chooses to do a few right things after funding fueling enabling genocide - but because of steadfast organizing over time & faith.

Wow, that was fast! Biden's announcement is already gone from the Whitehouse website.

🔊 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🔊 “It’s finally over– I’m going home.” – Leonard Peltier  Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. Read our full press release: ndnco.cc/PeltierCleme...

At long last! Peltier will be free!!

With less than 24 hours with President Biden in office, there is still time for him to grant Leonard Peltier clemency. ictnews.org/opinion/pres...

Law enforcement is panicking over popular support for Luigi Mangione, as revealed in new intelligence documents we obtained and shared w/ @kenklippenstein.bsky.social. #FOIA www.kenklippenstein.com/p/government...

The new few weeks, months, years, will likely not be pretty. Get this guide to surveillance self-defense to your communities. It has printable PDFs as well as tailored reccomendations for certain activities, types of people, etc. ssd.eff.org

lots of detailed advice for non-citizens and for their lawyers and workplaces here.

This is what Assad did to Palestinian livelihood. Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus.

Yup. Along with venture capital real estate firms buying up everything in sight just to leave them empty.

🧵1. Many Palestinians view Assad as a monster, yet Western Kremlin mouthpieces deny he used chemical weapons on his people. Now medics/civilians who were put on planes and coerced by Russia to give false testimony denying the attacks have come forward. Here's one: Credit: @caolanrob.bsky.social

Massive protests in Belgrade and other Serbian cities happening right now. What better way to start 2025 than the fall of Vučić?

New: The parents of slain forest defender Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Paez Terán filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday against three Georgia law enforcement officers they say are most responsible for the death of their child in January 2023 unicornriot.ninja/2024/parents...

With the transfer of these men, 27 detainees remain at Gitmo—down from a max of 780. However, Biden has failed to live up to his pledge to close the facility. And Trump wants to keep it open and send MORE detainees there. #ElectoralNullification countervortex.org/blog/dod-to-...

How did prisons become ‘corridors of contagion’ during a pandemic? Journalist & author Victoria Law & Britta Shoot discuss Law's latest book “Corridors of Contagion” (@haymarketbooks.org) on the overlapping harms of pandemics & incarceration. prismreports.org/2024/12/16/h...

the venerable anarchist/antifacist platform It’s Going Down is going on hiatus (tho their social media will remain active: @igd.bsky.social) End of the post-insurrecto/antifa era? itsgoingdown.org/on-hiatus-a-...

Happy #solstice everyone! In these dark times it feels especially helpful to mark the return of the sun. With winter at the peak of its force (at least for us in the northern hemisphere) it is also at its weakest as it begins an inevitable decline.

Mass graves are being discovered across Syria. One in Qutayfah, outside Damascus is estimate to hold 150,000 people. It is hard to comprehend the extent of Assad's slaughter www.youtube.com/watch?v=eevV...

We lost a community stalwart this week. Steven Englander spent decades at the helm of ABC No Rio - a radical community arts space in NYC's Lower East Side. More details - including how to make a donation - at www.abcnorio.org

AJ's 'The Take' podcast invited me on to talk about my visit to Sednaya prison in Damascus. The stream of people heading toward the prison and the desperate search for any info about disappeared loved ones would leave a deep impact on any human being. omny.fm/shows/the-ta...

Turkish drone strikes and airstrikes on the Kurdish-majority Kobani in northern Syria. This has led to displacement as residents fear an ethnic cleansing campaign by Turkey and the SNA

Just wow.

Yep. Israel too. But Turkey is the one I'm most worried about in this moment (now that Iran and Russia have fled Syria).