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In a letter dictated over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana, Mahmoud Khalil said that his arrest "was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine." "It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom."

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From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 8 days ago • 105 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 9 days ago • 469 comments

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 17 days ago • 3335 comments

Proud to be AFT.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt 🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT

submitted 21 days ago • 753 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 24 days ago • 582 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 25 days ago • 2227 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 24 days ago • 1012 comments

NEW: On Section 504. "Attacks on any one group will be used as a wedge to attack all of us. You may not personally know any trans people, and you may even be uncomfortable with the idea ... but letting this attack go forward will eventually hurt you and the things you love, too." /1

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

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

submitted 28 days ago • 29 comments

A big problem with American politics is that a third generation hvac company owner is seen as more working class than a teacher’s aide

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

The NYT “Is Birthright Citizenship REALLY Constitutional???” op-ed is the conservative legal movement in a nutshell: “Sure, the law is X, but what if it weren’t”-style academic backfill for conservative policy advocacy. Dogshit writing, fantasyland analysis, embarrassing for everyone involved.

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — New York's governor refuses extradition request for doctor charged with prescribing abortion pills to Louisiana minor.

submitted 34 days ago • 80 comments

This is important. Not because Miller will ever be consistent in his pleadings for presidential power but because it’s a public service to demonstrate to anyone who might entertain a shadow of a doubt that there’s no neutral principle here. He wants power for his guy, full stop.

submitted 37 days ago • 24 comments

You know, I didn't really think that Naomi Klein's work was going to be read as a how-to manual.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

This is not a U.S. Marshal, Federal Protective Service, or any other federal law enforcement officer. This is a private security guard from Triple Canopy. He has no authority to block members of Congress who have oversight of the EPA from entering the building.

submitted 40 days ago • 758 comments

Another national call to action can be to get 100s of thousands of people to hand out key information about what's happening in DC in their communities. Call it a National Day Out and make easily downloadable info available. Ask people to hand it out at laundromats. supermakets, public transit etc..

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

Okay, someone tell him that Canada gave us Maine, show him some pictures of snow, and tell him he won and can go golfing now.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.

submitted 46 days ago • 426 comments

Even if you don't care about trans people, the president issuing an illegal executive order and hospitals in states with shield laws obeying in advance to suddenly cut off care to vulnerable youth is a chilling action. What do you think will happen to abortion when he invokes Comstock in an EO?

submitted 47 days ago • 28 comments

Today, @evanbernick.bsky.social explains why Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship is not merely unconstitutional — it is an effort to perpetrate the very evils that abolitionists and Republicans sought to eradicate from our constitutional order.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

If you're reeling from Trump's ongoing attacks, please check out my latest piece about what trans people are up against and how we (as in, all of us, including doctors and clinicians) can resist these assaults. Includes commentary from @dreanyc123.bsky.social and @deanspade.bsky.social.

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

This is the biggest danger of Trump's EOs. They are not law, and yet Denver Health is complying in advance, ending all trans surgeries under 19 years of age, including chest masculinization - a rare, but much needed surgery for some trans teens. www.9news.com/article/news...

submitted 48 days ago • 89 comments

i don't know what to say that someone smarter won't say better. but i was a trans kid when there wasn't care for trans kids & i can tell a short story since that's allegedly my deal. i survived. but you know the survivorship diagram? i'm that fringe dot. i survived by accident.🧵 cw: self-harm ⬇️

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 48 days ago • 3779 comments

“This administration believes that the moon is made of cheese. This administration feels that there are 103 states. This administration asserts that penguins are communists. This administration thinks that Mickey Mouse did 9/11. This administration holds that mangoes are the real racists. This …”

submitted 50 days ago • 125 comments

This is the correct response.

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments