Enemy within 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🍉
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Trying to live a contemplative life, which is hard for a news junkie. Anti-capitalist abolitionist anti-racist for a free Palestine. Cis-gender dyke.
Keeping children from starving vs. supporting autocracy, not a difficult choice for mfing Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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My timid boy Hans killed a mouse today (without eviscerating it, thank goodness), and is now exhausted. Happy Caturday to all who celebrate
Michigan Voters who changed their mind and have already voted:
Reading the New Yorker article about the Tates shortly after reading _London Falling_ makes me really wonder about policing in the UK (I already know about policing in the US). And, Tates and Trumps collaborating on women-hating, whew.
Loved _Careless People_, was a little surprised Zuckerberg let it be published www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers | Tim Wu
The company is clearly trying to make an example of the author who wrote about her time at the company. Her free speech should be protected, says Prof Tim Wu of Columbia University Law School
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happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves
Solidarity with the 3,500 LIRR engineers, signalmen, machinists and other railroad workers who walked out on their first strike in 32 years last night. The MTA had every opportunity to bargain in good faith. Now management’s failures are being imposed on riders.
This is great, but you're still $97 million short of the funding you campaigned on (at 0.5% of the City budget), Mayor Mamdani. Please keep your promise to the people's libraries! @nycplan.org
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoLike @mychal3ts.bsky.social writes, “The library is always here for you." That's why we're committed to being here for our libraries. This year, we're adding $31.7 million in permanent, baseline funding to our city's three library systems so they can better serve New Yorkers.
Kent State anniversary today (photo from Larry Stoddard/AP)
US voters worried about high food prices in 2024. This admin has: 1) taxed food & fertilizer imports 2) deported farmworkers 3) canceled food/climate investments 4) started a war that spiked energy/fertilizer prices 5) increased crop-based biofuel mandates 6) released dietary guidance centering meat
ICYMI: March 2026 is in the books. Add another 612 atrocities to the list. #LestWeForgetTheHorrors
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: March 2026: Atrocities 805-866
Donald Trump and his administration committed 61 more cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes in March 2026.
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My rep, FML. Proving once again that you don’t have to be smart to graduate from Harvard. How horrifying that the spiritual leader of millions would speak against war, war crimes, and threats of genocide. www.wwnytv.com/2026/04/14/s...
Stefanik defends Trump’s Iran threat, criticism of Pope Leo XIV
North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said Pope Leo XIV should stay out of U.S. and global politics and that President Trump’s threat to end the Iranian civilization last week was an effective ne...
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Anybody know the effect of the US blockade on the merchant sailors stuck on ships? Is anyone getting them food, water, medical care?
“The resolve to ignore the views of Democratic voters on Israel erodes the Democratic base, with party leaders carrying on as though moral concerns are not worth taking very seriously.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why are Democratic leaders still ignoring voters on Israel? | Norman Solomon
Decisions at the latest Democratic National Committee meeting emphasized the disconnect between the party’s leadership and its base
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Immigration judges are not part of the federal judiciary, they are part of the executive branch. Feel free to correct this story, TNR. newrepublic.com/maz/post/209...
The Trump administration is continuing to punish immigration judges who impede its deportation agenda.
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Explicitly working to cordon off treatment to those in need because the exclusive access for the rich is the point.
Melissa Barber@mbarber.bsky.social · 4mo agoToday, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
Don’t be a f***ing scab! NFL set to begin hiring and training replacement officials, AP sources say apnews.com/article/offi...
NFL set to begin hiring and training replacement officials, AP sources say
The NFL is moving forward with plans to begin hiring and training replacement officials in the next several weeks because negotiations with the referees’ union have been unsuccessful, two people with ...
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I've been writing about this since the strike started in November. They were intended for the Liberation Caucus and our Labor Committee. The writings were never treated as a priority enough to put on our website so I'm just publishing. solid-banana-cd5.notion.site/Starbucks-St...
Starbucks Strike: 3 months of disappointment. | Notion
The Complete History of Starbucks Organizing: From Failed 1985 Efforts to the 2026 Defeat
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🏳️⚧️🇨🇩🇵🇸UnionBaddieMaddie@decolonizeunions.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe SEIU for instance, the Union that also runs Workers United. They're claiming to be against ICE. Yet, the bank that the Union owns (Amalgamated bank) manages assets for Geogroup and other members of the prison industrial complex. The Union is profiting from all of this suffering.
This morning @council.nyc.gov members are meeting to discuss the preliminary budget : Join NYC PLAN in demanding that the NYC City Council fund our essential public libraries, dedicating a minimum of 0.5% of the expense budget to stabilize and secure the services our communities depend on.
NYC Public Library Action Network@nycplan.org · 5mo agoNYC City Council is holding a hearing on Wed March 18th to discuss the preliminary budget. We need YOUR VOICE to tell them to fund our libraries! You can testify over zoom, in person, or simply submit written testimony. Here's an easy summary of how : bit.ly/4beNTsH
What a bunch of clowns US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say apnews.com/article/mili...
US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say
Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.
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Who in the administration did this? Completely outrageous. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...
Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions
Kimberly Prost and Luz del Carmen Ibáñez Carranza vow US reprisals will not affect work of international criminal court
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What a remarkable young woman. A powerful reminder of the cruelty and suffering experienced by children here and around the world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk
I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression
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What do you think, will the Georgia ballots end up (a) on the bottom of the ocean, or (b) burned to ashes in a tragic warehouse fire?
Why do people keep talking about Alex Pretti bringing a gun to a protest? Wasn’t he just observing ICE/CBP activity in his neighborhood? Not a protest AFAIK.
Why didn’t ICE spend some of that absurd congressional largesse on uniforms? Preferably with identification prominently displayed.
Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
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