If you're still on Substack, you're helping platform fascists and their enthusiastic minions, such as Bari Weiss, whom they actively partnered with just before her move to CBS. Go check out @buttondown.com and @ghost.org instead. You can even migrate yours subscribers and subscriptions!
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3d agoWhat if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again
Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.
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Some climate people claim that if we switched from oil/gas to renewable energy, the US would stop invading other countries for oil. But the problem is imperialism, no matter what type of energy is involved. The US would just as happily invade other countries for lithium and other components
“Jesús Manuel Arenas-Silva went without medication during his detention until he tragically died in ICE custody on July 13 … I am 100% certain that he did not receive proper care.” said his sister. At least 53 people have died in ICE custody since President Donald Trump returned to office.
People Keep Dying in ICE Custody. 13 Democrats Back a Bill to Abolish the Agency.
At least 53 people have died in ICE custody since President Donald Trump’s return to office.
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The anti trans crowd was outraged by this study because it included clinicians who actually practice gender affirming care. Yet another systematic review that follows Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Utah, and Louisiana that finds this care is safe and effective with rare regret.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w ago1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Dem consultants who believe that "kitchen table issues" -- material self-interest -- can sway right-wing voters should take note of the fact that many of those voters are willing to directly harm themselves in service of their deranged ideological hatreds.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w agoFox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.
In recent weeks, ICE has killed at least two people during traffic stops. But this kind of violence isn’t unique to a singular agency — it’s systemic across U.S. law enforcement. Here is the data that proves it 🧵
This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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Anyway, there are couple key things missing from this story, writing a quick post now. Subscribe to my @ghost.org newsletter so you can know what ICE is doing four months before MSM does. ✌️ gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...
What is ICE Air?
Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
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It would have been nice if @bloomberg.com had acknowledged I’ve been reporting on these planes for months — like they did for WaPo, my former employer, in another part of the story — but I guess I’m just glad Congress might acknowledge their existence now? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4w agoDon’t look away from Memphis. Don’t look away from Houston. Don’t look away at the nationwide ICE surge. The trump administration is counting on you losing interest and falling for its tweak in tactics. zeteo.com/p/trumps-vio...
Massive, ultra-detailed report about the climate, air pollution and water disasters created by America's fossil fuelled data centre boom. There is such a huge amount of v v useful information in this report Includes a huge free table of all gas plants environmentalintegrity.org/wp-content/u...
In Indiana, one (very wealthy) school has won the state championship in girls' swimming 40 years in a row. Their coach is a former All-American who has coached at the Olympics. The school I went to doesn't have a pool. Somehow, this is never brought up as being an example of "unfair advantage."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."
this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.Ines Soto was just sentenced to 50 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor. Joy "Rowan" Gibson was just sentenced to 15 years by Chief District Judge Reed O'Connor.
If you are trans and are raising money for your own needs, post the link below and I will share. If you are cis, choose one to donate to and share this thread.
This was an argument I would try to make where I used to work. The loudest voices pushing against any progressive action are almost always not even fans. Just random interlopers yelling at you. Forget. Them.
Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · last mo.NEW: two USL W teams are showing that leading with inclusive and progressive values has the potential to bring fans in, rather than alienate them, disproving long-held ideas about what fans actually want from the teams they support.
Sonya Tolstoy, on what it was like to be... Married to Tolstoy. I am... Not surprised. 😆
It's going to end up being a surveillance state that requires severe privacy risks for girls to participate in sports going forward including invasive genetic testing and physical examinations.
Prisoners at a jail in Eastern North Carolina overpowered staff and have seized control of the facility, authorities said www.wral.com/news/state/b...
NEW: Cities all over Arizona are aiding ICE—but local activists are pressuring city leaders to change their policies. And now, with local elections coming up in July, collaboration with ICE has become a major issue in a bunch of races. Learn all about it! boltsmag.org/arizona-muni...
Eyeing Upcoming Elections, Arizona Activists Want Their City Officials to Stand Up to ICE - Bolts
Mesa’s longtime partnership with ICE has emerged as a major fault line in the July elections, as organizers work to limit local collaboration with federal immigration authorities.
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The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.
DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social · last mo.Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Especially since the "woke 1" fallout, you basically never hear this kind of nonsense from anyone on the left anymore. But it's supercharged among the same people who still accuse leftists and progressives of doing it.
My big objection to "woke 1" critiques is that the sort of shallow, dishonest identity based attacks that are often associated with "woke" people are deployed far more frequently by centrist and right wing "anti-woke" voices. Here's centrist thinktanker Jordan Weissmann reveling in this garbage.
The number of people who've been in ICE detention a year+ has grown **5-fold** since 2024. Orolua, in Allen Parish, has been detained 2+ years. Now, federal courts in Louisiana are flooded with habeas petitions asking judges for help. co-published @boltsmag.org thelensnola.org/2026/06/18/l...
“Stuck in purgatory”: ICE detention times in Louisiana stretch on for years | The Lens
The number of people in ICE detention at least a year has spiked five-fold, leading to an unprecedented surge in petitions asking a federal judge to intervene.
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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
What they want you to believe welfare fraud looks like and what it actually looks like are two very different things.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2mo agoMississippi’s state auditor does not have the authority to sue to recover misspent welfare funds from Brett Favre or other defendants, the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled today. The court said only the attorney general can do so, but the auditor has accused her of refusing to pursue all the funds.
The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery, except “as a punishment for crime.” But people in immigration detention haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It...
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A federal judge on Monday declared a $100,000 fee that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is unlawful and must be invalidated.
Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee is unlawful, US judge rules
A federal judge on Monday declared a $100,000 fee that U.S. President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is unlawful and must be invalidated.
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