As a reminder: @governor.ny.gov could have prevented this by taxing the rich — that would have created the revenue needed to cover these cuts. Hochul chose to protect her donors’ pockets instead of New Yorkers’ healthcare.

New York Focus@nysfocus.com · 4mo ago

NEW: Starting July 1, hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers enrolled in the state’s Essential Plan will lose their health insurance due to federal cuts. We’ve compiled information for Essential Plan users about what these changes mean and alternative options for coverage.

she could have taxed the rich and it would have left the most affluent new yorkers with the same tax burden they had in 2024 since these cuts were paid for with tax cuts for the rich

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action@jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a reminder: @governor.ny.gov could have prevented this by taxing the rich — that would have created the revenue needed to cover these cuts. Hochul chose to protect her donors’ pockets instead of New Yorkers’ healthcare.

Review alert: @elizabethborgwardt.bsky.social (who is working hard on a book about Nuremberg) (also, my mother) reviewed the new film for @thenation.com ⬇️

The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 11mo ago

A trial that defined modern justice, retold for an era where its lessons are fading. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nuremberg-holocaust-fascism-accountability/?nc=1&utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Mahmoud Khalil spent the hours before his arrest trying to protect other students from ICE, his fellow activists told me. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 2y ago

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

Key details here are that they did so under incorrect belief he was here on a student visa. Presented evidence that he holds a green card, agents on the spot declared it revoked. This isn't rule of law. And because fence sitters will ask: Even far right orgs present no evidence of support for Hamas.

Zeteo@zeteo.com · 2y ago

BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security officers have detained Mahmoud Khalil – a recent Columbia University graduate who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment. @premthakker.bsky.social reports open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say

Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

zeteo.com

What cannot be lost in all this is that students have simply been demanding their tuition not go towards funding an illegal occupation, nor a genocide. Everything that has come after is a product of the powers that be vehemently refusing to honor that entirely reasonable ask.

🚨 Sources say there’ve been reports of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Columbia’s campus today, including in a dorm hall. Comes as the Trump admin cuts grant funding to the school, and as it ramps up threats to arrest + deport students involved in pro-Palestine/anti-war protests.

The National Jewish Book Award winning author of HOW TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM is now DEFENDING NAZI SALUTES I FUCKING CANNOT

Much of the chaos of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the Trump administration’s “central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes. Call it the “Great Resegregation.”

The Great Resegregation

The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.

theatlantic.com

WELCOME PISCES SEASON! DREAMSCAPES! FLOW STATES! DERAILING EVERY CONVERSATION AS A LOVE LANGUAGE! TMI AS AN EXTREME SPORT! WHAT IS TIME! TFW EVERYTHING! GHOSTING IF THE VIBES ARE OFF! LIFE IS SHORT AND RIDICULOUS! ECLIPSES ARE NIGH! COUP THE COUP! CALL YOUR REPS! BOYCOTTS! GENERAL STRIKES! HAVE FUN!

every day I think about the comms strategy of the korean opposition party in the wake of the coup and I get so burningly resentful that other countries have legislators who are awake

Wire App is an encrypted sort of slack like thing. Here: I wrote this helpful guide full of alternatives. altnewsfoundation.org/increased-sc...

More on the wishlist for making @signal.org work better for teams — you guys are crushing it though 💕

Eva Borgwardt 🔥@evaborgwardt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Exactly — without this, it’s pretty overwhelming rn. Even “communities” like WhatsApp has would help — ability to opt-in to themed discussion channels within a larger group. Also, in Slack you can send automated messages, create welcome and onboarding sequences, for new members, etc

Hello! Who is building the encrypted version of Slack? Or the encrypted version of Discord? Or a version of WhatsApp not owned by Meta? Or (please) expanding @signal.org capabilities to work for teams/orgs? Or does this already exist? Help!!!

Just wrote about the UK Apple encryption mess. This is a BIG deal. It doesn't just apply to the UK. It would be an absolute disaster for online privacy and security. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/07/u...

UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted

In a stunning escalation that confirms our worst fears, the UK government has finally shown its true hand on encryption — and it’s even worse than we predicted. According to a bombshell repor…

techdirt.com

In which the Times of Israel has as a *featured post* an argument that American Jews who oppose Israel should be treated as apostates and abandoned because we "worship at the altar of human rights to the exclusion of Jews and/or Israelis." I'm not joking.

The Blogs: Those who stayed in Egypt

I have come to see that my 'wide tent' cannot include those fringe alienated Jews who go so far as to betray core Jewish values (Beshalach)

blogs.timesofisrael.com

We knew it was coming, and here it is. I hope all the Jews who've been trying to drink from the fountain of Alignment With White Supremacy Will Keep You Safe are feeling just great !!! about their choices. They're welcome to come join us at Solidarity Is The Only Way Home Square any day now.

Trump announces executive order creating task force to 'eradicate anti-Christian bias'

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order establishing a new Justice Department task force to "end the war on Christians."

foxnews.com

Douglas Moran@dougom.bsky.social · 2y ago

@theradr.bsky.social Welp, here we go. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump proclaims he is Jews' 'defender and protector' but many Christian nationalists in these efforts hold a proselytizing, End-Times agenda. This is the grim contradiction at the heart of MAGA antisemitism, but groups like the ADL have chosen their bedfellows

this this this.

adrienne maree brown@adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 2y ago

we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.

we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.

can you leave completely? yay. if not, what can you do? can you shift who you follow, your ad content, social media instigated spending? experiment and practice and support each other as we try new things.

hi loves checking in from this metabreak cause a few people reached out with questions! - who initiated the meta break? the post i saw was from michael stipe, and i am approaching it as practice for migrating from the metamuskyverse