El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
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we do these things in bits and pieces already, but they need to be concerted. we're losing the country to racists and anyone who can push a big giant button labeled racism when they have dump trucks full of cash. while they do that, the vulnerable feel more vulnerable and abandoned.
another thing that helps is arts and education. i needed more arts in my life sooner, more "find your voice" at a younger age. some people are just seen and heard no matter what they do. others are easy to pass over. and knowing my heritage absolutely matters. you gotta know who blazed a trail
i think another way to create harder targets for bullies and bigots is help out the incarcerated. don't let the criminal justice system victimize whomever it wishes. uplift the vulnerable. get them bail and books and supplies. make sure their voices are heard. don't let people be made invisible
we need a real plan to stop racists. asking people to fix their hearts isn't going to work without pressure. one thing i'm a fan of is making the targets of bullies and bigots harder to mess with. don't let people just say shit about muslims or trans people or migrants. don't nod to avoid conflict
what a lot of people are calling electability is straight islamophobia. there is simply no way to stop where the united states is going with this level of islamophobia. it will get worse before it gets better at this rate. we're not able to agree that "camps for kids" is wrong.
Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.
i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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I heard about this earlier today. He was denied his meds, taken out on a stretcher on Saturday and was DOA at the hospital. The Trump regime is running death camps.
Jen Rubin@jenrubin.bsky.social · 2d agoImmigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say murderers .. the next president must prosecute all of these and govs should not wait for feds to act www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.
Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan
The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.
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If federal agents come to your door: 1. Do NOT talk to them without an attorney there! 2. Do NOT let them in without a proper warrant! 3. Call the @nlg.org hotline for a privileged conversation with an attorney: (212) 679-5100 For more on this topic, check out @ccrjustice.org's guide:
If An Agent Knocks (resource)
Updated in 2020! The Center for Constitutional Rights created If An Agent Knocks to provide advice to activists likely to be targeted by FBI agents or other federal investigators.
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Yesterday marked James Baldwin’s birthday and the beginning of Black August. In his honor, we remember his enduring words: “I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe [Zionists] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns.”
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while her team played against (and beat) Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever is such a big "hell yeah fuck you TERFs" moment.
I talked with @bcmerchant.bsky.social about AI in the workplace, Google’s decision to ruin its search engine, robotaxis getting people arrested, Flock cameras getting destroyed, the movement against data centers, and what it means to build power against the tech industry.
The AI Boom Is a Corporate Project. It Can Be Disrupted
“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back,” says Brian Merchant.
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One of our members submitted an audio reading of the article as an act of solidarity against this act of intimidation. YT (doubt this'll stay up) youtu.be/2HebOdMsQwE Podcast www.podbean.com/ew/pb-drry6-... Kolektiva kolektiva.media/w/5ioY8ovoUE...
Minneapolis Responds to ICE Committing Murder; an account from the streets
One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author d...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · last mo.One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author describes an ICE agent shooting a pepper ball at his eye, point-blank. You can read the article here:
More than 1K people came out and hit the streets of Fishers, #Indiana, in direct opposition to former DHS official and fascist saluting white supremacist Greg Bovino speaking at an anti-immigrant rally alongside GOP bureaucrats. The fascist rally drew less than 100 in a pathetic muddy field.
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 4d agoGet a load of these wet coward nazi motherfuckers in their tiny but empty soggy nazi tent www.reddit.com/r/indianapol...
Greg Bovino brings the white nationalist dream of mobilizing thousands of white people together in Indiana into a reality. Turns out they really fucking hate white nationalism though.
RogueIT@kytravelers.com · 4d agoMore than 1,000 march against ICE in Fishers, Indiana, countering a secret-location rally keynoted by former Border Patrol commander Bovino.
WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 4d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
"The statistics matter, but you can’t put a number on the rank immorality of an utter disregard for whether people who don’t look like you live or die. Whatever the Trump death toll turns out to be, this stain on the American soul is never coming out."
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d agoThe smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the Minneapolis 15 case. 15 people are federally charged with conspiracy for allegedly defending their neighborhoods from ICE. Please print these out and post them everywhere! crimethinc.com/posters/supp...
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
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