As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

One of the compelling arguments for harsh consequences on powerful, abusive figures is that otherwise they'll just regroup, regain their power and keep abusing.

Get to work moneyed people! The Beyoncé tickets can wait! She’s already taken you for billions. Lots of folks out there need you to share what you have right now.

Imagine what we could accomplish if we actually started protecting each other from airborne diseases and collectively acknowledged that the only way to save the planet was to reduce consumption. It would deflate the oligarchy quite a lot in the process. That would be a real advantage.

Support independent journalism by incarcerated writers.

I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that.

Reminder that ANYBODY can nominate a work for the Le Guin Prize.

Not only can you nominate your favorite books of last year. You SHOULD.

I don't let my social media platforms define what kind of loser I am

I really don’t see a worse red flag for how things are going to go with the concentration camps than a very recent issue where people insisted, loudly and publicly, that their need for coffee shops and concerts superseded vulnerable people’s right to life.

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I always say this—if any data or footage is collected anywhere, eventually police will come asking for it or someone will figure out a way to sell them access to it. This is also true of ICE.

Im so gd tired of patriotism

I dont care about America

I care about humanity

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The Dilley concentration camp Liam was in, had 1,000 children in it in 2015.

Before Trump ever walked down that escalator, it was an atrocity.

But, one that wasn't harshing the vibes so visibly.

they want us sick and tired so they can control us. they want us poor and unhoused so they can mistreat, imprison, and exploit free labor from us. they want us dead because they like eugenics.

This is horrific. As the covid pandemic rages on and damages people’s immune systems en masse, we desperately need more vaccines and therapeutics for disease not less. Gutting.

When you hear them ask
(and you will hear them ask)
why astronauts
and Olympic athletes
are still wearing masks
in 2026,
kindly but firmly reply
that the real question is
if astronauts
and Olympic athletes
are still wearing masks
in 2026
then why aren’t the rest of us.

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You have asthma. 🫁 You have a cough and fever. Should you get tested for Influenza and COVID❓

YES‼️

People 65 years or older and people with underlying conditions should be treated for Influenza or COVID as soon as possible. 💊

Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.

Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Abolition Is Still the Only Way Out of This Forget the useless so-called “reforms” to ICE and policing currently on offer. We need much more fundamental change.

"Contrary to baseless assertions that movements to defund and abolish prisons, police, and ICE are partially to blame for where we find ourselves, the refusal to heed these calls is precisely what paved the way for the current regime," @dreanyc123.bsky.social writes.
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The reality is the government and both parties are more concerned with the ethnic cleansing being done civilly then ending the ethnic cleansing altogether and that is the problem people are being propagandized into thinking that because there isn’t a surge going on what’s happening is constitutional

Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.

I hate to break this to folks who have money. You're gonna have to give what you don't need away. Yes. Let go of the money. There's a lot of people who don't have. We're all we got when states don't take care of us. Yes, to see a better world, you do have to accept not getting rich so all can eat.

Dear God.

It's just ableism, everywhere, all around.

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya was used as bait by ICE, just like they did to Liam Ramos.

The Dilley camp has held the 9 year old for 113 days. She wrote a letter pleading to go home to Columbia.

Make noise for all of them.

Public pressure got Liam released.

Now close the camps.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.

But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

We are seeing in Minnesota that WE have the power to care for, provide for & defend our communities ourselves. We have the chance right now to look at our state governance and go “what do you actually do for us? What do you actually provide, beyond seeking your own power?” And we can change that.