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FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge Staffers sound the alarm.

"Despite Trump officially activating FEMA on Sunday, FEMA has just 86 total staff deployed at this point [to Texas], according to figures shared with staff Monday evening...In the past it would normally be in the several hundreds at this point in the disaster recovery process."

My latest:

Very close up photo of a blue and white bird. It looks alert and inquisitive.

Blue Jay keeping an eye on things, as they do. Also being gorgeous.

#birds 🌿

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

I think Zohran is an early sign

a big part of the reaction to Trump 1 was “we need to go back to normal, we gotta nominate the most conventional people imaginable” which is how we got Biden

that comprehensively failed, and a lot more people are open to real alternatives this time around

BREAKING: as Thomas Gürber, Swiss Deputy State Secretary of Foreign Affairs, spoke, two actionists — one of whom is my colleague @crimew.gay — walked on stage with a sign that said "no tech for genocide."

they chanted: "no tech for genocide / you are all complicit" and "free, free Palestine."

No tech for genocide protestors took the stage at the #AIForGood conference. “No Tech For Genocide: you are all complicit. Free, free, Palestine.” “The first AI powered genocide.”

I don’t really think that the hosts of the event were prepared for this, (which does surprise me).

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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again: regular people showing 10x more bravery than almost every single elected representative in congress

“not seen in generations” isn’t quite accurate. this is a level and scope of federal policing that has no precedent in american history

combine the operating budgets of america’s ten biggest city PDs (new york, chicago, los angeles, houston, philadelphia, DC, las vegas, dallas, phoenix, and detroit)… and then double it. that puts you at $30B

Immigrants with no criminal convictions represent sharpest growth in ICE detention population The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.

And just think how many more innocents they can kidnap and traffic with the budget the Republicans just handed them.
TnT

www.npr.org/2025/07/03/n...

This country now has concentration camps.

Much like the regime has done and beta tested in places like Florida, they just don't use the verbiage 'concentration camp'. Then, they gaslight the shit out of anyone who calls it like it is, deny it, overtalk any media q's and move on.

Know that.

Cynthia Olivera is a Canadian who’s been living in the US since she was 10 She’s in ICE custody, after being grabbed at her green card interview. The 45 year old wife & mother has been moved between facilities while her husband begs ICE to let her get on a plane to Canada. 🧵 They’re willing to pay. She’s willing to leave. But she can’t escape. This is why we call them concentration camps. There’s no due process. Some people go in and never come out.

Reports that a Canadian citizen who has resided in the US since age 10 was abducted at a green card interview.

Her husband is begging ICE to let him fly her back to Canada and they refuse to release her.

Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.

People need to realize trans misogyny isn’t just blatant bigotry like “trans women aren’t women.” It’s also the refusal to extend empathy toward or desire to understand trans women’s perspectives which builds & curdles into hostility. And I’m seeing that kind more and more in leftist spaces.

Iran arrests people purely for being LGBT. Israel bombed the prison as an act of "liberation", killing all trans inmates. What a grim world we live in

talking a lot about race-science shit, like IQ or “human biodiversity” or how bad affirmative action is, *should* be totally discrediting, a sign of lazy and shallow thinking that undermines anything else someone says

but there’s so much internalized racism among American elites that it’s not

Without exaggeration, the last 50+ years of biological research completely discredits every race science claim. It is the single biggest indicator of being a malicious dullard and a reactionary ideologue. The fact I’ve had to dedicate a single minute of my career to addressing it is absurd

“still punk as fuck” i sob quietly as i chew a melatonin gummy and put an ice pack on my knee

Sorry to add to the current list of worries, but this is terrifying www.icm.csic.es/en/news/majo...

Just take it slow! If you are just getting started transitioning you are gonna be a whirlwind of emotions and maybe also hormones and it's very easy to get caught up in that and make a mess of things.

Be honest, be kind, be yourself and be patient. With yourself as much as anyone.

Sylvia Rivera on the corporatization of the queer movement in 2001, through nonprofits.

"This movement has become so capitalist...

I see this movement becoming a straight gay movement that only believes in that almighty dollar...

I have them their pride but they have not given me mine"

There was an elite consensus against transphobia so strong Texas’ Republican Speaker of the House Joe Straus refused to pass a transphobic law, the public broadly agreed, and then a few elite liberals took it upon themselves to make transphobia popular and more or less succeeded.

it is wild how many non-trans people seem to be taking an issue with this extremely correct thread: transphobia was an extreme minority position that was isolated to fringe reactionary christian conservatives, but through "liberal" publications laundering bigoted talking points it became accepted

Here’s a deep cut for y’all from one of my favorite edutainment games

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Dr. Who,” or “Transformers.”

yeah tbh if you do not have the political awareness to comprehend that Appalachia has been smeared and erased BECAUSE 100 years ago, a meaningfully multiracial movement of Appalachian workers successfully struck and fought to secure most worker protections in the US today... now you do

propaganda

If you post regularly you will sometimes make bad posts! People who refuse to admit it are far more worrying to me than people who just apologize, delete and move on.

“Found a stick on the ground and I think I’m gonna use it
All this power that I found, gonna totally abuse it”