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The US has no credibility to talk about human rights while it disappears people at home, murders people in Latin America, and supports Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unilateral attacks on neighboring countries. Last year, Israel bombed Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and Qatar.

Trump says he wants regime change in Iran. History shows us that regime changes imposed by imperialist violence are devastating failures even on their own terms. Attempting this in Iran would almost certainly require a protracted war with US troops on the ground.

The justifications used by the Trump admin are lies:

➡️ Iran has no long-range missiles that can reach the US
➡️ Iran had not restarted nuclear weapons production
➡️ The Iranian government has repeatedly said it has no interest in nuclear weapons and is willing to negotiate.

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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We’re really emphasizing the MAN in MANIFEST DESTINY in tonight’s #SOTU

250 years of racism and imperialism. Here in Philly we say:
#AbolishICE
#FreePalestine
#GoBirds

Like Biden before him, Trump is continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza. Israel is killing people daily and blocking lifesaving food and supplies while the Trump Administration draws up plans for resorts and concentration camps on top of the rubble. #FreePalestine #SOTU

What's your point here?

And now for the hating trans people portion of #SOTU. Gender affirming care saves lives. Trans rights are human rights. Please just let us and our children be ourselves and live our lives. #ProtectTransKids

And permanently defund and dismantle DHS of course!

We've gotten to the virulently white supremacist explicitly fascist portion of #SOTU. We need to #abolishICE, abolish border patrol, and end detention &deportation. We need investments in education, healthcare, jobs, the environment, and all the things that ACTUALLY keep our communities safe.

To be fair, I am sure some of them will also be nuclear power plants...

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

Okay so the ACA was a huge gift to big insurance companies when what we urgently need is #MedicareForAll. But taking away subsidies that help people afford overpriced insurance punishes regular people and keeps insurance companies rich. #SOTU

This is the reverse pomodoro and my preferred working method

Honestly that would be a huge improvement

It doesn't matter how many authoritarian charades USA Men's Hockey attends, thanks to #HeatedRivalry hockey is now officially gay.

#SOTU #ProtectTransKids

You made the right choice, we are only a few minutes in and I am already awash in regret!

Sign that says DEFEND OUR COMMUNITIES, ABOLISH ICE with the AFSC logo

During the State of the Union we will hear anti-immigrant rhetoric from an administration that is tearing apart our families and communities. But people across the U.S. are coming together to protect their neighbors and #AbolishICE
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#SOTU

Tonight is a good night to remember that #AbolishICE is polling better than both Trump and the Democratic Party.

#SOTU

I HAVE A PROBLEM

I will know I have finally gone to enough therapy when I stop feeling compelled to watch the State of the Union live. #SOTU

Washington Post screenshot of two headlines. The first one reads: Shootings underscore how Kristi Noem has transformed DHS The second one reads: About 1 million customers without power as risk of dangerous ice moves into Northeast

But on the other hand, @washingtonpost.com accidentally gets it right.

Though “no power” seems a little harsh, I like to believe that we have a lot of power if we can figure out how to collectively wield it.

#AbolishICE

Screenshot of a New York Times headline that reads: A Crisis of Confidence for ICE and Border Patrol as Clashes Escalate Current and former officials describe growing frustration and disillusionment with the Trump administration's approach, even as they support the goal of immigration enforcement.

A screenshot of a New York Times opinion piece that reads: THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Minneapolis and Gaza Now Share the Same Violent Language When ICE and Hamas start looking the same, we are all in trouble.

Is @nytimes.com having another BAD TAKES competition?

I am not sure that “confidence” really defines the nature of the crisis here…

Also Thomas Friedman should relax, he already has the BAD TAKES lifetime achievement award. Truly thought the subhead was @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

#AbolishICE

ICE does not belong in our communities.

We will defend our communities in Minneapolis and across the country in our struggle for peace and justice.

#AbolishICE

stakes are extremely high, literally life or death.

We do NOT need ICE or CBP to have more training or oversight

We do need all border, policing and military angencies to be defunded; end to fed & state partnerships (like sec 287g agreements); end to all detentions & deporations. Abolish borders.

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US General speaks about U.S. regime change in Venezuela at White House press conference

Did this general just say that the intelligence community worked hard to find Maduro’s pets? U.S. imperialist violence against Latin America is a bipartisan tradition, but this is deeply absurd as well as deeply horrifying.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

Watching Trump speak and justify why the US is entitled to invade another country and kidnap the president makes me think that when we started talking about the “post-truth” era, we had no idea of how deeply post-truth it’d become.

Perception of reality is now random and optional.

Marco Rubio looks for exits during Trump speech

Marco Rubio loves regime change in Latin America but Trump’s speech is so unhinged he looks like he might gnaw off his own arm to try to escape