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Tweet from P.B. Gomez @pbgomez_. Sometimes I feel guilty that I'm not using my law degree for more progressive causes and just accepting the inherent financial hardships. Then I see people on here calling a PUBLIC DEFENDER a class traitor and then I realize I should never give a fuck what Twitter thinks ever.

It's a good time to re/read "Necropolitics" by Achille Mbembe because Foucault doesn't go far enough for what we are witnessing everywhere.

This and Mbembe's work on borders is more relevant every day.

Many of these are debut authors. Please check out their books also.

This rescue kitten was abused by her previous owners, but her new foster mom knows exactly how to gain her trust... 🥺 #cat #catday #bluesky

Anatomy of a Red Scare As the Trump administration escalates its anti-radical crackdowns, past moments of repression offer a preview of what’s to come.

Witchwords. This is what W.E.B. Du Bois called discourse or phrases used to discredit or repress political critiques or organizing.

As Charisse Burden-Stelly details, today’s witchwords, like DEI and woke, are part of today’s red scare.

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Back to school, bracing for ICE: Undocumented parents make emergency plans For some South Florida families, back-to-school means making plans to ensure their children are cared for if they are detained or deported.

"As most families in South Florida prepare for the new school year with supply lists and bus schedules, some undocumented parents are making legal plans to ensure their children are cared for if they are detained or deported."

Trump's America.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

Mutual Aid Network Portal - Support for Survivors of Gun Violence Resources supported by: Fired But Fighting, AFGE Local 2883, and CDC Mutual Aid Network

CDC Mutual Aid compiled a list of resources for survivors of gun violence.

Resources for everyone and also resources specific for CDC staff and USPHS.

❤️‍🩹 It is ok to not be ok. ❤️‍🩹

#YouAreNotAlone
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Tariffs set unilaterally by the president are taxation without representation. The Republican Party is much more like King George than like the Founding Fathers.

“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the…

Even using an oil industry lobbyist’s estimate, North Dakota mineral owners lost at least $322M in withheld royalties to oil companies in 2023.

“It’s a matter of fairness,” one owner said. “You feel like you’re being cheated.”

With @northdakotamonitor.com

I don't often say this so I hope I don't come across as alarmist or exaggerating but as a student of history, as a Pole, and as a person with a functioning brain, I just want to say:

This is literal Brownshirt shit. This is literally what the Sturmabteilung did to private businesses. Shot-for-shot.

President Trump taps federal law enforcement agencies to police Washington, D.C. President Trump has ordered federal law enforcement agencies to begin policing the streets of Washington, D.C., citing crime in the city.

FBI, ATF, U.S. Secret Service and other federal agents are not trained as street cops.

Trump is going to get one of them shot or killed. When it happens, that ignorant bastard needs to be held accountable.

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this is the standard for convictions under terrorism legislation. you'll never pass a DBS check. that's a life bar in jobs in teaching, healthcare, social services, civil service etc. it's an international travel bar. there's also upcoming legislation for bans to social housing and access to finance

The legal loophole Florida is using to keep people locked in cages in the Everglades Florida in Five: Five stories to read from the past week in Florida politics.

So who controls the Everglades detention camp: Florida or the federal government?

‪@jasongarcia.bsky.social‬ does an excellent job shining a spotlight through the smokescreen that DeSantis and Trump have created in order to create a lawless atmosphere at the facility.

A bunny lies stretched out on a bed next to a person's feet. Bright daylight filters through nearby curtains.

CDC union says vaccine misinformation put staff at risk after Atlanta shooting Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says union

Thank you @us.theguardian.com @theguardian.com for headlining that vaccine misinformation puts CDC staff at risk.

(As does our leaders’ tepid - 🧠🪱 - or non - 🍑🤡 - responses to Friday’s shooting and their vilification of government employees.)

Wouldn’t it be cool if Taylor used her massive wealth and fame to fight against fascism? Or is that asking too much of a billionaires Pop star from Tennessee?

BREAKING: Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammad Qraiqea have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City.

Kent County Wyoming PD: Teen injured in accidental shooting

Our NRA World: 14yo Michigan teen shoots himself while handling a loaded gun. It happens.

via www.woodtv.com/news/kent-co...

Somebody tell Andrew Cuomo that Zohran Mamdani has a superpower he will never have and that’s the power of the Aunties because he’s the quintessential “sweet boy” all my aunties will never shut up about.

Trump’s $150 Billion for Mass Deportation Could Pay For So Much Health Care—Analysis Reopen shuttered maternity wards, fund rural hospitals for decades, screen millions for breast cancer: An economist does the math.

I asked a numbers guy: What else could Trump's $150 billion mass deportation budget pay for?

The short answer is: Americans could get a lot of FREE health care, and shuttered rural hospitals could reopen their doors. For the long answer, you gotta click through.

Happening now: protesters in Chicago are interrupting a hiring fair at the Congress Hotel, where U.S. Customs and Border protection is recruiting today.

Banner reads, "stop kidnapping our neighbors!"

It's quite the scene in here, and the DHS table has been blocked for several minutes already.

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Nevada plans to use FEMA funding to upgrade Washoe County Jail for ICE • Nevada Current The State of Nevada plans to satisfy a new federal requirement to fund border security by upgrading detention facilities at the Washoe County Jail to include dedicated holding cells and office space f...

Disturbing.

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The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS. It may already be in countless classrooms. How the right-wing network PragerU could fill the void left by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s defunding.

The White House has a preferred alternative to PBS: PragerU, a nonprofit organization that specializes in creating right-leaning educational short videos for adults and children. . It may already be in countless classrooms. www.vox.com/today-explai...

Trump Administration Threatens to Take Over Harvard’s Patents The move is the latest escalation in the White House’s battle with the Ivy League school.

"The Trump administration is warning Harvard University that it could take over its patents, worth hundreds of millions of dollars..."

You don't deal with unreasonable and uncivilized people in a reasonable and civilized manner.

That's all I'm saying.

Throwing Dildos at WNBA Games Has Become a Trend. We Need to Talk About It A sex toy was thrown on the court at the Fever vs. Sparks game on August 5. This was the third time it happened in a week.

"The intent is to sexualize and demean the women players because they are women. And that is nothing new at all... if I had a nickel for every time a powerful female athlete was subjected to some kind of misogynistic backlash, I’d have enough money to fund my own women’s basketball league."