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Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Fun fact: The architect of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1962 was Edward Durell Stone who also designed the North Carolina State Legislative Building in 1960.

ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed.

If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.

And yet Dems won't do it!

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Why aren't we doing this in the US?
Never mind. I know why. 😡

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America The Trump administration is accusing protesters of ‘domestic terrorism’ but this brazen tactic is as old as the country itself

The criminalizing of protest and dissent has a long history in America

"Moderation used to help candidates in past decades, but moderation strategy hit its ceiling in 2024. Dems made their wager: from the presidential nominee down to local candidates, they fully deployed the popularist strategy of moderate, “kitchen table” messaging. The result? A Republican trifecta."

Seems pretty bad

The Extinction Loop Libertarian fantasies thrive on ecological collapse, profiting from the very destruction they helped to accelerate.

What happens when the global warming stripes reach black? What comes after black?🫣

I encourage anyone who cares about climate to join the fight against #technofascist billionaires like Peter Thiel who are undermining democracy eg via Palantir. They *want* #collapse: they see it as a way to profit.

Of course law enforcement wears masks. They have long not been accountable to "the people." They are their own super-class of people with special rules. It's a symptom; not a cause.

Me on a date

Report from @crimethinc.com on brutal attack by ICE in #Portland.

"ICE attacked with a variety of dangerous weapons, blanketing the area in tear gas and injuring a number of small children. Rather than intimidating the people of Portland, this brazen assault has only galvanized them against ICE."

You can be fiercely dedicated and well-intentioned and accomplish good things and also, simultaneously, be pompous, arrogant, neglectful of others' needs, disrespectful of those whose contexts give rise to different tactics than the ones you prescribe, and consequently untrusted by potential allies.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

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There’s a lot going on, and the weight of it feels crushing from all sides, at all times

Gotta tell you though, just took my sister dancing and the release we felt was absolutely unreal, man. I feel like I could run through a wall rn

Gotta allow some joy in there friends, give yourself that gift

Relief for patients leaving Gaza as Rafah opens, but thousands still wait

Relief for patients leaving Gaza as Rafah opens, but thousands still wait https://aje.news/p2g5yu

I hate my Governor so much man. They made him in a Democrat Consultant Lab. He so badly wants to be President which means he definitely should not be President. Buttigieg is the exact same.

This is an excellent - but spoilery - analysis of my favorite obsession

JEB!

Centrist liberals need to get a fucking grip, man. Progressives are out there CLEANING CLOCKS and they still want to force these middling center-right establishment dingbats who have been consistently losing for my entire lifetime.

What's glossed over a bit here is it took this guy who proved it like 25 years and a huge community push and tons of advocacy to make this happen. Same with guy who figured out you should wash hands before surgery. We think "why should all this obvious shit be so hard?" But it's ALWAYS been hard

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

Background on this shameful chapter in Democratic Party politics here. A huge stain on the integrity of all the non-profits who pushed for this as well to give the Democrats cover. bsky.app/profile/equa...