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The US and Israel have destroyed over 36,000 homes and over 50 cultural sites in Iran thus far.

Nearly a million people are homeless in Lebanon.

Gaza is still being starved by Israel.

ICE is still kidnapping people off our streets based on nothing but their skin color or gender identity.

Like, people are legit meaner.

Products are shittier and even more enshitified.

Bosses have dropped all pretenses that their employees aren't anything but serfs.

And general impulsivity and lack of caring about anything except oneself is through the roof.

“With all newspapers in Germany being told what to publish and how to write the news and editorials, it was inevitable that a deadly conformity would come over the nation’s press.”

- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 406

Reason 5609 to ABOLISH 🧊, CPB and DHS 👇

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Every time we try to get policy that actually helps working people, Republicans say "it's too expensive."

That lie has never been more clear. If they can find $1 billion a day to bomb schools overseas, it's not a budget problem. It's a priorities problem.

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’”

- William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

ABOLISH 🧊 👇

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

One thing I think is bad is when a single corporation controlled by a single malicious billionaire is permitted to become a foundational aspect of society. This makes me a radical.

💔 ABOLISH 🧊👇

For scale, 800,000 people would be the population of Seattle. That’s how many people are displaced.

$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care

ABOLISH 🧊 👇

DHS agents are still here in our community in plain clothes scouting out immigrant owned businesses on Central, knocking on neighbors doors, swapping out licenses plates in cars without registration, and driving dangerously in our community.

Listen to @liam2manynames.bsky.social. Politicians want you to forget about the occupation and the ongoing impacts our neighbors are facing.

ABOLISH 🧊 👇

They want to take everything. And Dems are more concerned with convincing us that we “went too far” on race. Or that their previous actions had nothing to do with it than ya know actually stopping it

ABOLISH 🧊 👇

ICE is still acting like ICE. Abolish ICE.

U.S. court allows state bans on gender-affirming care for adults in unprecedented ruling While bans on trans youth’s care have been numerous in recent years, this is the first to restrict care for transgender adults.

NEWS: It was never about the children.

Transgender adults now face care restrictions after the ruling of the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.

www.advocate.com/news/court-b...

"[James Baldwin] wrote, not because he believed the writing would fix it, but because the alternative of silence, surrender, and the acceptance of someone else’s description of your reality, was itself a form of death." Powerful reflections on the anti-trans climate by Alejandra Caraballo ...

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

the san jose state volleyball player who outed a teammate in the cruelest way is doing interviews again and making it clear she was mad because … the trans teammate was her friend. like an actual friend that cared about her. she freaked out because she realized she was friends with a trans person

The Trump administration fired a quarter of the nation's immigration judges and the Pentagon authorized 600 military lawyers to replace them.

The full story: lataco.com/los-angeles-...

By Nik Venet

This is cruel and unusual punishment.

UPDATE: Law Dork has been provided a copy of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's commutation of Charles "Sonny" Burton. www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-so...

We can afford to house people.

We can afford to feed people.

We can afford to give people healthcare.

The money is there. We just need to put people in office who will do it.