@amirah.bsky.social
I do politics but would much rather talk about pop culture.
NEW: Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.
By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"
* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
NEW: In Minneapolis, Soren Stevenson lost an eye from a police officer throwing a projectile during the BLM protests. Now he's running for a seat on the city council.
And what's interesting is how he says he intends to keep police violence in the spotlight—and not let it go into backseat.
First good SCOTUS news I've heard in months
17.10.2025 23:26 — 👍 2468 🔁 417 💬 38 📌 101)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.
15.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 4632 🔁 1316 💬 60 📌 44It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...
15.10.2025 10:53 — 👍 1787 🔁 622 💬 78 📌 53Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
14.10.2025 19:47 — 👍 13921 🔁 4105 💬 461 📌 167Like much of that this regime does, the murders of Venezuelan fishermen and boat passengers seem to be being conducted for the sake of making social media content that demonstrates Trump’s masculine dominance. So one way to describe them is as snuff films.
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“When Luke Mosiman, chair of AZ Young Republicans, asked if New Yorkers in the chat were watching an NBA playoff game, Giunta responded, ‘I’d go to the zoo if I wanted to watch monkey play ball.’ Giunta elsewhere refers to Black people as ‘the watermelon people.’”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*
You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.
Grateful to have outlets like @thetriibe.com on the ground and reporting the facts. ICE and federal agents are not deploying tear gas at "protesters" in Chicago. They are wantonly tear gassing entire neighborhoods and communities.
14.10.2025 20:08 — 👍 181 🔁 87 💬 2 📌 3
POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
One of these people is a licensed attorney in New York and works for a state judge in civil court.
14.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Platner has already chided Mills for her relationship with Collins, who has represented Maine in the Senate for nearly 30 years. Asked recently whether Collins has done enough to push back against some Trump administration policies, Mills told NBC affiliate WCSH of Portland: "She's in a tough position. I appreciate everything she is doing." Platner responded with a one-line statement: "I do not appreciate everything that Susan Collins is doing."
Same vibe as Harris saying she wouldn’t do anything different from Biden.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
bari weiss is proof you can do whatever you want in america if you’re an unapologetic bigot, racist and liar. as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps telling us, democracies need to establish costs for being a lying liar.
14.10.2025 11:53 — 👍 213 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 1Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.
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NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...
i cannot get over how quickly this is happening. the decline of the other two branches/ascent of the lawless executive is outpacing actual democratic decline, which is usually what precipitates executive consolidation. but in our case, the other two branches are collaborators
14.10.2025 04:02 — 👍 1042 🔁 186 💬 16 📌 5We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.
14.10.2025 03:21 — 👍 1511 🔁 323 💬 39 📌 25The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight
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Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention. There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies. The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.
My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.
13.10.2025 20:47 — 👍 2921 🔁 418 💬 72 📌 24
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.
After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.
Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
Why should I care about Palestine?
Because it has been the defining issue creating our political landscape since Citizens United.
Trump term 1 and Trump term 2 were brought to you by the Adelsons’ unwavering commitment to apartheid, occupation, and genocide.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019...
“$60 Billion… They had more trips to the White House than anybody… Look at her sitting there so innocently.”
At the Knesset, Trump recognizes the Adelsons for being filthy rich and backing him as he pats himself on the back for moving the embassy to Jerusalem at their behest.
A miracle they’re still alive. Elated for their families. Can’t help but think of all the hostages who would have also come home two years ago had Netanyahu chosen his own people over his thirst for war.
13.10.2025 09:23 — 👍 4089 🔁 607 💬 69 📌 14the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.
13.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 21506 🔁 5593 💬 574 📌 195ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.
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We Are Elated by the Gaza Ceasefire News. Now, the World Must Hold Israel to Account for 2 Years of Genocide
Former Palestinian negotiator Diana Buttu reacts to the ceasefire announcement.
Read:
zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...
A must read piece by Diana Buttu on the announced ceasefire deal news.
zeteo.com/p/gaza-cease...
