If we do not Own Ourselves, we Own Nothing

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

Is ICE just renting their Nissan Rogues at the airport?

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

“The Bulwark is a written, video, and audio product. And as we grow, we are looking for people who can excel across all those mediums,” CEO Sarah Longwell said in a statement. “Catherine is not just one of those people — she’s one of the best of those people.”

they reinvented twitter from first principles right as the most drugged out man in the world destroyed the last good bits of twitter. smart mgmt would realize that they’re just in the twitter business now, like how slack realized their pitch was irc for work after nobody cared about their game

He’s trying to provoke a war.

Been offline for a lot of the day so just now seeing they permabanned Link? AJ Link? A person who has done more community activism and organizing than I can reasonably name and one of the kindest, most giving, consistently community-building forces on this website? They fyckiung banned *Link*? jmfc

and now we’re apparently permabanning one of the site’s earliest users and ambassadors, I guess to make an example, because that always turns down the temperature

ridiculous

What, just because you drum up your own controversy and directly insinuate people can't effectively protest you, we call that "very bad"?

As more and more of our country becomes fascist, I will just say that my tolerance for organizations willing to throw vulnerable people under the bus is getting lower, not higher.

It's clear that behavior like that cannot be tolerated. And it makes the platform barely an improvement from Twitter.

Maybe @jay.bsky.team understands what this is doing to the userbase and doesn't care. But that is really really unacceptable behavior from someone running BlueSky.

Finally caught up on the controversy with the BlueSky moderators and it is indeed very bad. 

Fundamentally this platform can simply not be trusted to protect its users. That is my takeaway. Def going to need to think about this a bit more.

does an f bomb hurt you more than another cop murder

you can fuck off too

Polite brought us here

No you are fighting for more taxpayer lube for the millions of mandated customers of the Health Care Denial Industry to use while they fuck america

And you can't even talk about a public buy in, let alone M4A

useless and broken

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

You voted to give a holiday to a white supremacist christofascist

Fuck off

You voted to give a holiday to a white supremacist Christofascist

fuck off

After shutting down the government, House Republicans went on vacation all this week.

Now they're on vacation ALL NEXT WEEK, TOO. It's absurd.

No one should pretend Republicans care about reopening government or saving your health care.

The president of the United States committed treason today. And that's only what he's done today.

AOC "I think 'Abolish ICE' is a call to action on several levels. One is the literal interpretation of abolishing ICE, which I support...I don't believe that an agency that systematically & repeatedly violates human rights, I don't think that agency can be reformed. I think it has to be abolished."

fuck polite

polite brought us here

The Killing of Nooran and the End of Community Policing – The Rover The police shooting of an unarmed teen should call into question the sterling public image of the Longueuil police force and the role of countless reporters and elected officials in creating this…

"Longueuil police force is the embodiment of police reform, the 'avant-garde' of community-oriented policing."

"It was this police force, a reformed police force, that burdened Black and Arab people with oppressive police stops [..] and that finally killed Nooran."
#Quebec #Canada #Policing

"When police ordered him to show his hands, [15-year-old] Nooran [Rezayi] complied. One officer, for reasons that remain unclear and incomprehensible, fired two shots at Nooran ... [W]e need a transfer of funding from police forces to the many other services and programs that keep people safe."