Lorelei Lee

This is true but a big challenge is no one wants to think about it. I sometimes wonder if we’d get farther saying:

“Someday—maybe that day’s already here—you’ll be a caregiver to a loved one who’s become disabled. That experience will be so much easier if you join the fight against ableism now.”

A Piece of Work | Kim Kelly Workers can no longer count on the Department of Labor.

With Project Firewall, the Department of Labor is lending a hand to Trump’s effort to police visa holders. @kimkelly.bsky.social lays out the agency’s early history of protecting immigrants, and describes its recent rightward turn.

That’s a meeting organized by Rep. Goodman’s office that was supposed to be about listening to why we oppose the bill. But they chose to hold it at the KCPAO office (not a friendly place for us) and invited bunch of pro-criminalization groups to drown us out.

Someday, you too will be disabled. Your life will be so much better then if you address your ableism now

That makes so much sense

I am so precise about this because: destigmatization of Long COVID and ME/CFS works through “depsychologization.”

I would rather put it the other way around: psychologization leads to stigmatization.

Thank you! I so appreciate the correction. I was reading with mediocre translation tools

Two cities under siege Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.

ICYMI: I looked through a published archive of Boston newspapers from the 1760s, when British troops were stationed in the city.

The accounts read remarkably similar to what's happening in Minneapolis.

radleybalko.substack.com/p/two-cities...

From the Minnesota Star-Tribune

The Feds never left Los Angeles. Don’t forget us. Solidarity with Minneapolis and all communities under siege by federal pigs.

Keep fighting. Hold the line.

Sorry, I should have said MOST “anti-trafficking” work. In truth, movements for decriminalization ARE anti-trafficking work.

This is the history of "anti-trafficking” work as it is practiced today. The praxis now is incarceration. That’s the lineage.

Congress passed the “white slavery act” of 1910 during the highest period of lynchings in US history while refusing to pass any of numerous anti-lynching bills (Prof. Barbara Holden-Smith), and importantly, these facts are connected. The praxis of “saving” white women from SW was lynching

These are the proposed regulations. They're really REALLY bad.

(thanks Kalistrya!)
bsky.app/profile/kali...

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924 Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.

The border patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924.

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding.

Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.

What are your favorite sw memoirs?

LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.

AI doesn't "think." Please stop saying this.

Today virtual Emergency ICE WATCH training defend612.com/event/emerge...

I am in tears at the room overflowing with people who came out from far and wide across the Detroit metro area in a snow storm for today’s Migra Watch training by the Detroit People’s Assembly.

If there isn’t a training near you @defend612.bsky.social is hosting a virtual one - details below 👇🏼

People.can't organize if they don't have their basic needs met.

Donare to food banks. Donate to lunch debt programs. Donate to shelters.

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun Nonviolence is a double standard.

ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

“What’s that money for?” a reporter asked, and the president completely ignored it. trib.al/gXra3f6

Is the membership fee for a chunk of real estate in Jared Kushner’s “New Gaza” plan? Or is it going to Trump’s pocket via some offshore bank account based in Qatar? We may never know.

Thank you❤️

What are your favorite sw memoirs?

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

I am seeing quite a few nurses calling for a nationwide strike over the killing of Alex Pretti. I think we are seeing one of the largest workforces being radicalized before our very eyes.