If you're wondering why you haven't seen more organized disruptive action from Democrats at the speech tonight, I've heard from multiple people on Capitol Hill that House Dem leadership actively organized against any strong actions tonight. They are leading, but in the wrong direction.

Here's what Homan is so worked up about: our police commissioner's accurate summary of the state and local law which prevent Boston cops from holding people on ICE detainers at the expense of Boston taxpayers

#bospoli

@mattcameron.bsky.social has been advocating for immigrants to not just know their rights, but to understand their actual legal risks. Immigrant advocacy groups & elected officials have been working tirelessly to spread crucial information on social media about what to do if confronted by US ICE.

Mass deportation hysteria prevails — but who’s actually at risk? - The Boston Globe While all immigrants should know their rights, they must also understand their individual risk level — because for most of them, the fear of deportation is greater than the reality.

Mass deportation hysteria prevails — but who’s actually at risk? My latest @globeopinion.bsky.social column, with a huge assist from local immigration attorney @mattcameron.bsky.social : www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/21/o... via @bostonglobe.com

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue:

1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance
2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion
3. Don't live post resistance meetings

This is the kind of action we need to make the constitutional crisis visible. Saying no instead of complying makes headlines because it creates conflict—and conflict drives coverage. Even if Musk gets into the classified systems, this pushes his crime spree onto the front pages.

What you can do, right now, for your trans and nonbinary friends, family, students and colleagues. It’s very reasonable to be worried and trying to understand how to help. Here are some actionable suggestions for the short and medium…

Including helpful tips for parents!

"AI nurses" as "good as any doctor": RFK hearing confirms he wants to take away people's health care Kennedy's prescription for American health: replace real medical care with a lecture about eating better

Can't blame you if you shut off the RFK hearing yesterday. His storm of lies was exhausting.

I watched it and the one throughline shows why Republicans love him so: He wants to take your health care away. Not just vaccines — all of it.

An analysis.

www.salon.com/2025/01/30/a...

We've had kids stop coming to school this week out of the generalized fear of "immigration".

The main goal (for now) seems pretty clearly to terrorize the wider community, and tons of well-meaning people are not only helping with that but arguing with you that it's good to continue doing so.

I'm not going to tell you that this isn't bad. But I am going to tell you that it is an opportunity to take direct and meaningful action to stop your state from signing one of these agreements and training officers.

Being prepared is good. Everyone should be prepared. But part of preparation is knowing your enemy and what their capacity *and* motivations are. I realized this week that very few people actually know what ICE is or does, so maybe let's start there.

The intended message to the rest of us the first year or so of this operation is that everyone they arrest has a criminal record. This will be true, and will numb most people (including many liberals) out to the much broader enforcement that they *will* have capacity for once Congress pays for it

Do not do the devil's work for him. Until there are legally enacted rules under the APA that are upheld by the courts, do not obey in advance. These are meant to intimidate trans people. It won't work.

We will not go away or disappear. Deal with it.

URGENT: We've got maybe 6-8 months to organize real direct action to defend our neighbors before ICE has anything near the mass deportation capacity which they want us to believe will kick in next week.

Read on for what that might look like & what YOU can do to get in the way

1/ We're not even 73 hrs away from the new regime & the opposition party which just spent YEARS telling us they were the only hope of stopping Trump's mass deportations just VOLUNTARILY handed him and every Republican state AG a powerful new set of tools to detain, deport, & oppress non-citizens

I mean, you were definitely not born yet when "literally" began being used for (figurative) emphasis...

I know it's not "wrong" in any objective sense to put ketchup on pizza and I'm not going to be prescriptivist about what flavors people can like, but it still grosses me out when my wife does that and I'd have to leave a slice uneaten if it had ketchup on it.

Language "errors" can be similar.

Apparently elected Dems were disappointed not to hear from more immigration advocates/activists that the Laken Riley Act was bad.

Elected Dems, if you really need *us* to tell you that expanding ICE detention + letting TX dictate imm policy is bad pls step aside NOW for those who already get it

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

I also joined Mastodon when people were first jumping the Twitter ship, posted twice, and then didn't log in again for two years.

So we'll see how this one goes.