Kris (@atxcopywriter on the old place)

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

I feel like it might be tough to fight to get focus on it in the midst of everything else we’ll be dealing with if we make it through this but somehow getting rid of Citizen’s United is an absolute necessity and must be a priority, unless and until we do it we are in a lot of danger

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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex As Republicans tightened work requirements and eligibility rules for Medicaid and SNAP last year, Equifax’s CEO openly celebrated the profits to be made from administering this deprivation.

Abolish means testing lpeproject.org/blog/the-mea...

"Each data center can “drink” as much as an entire community. Yet Texas does not require data center operators to disclose projected water use or report actual consumption"

Again, the talking point that "there's no water issue" is dangerously wrong and if you repeat it, you're helping tech CEOs

I'll never forget former Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti saying, "In a good economy, homelessness goes up."

A perfect encapsulation of what happens when a "strong economy" is measured by everything except whether workers can afford necessities like housing or healthcare.

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs.

This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless."

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

Some of those responses clearly came from people not familiar with your work. Anyone familiar with you knows better than to think you'd minimize COVID

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

I’m not a housing expert or economist but something I wonder is how the housing landscape would change if people were only allowed to own one, maybe max 2 dwellings, and corporations could own zero.

It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone

I just want everyone out there protesting and showing up for your neighbors in the streets to know that you're really warming the hearts of those of us too sick to do so ourselves.

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

I've been representing protesters pro bono since Trump 1.0. In that time, I've represented protesters against the Muslim ban, ICE, trans bans, DEI bans, genocide in Occupied Palestine, police brutality, and more.

Want to know why more people don't protest? Here's why.

Schwalm is right about one thing: What's unfolding in Minnesota is resistance, not protest.

It's peaceful resistance, but it's resistance. And it's growing.

Can you share a link of what this is from?

Protester sprayed with chemical irritant while agents pinned him to the ground Protesters gathered on Blaisdell Avenue in south Minneapolis between 28th and 29th streets after federal agents detained two teenagers, according to witnesses. Protesters were shouting and tensions escalated before agents began detaining observers like the man seen below, who was pinned to the ground when a federal agent sprayed a chemical irritant directly into his face.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

White text on a black background has the words "Reform, retrain, defund" crossed out. Below, white text reads "Abolish ICE."

It's always been abolish ICE.

For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.

I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.

You do get to choose who you are going to be in this current moment. That's all you can control [and even that is a challenge].

Please remember that if you’re too sick to protest, boycott or get engaged in the resistance… it’s ok.

Everyone contributes in their own way.

Many disabled people can’t be boots on the ground but want to help any way they can.

Make events inclusive. Focus on accessibility.

Don’t leave us behind

I think Democrats should focus on kitchen-table issues

Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore

THANK YOU TO ALL THE ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING YOUR SAFETY ON THE LINE TO PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE TO YOU ALL.

NO THANKS TO THE VICHY POLITICIANS WHO ARE FAILING COMPLETELY TO MEET THE MOMENT.

NO FORGIVENESS FOR ANYONE WHO IS FORCING YOU TO DO THIS

Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.

Kristi Noem must be impeached.

Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

is there a reason not to include the link? Or even the title of the piece for those of us who care about checking sources?

It's hard to watch the official Republican reactions to Renee Good's killing, without remembering how TX Gov Abbott just pardoned the convicted murderer of a Black Lives Matter protester.

The Republican Party itself wants open permission to murder Americans in the streets, as policy.