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Seeing some posts referring to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as being "kept safe" in jail. No one is safe in jail, fam. Incarceration strips years off people's lives and manufactures premature death. It's very important to understand this, especially now.

I appreciate your analysis so much. It’s been keeping me grounded, eyes wide open, and deliberately hopeful for years now.

"ICE’s data infrastructure makes misidentification permanent. Officers are supposed to document citizenship investigations, but they aren’t required to update a person’s status in ICE databases, even after confirming U.S. citizenship."

The numbers are from 2015-2020

A bar chart titled “The Cost of Billionaires Visualized” compares major U.S. expenses to the 2024 year-over-year wealth gains of just 100 billionaires. Bars represent spending or gains in billions of dollars and are labeled with household-level (HH) equivalents. Categories shown include: • Ending homelessness: $20B ($159 per household) • Federal employees: $210B ($1,670/HH) • Teacher salaries: $214B ($1,702/HH) • Gasoline: $307B ($2,449/HH) • Groceries: $664B ($5,278/HH) • Defense budget: $824B ($6,553/HH) • 100 billionaires: $1,094B ($8,700/HH) A red banner at the bottom reads: “If we can’t afford groceries, we definitely can’t afford billionaires.” Sources listed include HUD, NEA, BLS, USDA, OPM, and Bloomberg (Dec. 31, 2024).

If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each.

The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.

Bibi’s govt was about to be dissolved. This is about his career, and dragging the US into another war to prolong the genocide in Gaza. But even if it were actually about a nuclear program: Israel—a pariah state—has 90 nuclear warheads!

Listen to Kwame Ture. There is a difference between peace and liberation.

Ah yes, please equate the entire population of western North Carolina with the 15 or so bozos who did this. NC is gerrymandered & voter suppressed to shit. The south is not a monolith. Real people who lived through Helene are on this app reading your ignorant takes that cheer on our abandonment.

US Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump's administration on Monday to strip about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States of a temporary protected status given under his predecessor Joe Biden, as the Republican president moves to ramp up deportations as part of his hardline approach to immigration.

"This is the largest single action stripping any group of non-citizens of immigration status in modern U.S. history. That the Supreme Court authorized it in a two-paragraph order with no reasoning is truly shocking.”

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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."

-Hannah Arendt

Donate to Protect Ash: Donate for Safety Measures, organized by Corryn Sullivan Ash needs financial support to respond to recent and ongoing harassment. We ar… Corryn Sullivan needs your support for Protect Ash: Donate for Safety Measures

My friend Ash is being harassed and urgently needs to relocate. Over the years, Ash has helped many people in need. From movement education to jail support to helping people access the care they need, Ash has brought the spirit of reciprocal care to many fronts. Let's show up for him now.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the…

Ramp investor Keith Rabois is part of the “PayPal Mafia,” which also includes Musk and Thiel. He and his husband, Jacob Helberg, hosted a fundraiser for Trump’s 2024 campaign. Trump has nominated Helberg for a senior role at the State Dept.

By @chrisbing.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.

I don’t trust your politics if you’re willing to sacrifice ANYBODY for some perceived strategy or political gain. People are not pawns for political strategy. We have lives and worth and value all on their own, and people who treat others as disposable demean our humanity.

Tuesday, April 8, Musa, a Black & Muslim journalist, filmmaker, cultural worker, and activist was returning to the US when they were targeted by DHS for their Palestine solidarity organizing. They were interrogated for hours, and ultimately had their phone and computer seized.

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin ‘It’s like a citizen’s arrest, but with Wi-Fi.‘

we live in a less competent version of hell

When American citizens have to worry about returning to their own country from travel abroad, you ain’t living in a free republic.

Oh, you mean like black bagging and detaining for months an immigrant for simply writing an op ed?

@dsc250.bsky.social are you hearing about HHS activity at Temple confiscating birth control and emergency contraception? (Besides my signal message)

Also things that have stuck with me from both handmaids tale and the parables are that both Atwood and Butler thoroughly rooted their fiction in historical precedent and reality 🥴🫠

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents would like a word.

"These are kids who will never pay taxes," Kennedy declared. "They'll never hold a job. Theyl never play baseball. They'Il never write a poem. They'll never go out " on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted. We have to recognize doing this to our children. we are

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

Marco Rubio Kills State Department Anti-Propaganda Shop, Promises ‘Twitter Files’ Sequel With the Global Engagement Center shut down, the State Department is now set to investigate whether past US efforts against foreign propaganda amounted to censorship of Americans.

The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns, has been shut down.

“If I understand this correctly, the US president has launched a trade war against the world, believes he can force the EU and China to meet his terms, is determined to annex Canada and Greenland, but is powerless before the sovereign might of El Salvador. Is that it?” -NPR’s Steven Inskeep

^^ yes, please check on him!!!! Thank you for taking action!!!

A New Mexico Man Faces Federal Charges for Allegedly Setting Fire to a Tesla Showroom Jamison Wagner was also charged with an alleged arson attack on the New Mexico Republican Party’s office.

Law enforcement can get access to surveillance technologies and have more legal leeway during terrorism investigations than in other types of investigations. These investigations could also possibly enable Elon Musk and Tesla executives to access surveillance on protesters.

the only thing that matters and that has ever mattered is: are you concerned with the suffering of your fellow human beings and are you working toward materially alleviating that suffering? and i am so tired of hearing from self-aggrandizing hacks far removed from those concerns.

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