Maya Schenwar

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

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Trump Has Made the US War Machine a Spectacle – and It's Spectacularly Unpopular Trump has brought the full extent of the war machine out into the open. Let's channel public anger into organizing.

"[A] new, more aggressive, and visible era."

"Trump is bringing the brutality of U.S. militarism out into the open in the form of a spectacle."

"We need to dismantle the war machine in its entirety."
#USA #Iran #Israel #Venezuela #Iraq #Afghanistan #Policing #Surveillance #Protest #Media #Military

Kansas invalidated a trans woman's license even though she never changed her gender marker.

It's not about the gender marker. It's about targeting trans people and making their lives unlivable.

Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.

My latest for @theappeal.org
Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...

Just read the entire article aloud to 2 women incarcerated in TX. Then the phone call cut off before we could talk about the water in the women's prisons. (Prison calls are only 20 min.)

The Iran war is about preserving U.S. hegemony in the Middle East We must chip away at the war-making systems inflicting this horror, which are so thoroughly embedded in the heart of the United States

This war is not about Iran’s nuclear program or freeing Iranians, writes @neginowl.bsky.social. It’s about preserving U.S. hegemony in the Middle East.

“We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity & technology goes toward burying children in rubble.”

This Is Not a Regime Change War. Iran Is Being Pushed Toward State Collapse. The US and Israel have killed Ayatollah Khamenei, but they seem to have no plan for what comes next.

"War doesn't operate with surgical precision. It doesn't remove one figure & install another. It shifts power to those most capable of wielding force. It weakens civil society faster than it builds alternatives. It deepens grievances that last generations"
-Mahbod Seraji
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Kansas and the History of State Identification as Administrative Violence w/ Cassius Adair (03/03/26) | The Death Panel Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon

In our latest, we speak with Cassius Adair @cassiusa.bsky.social about Kansas’s new law stripping trans people of their driver’s licenses overnight, and the long history of state identification documents being used as tools of administrative violence

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Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

He Almost Died From A Burst Appendix. A For-Profit Jail Medical Provider Dismissed It As Heartburn. A new lawsuit in York County, Pennsylvania, highlights a pattern of allegations of medical neglect by for-profit correctional healthcare company PrimeCare.

Willie Cunningham was detained at York County Prison when he began to experience excruciating abdominal pain. A nurse told him he had heartburn. It was appendicitis. “I believed in these people,” he told me. “I didn’t know I was dying.”
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As ICE seeks to turn commercial warehouses across the country into massive detention centers, communities are fighting back, @bdolinar.bsky.social reports: theappeal.org/ice-wants-to...

This reminds me - everyone should read the news site that welcomes anarchists in its editorial section!

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The same way you don't want people bombing you and your loved ones is the same exact thing that other people feel where they live.

Yes, phenomenal!

"...more than anything, we in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, internationalism is the antidote, always.” —Robin D. G. Kelley

This is bad news for everyone in the South, and really bad news for low-income trans folks. The surgeons getting pushed out of university hospitals will move to private practice and while SOME people will still get trans surgeries covered by insurance, those on Medicaid won’t.

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

“We need to use every single tool at our disposal to chip away at the war-making systems inflicting this horror, which are so thoroughly embedded in the heart of the United States.”

- @neginowl.bsky.social

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❓NBC News to Iran’s FM: “Sir, how can attacking U.S. military bases abroad be justified?” 💬 FM Araghchi: Because they are attacking us. These US military installations, facilities, bases are being used to attack us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this this fact? We are under an attack from you. This is obvious. This is a very simple fact. I hope that, I am sure that people would understand that we are not the one who attacked Americans. We are defending ourselves.

❓NBC News to Iran’s FM:
“Sir, how can attacking U.S. military bases abroad be justified?”

💬 FM Araghchi:
Because they are attacking us. These US military installations, facilities, bases are being used to attack us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this this fact? We are...

As Trump builds up to attack Iran, the Dem establishment—again—shows its support with silence Feigned helplessness, process criticism, no public statements or editorials: Liberal elites continue to let Trump do their dirty work for them.

As Trump has openly built up to this horrific attack on Iran, top Democratic leaders have either been silent or offered limited process criticisms, failing to muster a robust and meaningful opposition.

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

respectfully tapping the "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" sign again

Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police “What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

“Anti-Blackness is foundational to U.S. fascism, which as you acknowledged, not only precedes the so-called ‘classical’ fascism in Italy and Germany, but for Hitler and the Third Reich, a model for the racist and antisemitic Nuremberg laws.” ~ Robin D. G. Kelley

Kansas Invalidates Transgender People’s IDs After GOP Legislature Passes New Law The law, which goes into effect on Thursday, provides no grace period for the people it affects.

Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth.

Spending on policing (even excluding immigration policing) rose by over $58 billion (which is over 40%!) from just 2017 to 2025 during Trump's first term and Biden's term. People are not appreciating the incredible scope of these budget increases or what it is being spent on.

In some elite neoliberal circles, there is a developing view that grotesque levels of inequality/injustice can be controlled/managed more effectively with various forms of mass surveillance, policing, and social control through other systems (e.g. education, social media, tech).

A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible For 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ A record 129 press workers were killed worldwide in 2025, more in one year than in any of the previous three decades for which the Committee to Protect Journalists has collected data. The previous rec...

A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible For 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ

Why Is Taylor Sheridan Writing a Prison Survival Guide? I have questions.

A deeply offensive vanity project - www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a...

A screenshot of a mobile Google search results page in dark mode for the query "Kansas trans". Under the heading "News about Kansas," there is a list of four news articles: ​An article from the Kansas City Star, published 13 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday". The thumbnail shows a sample Kansas driver's license. ​An article from The Independent, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas sends letters to trans drivers demanding the immediate surrender of their licenses over birthright law". The thumbnail shows small pride flags on desks inside a legislative chamber. ​An article from The Topeka Capital-Journal, published 7 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas invalidates IDs and birth certificates of transgender people". The thumbnail features a close-up of colorful pride flag stickers. ​An article from Erin In The Morning, published 16 hours ago, with the headline "Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses". The thumbnail is a nighttime photo of a state capitol building illuminated in pink and red lights.

A day later and no major national news org has covered what they're doing in Kansas.

This is the flip side of the hyper focus on trans issues by the right. The national media ignores what's actually being done to trans people.

This erasure is what contributes to the persecution.