Sara from Michigan

Bringing this back. I also want to add one more thing: the people with the most privilege should take the most risk.

while it's fun to exaggerate and tell fibs on the computer, being 30 and being 36 is basically the same

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Holocide

I see the LadySafety Carer Abouter is promoting Nick Cohen, who had to leave the Observer after a years-long series of harassment and gro-*all the editors of the entire British press run in and slam a big red button, releasing the trapdoor and dropping me into an oubliette*

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it

Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

ICE is doing a hell of a lot of harm in the Chicago area *right now.* I don’t mean to trivialize the national guard stuff, it absolutely is an irresponsible escalation, but the guard-centric convo around this really does understate what’s going on without any guardsmen.

Everyone's like "they'll just replace Charlie Kirk / Jordan Peterson / Dennis Prager and the machine won't miss a beat" but I haven't seen that happen yet. What if it dies with them? I think the propaganda renaissance is nearly over. Its purpose was served on election day

I agree it’s totally unAmerican (unrelated photo from 2014 in Ferguson)

Beyond the candidates, the entire party reaffirmed and accelerated the framing that republicans gave for the border war. The democrats have been collaborators in justifying the current reign of terror and this is a massive liability in counter messaging now.

I don't want to be a pessimist here but if we are actually serious about this, it would require a deep confrontation with the fact that Biden just aggressively used ICE for four years, then Kamala Harris campaigned on expanding ICE funding while a bunch of Dems voted for a bill that doubled ICE $$

Also, for the same reason:

NEVER sign up for or RSVP to a protest. I don't care who is running it. Don't do it.

NEVER bring your phone to a protest or action and if you absolutely must, disable all location services and biometrics.

You know, if the Democrats were actually doing a good job of fighting back, I might at least emotionally understand why people are like “don’t criticize their historical complicity” but also they’re a fucking dumpster fire right now

Kind of feels like feds occupying our city for a month, killing one person and shooting another while attacking neighborhoods with chemical weapons and kidnapping hundreds of people already counts as a civil war whether the Guard arrives or not, but what do we know?

I don’t want to talk about this because I don’t want to be a target

But on just a human decency level the person tirelessly deleting Gazans just permabanned the guy who uses his thousands strong platform to boost the fundraisers of literally anyone who needs money or mutual aid every single Friday

Michigan Democratic Senate Candidate Privately Drafted “Outstanding” AIPAC Position Paper, Supporter Claims The Michigan Senate race is a three-way contest between Rep. Haley Stevens, whose last campaign was boosted by millions of dollars from AIPAC; Abdul El-Sayed, a leading advocate of the “Uncommitted Mo...

What does not give any amount? AIPAC hasn't given her anything yet. A donor call leaked with a supporter saying he has been in contact with AIPAC and has read her position paper for them which he described as "outstanding."

www.dropsitenews.com/p/mallory-mc...

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained. "Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!

Here to say that since the ICE crackdown, we've seen fewer immigrants in the hospital and have had them leave, even critically ill ones who would die without treatment, due to the fear of being detained and deported.

Yes of course I agree that millions of people could have voted differently or voted at all but also one single person could have vocally denounced genocide. There were multiple paths to victory.

More pointedly, the pope said, "Someone who says, I'm against abortion, but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life. Someone who says, I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life."

What a line from the Pope! I am so pleased he is carrying on Pope Francis’ advocacy for immigrants.

Post See new posts Conversation Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann · 22h There is going to be enormous temptation for the next Democratic administration to give ICE the USAID treatment. Jordan Weissmann @JHWeissmann I, for one, do not support abolishing ICE. But I do think some, um, restructuring is obviously going to be necessary.

Ummmmm guys I really think we need to think long and hard before abolishing the Schutzstaffel. Look, OK yes, sure, absolutely, there are SOME bad eggs. But, on the other hand, erm, have you considered that this is actually exactly like uhhhhhhhhh....USAID?

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If you’ve got an extra screen that isn’t doing anything right now, throw on the Sumud flotilla livestream and play it in the background. The more eyes on it the better, even if only passively.

the thing is it doesn't matter what you do, because what they say you do becomes the reality. it doesn't matter how politely and calmly you voice your disagreement. It will count as terrorism.

Their violence is speech, and your speech is violence.

There's no such thing as well behaved enough.

There’s no satisfaction in “I told you so” these days. The words taste like poison as they leave my lips. And to make matters worse, many of the people who fought us along the way are convinced they’ve been saying the same thing this whole time. Even you who’s reading this post now aren’t exempt.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources. The database identifies over 1,000 terms relating to extremist ideologies and groups, and it has faced scrutiny in recent days after viral social media posts revealed that the Glossary of Extremism included an entry about the slain Turning Point USA founder and his organization.

ADL *AGAIN* bends over backwards for Nazis, erasing a resource and database to appease antisemitic scum:

This...out them all

Update on this: The City of Evanston isn't waiting for Flock to take the cams down, and staff have covered them up with bags and tape. Writing up a quick story to post before I go do (another!) citywide site visit to confirm all are covered (Picture taken yesterday by @joergmetzner.bsky.social)