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Been seeing people say that this is a sign of regime weakness not strength. But spectacle is a big part of fascism and humans aren't brave. The point of this in a visual age is to ensure that people think 'if they do this for something so petty, then there's no way I'll do anything'

screenshot of a Facebook post by Corey Robin, which says: "By the way, did you all notice how Zohran made affordability a central issue of his campaign without selling out trans kids or shitting on immigrants? Might be some lessons there. Just a thought."

he's right and he's right to say it

Therefore, inviting people you don’t usually talk to or agree with to discuss this moment and pay attention is essential. Let’s focus on where we agree, we can work though tensions later as much as possible, huge numbers are needed to stop authoritarianism and huge numbers are furious!

Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Mini shaker.

Can we make East Bay Earthquake Bluesky happen?

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

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California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says Products must state if they contain chemicals tied to cancer or other risks. As a result, manufacturers have pulled back from using the chemicals, researchers found.

California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether, a new study found.

Twitter screenshot of two posts: Jersey Noah @JerseyNoahx Today, a trans man received his documents back from a Massachusetts passport agency completely destroyed. His passport renewal, birth certificate, and legal gender/ name change order are shredded and burned. The documents arrived in a sealed UPS package Second tweet: This is the passport he received: (Picture of a very defaced and torn us passport)

Reposting from Jersey Noah on twitter. Seems bad! Thread:

Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts

Remember all those warnings about “complying in advance”? This is what complying in advance looks like.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Corporate Coup in Global Context

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall

Monday, February 17th at 5:00 pm ET

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Federal employees union grows to record size amid DOGE attacks — and other labor news • Minnesota Reformer Take a seat in the Break Room, our weekly round-up of labor news in Minnesota and beyond. This week: Membership swells as federal employee unions confront DOGE attacks; dairy farmer faces rare crimina...

The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, has now grown to a record size of 319,233 active members.

14,000 new members joined in the past five weeks.

That’s nearly as many as the previous 12 months.

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

I want the Eagles to win because I want my fictional friends at Abbott Elementary to be happy

I’m gonna be honest, I had a lot of possible wild shit on my bingo card for this administration, but affirmative action for Afrikaners was not one of them.

Major breaking trans news: The ACLU has launched a lawsuit on behalf of 7 transgender people affected by Trump’s passport ban.

Incredible filing. The Trump admin is now swarmed with lawsuits over discriminatory and illegal executive orders.

ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours

ICE Protests Brutal Conditions Of Being Forced To Stand Outside Homes Of Immigrants For Hours
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.

Wow. So not only were several bird flu studies left out of today’s CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, some data on bird flu briefly appeared in the online report and then was quickly removed.

Miami-Dade teacher with DACA faces deportation after being detained by ICE A Miami-Dade County Public Schools teacher is facing deportation after they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, the teacher’s union confirmed Thursday.

It was never, has never, & will never be about “criminals.” When administrations carry out mass deportations, their targets are immigrants they consider low-hanging fruit: people they can detain at hearings & check-ins. People on parole. Cities with large populations of undocumented immigrants.

This is a hell of a crowd size for a protest at the Treasury Department.

People do not like Elon.

In my years of reporting on LGBTQ news this was by far the hardest.

But we are still here. You made it to Friday. You lived. Good job. That wasn’t easy.

Through a diversity of tactics, we will continue to live.

Rest up, drink water, find community, so that we can all be here tomorrow too.

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks.

Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

Headline from reductress.com that reads “'Joy Is an Act of Resistance!' Says White Woman Who Engages in No Other Acts of Resistance”, above a photo of a blonde woman wearing a denim dress and a wide brimmed hat, sitting on a stoop and smiling at the camera

On day one Trump's EO said we were harmful to kids. On day two, it said we were dishonorable and disloyal. On day three, it said we were unAmerican.

Transgender people have been a part of this country for centuries.

We are not going anywhere.

Do not comply with these EOs, they are not law.