ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Iran and Cuba on the verge of collapse. Syria liberated. America soon liberated in a Fourth American Revolution.

I said this 7 months ago and was called an alarmist. History says elections won’t save us. They will end us. Blue states must declare war.

“I researched every Democratic attempt to stop fascism. The success rate after fascists were elected was 0%.”

▶ Once they win elections, it’s already too …

This is up there with white ppl wanting Jon Stewart to run for president.

Honestly...I'm beginning to think white people can't be trusted with democracy. You all have no natural predators and it shows in your behavior and instincts.

‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard For years, Alexa has been our on-call vet, DJ, teacher, parent, therapist and whipping boy. What secrets would the data reveal?

‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

Since I haven't posted this in a while, your reminder that if you're arrested in Illinois for protesting ICE, the genocide in Gaza, or for trans rights, I can represent you (in criminal proceedings) pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I take as many cases as I can.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

The CDC has literally been gutted today.

There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.

Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.

1/

"Did Trump just defy a court order?"

YES, motherfuckers. Why in the fuck is that so hard for people to say? The judge told him to stop doing something, he did it anyway, IN DEFIANCE OF THE JUDGES RULINGS!

WHY ARE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING FASCISM IN THE PASSIVE VOICE????

My biggest fear isn't fascists forcing us to carry out a popular uprising to defeat them. My biggest fear is pretend democrats who, once in power thanks to us, will make excuses for why they can't restore all that Trump/Russia destroyed, because they're weak, threatened, paid off by business elites

Contact info for this craven opportunist here: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

The media is now obsessed with remorseful Trump voters, white voters, who are now losing their jobs or upset about inflation. I don’t want to hear from them. I want to hear from the Black voters who stood in line for hours, only to be turned away because their name was purged from the rolls.

Instead of secession referendums, can states like NY and CA pass laws that insist their residents pay their federal income tax instead to their state, to be held in escrow, until the federal government upholds the law and brings the criminals (Musk and his Hitler Youth) to justice?

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government.

He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality.

www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

First reported case of the concerning clade I mpox here in the U.S.

Add this to growing threat of H5N1 here

And you can understand the worry about weakened public health capacity

Not great news

And not great timing.

www.cdc.gov/media/releas...

Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.

Dear @Netflix.bsky.social

Please consider making Bucha movie available in more countries.It’s a very important film that everybody should see

Friends,please help share this post to show that the interest in the movie is high

Thank for supporting Ukrainian filmmakers& important stories,Netflix!

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

A wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover, climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell his family or friends. By @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

‘Trump has been explicit about revenge’: Asif Kapadia on his new film about the threat to democracy The man behind Amy and Senna has turned his attention to ‘techno-authoritarianism’ in the genre-defying 2073. He talks to our journalist – one of the movie’s unlikely stars – about the events that fed...

This is what the Observer team & I were doing between strikes. Please read it because it couldn’t be more relevant. I interview @asifkapadia.bsky.social
about his alarming new film, 2073. It’s a stark warning of where Trump, Musk & Farage are taking us..

www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

The Wellness Women Are on the March Behind MAHA, RFK Jr.’s alternative-health movement, is a legion of Instagram influencers with millions of followers.

The wellness-to-fascism highway gets more traffic than the 405 and has been a very well-established pathway for DECADES, and it’s way past time to talk about this: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Picture of a Tv with a red screen and the words in Arabic in white

Syrian state TV is now broadcasting just a single, still image.

It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.”

History.

#Syria 🇸🇾

Did a talk on journalism to undergraduates. Learned very interesting stuff about how youngsters consume and interpret information, and how they judge the news media (trigger alert for any journalists out there whose core belief is that we're important).
1) Gen Z/Alpha doesn't think about the news

God, metaphor and the soul How metaphors shape our understanding of complex ideas like the soul

From the point of view of the brain, which is all you have for understanding the world, you're always using metaphors for understanding God.

You have no choice. Here’s why:

www.theframelab.org/god-metaphor...

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl Inoculate Yourself From Fear: A Conversation with Global Affairs Expert Andrea Chalupa

"We have no choice but to be brave now. Because you are only as free, as you are brave." Thank you to Politics Girl for having me on her how to share inspiration from Ukraine on how to prepare for what's coming
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIm...

I was really bracing for a cringe script pitch; this is just a confusing turn of events.