Joan Braune

It is eleven months since the Salvadoran men (at least 36( were detained and illegally sent to CECOT. Torn from their families, denied due process, they remain at CECOT and Santa.

Who speaks for them? We must not forget them, we must lend our voices and demand their freedom.

#libertad

It's the future: 2026. Computers sing and make music while humans go to work. Dystopian fiction was not bleak enough to prepare us for this.

three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."

It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
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Stop scrolling. This is a countdown, not a post. Odai is a child losing his chance to walk while you read. A drone injury left him needing urgent surgery, but there is no money yet. Every second matters. Your share or donation could be the step he may never take. Act.
tinyurl.com/odai-care

As a child protection professional, I can tell you the death penalty is NOT an awesome solution to child sexual abuse. Most children are abused by family members; they will not report if their family members will die as a result.

Because Massie has taken some reasonable positions on a couple issues lately, that's led people to forget that he's at heart a paranoid John Bircher who's been scanning the horizon for non-existent black helicopters for decades now.

if you want women to feel safe trusting you with the bad things that happen to them you have to be ready for the possibility of hearing things about your friends that you won't like

evergreen (people of all genders)

and hear things about your friends

(colleagues)

(donors)

(superstar pet clergy)

(etc)

I’ve never met a child that belongs in prison, because all children should be free.

Abolish all child cages + jails + prisons (so-called juvenile halls, camps, correctional facilities, detention centers, et al.)

They are an expensive stain on our community.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you really don't need to team up with the Candace Owens fangirl who thinks the Jews killed Jesus

The Streamer “HH” Scandal Represents A Dangerous Convergence Of Misogyny And Nazism A livestream featuring Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Sneako, and other manosphere influencers praising Hitler illustrates the growing convergence of misogyny and neo-Nazism within mainstream online space...

A livestream featuring Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Sneako, and other manosphere influencers praising Hitler shows how misogyny is converging with neo-Nazism in online spaces. As these networks expand, Nazism is normalized, fueling hate and violence against women and other vulnerable communities.

Local police aid ICE by tapping school cameras amid Trump’s immigration crackdown Local police assisted federal immigration agents by repeatedly searching school cameras that record license plate numbers, data show

New reporting shows local police are tapping school security cameras and license-plate reader systems to assist federal immigration enforcement, raising serious concerns about student privacy and surveillance.

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These are going to become the Stolpersteine of the United States.

This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Last night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.

Chip Berlet was one of my primary mentors, a delightful human being, and was both insightful and dead accurate. I will miss him deeply.

Sometimes I'll just boo a photo of JD Vance in my free time

Going to tell my children this was horseshoe theory

If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live | Carlos Hernández de Miguel Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel

'What I do know is that I will leave this world without understanding why the international community chose to remain impassive while Israel perpetrated a genocide right before its eyes, broadcast live, minute by minute, massacre by massacre.'

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boooooo

"When you feel a need for a sense of belonging that you cannot find among your fellow scholars, seek to cultivate that space of safety and care in real life...Creating this community for others is also a collective task."

"while it is a bad sign if mainstream neoliberal institutions always agree with you, being widely criticized by the general public also doesn’t automatically mean you are a brave truth-teller. (Intellectual courage and intellectual humility are kindred virtues.)"

"...in the course of your work, be on guard against those who seem to be offering you a peculiarly warm welcome (or 'love bombing' you) simply because you are saying something 'edgy'..."

MarcuseSociety.org - Studying Critical Theory Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis

Wrote my contribution for this site a few years ago, still like it.

Oh no, what a loss for antifascist research. Really regret I never got to meet him. He's a legend and did incredible work.

Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.

Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.

Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.

Get them out!