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literally why can't civilians travel to Gaza to give Palestinians aid so they are no longer killed by disease and starvation as part of a white nationalist campaign to ethnically cleanse and exterminate Palestinians for purposes of stealing their land and resources?????????????? fuck borders

“I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” The last journalists remaining in Gaza are near death from forced starvation. There is enough food at the border to feed the entire population for 3 months. This is genocide.

If you’re in the Midwest/Chicago/STL area totally worth stopping by the @debsmuseum.bsky.social

Also first & second pictures are from today on the The Bronx Defenders Union - UAW Local 2325 picket line.

Our strike deadline is Friday⏳Follow for more info here: www.instagram.com/bxdunion?igs...

I want to shout out the @debsmuseum.bsky.social in Terre Haute, Indiana. The highlight of the experience was the museum guide, Allison, who is holding it down and who effortlessly tied Debs legacy and impact, and the times he lived in, to our own current living and working conditions.

it's much easier to cringe at expressions like these when we go online and see it on a screen. when you see it in person it feels different and it makes you think about how much andor emotionally affected its viewers

From our colleague, reporter Dan Boguslaw: take a look at the bio of the suspect in the Minnesota killings — at his security company, "Praetorian Guard Security Services"

This is not about "public safety".

It's about intimidating cities who refuse to participate in Trump's mass deportation efforts.

Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.

Brian Eno Calls On Microsoft To Cease Partnership With Israel, Will Donate Windows ‘95 Chime Fee To Victims In Gaza Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the...

Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

The way you stop the outrageous thing is by dismantling the institutions and conditions that brought it about.

That's Mayor Baraka's dad :)

no enemy formed against me and my homies will prosper!!!

Not great to see "we're doing this bad thing for the Jews" spread outside the Trump administration.

It is, in fact, antisemitic for politicians to use antisemitism as an all-purpose excuse for enacting authoritarian policies like demanding control of university curricula and suppressing protests.

This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.

Class A misdemeanors in New York include riot in the second degree (“engag[ing] in tumultuous & violent conduct, thereby intentionally or recklessly caus[ing] or creat[ing] a grave risk of causing public alarm” in groups of 5+), which I’m sure the police would NEVER use to quell public protest.

Hey New Yorkers and people who visit New York: please keep calling to stop this deal to criminalize mask-wearing! @jews4maskrights.bsky.social has a great call script that you can use to leave voicemails this evening: bit.ly/no-mask-ban

Kneecap Respond to Coachella Criticism, Address Sharon Osbourne Comments Irish band talks about its controversial Coachella performance and responds to criticism received after pro-Palestine projections.

Kneecap tell Rolling Stone they're standing by their pro-Palestine statements at Coachella:

"People can take what they want from our music, stopping the genocide is more important."

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The reason billionaires like McMahon are obsessed with student debt is that creating financial precarity makes people more stressed about losing their job. If you’re worried about your job you’re less likely to quit and find work elsewhere. You’re less likely to ask for a raise. It’s pure class war.

“The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported.

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We ... had quite a ride on this episode, as *multiple* pieces of breaking news hit as we were recording ....!

Billboard with giant white letters on black background that say Abolish ICE

The message from Baltimore, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s detention odyssey began

Trump & his lawyers rely on the 14th Amendment's treatment of Native people to redefine birthright citizenship. In our Essay coming out in the NYU Law Review Online, Greg Ablavsky & I show how wrong that argument is. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Massive march outside New York Public Library in midtown Manhattan

Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19

a woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room . Alt: a woman in a black jacket is walking down a hallway in a room, wearing a chic outfit, including a pair of thigh high Chanel boots. Two women — one with red hair and one with blonde hair — stare at her in surprise. It’s a scene from the movie “the devil wears Prada,” in which Andie gets a makeover and wears “the Chanel boots” for the first time

“are you wearing the—?”

“the habeas boots? the boots in which I carry all my habeas petitions just in case I get disappeared to the gulag in el salvador? yeah, yeah I am.”

Citizens cannot, by legal definition, be "deported." What she's describing is kidnapping and forced imprisonment without cause. She and many, many others in this administration should face prison one day. bsky.app/profile/ones...

Remember how I posted right after the El Salvador renditions that there was probably better evidence of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth having extremist tattoos and more credible allegations of sexual assault? Well, the same goes for Chaya Raichik and terrorism bsky.app/profile/just...

I've been to Dilley, the "family residential center" I think he's referring to.

It's a jail. They're surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed guards. It's a jail.

I heard Keith Ellison put it this way: "you have to preach to the choir if you want them to sing."