Rachel Keating Rott

Just to be absolutely clear, this bill will kill people both passively and directly.

revolutionary optimism will keep me going these next 4 years. it can keep you going too.

fascism depends on a lie that it is inevitable & cannot be stopped. in reality it is weak, unstable, & paranoid. it eats itself.

find solidarity & trans joy even in times of despair. All Power to the People. 🏳️‍⚧️

My new campaign is the “make ICE agents so demoralized they quit” campaign.

At no point in this study did I use AI. This includes the literature review, logical organization, writing, analysis, and proofreading. I do not cite any studies that use AI, to the extent that it is possible to know.

Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.

Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.

I want to hear more things like this. Who are the lawyers who can offer tangible ways that people can fight back?

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The Supreme Court is definitely not my lane. I look forward to hearing what radical lawyers and law scholars offer as strategies for gumming up the works, causing legal chaos, and generally how to fuck this shit up. In the meantime, the rest of us need to be focused on our lanes and fucking shit up.

I am begging everyone to please make a pledge to refuse to be demagogued again re "crime" and "law and order." Let this be the last time you fall for the bullshit.

For people who don't know L.A. geography, Boyle Heights is in East L.A. which is a traditionally Chicanx and Mexican community and home to people from around Central America too.

Far from the first. I would love to see the day that the left stops going for the football that Peppermint Bernie pulls away every time.

Actually this is brilliant.

I agree with those who say that by attacking sanctuary cities, the administration was trying to provoke a response they could exploit. But here's the thing: there is no perfect move for a community under siege. Cooperation and the passive absorption of violence are also highly exploitable moves.

*rage screaming forever*

This is the protest that Trump has sent the flippin Marines to break up.

Outrageous!

Thanks to @jesscraven101.bsky.social for the video.

A Charlie Kirk tweet that says "Deport!" with a picture of seven awesome dudes aura farming in front flaming waymos, brandishing a Mexican flag, in front of the big Dale's Donuts sign.

guys will be like "these people are ruining america" and it'll be a picture of the coolest guys ever

Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

"I hereby call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard ... to temporarily protect ICE & other [USG] personnel who are performing Federal functions ... at locations where protests ... are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations"

We are learning in real time which colleges & universities are for real & which are not.
It's not something we necessarily wanted to learn, but DAMN! Let's make the most of it!

Tufts shames the Ivies, for damn sure. And stays true to it's Universalist roots.

Excerpt of WaPo story: "But some analysts have said the market would have fallen even more if not for the broad expectation that Trump will eventually soften the so-called reciprocal tariffs. “I hope these reciprocal tariffs get negotiated down and don’t trigger a 1930s style tit-for-tat trade war. We’re hoping the art of the deal is still what motivates the president,” said Ed Yardeni, president of Yardeni Research, which provides market analysis."

Really remarkable how Wall Street keeps defaulting back to 'he can't really be serious, it can't just be Tariff Man Wants Tariffs' -- www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi's real name: Richard Tichard Taviwicz

When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'

One of the things that is totally lost on Carville is that conservatives will never believe that you aren’t secretly connected with <insert marginalized group>.

It’s just that when you trash them, you send the message that you won’t fight for what you believe in and you’re a fake piece of shit.

❤️ WISCONSIN: “I’d like to apologize. My eyes were opened. I’ve learned a very lot about this group of people.”

Larry came to testify against the anti-trans youth health care bill, but had an epiphany and changed his mind.

Context: www.pride.com/politics/ant...

When pressed about what exact conduct led to Columbia anti-war protester Mahmoud Khalil being arrested and stripped of his U.S. permanent resident status for “supporting terrorism,” the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security answered: “basically pro-Palestinian activity.”

www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...

what is this shit? the tariffs don't pay for anything! why are we pretending that tariffs generate revenue?!

jfc. wtf is wrong with you?

I swear most elected Democrats have never heard of the Overton Window. They’re cheerfully helping the GOP shove it rightward.

Sorry, we broke money. It doesn’t work anymore. The green rectangles, the metal
circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth

This, precisely, is what I think Dem voters want from their representatives: direct confrontation with people who are used to bullying others both as a matter of substance and style. You don't have to back down to these fucking clowns.

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

Gavin Newsom doesn’t understand that the mean girls will never let him sit at their table, no matter how many kids he bullies in front of them.