Kevin Barron

"Civil rights in America have always been about one thing: holding power accountable when it strips people of their dignity and freedom. They are not privileges that government agents get to decide whether to honor. What happened to me wasn't just a mistake—it was a violation of the very protections that our Constitution guarantees."

George Retes is a US citizen and Army veteran who served in Iraq and was jailed by ICE and held for three days without an explanation.

This is Evil

Might as well contract out our security to the Kremlin - oh, I guess we already did.

Is this the country where you want to live? Where people get assaulted (and hospitalized) just for talking?

Sickening.

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel Trump's authoritarian actions - Sat 4th October 2025

Well worth watching Professor Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social and her YouTube channel where she is currently documenting Trump's attacks on democracy. Here's a link to her most recent post: youtu.be/j44MxnNujgY?...

So-called AI is nothing less than a move to forever entrap citizens in a panopticon prison of ultimate control.

Beyond Orwellian.

Yes, and part of the healing is to address the supremacy that is at the root of the damage. Not more tokenism but a major shift in honoring (and applying) the wisdom of indigenous cultures.

UN experts have said the IDF's "targeted destruction" of Gaza's health-care system amounts to "medicide." The UN has accused Israel of deliberately attacking and starving health-care workers, paramedics and hospitals in order to wipe out medical care in the besieged enclave.

The only criminal who can out-do The Onion and South Park simultaneously.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

The documentary "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink," about how Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is gobbling up newspapers across America and gutting them, is available to watch on PBS.

No notes (just a leaflet)

Brilliant comment that perfectly captures the AI grift.

Anne Irfan | Balfour to Blair By endorsing the Trump plan, Keir Starmer continues the long-standing British position of denying the Palestinian people...

“As countless Palestinians have pointed out, the Nakba did not end in 1948.”

I imagine this is not in relation to the wafflegate posts, but allow me to apologize for the comment I made there which may have landed as mansplaining/defense of Jay and co.
It was intended as a critique of this character-limit format which seems to cause more problems than it solves.

The best analysis of where we are, how we got here, and what to do about it, from @andreapitzer.bsky.social

I went through one of these as a kid when we lost our home, and it was just devastating. So awful that the government did so much for kids in poverty during Covid but is actively harming families now.

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.

Best for plagues, locusts and grifters;
worst for everyone else

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities. In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all. This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account. These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

Looking forward to your face off with Weiss on the Whitehouse lawn (or wherever the wrestling matches take place). My money is on you taking her down in the first round. 🤛

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

Congratulations to John Martinis and co for the award of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Their work has been described as validating the notion of Schroedinger’s cat paradox.

Forward Path

When the world
Is burning down
Acts of grace and integrity
Large and small
Create the requisite resilience
A path forward

Two years of war in #Gaza. Two years too long.

It’s time for a #CeasefireNow.

Time to release all the hostages in Gaza and Palestinian detainees.

Time to lift the siege and allow a standard flow of humanitarian aid and commercial supplies under the coordination of the UN including UNRWA.

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

Yes - we definitely need more solidarity and willingness to stand up for the principles that we espouse.

Also, this limited context burns many, prompting them to leave.
Which is sad when you consider the potential of an open global cmns network.
And to those who would say this is the fate of all media, I would argue this is different in the sense of it being personal cmns, and less mediated/censored.

Building online community is hard. Having witnessed the early usenet flame wars and the listserv endless scroll, it strikes me that we have reached a bottleneck. Xitter has hardened people to the point of knee-jerk reaction and a strike first approach. Character limit = limited communication. 1/

Exactly. It’s never a good time to critique their neoliberal act because that might expose the game for what it is: a thin veneer of social justice hiding a coin-operated influence selling machine.

Historical AND current complicity! If it weren’t for the latter, the former would be (somewhat) less urgent.