Middle Aged Monotropist

This isn’t just a bill.

It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare.

Billions taken from one and given to the other.

I just don’t believe the American people want to lose Medicaid in exchange for building concentration camps. But I also don’t believe that most American voters know this is what’s happening. Someone should tell them.

The alarming rise of US officers hiding behind masks: ‘A police state’ Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

Federal officers from across US government depts have joined ICE to execute raids, but we don't know who they are while they widely cover their faces + refuse to identify themselves.

"Masked agents in casual clothing using force against people in public is associated with police states."

Mahmoud Khalil, finally free, speaks out "There isn't any shred of evidence that what I did or said is wrong," he told a rally near Columbia University celebrating his release from ICE.

Mahmoud Khalil, finally free, speaks out

I was at the rally today, a block from Columbia, where Mahmoud gave his most extensive public comments since being freed on Friday. He called himself “a freedom fighter,” “a refugee,” “a father & husband,” & “above all… a Palestinian.”

New @motherjones.com

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

I am begging people not to look to the NYT for coverage of what's happening. The BBC, Le Monde, Ajazeera and others will have more truthful coverage.

In this piece I argue that the myth of therapist neutrality is harming our clients—especially those living through systemic oppression.

I write about why therapists must stop pretending politics don’t belong in the therapy room.

@mad-in-america.bsky.social

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

This one is important. Share it widely. "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed those in 2017, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful." wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer...

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate "We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say Agents confiscated belongings and rushed deportees to California’s high desert or Texas, saying local facilities had not prepared for influx

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE Kidnappings Stoke Fear and Outrage Across Los Angeles Families spoke about the horrors of having their loved ones snatched off the streets, with no knowledge of their current whereabouts.

I was at a car wash in Culver City today that was raided twice last weekend by ICE. 25 car wash workers and 1 customer have been kidnapped over the past several days, and the whereabouts of most of them is unknown. I spoke to families of the kidnap victims:
prospect.org/justice/2025...

This thread is important to read. Where we are in American history is deeply rooted and I strongly feel adds to how we are all easily dehumanized, and dehumanize each other, especially with how we're viewed as workers (or not workers!). Antiblackness is at the core of it.

Read up!

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense Residents of L.A. aren’t merely protesting ICE; they’re attempting to protect their communities from ICE’s raids.

"What we are witnessing in Los Angeles is not only a protest; it is self-defense." Fuck yeah, @melissagiragrant.com. Read and share this. newrepublic.com/article/1963...

NEW: The Trump admin has plans to send thousands of foreigners to Guantanamo beginning as early as this week, including citizens of close allies UK & France, with no intention of notifying their home governments in advance, per sources and documents

I'ma tell you all what I tell my clients.

You feel bad because it is bad. You are unmotivated to go to work because the world is on fire & the government is sending people to kidnap children and adults & maiming people who try to stop them.
You are having a normal reaction to obscene circumstances.

Telling ICE (an organization that acts no different from every secret police force in dictatorships throughout history) to fuck off isn’t just noble, it’s a civic duty; it’s mandatory.

the cops are not in fact 'out of control.' this is US policing.

A page from Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, the chapter called "Violence" in Social Movements, page 111. Under the heading "They Will Call You Violent" the text reads: If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because violence is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent. Even as people experience the violence of poverty the torture of imprisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, as long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to peaceful protest, they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

Be careful, friends, when you read accounts of what is happening in LA. We will hear a lot about violence, and it is essential to remember who is defining that term.

"When state actors refer to peace, they are really taking about order..." (@prisonculture.bsky.social and @mskellymhayes.bsky.social)

"Nothing / none" is the second most frequent response. We are not breaking through.

If you care about health care (Medicaid,, Medicare, the ACA), if you care about SNAP, if you care about ordinary Americans, this ought to be very alarming.

THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.

I am signatory and I hope that Bluesky leadership pays heed and takes affirmative action.

Inside the Heritage Foundation’s Plan to Crush the U.S. Palestinian Movement (Gift Article) Even before President Trump was re-elected, the Heritage Foundation, best known for Project 2025, set out to destroy pro-Palestinian activism in the United States.

Gift link to a detailed account of how the Heritage Foundation, the think tank behind the authoritarian Project 2025, plays a key role in the despicable campaign (eagerly adopted by the Trump GOP) to cast any objection to Israel's slaughter of civilians as "antisemitism" or "terrorism": is.gd/q1OT2n

A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

It really is the root driver of fascism: convincing the broad public that the *real* threat is the professors & queers & artists & do-gooders. Fascism is always "a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place." I did a thread on this at the old place:

Basically what happens to me anytime someone honks a car horn anywhere near me.

It's bizarre how pundits and politicians cover Trump's second term with little mention of the first term, even though it's a direct extension. Just as they covered his first term as if it weren't a continuation of a lifetime in organized crime. They treat everything as disparate when it's one story.

RFC's statement on the tragic case of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Georgia mother who was declared brain dead in February and forcibly remains on life support due to the state’s abortion ban.

RFC's statement on the tragic case of Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old Georgia mother who was declared brain dead in February and forcibly remains on life support due to the state’s abortion ban.

This is the cruelty of abortion bans on full display. This is not “pro-woman,” “pro-life,” or “pro-family,” this is inhumanity.

Adriana Smith, we fight for you.

Read more 👇.

Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway - Åsmund Borgen Gjerde, 2025 Ole Ivar Lovaas – a Norwegian-born professor of psychology at UCLA – is considered a pioneer in the development of interventions for autistic children based on ...

Lovaas, ABA-based therapy pioneer, dehumanized and slapped, screamed and electrically shocked autistic children in the name of treatment, and used similar techniques against “effeminate boys”:
he and his family were leaders of a Nazi-collaborative fascist party.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"[W]e cannot just justify the killing, the murder, the continuous occupation, the apartheid, the genocide. We cannot justify it anymore. We either have to be pro-peace or pro-war. There is no third option."