Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administrationโs decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.
If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.
08.10.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 9370 ๐ 3010 ๐ฌ 391 ๐ 140
Probably will need to make sure every surface is deep cleaned with the most powerful antibacterial and antiviral cleaners available on earth. The people who spend time in there now are objectively and literally disgusting.
08.10.2025 12:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Wallpaper made out of the faces of people who have been disappeared, injured or killed by this regime.
08.10.2025 12:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Itโs go time
08.10.2025 12:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
Thereโs no waiting. Thereโs no letโs see in 4 years. Every day this continues people are dying horrific, unnecessary deaths and being tortured in concentration camps on American soil. The people fighting back against this with every breath need to be supported and held up and joined by everyone.
08.10.2025 11:00 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
The Terror is Upon Us
08.10.2025 12:10 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
they donโt want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. Itโs important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.
08.10.2025 11:23 โ ๐ 1292 ๐ 363 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts
A new study looks at lives saved by USAID in the past and what the future without the agency will look like.
Thereโs no waiting. Thereโs no letโs see in 4 years. Every day this continues people are dying horrific, unnecessary deaths and being tortured in concentration camps on American soil. The people fighting back against this with every breath need to be supported and held up and joined by everyone.
08.10.2025 11:00 โ ๐ 41 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
al impactcounter.com
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โข Data Updated - June 26, 2025
โข impactcounter.com โ Private
And what a lesson for us. Weโve already reached thousands if not hundreds of thousands counting the impact of cuts to usaid, set to reach 14 million by 2030.
175,484 known deaths was from June, and tracking research cut, so it could easily be a million by now.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
08.10.2025 11:00 โ ๐ 31 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
๐ Historic fascists with plenary authority:
โข Hitler
โข Mussolini
โข Stalin
Plenary authority or plenary powers: Absolute and without limitations.
08.10.2025 04:40 โ ๐ 2051 ๐ 619 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 14
I donโt think you see things so differently.
In fact the only weird thinking pattern I see in the US is so many people thinking they are thinking these rational thoughts alone.
Most people do have common senseโyou all just have to realise that you definitely are not on your own and act on it.
08.10.2025 10:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
I donโt think you see things so differently.
In fact the only weird thinking pattern I see in the US is so many people thinking they are thinking these rational thoughts alone.
Most people do have common senseโyou all just have to realise that you definitely are not on your own and act on it.
08.10.2025 10:41 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Global Wind and Solar power generation exceeded global demand for electricity in H1 2025, leading to a reduction in fossil fuel generation and thus emissions.
EMBER-ENERGY's "Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025" report shows that in the H1 2025 renewables (wind and solar) have outpaced global demand, leading to a reduction in fossil fuel emissions. ๐งช๐๐กโ๏ธ๐จ๐ง๐ Source: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
08.10.2025 10:38 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.
Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
08.10.2025 00:36 โ ๐ 5455 ๐ 2850 ๐ฌ 140 ๐ 216
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
07.10.2025 23:29 โ ๐ 51442 ๐ 19527 ๐ฌ 1601 ๐ 1149
Notice of Zoning Violation on official City of Portland letterhead
I dunno if I'm the last one to hear about this? But the reason the president is sending the *National Guard* to Portland is because the city mailed the government's landlord...a zoning violation notice?
They are sending in the troops to avoid "a monthly code enforcement fee"??
07.10.2025 05:38 โ ๐ 1670 ๐ 572 ๐ฌ 57 ๐ 27
INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.
โOur members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.โ
07.10.2025 15:56 โ ๐ 3813 ๐ 995 ๐ฌ 39 ๐ 19
eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.
or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
07.10.2025 02:10 โ ๐ 5540 ๐ 1544 ๐ฌ 61 ๐ 49
A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
This is the Epstein files shutdown.
07.10.2025 20:30 โ ๐ 12357 ๐ 4176 ๐ฌ 316 ๐ 116
So, yes. โThat happened.โ
07.10.2025 22:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
If this is not a wake up call to everyone to at least occasionally take genuine technology breaks for our health I donโt know is.
07.10.2025 15:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.
This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.
May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.
06.10.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 4431 ๐ 868 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 17
John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."
06.10.2025 20:03 โ ๐ 14062 ๐ 4828 ๐ฌ 225 ๐ 216
Instructions on how to submit a news tip anonymously through SecureDrop:
- Start from a place with public Wi-Fi, like a coffee shop. Use a computer you control. Never use a workplace computer.
- Download and install Tor Browser from torproject.org and use it to visit howto.securedrop.tor.onion for next steps.
๐จ PSA: Are you a current or former federal employee and have information that you'd like to share with the press?
You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
07.10.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 35 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Hilarious that ICE agents and Krusty Gnome the Childnapper and all of their gross criminal collaborators donโt realise theyโve been literally eating shit at every restaurant theyโve visited for months
07.10.2025 14:33 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Things you say when you realise your entire voter base is Republican at this point
07.10.2025 14:30 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Now, if you havenโt figured it out yet, is the time to get involved in racial justice. Now, or yesterday.
In disability, economic, environmental justice.
Because intersection doesnโt mean you get to choose a road and drive in one lineโit means all the roads meet, and only ever function as a whole.
07.10.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Now, if you havenโt figured it out yet, is the time to get involved in racial justice. Now, or yesterday.
In disability, economic, environmental justice.
Because intersection doesnโt mean you get to choose a road and drive in one lineโit means all the roads meet, and only ever function as a whole.
07.10.2025 14:25 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
One day, I shall sew the family heirloom. In the meantime, I'm practicing.
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Forthcoming book: THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025)
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Civil-rights lawyer
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Led by Disabled people the Alliance for Inclusive Education campaigns for the right of all Disabled people to access & be supported in mainstream education
Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own ๐ฎ๐น๐บ๐ธ ๐ฉ๏ธ๐ rJgnW3igNgz7
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Therapist, writer type, armchair activist, kvetch. Raised from early adulthood by Internet wolves. Warning: squees at cats.
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