This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
And there it is.
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear.
His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking.
ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
Late post of some images I took at last weekend's @50501movement.bsky.social in NYC.
It was just so beautiful to have over 100,000 New Yorkers walk past me with so much resistance energy ❤️
I hope to see y'all out there May 1st!
The Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants with little to no due process has set up a potential constitutional showdown with the judicial branch. Here's what to know about the obscure wartime law and the people who have been deported under it so far. nyti.ms/4iy58HD
Call all of their offices NOW & tell them to vote NO on this terrifying Republican spending bill.
ALSO!! Email & call Sen Gillibrand & urge her to vote NO!!! SHUT DOWN THE GOP.
Here's her contact form : www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/emai...
EMAIL SCHUMER NOW
www.schumer.senate.gov/contact
CALL HIM ON THE NUMBERS BELOW. DEMAND HIM VOTE 'NO' & SHUT DOWN THE GOP.
Robert Reich: "Trump keeps spreading lies about Social Security...why? To pave the way for privatization."
Of the 10 Democrats who voted to censure Al Green, 6 of them are in safe blue districts. They didn't have to do this at all.
- Ami Bera (D+7)
- Ed Case (D+14)
- Jim Costa (D+9)
- Laura Gillen (D+5)
- Jim Himes (D+13)
- Chrissy Houlahan (D+5)
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Join us March 12, 2025 from 4-9pm
309 West 123rd St, Harlem
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I'm honored to be part of this.
Join us March 12 in NYC from 4-6pm for the #FREEHER photo exhibit & film screening.
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How?
This needs to happen here, now!
Sadly, I have a flight that day to Australia.
But I'll be working from afar & will be boots on the ground as soon as I get back!
“President Trump looks at the Gaza Strip and sees it as a demolition site. … [He] thinks it’s inhuman to force people” to live there, an official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity under rules set by the White House.
Read more:
The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 EPA employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.
I'm sure they were just the first of many 😔
It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits.
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
Congress must investigate.
Maybe dissolving the Air Safety Advisory Comission last week was a bad move Donald?
Seriously....
Breaking: A federal judge blocked the OMB order freezing federal grants and loans until Monday, minutes before it was supposed to take effect.
apnews.com/article/dona...
Just got off the phone with a medical provider who accepts Medicaid. Because they are shut out from the Medicaid portal, they might not be able to make payroll. They exclusively serve low-income Floridians.
So heartbreaking. Hundreds of thousands of people will be severely affected by this.
For folks who say, "Why should I even bother calling my Democratic Senator? They'll vote the right way..."
I need you to understand that when Dem electeds try to justify why they're cowering in terror from Trump right now, the VERY FIRST THING THEY CITE is:
"no one's calling my office"