Marisol LeBrón

As Trump Bombs Iran, We Need to Reckon With the American War Machine We cannot afford to slip into despair. We must push back against militarism everywhere, at every turn.

Essential reading. "We in the U.S. need to reckon with the fact that so much of our state wealth, capacity, and technology goes toward burying children in rubble."

People really struggling with the idea that the Iranian government sucks but we shouldn't be bombing them can both be true, eh?

Submitted. Dropping January 2027. In the meantime, 🚫🧊

it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal

The BAFTAs had poor Alan Cumming up there like, sometimes ✨🌈diversity✨🌈 is offensive 🙄

I’m sorry but not censoring a white man repeatedly shouting the n-word at two Black actors presenting an award because he has Tourette’s but censoring someone accepting an award saying “Free Palestine” is peak white liberal brainrot.

YouTube video by theGrio Reggaeton's Afro-Latin Roots: A Conversation with Gata

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We love @marisollebron.bsky.social over here!

S/o to @wayneandwax.bsky.social & Raquel Rivera and Dr. Rideau & Diaz of #badbunnysyllabus

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Ahhhh two of my favorite people!! Love y’all!

The uber leftist critiques of Bad Bunny noting that it’s not liberation are so annoying. Like, no one said all that, bro. People saying that there were political elements that are important to acknowledge is not the same as saying Bad Bunny will free us. Don’t be foolish.

Thank you for sharing!

Aftershocks of Disaster An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.

If anyone is interested in reading about Hurricane Maria's human impact on Puerto Rico, I recommend Aftershocks of Disaster by @yarimarita.bsky.social @marisollebron.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org. A deeply heartbreaking yet galvanizing anthology of essays, poems, and other personal literary works.

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

No wishy washy passive voice here. TMZ literally more accurate than the majority of mainstream news outlets.

We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference.

How stupid do they think we are?

Law enforcement out of unions. They are not workers. They are the tools of the elites against the working class.

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

There have been over a dozen ICE shootings. We have to fight not just for Alex Pretti and Nicole Good, but also for Silverio Villegas González and Keith Porter, many other victims in the streets, dozens in detention centers and the millions who have been brutalized in detentions and deportations

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

NYT says ICE shot him in the back:

An “agent aims his own firearm at Mr. Pretti’s back and appears to fire one shot at close range… A third agent unholsters a weapon. Both agents appear to fire additional shots into Mr. Pretti as he lies motionless… At least 10 shots appear to have been fired…”

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A nurse. A 37-year-old man who devoted his time to healing the sick and the injured, who came outside in the cold to protect his neighbors, gunned down in the street by bloodthirsty blackshirts

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting.

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Our initial analysis is up.

The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot.

He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

this guy just wanted to help defend his community and they murdered him for it and the highest officials in the nation are lying about what multiple camera angles are showing the nation

this cannot stand

Lying his ass off while doing Nazi cosplay.

No more business as usual. #AbolishICE

Showing cross-racial solidarity is a potential death sentence. There are few things white supremacists hate more.