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In efforts to disrupt ICE, the whistle has become an instrument of choice On the streets, the whistle has become a means to alert neighbors and warn immigrants.

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Majority of New Yorkers want to tax the rich in NYC An even larger majority of New York City residents want to raise income taxes on millionaires in the city, according to a new Siena poll.

According to the latest Siena poll, 54% of voters said Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature should approve a tax hike on New York City residents making over $1 million. www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Vickie Paladino charged by ethics committee The Republican New York City Council member will have a chance to defend her X posts calling to expel Muslims from western nations and similar Islamophobic comments.

The New York City Council’s standards and ethics committee voted Monday to charge Council Member Vickie Paladino for Islamophobic remarks she’s made on social media over the past few months.
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We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...

Trailblazing Black and Indigenous sculptor left her mark on Boston Edmonia Lewis virtually vanished from history when she died in 1907. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum teases out the mysteries of Lewis's life while showcasing her marble sculptures.

Edmonia Lewis virtually vanished from history when she died in 1907. A new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum teases out the mysteries of Lewis's life while showcasing her marble sculptures.

Trump implies he could use Irish airport as base despite protests and objections

Donald Trump has suggested the US could use an Irish airport for military strikes on Iran even if Ireland objected.

🌱Good morning🌞

A glorious mess of almond twigs covered in open white-pink flowers with dark pink centers. Bright blue sky in the background.

I am very much in love with my almond tree at this time of the year. 😍🌱

#organic-gardening

A Spring Star Flower (Ipheion uniflorum) in the morning sunshine

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on Iran:

We are told it may last weeks.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf:

US lawmakers have been said that they don't have exit plan,but in media they bluff to control the markets.

We won't stop until the aggressor is punished.

A bunch of white men start an illegal and ill advised war but then decide that white bodies are far too precious to be risked at the front line so they find nefarious ways of enabling brown people to fight each other on their behalf.

The racism of it all.

I'm teaching a graduate level seminar on community organizing this semester. One of the fun parts has been revisiting some old organizing 101 manuals. Here's one by SDS published in 1968.

archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/do...

This cop is a menace.

Not reported by the NYT, but in 2023 Goldman’s wife also liked a tweet asserting that rape is “rooted at every level of the Arab society.”

Constituents raised the alarm at time but were ignored and dismissed.

Quakertown community demands police chief resign after ICE protest arrests The Quakertown Police Chief faces calls to resign after the arrest of five students during an anti-ICE protest, leading to a heated public council meeting with community members demanding accountability.

The Quakertown Police Chief faces calls to resign after the arrest of five students during an anti-ICE protest, leading to a heated public council meeting with community members demanding accountability.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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Daines Drops Re-election Bid in Montana, Upending a Senate Race The surprise announcement by Senator Steve Daines could give Democrats a slim opening in the Republican-leaning state in their uphill fight to take the Senate majority.

Breaking News: In a surprise announcement, Senator Steve Daines, the Montana Republican, said he would not seek re-election.

I can only imagine.

Shapiro/Slotkin 2028

Minneapolis residents who pay immigrant neighbors’ rent ask city to delay evictions A council committee voted to temporarily extend eviction notice filings from 30 to 60 days; the full council will vote again.

Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.

Of this list only Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov has aspirations of higher office. She won't get anywhere.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

This is horrifically cruel. “A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months at Florence Correctional Center died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth, a local official in Chandler said Tuesday.” An excruciating and wholly preventable death. No words are adequate.

Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.

My latest for @theappeal.org
Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...

the info is linked in the Google doc attached.

It's not like 60% of the country doesn't already oppose this war. It's way too hard to persuade in such a difficult environment where the vast majority is AGAINST THE WAR.

This was posted on X. Do you think they will enforce the same penalties on the USG that they recently threatened on members of the public for sharing doctored images of conflict?

Oh well, I guess there's nothing to be done.