really hope people start to understand that Medicare for all wouldn't have been subject to things like states refusing to expand medicaid or the elimination of premium tax credits, while also implementing price controls in healthcare. ACA's complexity is its vulnerability

The struggle to preserve the Palestinian olive and date harvest The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters.

The UN says October saw the highest number of Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in nearly 20 years of tracking that violence. More than half the attacks targeted olive harvesters. n.pr/3LT0ecL

Bartenders and Innocent Bystanders Tear Gassed, Knocked Over By Horses, And Shot With ‘Rubber Bullets’ During World Series Night Celebrations ~ L.A. TACO One man who was walking to Gold Room bar had to get surgery on his finger after being shot with a “rubber bullet.” “He was just running away and they got him in the leg and shot the top of his finger ...

Of course @lataco.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social has the definitive account of what unfolded before and after Saturday’s victory — which illustrates over and over again how LA is completely unprepared to handle celebrating fans

The fuckers got away with it.

The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them.

They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest - UNICORN RIOT UR is exclusively releasing 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the largest mass arrest in MN history of at least 646 people in Nov. 2020.

NEW: 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections illustrate MPD’s antagonistic relationship with the community. Strikingly, more than 24% of the 45 officers have killed community members while on duty.

unicornriot.ninja/2025/body-ca...

ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.

Disease is rampant in the camps.

Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.

The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.

Abolish ICE.

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

‘reduced microbial diversity, depletion of anti-inflammatory taxa..& enrichment of pro-inflammatory..species.. likely alter production of short-chain fatty acids, amino acid metabolites, & complex lipids
with downstream effects on
mitochondrial function, neuroinflammation & host energy metabolism’

@bmhughes.bsky.social makes a good point in his new book.

Many leftist movements exclude and marginalise disabled people within rhetoric and theory, focusing nearly only on “working people”, “working class”

They may critique commodity fetishism, but can end up with a sort of labour fetishism…

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

I've said it before and I'll say it again now:

Live your life in such a way that millions of people do not rightfully have reason to cheer your death.

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

“Incorporating driver’s license info would allow election officials whose rolls don’t include voters’ Social Security numbers to run bulk searches by driver’s license number…the system would link these 2 crucial identifiers for the purpose of citizenship checks”

www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

Reminder that biometrics literally is eugenics.

I would prefer that we not preface our criticism of murder with “I’m sympathetic.” You can nix that bit of throat-clearing and just say it’s wrong to kill civilians without charge or trial.

Republicans simply love snatching food out of the mouths of poor people, especially children. they can't get enough of it

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier US President Trump says "nothing" will jeopardise the two-week-old ceasefire despite the flare-up of violence.

Hamas kills an Israeli soldier, Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in Gaza (which surely includes some civilians).

Again I must ask, how much combat and killing constitutes a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire, as opposed to simply not a ceasefire? What is the threshold?

WHO Says Over 460 People Reportedly Killed At A Hospital Taken By Sudanese Paramilitary Forces The head of the U.N. health agency says more than 460 people were reportedly killed in a hospital in Sudan's western Darfur region.

More than 460 people were reportedly killed in a North Darfur hospital that was overrun by Sudanese paramilitary forces, the WHO said

There’s just so many people I’m so tired of hearing about but they’re all now The Most Powerful People on Earth.

Louisiana officials waited months to alert public about deadly pertussis outbreak, investigation finds

Officials waited more than 3 months after 2 whooping cough deaths to issue a statewide health alert

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza kill at least 60 people, including children, local officials say Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children. That's according to local hospital officials on Wednesday.

BREAKING: Israeli strikes overnight in Gaza have killed at least 60 people, including many children, local hospital officials say.

Something something Zebras

also myalgic encephalomyelitis

In case anyone thought ICE shooting at journalists was just an LA thing. Or that they'd cut it out after repeated warnings from judges. Nope. More of the same in Chicago.

Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

I was just notified of ANOTHER death in ICE custody — the 16th since Trump took office.

The second death TODAY. This is absolutely unacceptable.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

a new centrist think tank with a ten million dollar annual budget run by jentleson is there to make sure that this fantasy persists in whispers on capitol hill www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

U.S. naval forces have sunk a fourth suspected drug boat in the Caribbean, Trump says U.S. naval forces have conducted another lethal strike on a vessel President Donald Trump said was tied to a designated terrorist organization involved in drug trafficking in the Caribbean.

A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19

What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us?
www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

In a properly ordered universe, the government deciding it was going to routinely murder people on suspicion of drug trafficking would be much more scandalous & newsworthy than an internet weirdo murdering a white supremacist podcaster.