Natalie M Avalos

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

The Black Panthers didn't mock people for their lack of education. They taught people how to read

A lot of people need to hear this

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And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

Beto O'Rourke went on PBS and said the US has to stop being complicit in the bombing of Palestine

It's really that simple, folks

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too."

A stunning essay from Rümeysa Öztürk on the 45 days she spent in an ICE detention center just for speaking her mind

one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation

This isn't immigration control, it's genocide.

White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions. The GOP was for states’ rights when the politics supported white supremacy. When they can accomplish white supremacist goals with federal power, they are against states’ rights.

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Happy Solstice ✨

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“Radicalism that is not successfully co-opted or defanged, that continues to linger within the mainstream, will be met with increasing hostility and, ultimately, condemned as associated with violence. As Táíwò writes in Elite Capture, “Where co-optation fails, regular old repression will do.””

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

“There's really no substitute for being able to mount a long term political struggle and that means there's no substitute for the kind of organizations that can do this.”

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We know that a far left perspective doesn’t operate within any institutions in the US at all, right?

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Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

This sounds like aggressive “re-programming”…

…and surely breaks international law as to what captors are allowed to do with their hostages.

Or resisting power in any way by criminalizing and punishing dissent

💯 instigating violence

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.”

- Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

A UBI is such a fantastic idea to seed 🪴

Ahem.

A major theme of this report is that grad school should be only for the rich