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Them headline: Justin Bieber was kinda giving t-boy swag at the Grammys. By James Factora.

you should go to prison on Mars for writing this

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

If children were property cops would show up and kill anyone trying to harm them.

I’d weigh it against the rest of their platform, but i dont think i could vote for any MAGA candidate even if their broken clock was right once

the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.

A post on Bluesky from Ken Fairfax saying "Before Trump, law enforcement were trained to behave professionally. At a traffic stop they would start with words such as "Mam, may I see your drivers license and registration." ICE evidently trains their goons to start a stop with screamed profanity, quickly followed by violence."

Oh I must have been hallucinating the 2018 study that showed police were the sixth leading cause of death for Black men in the United States

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

Prison guards are flocking to ICE jobs and frankly this makes sense. Those of us who have been anti-prison organizers for decades have been saying that fascism already existed within prisons/jails. Our best teachers for how to survive fascism are incarcerated people.

Just a reminder that I do free legal trainings for Illinois groups doing protests, direct actions, tenant organizing, and mutual aid. If you're interested, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com!

This is even more infuriating in the current situation where erotic artists are walking on eggshells trying to sell their works bc payment services can block them if they're "too kinky"

Specially queer works 🙄

not the hero we deserve but the one we need

If the murder of Renee Nicole Good makes you say “abolish ICE,” but the murder of George Floyd didn’t make you say “abolish cops,” ask yourself why and try to learn from it

ICE surveillance is directly connected to ICE violence. One of the most concrete things that progressive leaders can do in cities targeted by ICE is work to roll back surveillance ASAP:

-Cancel contracts with Flock
-Ban facial recognition
-End private camera registries
-Data privacy protections

For the people (not inaccurately) comparing the IDF to ICE:

We didn't learn violent oppression of people from Israel.

Israel learned it from US.

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

Today once again proved that everyday citizens protesting their government are braver than the titans who own the largest media corporations, run the biggest law firms and lead the most powerful technology companies.

I’m not just a hater either, red - evermore is an absolutely insane run that she made. ugh

it is the best song on the album but its still crap. I’m not as up on my top40 as i used to be but surely there is a better song out there somewhere?

literally how

seriously! I do think there are Other negative implications of the pluribus (no art! No language!) and there’s definitely shades of darkness that havent been revealed but i’m still like… would tbh

lmaooo tara it seems like its you and me only on that one! everyone else is like ohhh nooo my individuality :<<<

If you are in NYC, and you're interested in volunteer court accompaniment, the group I work with is The New Sanctuary Coalition (@newsanctuarynsc.bsky.social). I know DSA and Courtwatch also has people in the courts; I'm sure there are other groups across the country mobilizing.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Damn right I back the blue. And by that I mean the United States Postal Service. Even more specifically, the six foot goth girl mail carrier I just saw walking her route.

We could have cool stuff like this. Instead we have men in masks breaking car windows and stopping people from fighting fires.

dedicated workspace and pipettes, separated for reagent prep, sample prep, and control prep is consistently recommended for good PCR regardless of manufacturer or application. Also using appropriate cleaning solutions for all of the above. These are systematic solutions not individual solutions!

it's so embarrassing (for them) that it's not enough for the super-wealthy to have literally all the money and power in the world, they demand everyone love and be nice to them too. you can't have it both ways