Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is β and always will be β a city for all immigrants.
@johnbrownbread.bsky.social
Anarchist/Anticapitalist/Anti-fascist/Academic Political Philosophizer/Researcher on Fascism, Authoritarianism & Freedom/opinions are my own
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.
New York is β and always will be β a city for all immigrants.
The Trump administrationβs immigration raids might fly with political operatives like Corey Lewandowski and Stephen Miller. But cops we talked to said the lack of professionalism by Bovinoβs agents in Chicago endangered the public and the agents
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/e...
My thoughts on Newsom in a nutshell.
07.12.2025 16:46 β π 24 π 6 π¬ 2 π 1Federal RICO Case Alleges an All-White Board Runs Westport Nightlife Like a Racist Cartel Federal judge allows civil rights conspiracy case to expand after a local Black entrepreneurβs motion sufficiently alleged evidence of βcommon discriminatory purposeβ to exclude Black business owners from Kansas Cityβs historic entertainment district. At the center: allegations of a weaponized βGood Neighbor Agreement,β brazen threats captured on tape, and a music ban targeting chart-topping Black artists. By JT β Arts & Culture, Black Business, Black Economic Justice β November 17, 2025 The front of Holy Bruch, where Euphoric Bar & Lounge was slated to be. The former site of Ale House, now operating as Holy Brunch KC, located at 4128 Broadway in Kansas Cityβs Westport district. (Mili Mansaray/Kansas City Defender) Behind the brickwork and neon signs of Kansas Cityβs Westport entertainment district, a federal lawsuit alleges an invisible regime decides who belongs and who does not. The mechanism of control, according to court documents, is a secret βGood Neighbor Agreement.β The price of entry is compliance. And the enforcers are an all-white, twelve-member board of the Westport Community Improvement District (CID). βWe wonβt sign a consent of any kind, even beer and wine, unless we have a good neighbor agreement in place,β CID members told prospective business owners, according to a lawsuit that claims to quote an audio recording.
insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.
Well UH
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."
07.12.2025 16:00 β π 2073 π 476 π¬ 51 π 38My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why heβs so strong on it: βBecause weβre always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means itβs not about disliking immigrants. Itβs about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And thatβs a bad human instinct.β
07.12.2025 08:31 β π 11031 π 3418 π¬ 215 π 85Tom Cotton is a fascist and needs a platform at the trials, preferably one that falls out beneath him
07.12.2025 17:13 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0I can't understand why more people are not hair-on-fire outraged about this assault on America's healthcare. Those of us facing Alzheimer's and other such scourges are terrified at what is being done to research funding by this savage, lawless, ignorant Administration! What will it take?!
06.12.2025 15:54 β π 27 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Violence is getting worse and will continue to get worse. Ice is seeing how much they get away with, and each time they take it further. These are the stories we hear about, what about the ones we don't !! These people are Human Beings. Ice, on the other hand, not so much www.opb.org/article/2025...
07.12.2025 11:35 β π 17 π 7 π¬ 3 π 1In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.
07.12.2025 14:32 β π 439 π 155 π¬ 13 π 4Also, I hope people sue the BOP into oblivion.
I am well aware of the PLRA. But when you have x-ray techs shunted into guard duty, need to beg for food when the whole prison is days away from nothing, and tell women to use socks for feminine hygiene, judges might start letting those Β§1983 cases in.
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
07.12.2025 02:08 β π 3502 π 940 π¬ 106 π 31Last Saturday, 50,000 people attempted to block the founding convention for the new youth organization of the far-right AfD party on Nov. 29 in Germany. Wide-ranging actions-including 19 blockades around the small city-prevented a majority of participants from attending. Police beat the blockaders.
07.12.2025 04:56 β π 272 π 109 π¬ 6 π 7i dunno about y'all but my definition of "culturally normal" excludes fuckin' weirdo pervs who are obsessed with other people's sex lives and insist on passing laws to check what's in children's underwear before they play sports with their friends
07.12.2025 04:20 β π 51 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0GOP just burning down our democracy in real time.
07.12.2025 03:33 β π 244 π 71 π¬ 5 π 1I think a lot about how Brian Schatz said we need to meet MAGA people where they are but when he was confronted on this platform a few times, a platform with an audience of 40 million, he bailed.
07.12.2025 04:14 β π 22 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1I think it's relevant to remember, even on its own ludicrous bad faith terms, they hung the whole thing on the hook that *Congress* still can enforce 14AS3. Didn't touch if he's actually qualified, which isn't up to them anyway. That's a challenge this or a future Congress can take up at any time.
07.12.2025 04:01 β π 100 π 24 π¬ 6 π 0Could congress pass a law outright saying it applies to children of undocumented immigrants, and jurisdiction strip courts, despite what SCOTUS might say?
07.12.2025 04:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0just a reminder as you read this very lovely thread of Charles Sumner-posting: Castenβs reputation is that of a business-friendly moderate.
the caucus may or may not be able to do anything about this, which may or may not be a real threat.
but they are *pissed*
I asked him a similar question 5 days later on another post and he blocked me. A clear case of viewpoint discrimination
07.12.2025 04:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That this SCOTUS used it to justify striking affirmative action bc it discriminated against WHITE people and now thinks their might be a colorable argument about the birthright part shows only that they are confused about whether the good team won the Civil War. (2/3)
05.12.2025 22:58 β π 762 π 108 π¬ 5 π 2The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
05.12.2025 22:57 β π 3596 π 1129 π¬ 162 π 64Are they doing it because of woke?
07.12.2025 03:52 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The boards also distort politics on "safety" issues. It's rare to see people under 40 at most meetings.
07.12.2025 03:46 β π 194 π 41 π¬ 2 π 0Thatβs what he accused the professor in the OU case of doing because one of the comments the professor left was βitβs offensive that you called your classmates demonicβ
07.12.2025 03:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The constitutional law professor I asked this question to blocked me. Is that also view point discrimination?
07.12.2025 03:39 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law.
revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.
Itβs sort of the foundational basis for American democracy. I find βLiberalsβ who are open to ceding the field on this perplexing. If you want a right wing autocracy you can just vote for Republicans.
07.12.2025 03:21 β π 75 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0lol
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