It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling.

Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

Communications lost with Gaza-bound aid ship Madleen after Israeli navy tells it to change course – live Freedom Flotilla Coalition says ship’s communications were jammed after Israeli defence minister threatened to ‘take all necessary measures’ to prevent the humanitarian ship from reaching Gaza

Israel has forced the Madleen dark

No seriously, what the fuck does this mean.

Brain making rrr-rrr-rrr sounds like an old Cadillac trying to start

this, like the trans panic, show billionaires can sway public opinion significantly by hiring fake experts and inundating the population with their desired messaging. it’s a huge problem and one i’m not sure how to contend with as of yet

Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report 19-year-old Merwil Gutiérrez was arrested just steps from his home in the Bronx and deported to El Salvador's notorious mega prison.

“I feel like my son was kidnapped."

I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

wading through the weekly bullshit #3: on the escalation of reproductive injustice navigating the chaos with Black women at the forefront of resistance, survival, and transformation

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Gonna repeat: Democrats love to ask how Trump voters can be so stupid. And yet, 50% of New Yorkers are supporting Cuomo who is a serial sexual harasser, got thousand killed during COVID, and orchestrated GOP control of the NY legislature.

Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.

Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.

I've been thinking about this post a lot. Those of us used to mainly acting through speech/speech acts of various kinds are going to need to get comfortable, --quickly-- with rapid *embodied* action of the kinds described below. And to do it collectively whenever possible.

HAPPY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY.

“LOVING TRANS PEOPLE IS NOT RADICAL. THAT’S BASIC.”

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A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge “Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.

It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

"We decry state censorship while ignoring a comparable threat to free expression on campuses: the crushing pressure inside many colleges and universities to conform with dominant political views."

Published today! Today!

When this presidency ends—and it will end—we need a Rooseveltian plan to not only undo the damage he did, but build bigger than we’ve ever built before.

Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Not "It could happen here." It IS happening here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

wading through the weekly bullshit #2: on fascism, anti-trans attacks, tyranny, and inequity navigating the chaos with Black women at the forefront of resistance, survival, and transformation

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

Federal immigration authorities detain Tufts graduate student - The Boston Globe In an email Tuesday night, Tufts University President Sunil Kumar said the school received reports that the student was taken into custody outside an off-campus apartment building in Somerville.

The abductions continue.

Now, a doctoral student in child development and Fulbright scholar from Turkey.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states.

(Reuters) - Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states.

@reuters.com 🇺🇸

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