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The moment when ICE fired tear gas at thousands of people in Portland.

saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

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 very strong & contagious sense of "someone else will take care of this mess" runs rampant throughout US society & prevents people from getting together and collectively asserting agency & self-determination over their lives

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country"

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Voted to confirm Marco Rubio 👍

When I hear this, I think of the people who were in the streets in Ferguson in 2014-2015 for 375 days STRAIGHT while the national guard was called up and people were being brutalized by cops in the streets for WEEKS. Complete amnesia.

You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.

I get that everyone on Bluesky has seen the CECOT video but my question is how does the scale of its spread compare to what might have happened if it had aired on 60 Minutes?

Scanning the media, the story seems to have already disappeared. Bluesky is a specific audience.

Abolition, Not Fines for Fascism Portlanders have repeatedly shown up to City Hall with one message: We refuse to negotiate the terms of our own oppression. People weren’t there for symbolic accountability, or for another round of po...

“Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?” ~ Alissa Azar

“Folks, what they DONT want is a peaceful permitted march that has proven to not change anything. They DO WANT black bloc & fighting with the police. They don’t want you to be pacified! They want to be directly confronted, yeah! This has historically been the case. I know what I’m talking about!”

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the adl was championing the deportation of college students and a federal assault on academia wrapped in a fig leaf of protecting jewish students and the head of the nation's biggest teachers union says that it's important to continue partnering with them. they are not a legitimate civil rights org!

By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.

i'd support the spontaneous mass unplanned protest against authoritarian racism but unfortunately i saw a picture of someone in the crowd doing something i personally think is bad optics so i'll have to sit the whole thing out. shame

From Student to Scholar | A Guide to Writing Through the Dissertation From Student to Scholar guides graduate students through the "hidden" developmental transition required in writing a dissertation and moving beyond, to become a

More focused on writing than learning in general, but I've found Hjortshoj's From Student to Scholar helpful www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Mother and children in detention camp in front of guards.

We need to fundamentally appreciate those on the streets of LA are there because ICE + the fucking military took family members, neighbors + co-workers - this isn't an abstraction.

What would you do if it happened to you? How would you feel about someone crying more over a Waymo than your child?

Americans, especially white collar Americans, not understanding labor organizing is one of the greatest successes of the Reagan era. People just don’t understand solidarity and say stupid shit like “Fuck that union because I don’t like its president” instead of “join and fight!”

“expect Garber to continue his campaign against all manifestations of Palestine on this campus — along with anything else that challenges the University’s financial and political investment in the status quo.”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism

like… we’re begging for scraps

like, the recent push from pres and allies is obviously bad, and something is better than nothing. But we were being critical of the DEI stuff in 2020 and it just doesn't sit right with me to be cheering for it's maintenance.

really think that the reason these companies aren't getting rid of their DEI programs (see costco, now apple) is that they know they really aren't that effective at all

One of my favorite physics experiments is the Stern-Gerlach experiment and Gerlach (the experimenter) never won a Nobel Prize for it possibly because his colleagues thought he was a dipshit for having a leadership role in the Nazi nuclear weapons program

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E...

People should look up the history of Aryan physics/Deutsche Physik. This has STRONG Deutsche Physik vibes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch...