John Carella

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

BREAKING: UN Commission Concludes Israel is Committing Genocide in Gaza In an exclusive interview, Mehdi speaks with two of the UN commissioners behind the shocking new report, which lays out the evidence for the crime of crimes.

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I think the next pivot will be back to full focus on the stabbing in Charlotte.

Ridiculous to anyone who knows Charlotte. But the President has got the perfect visual to call for lynching by death penalty - without needing a full page ad in the NYT this time - and folks want to oblige in any way they can.

Begging people not to treat open white supremacy from the Supreme Court as incomprehensible inconsistency.

As someone who handles state court criminal appeals, Kav’s approach is both shocking and familiar. It’s of a piece with how courts wave away egregious search tactics in low profile cases. But here our highest court is doing it when the whole country can see the lie.

Damn. 🔥

And it looks like you’ve stepped up
every element. That’s no graham cracker…and do I spy dark chocolate?

KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.”

He was just taken into ICE custody.

Children in Gaza play with a parachute from airdropped aid amid Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians and forced starvation in the besieged enclave.

Being my age with kids my children’s age means I can’t get the finale K Pop Demon Hunters song “What it sounds like” out of my head

AND I can’t stop mentally adding the words “…when doves cry!”

And thus it became clear that, like the courts, the apples would not save us.

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like.

I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

To accurately celebrate our nation this 4th of July, it is now recommended that you do, in fact, place your face directly over the firework when you light it.

To: Administrator Zeldin, CC: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Members of Congress Declaration of Dissent In solidarity with other federal organizations across the country, civil servants throughout the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) join in dissent of this administration's policies -- policies that undermine EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet. The mission of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment. Since the Agency's founding in 1970, we at EPA have accomplished our mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American people. Today we stand together in dissent of the current administration's counterproductive focus on excessive deregulation, blatant partisanship, and mischaracterization of Agency decisions under past administrations.

BREAKING: EPA workers published a letter of dissent against the administration's policies that undermine the EPA's mission and threaten the health of people and the planet.

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

"It's fine because the executive order is still barred in blue states."

Folks, PEOPLE IN RED STATES DESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS TOO, AND LOTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THE EO LIVE IN RED STATES.

No, the fight isn't over. Yes, class relief is possible. But people WILL be harmed by today's decision and its effect will NOT be minor.

This is US policing in general. Can't separate what's happening with ICE from REGULAR US policing. Some do not want to hear this but it's true.

My favorite small prophetic moment from her books is a scene in Adulthood Rites where Akin tastes a small piece of plastic from the remains of Earth, instantly reacts to it as poison, and is stunned to learn this stuff was once everywhere.

A photograph of author Octavia E. Butler.

Today is the birthday of African American science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. The winner of numerous Hugo and Nebula Awards, she was the first science fiction author to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. #💙📚

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

1. Alert, and please share widely. A lawyer at the ACLU has asked me to inform my transgender readers that they should NOT be applying for passports right now - the state department has not issued guidance to comply with the court order and they are urgently trying to get them to do so.
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Judge Farbiarz finds there are extraordinary circumstances here, and no flight risk or danger to community. Also the punishment claim is substantial enough to justify release. He orders Mahmoud Khalil RELEASED ON BAIL.

Those concerned about violence might want to start with violence against immigrants, by ICE here, by illegal deportations to gulags and third countries, the violence against so many federal departments, against the law, the climate, the public lands, waters, civil rights, reproductive rights...

That’s a North Carolina deep cut right there. 😂

😳WATCH & SHARE — NURSE: “These Republican Medicaid/Medicare cuts will cause chaos, kill the disabled & elderly, hurt rural 🇺🇸, and impact everyone… it’s unpopular — That’s why they did it at 1AM. CALL YOUR SENATORS.”

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Just extrapolate this to every time a law enforcement narrative is presented as fact, versus the testimony of family and community who know something else happened.