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As a physician, I know conversion therapy is dangerous and goes against everything we stand for in healthcare. It's abusive and not grounded in science.
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Appealing to fascists is political suicide, and UK’s Labour is the perfect example thereof.
Why was it already fragile?
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
www.hopeandhavenforrefugees.org
I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .
Yeah and they are paying them to promote Third Way style accommodation of MAGA framing, transphobic, anti-immigrant and racist. They’ll attack real progressives like Mamdani and push Trump like candidates like Cuomo and Newsom.
For a lot of the right and right-leaning centrists, actual leftists and progressives are not annoying enough, so they rant about the versions they made at home from scratch, then blame real people for imagined sins and postures. p.s. Silver doesn't actually want the left to win, does he?
Oh my god. These crumbs are not going to cut it. Trump has officially broken the system and we need people who have creativity and bravery to imagine something new. You won’t even speak out for workers kidnapped by ICE. You don’t care about workers, you care about focus groups.
Ok. So you don’t want me to compare evil? What’s your point here? Whitehouse voted for genocide while his constituents were rallying and protesting and begging him not to. We knew they were targeting schools and hospitals, children, doctors, journalists and Whitehouse sent more bombs.
"All of Gaza is a crime scene. It's too large a crime to cover up. So all you can do is target the witnesses, which is what the killing of so many courageous Palestinian journalists has been about. It's been about getting rid of the witnesses." - Naomi Klein
What are you doing to protect immigrant workers from being kidnapped? Besides sending ICE your gratitude?
This Labor Day, immigrant workers are being ethnically cleansed from the country. Your friend RFK is dismantling the CDC and Gaza has been officially declared a genocide by leading scholars. Radio silence from you about all of this…
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Before Joe Biden had officially launched his campaign, I had warned that resegregation was at the core of the racial grievance of Trumpism. A month later, I would write about the solution to it, and as usual nobody heard because nobody listens to me lol
happy #laborday! today we honor workers, their grit, their struggles, and their victories. we also remember the fight isn’t finished. labor day is a reminder: worker rights were won by organizing, and they’ll be protected the same way. here’s a ten question thread to start the day! #questionsky 🧵
Why do you choose to ignore the racist persecution of immigrant laborers? www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
“The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.” 86% of those who voted backed the resolution.
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
Musk now supporting the deportation of anyone who isn’t white. *Do not* use the term “remigration”. It’s an attempt to normalise Nazi hate.
Good advice throughout. My 2 cents: Don’t talk to the nyt, period. Send a statement if ur professional duties demand. The nyt has some good reporters but every story about trans ppl is edited at the top. And those top ppl - Sulzberger, Kahn, Ryan and Dolnick - are bigots deeply hostile toward us
You didn’t give a fuck about Palestinian children, you insulted anti genocide protestors as you supported the politicians starving children and burying them alive under rubble. Shame on you. www.reuters.com/world/middle...
With children already loaded onto planes, a federal judge on Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting dozens of Guatemalan minors and demanded assurances that they would remain in shelters until a more permanent ruling. nyti.ms/4oSpm2q
Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission
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You voted for genocide Seth www.reuters.com/world/middle...
You voted for genocide Jack… www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Yeah they’re terrible. Ya know what else, so are you… www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
"officers were still investigating and had not arrested anybody" We have 15 law enforcement officers show up for every traffic stop in DC right now, but when a lunatic shoots and murders a 5th grader having harmless fun in Texas, we're "still investigating"
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New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
Please keep calling your Senators and Reps and tell them to OPPOSE all of these bills! Strike them down before they get a chance to show up!
Love to see that @jamellebouie.net engaged with my @hammerandhope.bsky.social essay on class, identity, black politics, labor and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in depth today at the @nytimes.com. I’m a bit blown away. Shared below as a thread:
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Lecturing people about how for the sake democracy they need to stop debating candidates is not actually encouraging people to engage in democracy, just doing a politics of fear, which is a deeply authoritarian impulse
Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...
Now do Netanyahu…
A more perfect metaphor for the far right doesn’t exist. We all know that sliced white bread is still widely available and sells as well as ever, probably the majority of bread sales. What Alex finds objectionable is the existence of anything else, even in a minority.
One of these days I will have the great good fortune to meet quite a few legislators. Hopefully they will all think it's fine we do medicine like this. then hopefully I can lock the exits and force them to see what world they've made. Though I doubt very much they're capable of understanding.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Literally imagine if any country’s military assassinated the Israeli Prime Minister
Jasmine Crockett is one Woman I Believe,and I Believe In Her......
The devastating flu epidemic of 1918 was particularly dangerous for young adults, for people in their prime, who died by the millions. But RFK Jr. is too stupid to know that. Link below.
So last year, my feelings about my supposedly close, but also actually kinda toxic, family members really came to a head and I wrote this poem…
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
You know what’s gonna happen to him back in Afghanistan… why aren’t you all posting and screaming about this stuff?????? Because he’s not white and middle class?!? Because hes not a wind project? bsky.app/profile/donm...
Pete Hegesth keeps talking about a warrior culture, which apparently means masked man kidnapping our allies to send them to our enemies to be tortured. Absolutely shameful.
It’s not just brain drain, it’s part of a plan, a terrible, terrible plan. Please support your colleague Patti Murray and remove RFK bsky.app/profile/coli...
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
The thing about accepting Newsom's depravity against trans people or the homeless on the grounds of "Yeah, that's bad, but we have to beat Trump or it'll be worse." is that by accepting it, you mark it as acceptable, both within your mind and in the larger world around you.
Could you spare a thought for the immigrants who also built this country are now being ethnically cleansed by our government?
The new episode of Philosophy Tube is about the founding of the USA, settler colonialism, and how Thomas Jefferson made excuses for it. (You may notice some parallels to current events) youtu.be/dBjQBa23cOw?...
Seniors should pay nothing for prescriptions. The fact that we make them navigate an impossibly complicated system to meet their medical needs shows how cruel this country is. Medicare for All!!!!
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society
You’re so out of touch. It’s like you’re polishing the silverware on a sinking Titanic. Wage theft isn’t gonna rate as a big problem, when 1/4 are working at concentration camps and another 1/4 are living in them. There are no reforms that make fascism more tolerable, you have to fight fascism.
Death Camp Brings Controversy, Jobs
Are you going to support your colleagues and fire your lunatic friend? bsky.app/profile/murr...
Listen to your colleague bsky.app/profile/murr...
These are the words of a lunatic who does not belong in government, much less as our nation's top health official. It is dangerous to allow him to oversee ALL federal health research and public health infrastructure. It is never too late to do the right thing. Fire RFK Jr.
It’s ethnic cleansing. Let’s be clear.
You should be amplifying what these folks are doing and heading down to support, you guys are terrible at this and people need help!!!! bsky.app/profile/jere...
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Like I said. They aren’t embarrassed by history, it’s their playbook.
Let’s say this again. Read this carefully, line-by-line, so you don’t forget. Gender affirming care is not harmful to patients. In fact, it’s actually shown to REDUCE rates of suicide in transgender people by up to 70%.
They’re gonna be asking us to sell our organs to pay our student loans, way before this ever passes in our morally bereft grifter congress. bsky.app/profile/jswe...
Welp, the lying about economic numbers — which everyone predicted would happen — has commenced. And the press is dutifully gobbling it up.
Isn’t Brown violating RI anti discrimination laws when they made the agreement with Trump? bsky.app/profile/anod...
"This administration draws most of its power from the willingness of its targets to capitulate without a fight, abandoning their own principles ... and throwing disfavored populations under the bus."
Re the detransitioning trans person who shot up the school: individual crime does not beget collective guilt, but if it did it is always worth bringing up that the great majority of mass shootings are by (cis-gender) straight white men.
Yeaterdays attempts were fruitless, let's hope today is a little more successful £35 needed to cover the last of the basics to get the rat cage set up, then i can focus on getting the actual enclosure I have till 27th September to get everything purchased and set up so I can collect my fur babies
Out government is ethnically cleansing brown people and has committed itself to eliminating trans people. Meanwhile you joined republicans to “express gratitude” towards ICE and voted to remove transition care from the health plans of military families
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
This isn't just RFK Jr. being stupid. It's eugenics. He is targeting mentally ill and disabled people and their treatments. He's using everything he can as a pretext for social Darwinism. Survival of the fittest.
Dr. Demetre, in his resignation from the CDC, said this: “I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people”. It is an outrage that RFK Jr. remains as head of HHS.
Taylor's reporting confirms a lot of things I've been feeling and seeing since November. 1. The increase in influencers and pundits saying the same thing and using the same language. 2. The loud silence about trans people or any of the abuse we face. 3. The sudden nut coddling of Gavin Newsom.
The normalization of fascism continues apace.
Please make a statement supporting this bsky.app/profile/murr...
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rania. Rania’s husband who was a university professor of commercial law recently broke his leg when trying to get aid and now Rania is trying to take care of her children Aya, 18, Jana, 16, Oday, 11 and Kinda, 6.
I’m not against this wind farm, but I have to wonder why you can’t spare a post for our community members being ethnically cleansed from this country bsky.app/profile/volt...
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Trans women were the most targeted among us before and they will be even more so after today—especially in the US, but this targeting could travel everywhere. If you know trans women in your local community, I would suggest asking if they feel unsafe and how you can help. Protect our sisters.
"That's all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don't know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won't matter if we don't survive these times." Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
New It Could Happen Here 🏳️⚧️ Mia talks with journalist David Forbes about two recent horrific anti-trans bills in North Carolina and how Democrats made them possible. @miawong.bsky.social @davidforbes.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
The Minneapolis shooter was apparently a fan of several mass murderers who were motivated by the same "Great Replacement Theory" that has pretty much taken over the Republican Party.
Rebo is back? 