Racism tends to breed surveillance Just like stringent entitled gender beliefs are the best indicators for abuse and manipulation It’s not just a sweet hippy liberal thing , it’s a pattern thing enforced by social engineering
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Racism tends to breed surveillance Just like stringent entitled gender beliefs are the best indicators for abuse and manipulation It’s not just a sweet hippy liberal thing , it’s a pattern thing enforced by social engineering
Polytheism.
this is actually perfect.
I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
Basically every residence
Diana Ross in Mahogany (1975) Photo by Steve Schapiro.
Re-reading Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies 📷. @geoffcordner.bsky.social
You simply cannot beat republicans by using their tactics, because their tactics produce the kind of winner take all, ends justify the means, “this world is too hard to save everyone”attitude that is fertile soil for fascism while alienating half of your own base. Also, they’re just better at it…
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
I’ve thought about what the US would look like if signs like this commemorating SA and DV were posted where these harms had occurred. There would be no place without a sign.
A lot of the discourse about Newsom comes down to people finding ways to say “I just think trans people aren’t as important as my other concerns” but saying it in the most cowardly way because they know how dick they would sound it they said it directly But we all know what you are, transphobes
Yes it does? It very literally is one of the core tenets of fascism?? And also it’s not attributable to “madness”. Mental illness has nothing to do with bigotry, racism, hate, and power tripping.
I have long ranted re how problematic it is when well-meaning folks in Trump 2 era advocate for a return to "due process" for immigrants when the status quo of the legal system has LONG denied them any semblance of it. My latest in New Global Politics: www.newglobalpolitics.org/immigrants-i...
I got to talk with @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social about his tireless documentation of immigration raids in LA, and how his knowledge of the city's street food scene makes him a better immigration reporter
Criminalization is the fuel of fascism.
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
i hate this man with the intensity of a thousand suns
Newsom is example #5000 of why people should not conflate Democratic electeds with anti-fascism.
I volunteered at a rape crisis hotline that recently automated their answering service. It’s awful. To get up the courage to call and be met with a robot….
More than this is that they have been actively antagonistic.
🧵 Dems like Newsom & Bass are building the police state. && it is both pathetic & dangerous & typical of his career that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social would try to make political hay out of both defying the imposition of Federal troops to LA & then deploy California state cops to do the same things::
Nothing - even you - is alone in this vastly interconnected web.
wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work
If you’re still in the tank for a guy who is literally launching a crypto currency you’re a fucking rube. Please develop politics that don’t die when you take them offline like a jellyfish being removed from the sea.
All around us are examples of people trying to do what they can, including experimenting or getting involved for the first time, to politically resist what's happening. I'm inspired. Again, as Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.”
A coyote happily trotting through Altadena 💚
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
Homemade mango and strawberry sorbet swirled with chamoy 🍓🥭🌶️
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
keep fucking telling them, marc variety.com/2025/tv/news...
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, was driving to work when he encountered an ICE checkpoint, where agents broke his car window, pepper-sprayed him and dragged him out of his vehicle for arrest. He was detained for three days and three nights without explanation.
I would urge against referring to what is happening to Kilmar as a deportation. When people are deported, they are sent to their home country or "country of origin." What is happening to Kilmar and many others under the Trump administration is... something else entirely.
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
Heres hoping justice is at least possible posthumously. apnews.com/article/virg...
📷. @geoffcordner.bsky.social
Remind me again who the danger is on our streets?
Don't care about spots on my apples--they still make a beautiful pie.
the thing about Third Way's list is that people love to focus on language to distract from actually doing anything to address the problems the language aims to solve
Interesting that patriarchy and cisgender are supposed to be taboo words but actual slurs are absent from that know-it-all’s no-no list.
I dunno man maybe we should all talk about patriarchy more
There is not one marginalized, racialized, or oppressed group whose oppression or destruction is an acceptable cost for saving "democracy." Not one. If saving democracy requires leaving marginalized people behind, that's not a democracy worth saving. Either we all get saved or none of us do.
This kind of thing is so effective and destabilizing for these clowns, especially the ones from out of town who think they're going to be greeted as liberators.
In Mexico, women are, and have been, on the front lines of community defense. In Cherán MICH, Purépecha women drove organized crime from their community. In Teuchitlán JAL, it was the mothers of missing kids who exposed the ranch crematorium. We’re on the frontlines here too.
As public media is threatened after cuts from Trump administration, Indigenous radio also face threats to how they preserve and grow language.
Districts in the southwest have been trying to ban the edgar for years…
The edgar is now a resistance haircut. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
NEW: Los Angeles protesters successfully disrupted ICE's crackdown by targeting hotels where officers stayed, emails show. Widespread rallies led Army to make list of "hotels to avoid" due to "harassment." "When we don’t want ICE in our neighborhoods, we can actually take actions to force them out"
Excited for you and your cat adventure!
Bold to choose one of America’s top sandwich cities
The Coast Guard works for ICE now. Coast Guard planes previously used for search and rescue have done hundreds of secret ICE flights in recent weeks, including two I watched from a public parking lot near BWI. My exclusive for Rolling Stone: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chicago! Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social RSVP to attend (in-person and virtual) www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
A military style operation used to attack people washing cars during a heat wave. Disgusting pigs.
What are you doing to protect our immigrant communities from this terror?
The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.
Border Patrol is encouraging retired agents to rejoin its ranks as the Trump administration escalates its immigration raids across the country. “Recently retired from Border Patrol? We want you back!” U.S. Border Patrol posted on Instagram on August 18.
Assuming this is true, this is a very very common practice. I unfortunately haven't talk to a source inside a prison who did not experience punishment -- transfer, loss of privileges, solitary confinement, etc -- for talking to a journalist. It's not a Trump thing.
They raided Sheila Keuhl’s house and perp walked her while she was barefoot.
White people like animals more than people of color
Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.
For National Daffodil Day, here's Vincent Price in a field of daffodils.
Homemade mango/strawberry sorbet 🍓🥭
IT BEGINS
The Americas would like a word.
De veras.
Some people are attempting to make their compliance with fascism into something it's certainly not. For @prismreports.org, I wrote about how the promotion of obedience, hiding, and disengagement is taking us backward, despite attempts to make it seem reasonable. prismreports.org/2025/08/21/o...
New today from @francescadnunz.bsky.social: “He has never been imprisoned or had a criminal record. His life has always been marked by hard work and integrity. He has no connection to the Tren de Aragua case.”
ICE has parked outside daycares and churches. Nannies and children watched as ICE raided a business across from the Mount Pleasant library during story time. At Shrine of the Sacred Heart, an usher was arrested on his way to services. www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...
anyway there is a massive field of sunflowers by my house
James Dobson is dead! 🥰
"The law prohibits public schools from denying access to a free education based on immigration status. It also requires schools to have procedures for law enforcement requests to enter a building." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Conversation with @prisonculture.bsky.social about how the "conciergification" of our lives is de-skilling us for organizing with each other. Listen to the whole episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Thank you 💚
I fell ass first onto a nopal. Currently accepting advice re home remedies.
I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.
The Miccosukee tribe is helping block the construction of Alligator Alcatraz. A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to pause construction in a lawsuit the tribe, whose land the detention center is located on, is part of. www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...
can also run this backwards: we watched the development of mass incarceration, waves of repression of anti-police brutality protests, and a spiraling post 9/11 surveillance and detention apparatus. we shouldn't wonder how a president in 2025 could decide the guys with guns can do whatever they want
BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
Aren't these the prettiest tomatoes!!??!? Red, yellow, green striped!
A United States Senate investigation has identified more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in US immigration detention since January, including alarming allegations of mistreatment of pregnant women and children.
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.
ICE was kidnapping people and tearing families apart before they started masking up.
The fucking MASKS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM.
I keep seeing people on here saying that folks should call the local police on ICE and I don't understand this AT ALL.
President Trump has ordered the entire southern border wall to be painted black to stop migrants from crossing because it’ll be too hot to touch, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...
Sending love and strength to all parents of neurodivergent and disabled children getting ready for the fight of another school year in a country that still refuses to invest in education for ALL children. 🍏✏️
Their shorts are amazing. They have double pockets w zippers
A country returning to its roots like a dog to its vomit. But then again, it never left them.
Democrats are complicit in Trump's takeover of DC. At the federal and local level, Dems have ramped up policing and supported locking up drug users, houseless people, and more. It's time for them to take responsibility + fight back. @alexvitale.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/democra...
'A land that our ancestors walked': L.A. County tribe wins land back for the first time
The whole point of congregate detention is to make people sick and hungry, advancing premature death. You see it from Gaza to US concentration camps in Florida.
Some beauty. A rose. Cosmos. Sunflower. Zinnia.
And has been saying for years that criminalization is fascism's fuel.
All the lusting after Newsom is so gross. Not to mention you’d be getting Kimberly Guilfoyle’s sloppy seconds.
"No one is fighting Trump except Newsom." MILLIONS of people across the country, elected and not, are fighting Trump EVERY DAY, from feeding people to providing free healthcare to pro bono litigation to organizing. What you mean is YOU aren't fighting Trump. Posting isn't fighting.
NEW: “I’ve had enough…I’m refusing to back down.” Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier speaks to MSNBC from the Texas State Capitol. She is stuck there after the Texas GOP required police surveillance as condition for release. She is refusing to sign a waiver for the law enforcement escort.
On Saturday, August 16, hundreds of Latinx punks gathered at MacArthur Park for an evening of anti-authoritarian cumbia and hardcore ska punk as one of the venue’s 10 free summer concerts. By @jwhendricks.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/ska-punk-mac...
Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.
Quesadilla filled with mozzarella stuffed pumpkin flowers dressed in salsa de tomatillo
