"Sixty-one Mennonite Christians were arrested outside the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Tuesday, stemming from a peaceful protest aimed at getting Warner to commit to end the ongoing Israeli military siege of Gaza."
"Sixty-one Mennonite Christians were arrested outside the Washington, D.C., office of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., on Tuesday, stemming from a peaceful protest aimed at getting Warner to commit to end the ongoing Israeli military siege of Gaza."
And there should be no more USD, Bibi.
This is us.
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DMV: happening in DC😮 Read up on all the troubling ways Congress is now inserting itself into DC's self governance. Call your electeds.
Are Alexandria buy nothing groups active? Annnd does anyone in Alexandria have a used desk they could donate/loan to a 20something doing a yearlong anti-racism fellowship? Just moved to an ALX group house - has no furniture yadda yadda
Particularly poignant for us—the fact that these kids, who were 11 at the time, would today be the age of our youngest councilmembers For those unfamiliar with the DCPS students & teachers we lost when Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, here's the story t.co/wSMYSqocGh
Look, I signed my name again. This one says Everyone will Immediately Stop Talking about the Epstein Files. OK? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Yes! And end US co-committing genocide in our names against our will.
Actually it does not.
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who remembers this? www.gov.ca.gov/2023/06/08/2...
Until politicians of both parties own up to the racism that birthed the 2nd Amendment & start a conversation about its repeal, I'm not interested in pols' post-shooting takes. As Dr. Carol Anderson argues in her book, the 2A has never protected all Americans equally. Scrap it & start over, the end.
Somin: "Putting more ordinary police on the streets is an effective way to reduce crime rates, according to a long line of studies." This has been proven false, and just whose crime is reported in those rates? @equalityalec.bsky.social has debunked the common lies about crime reporting here: 3/3
$118bn was spent funding police forces in the U.S. in 2018, according to the Security Policy Reform Institute. It collectively makes American police forces the world's third-most expensive military organization, after the U.S.'s official armed forces and China's. 2/
Gross. Under the guise of "ABOLISH ICE but don't be soft on crime" #GMU law prof & CATO Institute's llya Somin spreads #copaganda to Dems ahead of the 9/30 funding deadline. 1/
Horrifying and inhumane. A US Holocaust Museum retracts "Never Again means never again for ANYONE" statement #neveragainisnow
Our US taxes are paying for this hatred and violence, under the US contractor guise of "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation"
Please elaborate, none named in article.
so Axios writes about Palestinian economy but sources include zero Palestinians. Managed to scrounge up a right-wing evangelical American and one Israeli official wanted by the Int'l Crimes Court as sources, though👍
Ethnic cleansing being co- committed by US taxpayers against our will. @beyer.house.gov @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov We do not consent. #freepalestine #defundgenocide
Axios piece on worries about the Palestinian economy quotes zero Palestinians, instead offering the expertise of one right-wing evangelical American and one Israeli official wanted by the Int'l Criminal Court for war crimes. 🤔Do better, @axios.com
“Why won’t you answer the very simple question that everybody wants to know? Who proposed this abomination?,” asked attorney Jeff Fogel “No one has the guts.”
correspondence between U.S. State Department & El Salvador confirms what we have long suspected: the Trump admin did nothing to meaningfully ensure that individuals disappeared from the U.S. to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison were protected from torture, indefinite confinement, or other abuses”
The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms
The birthday book is clear: there was a cabal of rich, powerful people (mostly men) whose fondest memories with Jeffrey Epstein involved trafficking young girls for sex—trading them like baseball cards—and one of them is the current American president. You’re cool with this or you’re not. That’s it.
This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.
@markwarner.bsky.social Fascism is crushing our democracy. What are you doing to lead Democrats in strategic resistance? No bipartisan voting with a fascist budget proposal. All Dems must leverage vote to end military occupations of our cities & end to funds for ongoing genocide by Israel. Wake up.
So Dems tend to think @axios.com is a reputable news source, yet see how its piece on concerns re the Palestinian economy interviews ZERO Palestinians, instead quoting just 1 non-economist, right-wing evangelical American & one Israeli official wanted for war crimes by the Int'l Criminal Court.🤔
As a visual learner, I miss the art and creativity of IG but since I deleted it a year ago I have to say it's been a net plus for my mental health. But I feel for artists who need to rely on it to sell their work!
Stimson must go! #handsoffgmu
"A few random headlines from the last 24 hours are a reminder that the system of “law enforcement” only attempts to enforce *some* laws against *some* people. Being “tough on crime” always means ignoring crimes of the powerful while ruthlessly crushing vulnerable people and political targets."
"Yield to fascism." Fuck all the way off, Mike Johnson.
Remember this.
Palestine Will Be Free🇵🇸❤️🔥🙌 #dmv #studentsunited #endgenocide
Breaking News: Today, the Arab Student Union at Jackson-Reed High School represented by the ACLU-D.C. settled a lawsuit challenging their school admin for unlawful censorship of the student club’s pro-Palestinian speech. Learn more about ASU & ACLU-DC's victory here: www.acludc.org/press-releas...
In the past 24 hours, Israel has bombed: • Palestine (Gaza) • Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra) • Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa) •Tunisia (aid flotilla) and now • Qatar (Doha)
Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care
"Half the population” of greater Los Angeles "now meet the government’s criteria for reasonable suspicion," in the wake of today's 6-3 SCOTUS ruling. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Virginia, repeal right to work laws! "But do you know where we rank in the in the rankings for the best states for workers? We're number 23 just barely above a C,” Reid said. “We can do better." #vadems #unionstrong
Made some maps to show the different operations &, in our opinion, goals of National Guard versus fed agents. Map 1 shows National Guard stations predominantly clustered around the Mall & other tourist spots. Map 2 shows where checkpoints have been set up by federal agents, at the direction of MPD
1300+ actors and filmmakers, including Javier Bardem and Olivia Colman, have signed a historic pledge to boycott Israeli film institutions for their complicity in Israel’s genocide. Read the pledge, and the full list of signatories, here: filmworkersforpalestine.org#endingcompli...
so for those keeping tally, so far today we had: SCOTUS re-firing an agency head a lower court had reinstated trump saying domestic violence is nbd trump's pedophilia celebration birthday card to Epstein released SCOTUS green lighting racial profiling and "papers, please" policing
Remember Abu Ghraib? The companies behind the infamous torture prison work for ICE now.
Awesome! How will you serve Virginians being kidnapped by the federal govt from their workplaces, homes, places of worship, commutes, and our state courthouses? In 8 months you haven't yet spoken up for our neighbors. Pls share your plan! #vadems
@repsuhas.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov Your silence speaks volumes. #endfederalkidnapping
A federal military crackdown to cover up the long term exploitation and endangerment of workers by corporations and their abandonment by regulatory agencies.
It's so weird that in 8 months our law-enforcement-background candidate @abigailspanberger.com still hasn't had anything to say about the federal government kidnapping Virginians from their homes, workplaces, commutes, and courthouses. But says she's a Democrat🤔 #vadems #humanrights
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Cory Wong is sad to not be in on this!
TY will ck it out! His book is 🤯
See @equalityalec.bsky.social thread today on Dems' #copaganda response to policing and occupation👍
This is unfortunately where Virginia is headed under #copagandist Dem candidate @abigailspanberger.com
Washington DC - the bells of this church are ringing in support of the protest! 😁
The massive display of resistance took place as the president threatened to expand his crackdown to Chicago.
This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
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"At George Mason University in Virginia, faculty successfully rallied to the defense of university president Gregory Washington, who came under fire as the Trump administration opened four investigations into the school’s diversity practices." #handsoffgmu #academicfreedom @aaupmason.bsky.social
"Palestine is a portal for justice."🇵🇸❤️🔥🙌 #virginiaforpalestine
#fuckICE
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It's been nice not seeing Musk so much. imagining what that will feel like when the current WH occupier is not in the news everyday.
Hands off #GMU! The community supports academic freedom and our faculty, students, staff at George Mason, including President Washington! @aaupmason.bsky.social
Relationships are what makes resistance possible. #endfascism #endICE #freePalestine #solidarity
TY! For me your post taps how deeply we want to be able to trust the law to keep things making sense, but in fascism we're now seeing how inadequate it is for caring for ourselves and our neighbors. This interview today helped clarify that connection for me.
Jesus Lord Have Mercy
Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.
no one on his staff will tell him how horrible these close-up videos are
And Broadview police, led by Commander McCrudden (former CPD) immediately swooped in, snatched poles from people. They've confiscated the tents.
We're about to see whether white people love white supremacy more than money.
This is just cruelty and chaos. Violating students’ rights does not make America safer or lower costs. bsky.app/profile/veen...
Can tell you right now @markwarner.bsky.social D VA will vote for this bullshit. Probably @kaine.senate.gov too
I think @ronbronson.com nailed it here: "Bureaucracy is like a game of telephone—the results are only as good as the messenger’s ability to transmit efficiently. Andor makes a clear case that liberation isn’t a flip of the moral switch. It’s logistics under pressure."
Last night, yet another person died on Rikers Island — the fifth New Yorker to lose their life in City custody within the last two weeks and the 13th this year. These deaths are a result of Eric Adams' failure to reckon with the crisis of violence and neglect in our jails.
@warnock.senate.gov: You're on the record for a number of these of these statements. Despite your lack of credentials and expertise, clearly you have an agenda... I think that you ought to resign, and if you don't resign, the President should fire you.
FREE DC! #freedc
Is he high?? Or is that the brain worm talking?
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Wow they deleted!
White progressive Dems could change the world if only we considered the extent to which we buy into this propaganda of whose version of crime gets told.
@markwarner.bsky.social are all your staffers so afraid of your hot temper that no one will actually tell you your socials make you sound like a big whiny toddler? And pleeez stop the car video close-ups. End fascism. End our neighbors being kidnapped. Stop whining.
Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.
Mask up for your community, people! #solidarity
Working for collective liberation is not an endeavor white people are best equipped to lead. When our willingness to compromise the lives of those most vulnerable is challenged, we white people too often demonstrate how much work we have to do on ourselves.
“When a leader has no substantive policies to heal a nation’s wounds, he opens new ones with the sword of state violence.”
End federal kidnapping of our neighbors, @markwarner.bsky.social. We do not consent.
anyway it’s shocking that no one was able to predict that when the George W. Bush administration gave itself unreviewable powers to murder and imprison people, those powers were eventually going to get used intentionally on noncombatants
Like your newest board member, Antony Blinken, was loud for the people of Gaza, @americanprogressaction.org? Shame on you. #butcherblinken #endgenocide
Axios legitimizing a lunatic fascist, ok. Nothing to see here. #defundaxios
👇👇👇 So if @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov haven't cared to remark about occupation of our own neighbor, DC, this is what Virginians can expect as far as our supporting Balt or Chicago: 🦗🦗🦗
Landslide Kills Over 1,000 in Darfur Mountains Where Many Sought Refuge from Civil War
ALL of these deportation camps must be closed down. They are an abomination to us law abiding American voting citizens.
@repsuhas.bsky.social most of those being held in your district's ICE Field Office in Chantilly are community members, workers. Will you help them by visiting and speaking out tomorrow?
There are people being held now in inhumane & overcrowded conditions at ICE Field Office in his own district, on Murdock St in Chantilly. As of this morning 9/2, @repsuhas.bsky.social has not visited. Nor have @markwarner.bsky.social or @kaine.senate.gov
As a 72-year-old vegan nun serving the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael, Farrell is an unusual powerlifter.