On June 5, Members of Congress introduced the first bill proactively seeking to prevent the U.S. from sending certain weapons to the Israeli military. Tell your representative to sign on!
Special note to D8: Jamie Raskin has *not* signed on yet, so he needs to hear from as many of us as possible.
“Mr. Rodríguez, we’re going to miss you,” a girl told the teacher after singing.
“I’m going to miss you, too,” he said, fighting back tears of his own.
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Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people
Walter Crane engraving of workers labeled with the names of the continents joining hands around a globe
Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
wow, that brings back memories. he and Dern were incredible in that film.
This should be a huge story
Sounds like it’s a mistake to leave public goods in the hands of billionaires who can decide at any moment they’re bored and don’t want to support them anymore bsky.app/profile/clar...
conflating Judaism with Israel is anti-semitic! good times!
"Why should protesting Israel’s indiscriminate killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians result in the erosion of my constitutional rights?"
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A Florida county is detaining and refusing to release a U.S. citizen born in the U.S., after ICE asked the county to detain him: floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...
We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.
She wrote an article in the student newspaper. That’s all she did. The U.S. can’t call itself a free country if that gets you sent to jail.
Me when people say: “We can’t strike.” I assure you, you can. It may not be legal, but many workers have won big with illegal strikes! 🍞🌹
a beautiful tortoiseshell cat has one paw extended as she rests on the back of a sofa. she looks alert, determined and thoughtful
There are a lot of bad things happening all at once, and it’s overwhelming to think about how to meet moments like this.
Jean says to focus on 1 or 2 things that you care about, understand fairly well, and are either local or involve a topic where you’re likely to have influence and find community
Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student activist who is a legal permanent resident, was arrested by ICE at a meeting he thought was a step to becoming a U.S. citizen. nyti.ms/4cxlwG4
I know you aren't going to want to hear this but the reason the system can deport Mahmoud Khalil and send Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador is that for years we've been executing factually innocent people like Marcellus Williams and sending legally innocent people to places like Riker's Island.
MUTUAL AID: she was active as a jailhouse lawyer in NC, and she going home Friday. She needs our help. We are helping raise $500 for hotel and transportation costs. All funds coming in over the next 48 goes to them.
C*shapp $arebelsworld
V*nmo @ arebelsworld
Solidarity!!
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When anyone says crime is out of control, I agree and point to the most common form of theft - this.
Tampa area is making a start at transitioning homeless people off the street.
www.tampabay.com/news/st-pete...
A staggering bit of writing.
Picture of Randall Adjessom
Police in Alabama shot and killed a 16-year-old boy in his own home during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.
Body camera footage allegedly shows Randall Adjessom raising his hands and backing away just before an officer opened fire.
RIP
Activist Raquel Willis, a Black trans woman, is wearing a white shirt that says “Gender Liberation Movement” in black letters , black leather coat, and black pants. She is being escorted by a police officer in uniform. The scene takes place outdoors, with a red pickup truck and several other police officers visible in the background. She appears composed while being led away.
Let today’s Capitol Hill bathroom sit-in spark an era of radical defiance. Trans folks refuse to bow to hate and bigotry. We demand dignity and respect. We will fight like our ancestors. We are building with our elders and peers. And trans youth will inherit a better world.
📸: Alexa Wilkinson
Is anyone else watching the show Somebody Somewhere? It’s just so great. Whenever I finish watching an episode, I feel like I’ve spent an hour in sunshine.
Trans rights activists -- including Chelsea Manning -- are staging a protest in a women's bathroom in the Cannon building (a House building) next to Speaker Johnson's office.
"Trans rights are under attack! What do we do? Act up! Fight back!"
