🚨BREAKING: Syrian Protester In Dara’a Says “The Syrian Border Will Ignite”
Mass demonstrations all across Syria now, as at least 2 groups declare war on Israel. All in support of Palestinian prisoners.
the magnitude of white supremacy and deceit from vocal fry guy is unreal
When you combine this case with Skrmetti, the Supreme Court has initiated a regime where states can ban medical care to affirm trans youth while states cannot ban efforts to engage in conversion therapy on trans youth. This court is such a joke.
We need creativity and nourishment more than ever. I invite you to join us for both at the 3rd annual Black Zine Fair on May 9. Neta, Tash and I are excited to share space with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of volunteers, and all of you who join us. RSVP → withfriends.events/event/WFzHwJ...
Settlers in the West Bank are doing vigilante ethnic cleansing & mass displacement of Palestinians. Meanwhile, a veto-proof majority of New York's City Council is voting to further criminalize people protesting sales of the land stolen through that vigilante violence. Sickening.
...the fact that these types of decisions don't automatically apply retroactively is also an atrocity though...
The fact that mandatory death-by-incarceration (AKA "life without parole") for felony murder existed in PA is & was an atrocity—but it's great news that PA has held that scheme unconstitutional moving forward (under PA's state constitution ie SCOTUS can't fuck it up) www.pacourts.us/assets/opini...
Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth NYU Langone Health cited the "current regulatory environment" in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors. NYU Langone Health in New York City had stopped accepting new patients into its transgender youth medicine program a year ago, GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group, via Getty
Gothamist NYC parents say Mount Sinai has cut off services for trans kids ahead of federal rule
hi, cis folks!
it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG.
care has *not* resumed!
there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵
The NYPD preliminary expense budget for FY27 is $6.7 billion but really the budget all told will be over $11 billion.
We are trying to get them to fund the public libraries at $635 million.
Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN.
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BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment
www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...
A dark map of the United States containing hundreds of colored dots. The light blue dots indicate ICE ERO field offices in major US cities. The pink dots represent sub-offices or hold rooms where people have been detained at check-in appointments.
The ICE Warehouse Tracker now has two new data layers — ERO Field Offices and Sub-Offices/Hold Rooms. Some sites overlap. Best viewed on laptop/desktop.
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ICE heavily relies on agencies of all kinds to fuel the deportation machine, but over the past decade they've increasingly relied on the police-to-deportation pipeline to do so. Read the growing list of reported cases of law enforcement collusion with #ICE in NY state: bit.ly/NY-ICEwatch
This case is a true horror. First and foremost, it's a personal tragedy for these 9 people who spoke out against ICE's barbaric violence. More broadly, it will serve as an invaluable resource for fascists' use of the legal system to persecute political opinions & criminalize dissent.
Federal terrorism convictions based on zines, wearing bloc, using Signal, attending a noise demo, amorphous "antifa" bogeyman.
This is catastrophically bad. Beyond canary in the coal mine—this is paving the way for a new front of fascistic lawfare.
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The new Whole Pie has landed, as ever the best overview of who's caging people in the USA along with 10 myths about the system. An essential resource::
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The pioneers of pinkwashed, feminist genocide have now firmly established the "right to rape" (at least as to Palestinians).
The federal government is explicitly arguing that "wearing black clothes" at a noise demonstration is "enough to convict the eight defendants accused of material support" for terrorism. The outcome of this trial cold be catastrophic.
"By the time DHS publicly disclosed the existence of Mobile Fortify, it already had been used more than 100,000 times since its launch, according to court filings". #facialrecognition www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Court order ordering work to cease at Williamsport ICE detention warehouse.
JUDGE GRANTS TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER, HALTING PROGRESS ON WILLIAMSPORT, MD. DETENTION WAREHOUSE.
I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.
We need reparations for ICE victims.
Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.
When sex work is criminalized, police are encouraged to disregard the abuse and assault of sex workers as a crime, but instead an extension of policing—a punishment that comes with the job. (I am so sick of writing this sentence. My whole book about it turns TWELVE in three days.)
A few bitter thoughts reading this: to start, Queens DA Katz narrowly won her seat after an anti-sex work scare campaign, when her opponent Tiffany Cabán supported sex workers rights, sex work decrim, and investigating police harassment and abuse of sex workers. And then DA Katz let these guys walk.
DORAL, FL — White House Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair privately urged House Republicans on Tuesday to stop emphasizing "mass deportations" and instead focus their messaging on removing violent criminals, according to sources in the closed-door briefing.
This is one reason why we cannot "concede" on "the worst of the worst" framing. Defund the police, all the police, is the only way.
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
A campaign poster with large text reading "Mayor Mamdani" and a message urging to fund NYC public libraries at 0.5% of the city budget. Two photos of a man in a suit (Zohran Mamdani are shown, with a website link for more information.
You can let the Mayor know what you think about him breaking his promise. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
