Opinion | Don’t call it ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Call it a concentration camp. This facility’s purpose fits the classic model, and its existence points to serious dangers ahead for the country.

Good column: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The White House is sued over lack of sign language interpreters at press briefings The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

The generational wealth I want to leave behind is a well cared for Earth and the material realization of the truth that there is an abundance to tend to our needs because systems organized around greed would have been abolished.

The federal government is best understood as a giant risk mitigation bulwark for risks too big for any state: self-defense, health safety nets, natural disaster relief, maintenance of vital infrastructure, nuclear material handling, etc.

You want this shit to be there when you need it.

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

Extremely long tweet by Colombian president Gutavo Petro, auto-translated from Spanish. Continued in next post. Trump, I don't really like traveling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some worthy things, I like going to the black neighborhoods of Washington, there I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like bullshit to me, because they should unite. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller. I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, in the history of the US, are memorable and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are inside the US as well as inside my country. I don't like your oil, Trump, you are going to end the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a shot of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I am not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can, with your economic strength and your arrogance, try to carry out a coup d'état as they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, 1 resisted torture and I resist you. I do not want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you cannot accompany me, I will go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you did not understand it, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of whom I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my town which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You do not like our freedom, okay. I do not shake hands with white slavers. I shake the

This goes hard

Supreme Court (Again) Weighs How Easy It Should Be For Cops to Kill In Barnes v. Felix, the Supreme Court will consider what legal standard to apply to the actions of cops who kill.

I wasn't tracking this case about police brutality that went before SCOTUS on Wednesday. But thankfully @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social was.

Folks, these kind of standards are WHY police brutality is allowed to exist, and SCOTUS is likely about to make it worse.

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/barne...

I have two degrees in astrophysics and going to Mars isn’t gonna save us

Wherever we go, we will be there. Until we change the structures that govern how we operate, we will have a problem.

Tell me my red flags

The Scorpio is both the green and red flags. I would know. 😈

Currently in the Pasadena Evac zone where mutual aid continues to flow into the community. Folks are doing what they can to keep each other fed and clothed during this crisis

Working this out…

The pain itself is not beautiful, it’s what the pain births that creates the cause for rejoicing.

It feels so good to notice that I have arrived to a season of life where the process is the joy. The effect has been that when I create or play at life, judgement surfaces less and less.

I wrote this cause imma need to remember it when the coming frustrations do its work.

This is gonna be a time yall. A. Time.

Mom- Gemini
Dad- Taurus

Fast forward- we are getting ready to meet with family and I just came dancing by and said “gurl I’m on my third mood of the day”

#cancer #hermits #crabs

My nesting partner said to me this morning as I was in a more quiet and reflective space “I’m sorry my mood doesn’t match yours” and I gave them a puzzled look. I replied “I don’t need our moods to match- my mood will shift many times today” - I was touched b/c the comment was from a caring place.

For context, Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Chiron, and my natal node are all taking this trip of looking back right now- and I am feeling real tender

I think it’s my turn to have a challenging retrograde season. . . There is some lesson(s) trying to come through.

I’m slowing. I’m listening. I’m learning. I’m releasing. I’m opening. I’m waiting.

We Grow The World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition YouTube video by Haymarket Books

"Ruthie Gilmore reminds us abolition is life in rehearsal, not a recitation of rules. Or as my kid reminds me, practice makes something else."
--Harsha Walia

Video of "We Grow the World Together" launch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiX6...

@haymarketbooks.org @truthout.org @upendmovement.bsky.social

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Tommy takes a selfies in pinkish purple light displaying two fingers as the peace sign

Processing emotions. Might delete later