Post from Twitter by Mohammed El-Kurd “The basics: fascism thrives on fear. They want you to be silent, to self-censor, to do less. You will not recover whatever ground you concede. The moment calls for caution, not hysteria. Courage, not cowardice. If the objective is fear, be unafraid. Dissent.”
A photo of people working in a field with many rows of crops in front of a mountain
The Alien Enemies Act that Trump has invoked for mass deportations was part of the World War II legal rationale for mass internments in the U.S. of people of German, Italian and Japanese ancestry.
Around 120,000 people with Japanese heritage were incarcerated.
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The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.
BREAKING: NLRB commissioner Gwen Wilcox, who was illegally fired by Donald Trump, was just reinstated to the labor board by a federal judge.
Mt Pisgah on a recent hike 🙌
Amazing!
Roberta Flack, a defining voice of her generation best known for her soulful hit "Killing Me Softly With His Song," has died at 88.
In times like this there’s a real risk that comes with framing decency as radical.
When we talk about being radicalized we need to go beyond empathy and into collective struggle against systems of oppression.
Caring for others is necessary, but it’s not sufficient.
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We need to make the process of forming a union far easier, something that would allow people to change their workplaces for the better, or, better yet, carve out time away from work.
"Our national union leadership should link our contract struggle to the struggle against DOGE’s reckless campaign to smash parts of the federal government that working people rely on," writes letter carrier Rob Darakjian: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”
The chaotic efforts of Trump and Musk to dismantle the federal govt—seemingly without regard to legality and in violation of union contracts—are meant to strike fear.
But federal workers and their unions are fighting back. Our organizer Joe DeManuelle-Hall reports: labornotes.org/2025/02/fede...
a graphic showing who bought the startups - mostly og companies
"Oil and gas companies are the most active acquirers of climate tech startups. According to research by Sightline Climate, Shell made the most acquisitions globally between 2020 and 2024, buying up 8 companies. That was followed by BP, which snapped up 7"
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This isn’t going to pass, as we keep hearing from science leaders. It’s not something we just need to get to the other side of.
It’s a fundamentally new politics for US science and we need to engage differently. The old playbook won’t work. 2/
If these are your bosses, your innie needs a union.
Everyone from Waffle House to the docks and Amazon to the classroom was there to come together and fight. The South has something to say!
a frankly luscious looking moth, rich orange-brown with dark brown speckles and pink highlights with one bright white spot on each wing. Body and arms are fluffy. Standing on a sheet.
Good morning, please have a nice bug*.
#invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky
*Spiny Oakworm Moth in the pine barrens
(I can't remember if I already posted this one)
A real opposition party would confront the tech/MAGA alliance, not try to appease them. Tech billionaires are an enormous threat to this country and need to be stopped.
Sandra Bland should have turned 38 years old today. She should be around family and friends.
Instead, her life was stolen.
Rest In Power, soror 💙🐩💛
The fingerstyle guitarist builds worlds with her music; at the Tiny Desk, Yasmin Williams invites us into hers.
Trump megadonor Steve Wynn has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1964 decision in New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects the media's ability to aggressively cover public officials. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
Powerful, provocative piece from @cbo.bsky.social this morning.
At least three dozen Democrats plan to take over the Senate floor all night tonight, for 30 hours, to oppose Trump's budget office nominee, Russ Vought.
“He’s the architect of the dismantling of our federal government,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
lol they scared yall- all we have to do is not give consent in advance.
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