This kind of stuff is designed to make people question a person who has just (to the horror of the right aisle) won a decisive victory for everyday people, people of color and immigrants. Reminds me a lot of "Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States."
People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.
They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.
Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.
Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.
No words!
Horrifying!
The majority of Japanese-Americans interned during WWII were American citizens.
Our government ignored their civil rights.
If for NO REASON WHATSOEVER you woke up wanting a clickable/zoomable/hoverable map of ICE offices and detention facilities in the continental US, I've got ya. Preview image (not clickable) is below and here's the link. Sharing is caring! rawcdn.githack.com/chadtopaz/ic...
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Thanks! I needed that... and will continue to need such support. We all need to support each other!
The resistance will continue. But the most important resistance is in our own minds.
Don’t let them snuff out your fire. Don’t let them steal your hope.
Find joy. Find your community. Make allies. Bring more people into the movement. We will rise.
#NoTyrants #NoKings
Oh, I so hope he is right!
Yes, Joe — working people do deserve better.
I'd like him in prison because he is a felon. I would like him to account for the actions he was charged with but never went to trial for. And now there is so much more to charge him with (oops, not allowed)... He is a mobster.
New York Times headline from 7/3/81: "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals." The single-column story ran on page 20.
This now-famous story, published 44 years ago today, was the NYT's first report on AIDS (which did not yet have a name). The subject was considered so minor that the NYT ran only 2 more stories about it in the year following. By the time the story made the front page, the death toll was over 1000.
Screenshot of a statement from Rev. William Barber condemning GOP budget bill. He calls it “one of the most morally-bankrupt pieces of legislation in our nation’s history,” citing deep cuts to healthcare, food assistance, and immigrant support, while benefiting the wealthy. He describes the bill as “policy murder in plain sight” and criticizes lawmakers who invoke religion while supporting harmful policies. He ends with a call to organize, vote out those responsible, and “build a movement together that can reconstruct our democracy.”
A hard day for those who care about justice. Sharing these words from Rev. William Barber II, who’s long been a moral voice for the poor.
“The passage of this bill is deadly, but it is not a defeat. We must meet it with a resurrection.”
The National Institutes of Health has softened a controversial change to its foreign funding policy that had put many clinical trials abroad in limbo. scim.ag/4l4wypU
One little bit of good news on a very grim day.
So there is no first amendment anymore...
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible. * "In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter, J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death.
Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
She must have had to grit her teeth to write out "respectfully."
It doesn't feel like there is much to celebrate right now. More like a funeral for the ideas of rule of law and equality for all.
Can't allow a little thing like due process to get in the way of the USA's quickly accelerating fascism.
donald trumps OBBB gives ICE a billion dollar budget which makes ICE the 3rd largest military in the world, only behind china and the united states military budget. this is the modern day gestapo
Let's hope we do live through this. Some people will not.
The Big Ugly Bill headed to Trump's desk:
-Throws millions off Medicaid & SNAP
-Gives ICE more money than most militaries
-Extends tax giveaways for big corporations and the wealthy
-Guts clean energy investments and will increase energy bills
Worst bill in modern history.
Trump does not need to depend on the Oath Keepers or the Proud Boys anymore -- nor does he have to pay attention to pesky laws like Posse Comatatus -- He has funding for his own private army with Kristi Noem in command. He will not stop here!
Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital
Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.
One of the accreditors up for renewal is Middle States (MSCHE) which accredits Columbia and 600+ other colleges and universities. Without accreditation, students at those colleges can't receive federal student aid. Govt takeover of accreditation is a fundamental threat to academic freedom.
