A woman arrested in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge must remain in an immigration detention facility in Texas pending deportation proceedings even as she suffers excruciating pain from a large ovarian cyst at risk of rupture, a federal judge ruled. minnesotareformer.com/2026/04/07/t...
Families in Tehran are taping up their windows and sleeping together in rooms away from the glass. Their buildings have already been shaken by nightly explosions from the most sustained bombing in the capital since the eight years of the Iran-Iraq war. Some are rushing to buy generators, concerned that new attacks could cause critical services like electricity and water to unravel. The bombings and threats have left many Iranians living in fear not only of their own government, which killed thousands of people in a crackdown on protesters early this year, but their would-be American rescuers, who pledged at the beginning of the war to create the conditions for their government to fall. A 43-year-old woman living in Tehran and undergoing treatment for breast cancer said she worried what intensified attacks on infrastructure could mean for her healthcare.
We are terrorizing an entire country.
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📢 Join us for a book talk with Grace Howard on The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting Personhood, in discussion with @renee.bsky.social.
🗓️ Mar 2 | 12–1:15 PM ET
📍 In Person - AUWCL Yuma Building (Y115) | Free & open to all (recorded)
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5fzc7dvf
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In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?
Thank you! 💛💛
Quote from Renee Bracey Sherman, author, founder & former Executive Director of We Testify.
This Black History Month we honor the frameworks Black leaders have created to survive, resist and transform the world, through the words of @renee.bsky.social, author of Liberating Abortion and the founder and former Executive Director of We Testify.
Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
In August, our neighbor, friend, and handyman Ervin was kidnapped by ICE from my friend’s house during the ICE raids in Washington, DC. Please join me in donating to their Go Fund Me for his immigration representation and to bring him home. We miss him. Thanks for your support. 🫶🏽
Link is in my bio.
Cardi B called out ICE at her show last night: “Bitch, if ICE come in here we’re gonna jump they asses. Bitch, I got some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans, bitch”
Thank you @signsjournal.org for the vital work you do and to @carmenriosss.bsky.social @profkori.bsky.social and @renee.bsky.social for your thoughtful (and humbling!) considerations of All We Want is Everything!
I want people to understand this.
For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence.
This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.
Thank you for the opportunity to think and write about @sorayachemaly.bsky.social’s new book and the impact it will have.
New Short Takes! @renee.bsky.social, @carmenriosss.bsky.social, & @profkori.bsky.social discuss @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy! And Chemaly responds to the commentaries, expanding on the themes in her book. Check it out free!
@renee.bsky.social: "All We Want Is Everything reads as a thought-provoking conversation with that astute friend who leaves you equipped to take on the world. [It's] anchored in stories—little vignettes of memories in Chemaly’s life or moments from the news cycle ripe for dissection and analysis."
Misoprostol is used in many aspects of OBGYN care (abortion, miscarriage management, cervical prep) and to treat ulcers. Methotrexate is used to treat ectopic pregnancies and in the management of autoimmune disorders like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis.
A detail I don't want to get lost in this: So far, Bri and her network have helped more than 500 families with grocery deliveries and more than 300 with diapers and wipes. In just two months.
This week the House is expected to vote on a resolution that would repeal a D.C. bill that decoupled the city's tax code from some of the tax changes Republicans made last year. City officials say that if it passes Congress, it would cost D.C. $600 million over four years.
SCOOP: Palantir's AI has been deployed at HHS since last March to audit grants, grant applications, & job descriptions for anything related to "DEI" or "gender ideology"
The goal was to ensure compliance with 2 of Trump's executive orders:
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Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
DC friends, come see me and @renee.bsky.social (author of Liberating Abortion) at Lost City Books on Tuesday 2/17!
We'll also hear from DuPont Clinic's Chief of Staff about their vital work to support people who have abortions in DC.
There are rumors there will be dessert (the rumors are from me).
🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards.
Not education, health care, or public transport.
Cages for people.
DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ.
The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland.
A third in El Paso.
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.
Legislative strategy should be abolish and stand trial.
Local bookshops across the country are hubs of community organizing. We had one event at Moon Palace Books in 2024 and they had so many organizing resources and a huge ABOLISH THE POLICE sign. They are doing incredible work for the community, alongside many local TC bookshops (Tropes & Trifles too!)
