Immigration is a good thing that we should want more of.
It's good when people go to new places and bring their culture with them. It's good to go to new places and experience their culture. We do better as a people when we see how other people live and see ourselves as aspects of the same thing.
Their tough guy act sure seems to disappear anytime the rest of us stick together and tell them to get fucked.
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Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.
Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”
underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.
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Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.
This is essential reading and perfectly explains why I will not share a stage with far-right grifters and enablers.
The Wall Street Journal needs to issue a full retraction and apology to the trans community for this. Nothing less will suffice. They put us all in danger and recklessly put out incorrect information.
In deploying California Highway Patrol troops to California cities, Gavin Newsom is mirroring Trump's every move, taking advantage of the extent to which Trump has normalized fascist authoritarianism to expand state violence under Democratic branding.
More police means more violence, not safety.
Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw
A political cartoon that shows giant dominos lined up, each domino has a different label on it. The first domino is labeled "Trans Rights" and is the colored like the trans pride flag and is beginning to fall. There are people trying to stop it from falling on them and knocking over the next domino labeled "Gay Rights" and "Freedom of Expression". People behind the second domino are looking around to the first one, possibly walking over to help. The third domino is "Women's Rights" and "Free Love", the fourth is labeled "Free Speech" and "Democracy", the fifth is "Freedom of Religion" and "Modernity", the sixth is labeled "Literacy", there are at least four more dominos but their labels can't be seem and the people behind the dominos also seem to be going to help with the first or at least looking forward in concern. Below the cartoon it says "United We Stand ⭐️ Divided We Fall"
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Bluesky social media people are in fact correct that these laws limit free speech and harm smaller platforms however...
These age verification laws are not intended for child safety. That's a lie. The actual intention is to control what people see and deny being human.
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
"Cockroaches" the exact literal term most used in Rwanda by Hutu ultranationalists against Tutsis in the lead up to when they killed hundreds of thousands of them in a matter of weeks. Also used by Begin to describe Palestinians, "drugged cockroaches in a bottle."
Alt text: A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) dated August 21, 2025, at 12:22 PM. The post reads: “President Trump is going out on patrol tonight in DC. Shock and awe. Force. We're taking our country back from these cockroaches. Just the start.” Below is an embedded post by Todd Starnes (@toddstarnes) from 2 hours earlier, stating: “JUST IN: President Trump tells me that he's going out on patrol tonight with DC law enforcement and the military. Listen to my full interview with the president at 12P ET on The Todd Starnes Show…” The post has 171.1K views.
This is genocidal rhetoric calling people cockroaches. This is exactly the language used in the Rwandan genocide.
Do not miss an opportunity to ruin an ICE raid, or an officer's day.
It can be done, it is being done, you can do it.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
It's the mutual aid groups, the rapid response networks, and the growing collective manifestations of popular organization and grassroots support that have been fighting Trump - not the politicians.
Fuck the fascists and the neoliberal bureaucrats.
Sandwich guy tried to voluntarily surrender.
Instead they sent 20 agents to make the world's lamest hype video.
Imagine thinking this would make anyone forget about the Epstein list.
Remember that Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul did the same thing Trump is doing now for the same exact reasons.
If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.
DC police are using excessive force against Black people
Seeing this again and thinking of all the MAGA men whining that they're afraid to walk down the street.
This shit really is about harassing black people
A reminder that the USA is now deporting people to these jails.
hey, cis folks!
this is monstrous & it’s only going to get more common & if you remember 2020 when white moms stood between cops & black protestors that’s probably what it’ll take in some cases for trans people to survive using a public bathroom in the same shape they went in.
i hope you will.
