ICE raided a building in Chicago-using Blackhawk helicopters and flash bang grenades

Destroying people’s homes-including US citizens-before dragging them out

Detaining children in zip ties

Arresting 37 based on Stephen Miller’s lies

All for 1 person who is allegedly connected to Tren de Agua

A particular part of his pathology that drives me ABSOLUTELY MAD is that he constantly makes literally everything about himself

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

<stares in mirror>

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

Seen in Maywood, Illinois

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

When the Orwellian named Dept of Homeland Security was created … MANY of us predicted that it would eventually be doing all the things that it is doing right now

Pinning it uniquely on Trump really misses the point in a bunch of ways

ICE is defunding the police??

Perhaps most importantly, the Trump plan does nothing to advance Palestinian self-determination, which as @danaelkurd.bsky.social highlighted is strikingly absent from efforts to stop the war.

To the contrary, Trump's plan further institutionalizes the obstacles to self-determination.

(Gift link.)

If he’s winning, higher ed is losing. Yes, it’s a zero sum game.

As the current admin works to write its own ahistorical definitions of “antisemitism” and “extremism,” it strikes me that they’re really trying to prematurely rewrite the histories that will be one day told about them

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

In the spirit of 'yes, and': something needing to be distinguished from constructively shaming illiberal public figures is the (arguable) necessity of not shaming fellow citizens who might be persuaded via dialogue to think/act/vote less illiberally. Still seems an essential tactical practice.

“'He was never really into politics, especially not politicians,' said another friend, who had known Jahn since age 8. 'He was into politics only in the 4chan sense — contrarian, provocative, boundary-pushing for laughs, not conviction.'"

Antifa reacts to Trump’s edict declaring them a domestic terrorist organization: youtu.be/YY7OgOvbYz0?...

Omg I really love her work. “A wild fuckin ride” sounds accurate for an Arundhati Roy book lol. I’ll have to check this one out!

I’ve been reading The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy with a class of high school Seniors, and we’ve had some good conversations about how colonialism happens through the tight control of culture and media

Saying again that the failure to address the William F. Buckley-fication of the GOP in my lifetime and the glossing over of how he gave a civil veneer to extremism while pushing its core ideas to "polite" folks is how we get to people criticizing others for frankly describing Kirk's agenda today.

Of course it did lol. Hansberry was the best

Ha, absolutely! A role model that not enough white people learn about in this country!

I’m getting news alerts like this, when the media should instead be asking “can the right manage its own reactive violence?”

Exactly this. Expressing sympathy for or even solidarity with the oppressors lets the victims of the oppressors know exactly where you stand