@danapolson.bsky.social
Anti-racism/anti-oppression facilitator and consultant. Baltimore Green Party. Cats chickens violin gardening baking knitting.
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
Our government is murdering the citizens of this country. They are doing it without any checks on their violence
January 25, 2026 at 12:26 AM
just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now
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Breathless reports on Twitter from Project Veritas & fellow creeps of infiltrating ICE watch signals. I thought, Oh, no, they found a couple of jackasses & are going to blow them up. But no, the "conspiracy" is that many people volunteer, take turns on shifts, and train at nonviolence.
January 25, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Breathless reports on Twitter from Project Veritas & fellow creeps of infiltrating ICE watch signals. I thought, Oh, no, they found a couple of jackasses & are going to blow them up. But no, the "conspiracy" is that many people volunteer, take turns on shifts, and train at nonviolence.
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Lot of replies saying MAGA’s nothing but astroturf. There is astroturf—O’Keefe’s part of it—but no, it’s not limited to that. I’ve been reporting on it 10 years. Let’s not respond to MAGA’s delusions w/ our own. The fascist threat is real & big; the truth is everyday people democracy can be bigger.
January 25, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Lot of replies saying MAGA’s nothing but astroturf. There is astroturf—O’Keefe’s part of it—but no, it’s not limited to that. I’ve been reporting on it 10 years. Let’s not respond to MAGA’s delusions w/ our own. The fascist threat is real & big; the truth is everyday people democracy can be bigger.
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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If yall think this is "crazy" or "outlandish," you should read what those folks in Savannah said to General Sherman in January 1865 after he asked them "what they wanted."
We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing
We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing
My most woke opinion is that integration was a mistake. The problem with Separate But Equal wasn't the Separate part, it was the Equal. Because all things being equal, we woulda been just fine without em
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
January 23, 2026 at 3:44 AM
If yall think this is "crazy" or "outlandish," you should read what those folks in Savannah said to General Sherman in January 1865 after he asked them "what they wanted."
We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing
We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing
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“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.”
Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.
Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
January 23, 2026 at 2:25 PM
“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.”
Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.
Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.
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The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color.
All. People. Of. Color.
All. People. Of. Color.
January 23, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color.
All. People. Of. Color.
All. People. Of. Color.
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"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay
“The contemporary tendency ... is to base distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning it is necessary to adjust this inequity.” —MLK
Unfinished Revolution
Dr. King’s goal was full employment and universal health care.
www.bostonreview.net
January 19, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay
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wahoo wa
Wow
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
The night before Spanberger’s inauguration
She’s cleared house at UVA
Top Youngkin appointees resign
Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta
The former CIA officer asserting her control
January 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
wahoo wa
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@samthielman.com writes an absolute heater about a zombified American empire that nevertheless retains its relentless appetite for brains and flesh.
Empire Building at Home and Abroad
The American empire is collapsing as it expands. How could it do anything else?
www.forever-wars.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 PM
@samthielman.com writes an absolute heater about a zombified American empire that nevertheless retains its relentless appetite for brains and flesh.
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"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:
Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably
LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 7:09 PM
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:
Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:
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The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
After 56 years, Indiana University is canceling the MLK dinner hosted by their Black Student Union.
Indiana University Cancels MLK Celebration Dinner
Indiana University in Indianapolis canceled a dinner in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. hosted annually in January by the Black Student Union, Mirror Indy reported.
www.insidehighered.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.
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Slow clap for all the “economic anxiety” pundits, from 2009 to today. You’ve always been clowns.
Donald Trump distilled the heart of MAGAism in his Times interview: White people have been badly treated in the post-civil rights era. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump took the tea party’s racial resentment and made it MAGA
Philip Bump: President Trump said the civil rights movement led to white people being “very badly treated.” It is impossible to overstate how important this idea is to his politics.
www.ms.now
January 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Slow clap for all the “economic anxiety” pundits, from 2009 to today. You’ve always been clowns.
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This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.
It is hard to explain institutional collapse to voters; videos where state actors are clearly acting in abusive ways explain themselves.
This is incredible: 81% of working class and 83% of young voters have seen video of Renee Good's killing, per new data I've obtained. Majority of working class disapproves of ICE enforcement. ICE brutality is breaking through big time.
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
Some thoughts on this here:
newrepublic.com/article/2052...
January 15, 2026 at 12:43 PM
This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.
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Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!
We are dealing with an institution modeled on slave catching and the great news is that we also have resistance models
This is a great book about the Underground Railroad in an urban environment, New York City:
wwnorton.com/books/gatewa...
This is a great book about the Underground Railroad in an urban environment, New York City:
wwnorton.com/books/gatewa...
Gateway to Freedom
The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom., Gateway to Freedom, The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, Eric Foner, 9780...
wwnorton.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!
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FWIW I do think it's still important to show up to vote in overwhelming numbers & to clog up the courts as much as possible, but y'all, it's the state that's doing all this stuff. The state will not willingly provide a remedy for its own lawlessness. That's not a legitimate exit strategy.
January 13, 2026 at 8:29 PM
FWIW I do think it's still important to show up to vote in overwhelming numbers & to clog up the courts as much as possible, but y'all, it's the state that's doing all this stuff. The state will not willingly provide a remedy for its own lawlessness. That's not a legitimate exit strategy.
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The president has been encouraged to express himself with 15 to 18 "pieces of flair"
Closer view of Trump's pin of himself that he was wearing today
(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty)
(Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty)
January 9, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The president has been encouraged to express himself with 15 to 18 "pieces of flair"
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A thread for those who've been following the scheming between the University of Virginia's far-right board, Trump's Department of Justice, & various MAGA politicians. 👇🏽
January 9, 2026 at 9:40 PM
A thread for those who've been following the scheming between the University of Virginia's far-right board, Trump's Department of Justice, & various MAGA politicians. 👇🏽
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“..the goal for MAGA is to swap out democratic liberal ideologies w/ a Christian nationalism..
preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.”
My Jan. 6th Morning Read:
preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.”
My Jan. 6th Morning Read:
Thought Piece: The rise of MAGA is the rise of American Populism
The question asked by many is how do we get here? It is a question asked in our daily news of a Donald Trump presidency operating like an autocratic regime. Intentionally, we are bombarded with an ong...
www.arkrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
“..the goal for MAGA is to swap out democratic liberal ideologies w/ a Christian nationalism..
preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.”
My Jan. 6th Morning Read:
preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.”
My Jan. 6th Morning Read:
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Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Dunster House Resident Dean Gregory Davis Removed After Resurfaced Social Media Posts | News | The Harvard Crimson
Gregory K. Davis was removed from his post as Dunster House resident dean effective immediately, according to a message circulated to House affiliates Monday morning.
www.thecrimson.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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And like I get it, people want a return to "normal" but if your normal is a police state that doesn't target white people and leaves everything else the same? You aren't actually interested in progress or liberation
January 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
And like I get it, people want a return to "normal" but if your normal is a police state that doesn't target white people and leaves everything else the same? You aren't actually interested in progress or liberation
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“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public
Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.
www.bostonreview.net
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM
“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”
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…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.
January 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.