ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions.

Read my latest for @theintercept.com

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2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

This is not good.

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It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

Some women were actual founders of antifa, not just ‘girlfriends’

Sophie Scholl was a member of White Rose, an anti-Nazi group at the university of Munich. She was murdered by the Nazi regime (for treason) on 22 February, 1943 She was only 21 years old
#Antifa #History #WomensHistory #Resistance

SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON CALLED OUT ON AIR:

'my kids could die if you don't stop playing games with our healthcare'

The United States has subsidized aka collaborated with Israel’s genocide in Gaza to the tune of $21.7 Billion of military aid.

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BookshopOrg is having an Anti-Prime Day sale--for the next 2 days, you get FREE SHIPPING on ALL orders! A great time to order manga, comics, & books from indie bookstores. Bonus: if you're feeling generous, you can use my portal link to shop to support me, too! bookshop.org/shop/AnimeNo...

I attended this webinar earlier, and wanted to share this infographic if folx need a visual to highlight how Zionism is embedded in how American newsrooms typically operate, for which I am truly grateful for the much-needed work that @prismreports.org does! 🍉 visualizingpalestine.org/visual/edite...

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Find inspiration and ideas for your own advocacy from the students on the front lines of the fight against censorship.
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No, don't buy it from Amazon! Ack!

Thinking that we teachers fail to prepare youth for this moment when we emphasize voting as the main civic duty. It is disempowering and it creates the kind of paralysis that we see in reaction to fascism.

Ok, but the story is also, Donald Trump and MAGA leaders want to be like Brazilian and Equadorian military dictators of the past.

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

Conversion therapy destroys you. It's torture. I was waterboarded with vinegar until I said I was a boy and wanted to be a boy. I still have nightmares about it to this day.

That's what they want SCOTUS to protect.

Reminder that the Western democracies sat back and allowed fascist Italy to commit genocide in Libya, invade Ethiopia, support the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and invade Albania.

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

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Reading Kelly Little Hernandez today and, yeah.

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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