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.

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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

In other words, white supremacy connects both instances of violence

"The accounts also include references to Holocaust denial, and the name of one of the accounts appeared to end with a reference to a prominent white supremacist slogan...Other videos the account reposted were explicitly antisemitic or depicted people in Nazi uniforms."

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it.

By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

In the US, the oppressed are expected to mourn their oppressors who have spent their entire professional lives advocating for and celebrating their death

Yall still don't hate white supremacy enough for me and that's disappointing.

Can you be specific about which part of his work? Spreading white supremacist conspiracy theories? His rampant sexism, xenophobia, and transphobia? His own willingness to invoke political violence and death threats upon professors? Which part should we have good faith debates about, Gavin??