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“Mommy, no. Mommy.”

Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody.

The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
Rejected at her door, ICE nabs a Maryland woman in her car after smashing her window
Video shows a U.S. ICE agents breaking the window of a Maryland woman, Elsy Noemi Berrios, after failing to detain her at home.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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"My nephew watched his mother burn alive while cradling his baby brother. Then he died too."

As Israel’s bombardment resumes in Gaza, entire families are being exterminated—homes turned into graves. Survivors share their harrowing stories with @Mondoweiss.
A child in Gaza watched his mother burn alive. Then he died too.
As Israel’s genocidal war resumes in Gaza, entire families are being exterminated amid the bombardment, with family homes becoming family graves. Survivors tell Mondoweiss most of the dead are women...
mondoweiss.net
March 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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bad take entirely consistent with his history of bad takes on immigration. in this house we trust zero politicians. you cannot serve in the us government and be an actual socialist of any stripe
March 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil” — Meghnad Bose and two student journalists at Columbia deeply report the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner. Read at @dropsitenews.com 🔽
www.dropsitenews.com/p/mahmoud-kh...
“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil”
Those close to him tell the story of a man whose journey took him from being a "double refugee" to scholar to political prisoner.
www.dropsitenews.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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50 Palestinian children in Jerusalem are currently under house arrest. One of them is 12-year-old Tuqa Ghazawi, arrested for drawing symbols of Palestinian resistance—a watermelon in Palestinian flag colors and an inverted red triangle—in her notebook.
March 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Reconsidering Reparations

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @ashdashlee.bsky.social for a discussion about justice, racism, the legacies of slavery and colonialism, and climate change.

Monday, March 31st at 5:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
March 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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On May 10, 1933, Nazis burned the library of The Institute for Sexual Science.

The Institute was founded by Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld. Its community clinic pioneered healthcare for queer, trans, & intersex people.

The Institute was targeted & attacked as part of a Nazi government censorship program.
February 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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“Looked suspiciously at the ground”
February 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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With the Luka Dončić trade news, just a reminder that the Mavs are majority owned by ultra-Zionist billionaire Miriam Adelson—one of the biggest funders of Israeli apartheid and right-wing U.S. politics.
February 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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I just ate the most necessary piece of chocolate.

Grant yourself moments of peace, relief, pleasure -- whatever you can manage. Make space to feel something that isn't anxiety, fear, or dread. Make a practice of making that space.
February 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Want to do something about Trump’s anti-immigrant executive orders?

Download a community defense playbook at defendandrecruit.org, sign up for a training, and check out this op-ed in Teen Vogue today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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🧵Thread:

Scenes from Gaza as a ceasefire appears imminent:
January 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Every time I feel down about the fact that I’m… down, I remind myself that it’s a *good* thing to be forever changed by the normalization of mass death and genocide. What a time.
November 20, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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Sounds like cops killed someone in Jamaica, Queens tonight.
NOW: NYPD Officer Injured, suspect is dead in Jamaica Queens NYC, after an unknown incident tonight. Video and more information incoming.

Preliminary reports of a third person, a woman, also hit by a bullet. Awaiting additional information.
November 19, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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far-right conspiracy theorists, after declaring a year ago to have “defeated” drag story hour, have decided to revitalize their harassment tomorrow.

if you haven’t been out in awhile, i anticipate it’ll be mellow with the same handful of bigots & a few new faces they met at maga/zionist events.
November 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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A year ago, when ‘anarcho-capitalist’ fascist Javier Milei became president of Argentina, he tried to ram a bill through to gut state capacity and hurt millions. The people responded with general strike, and it took him five months to get a watered down bill passed.
www.jphilll.com/p/time-to-pr...
Time to prepare
We know a little about what lies ahead. We have to get ready.
www.jphilll.com
November 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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My piece on processing our emotions and embracing the work of collective survival, reprinted in Truthout. “Humanity is flawed, but our capacity for kindness, connection, and transformation is real, too. Take solace in decency—it’s still there.”
Let’s Move Beyond Blame to Fight for Each Other in the Face of Fascism
While principled critiques are often necessary, let’s communicate like people who still need each other — because we do.
truthout.org
November 10, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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A key set of questions for the next two years: 1) if sub national power centers will assert themselves against the feds 2) if it will be made clear to them by residents that it's in their interests to do so
“Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey said that she would refuse to assist in mass deportations in her state, and warned states of the pressure they will face to penalize and deport undocumented immigrants.” www.latintimes.com/massachusett...
November 7, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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does the passage of prop 1 make tom suozzi’s transphobic little rant illegal?
November 7, 2024 at 8:04 AM
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…!? They didn’t “fumble” it, they deliberately made the choice not to prosecute him. Sarah Kendzior has written extensively on this. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...
Servants of the Mafia State
Merrick Garland, Jamie Gorelick, and the truth
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 6, 2024 at 9:34 PM