A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Yes, we need ALL the Epstein files.
5 year old Liam Ramos and his father will both be freed from ICE detention thanks to a ruling by a US District Judge.
Little Liam was used as bait and then locked up where his health has declined.
I hope they give him back his bunny hat.
Next step… free all the children!
JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
Holy shit.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
It's time for a truly massive general strike. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-enough
nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21
The nurses are pissed
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/
AND IMPEACH AND REMOVE.
We need to clamor for that even if the votes aren't there—yet.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Experts say obscuring plane’s military identity would constitute a war crime
With thanks to Canada's Global Television Network for streaming this when CBS censored it--and to the students at the Human Rights Center at University of California, Berkeley who are doing the work to learn the truth.
Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
History shows us the opposite: Undermining and censoring scientists and experts is a central feature of authoritarianism.
NEWS: Walgreens just got taken over by private equity.
Private equity has a record of running companies into the ground.
Walgreens could be the latest victim: closing more stores, service plummeting, workers losing their jobs, and eventually bankruptcy.
RFK Jr. fired the CDC director, tore up vaccine contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and put anti-vaxxers in charge of public health. He’s telling parents to fight measles with vitamin A and cod liver oil like it’s 1825. If you feel like your kids are less safe you’re right. This is what happens when loyalty gets the job over competence.
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr.
www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain.
All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.
BREAKING: We're filing a petition for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, a journalist who is being detained by ICE because of his reporting on law enforcement activity.
The First Amendment is clear: Journalists cannot be detained for doing their jobs.
RADDATZ: The president went in to that meeting saying he wanted a ceasefire and there would be consequences if they didn't agree on a ceasefire in that meeting, and they didn't agree to a ceasefire. Where are the consequences?
RUBIO: That's not the aim
RADDATZ: The president said that was the aim
Massive demonstrations erupted in Washington, D.C. over the weekend against Trump, despite heavy patrols by regime forces. Thousands of people filled the streets, chanting “Trump Must Go”; demanding his resignation. ( 📹 @scootercasterny.bsky.social ) #3E #NoKings #TrumpTakeover #Resist #indivisible
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
Why are some still spreading misinfo that "masks only work when everyone wears one," & use it as an excuse not to mask as "no-one else is."
It isn't all or nothing. While it's safer when more mask because there's less virus in the air, a well-fitting mask protects you even if no-one else masks.
JUST IN: Federal judge orders a temporary stop to construction of Alligator Alcatraz concentration camp in Florida amid environmental lawsuit
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good.
I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.
That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.
Noticing a pattern here.
