I just did this, and you can too!

Freedom from kings.
Freedom from fascism.
Power to the people forever. ♥️

Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

Bar graph of defense budgets and ICE budget ICE fund vs. world's top defense budgets United States $895.0 billion China $266.9 billion Russia $126.0 billion India $75.0 billion Saudi Arabia $74.8 billion United Kingdom $71.5 billion Japan $57.0 billion Australia $55.7 billion France $55.0 billion Ukraine $53.7 billion Germany $50.0 billion Poland $48.7 billion Turkey $47.0 billion South Korea $46.3 billion Canada $41.0 billion ICE $37.5 billion Italy $30.9 billion Israel $30.5 billion Netherlands $27.0 billion Brazil $26.1 billion Switzerland _ $25.0 billion Source: Global Firepower

The ICE budget will be larger than the entire defense budget for the State of Israel:

As I said, they have an anti-human agenda. I fear we have not seen the worst of it yet.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Not good.

This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country.

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law."

– Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime A celebrated civil rights law is being used to target those opposing crimes against humanity—and ruining lives in the process.

"Ingber told the Assistant District Attorneys that she wanted Lopez 'to be charged to the fullest extent of the law because it’s a hate crime and anti-Zionism is inherently antisemitism.'”

@maricohen.bsky.social reports on hate crime charges and Palestine:

Silence

Is

Complicity

Straighten your spine
Speak & live your truth

Very proud that RI Senate and now House passed a resolution in support of LGBTQIA folks

webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/H...

In a reversal, the Trump administration restores funding for women's health study The unexpected elimination of funding for the decades-long research project focused on women's health shocked scientists. They were heartened by the quick restoration of support.

Friends, a bit of good news! 🎉 (We take it whenever we can!)

The Trump admin reversed their decision to cut funding for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), a landmark study that’s essential in advancing our understanding of women’s health. 🙌

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee .

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

There are trans people who will not survive this year. That’s not metaphor. That’s fact.

This genocide isn’t quiet. It’s televised, tweeted, debated, and still denied.

Genocide doesn’t require fire. It just needs you to stop noticing.

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

House passes national injunction bill Just one Republican voted against the measure.

Administration trying to limit the power of the courts yet more substantially.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

This is a super helpful way to think about time vs impact in our advocacy work.

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE

This was before the tariffs

It's just...unbelievable

Transgender Day of Visibility: We Must Survive Together - Rev. DL Helfer

My thoughts on this Transgender Day of Visibility #l

www.uujme.org/tdov_we_must...

Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil. - JVP A permanent resident of the United States could face imminent deportation because he stood up for Palestinian rights. We must act now.

Jewish Voice for Peace has a really useful tool/script that makes it simple to call your reps about Mahmoud Khalil's chilling arrest

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...

Correct, and it started with Shelby vs. Holder.

Another world is possible and some people are living into it already.

I hope it passes!!

line go down

felt like we could all use a pick-me-up

“The rumor that you can’t fight city hall was started by city hall.”

--Audre Lorde

If Trump has declared himself King, then we already have our anthem:

🎶 There is a flame that never dies,
Even the darkest night will end & the sun will rise

Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong & stand with me?

Do you hear the people sing?
It is the future that they bring 🎶

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)