BE NOT AFRAID

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

I need people to understand that if you’ve dealt with ice, if you’ve had to worry about you or your kids or neighbors disappearing, if you see the govt giving nazis carte blanche to kill you, every “reform”’ from democrats who currently reject abolition sounds insane. and frankly fucking stupid

all the ultra wealthy monsters in the Epstein files are rabidly anti-communist. modern billionaires are terrified that the Maoist uprising against the landlords was the most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, leading to almost totally equal redistribution of land amongst the peasantry.

Gutsy fucking speech from the No Other Land team - receiving an Oscar in a room full of Zionists - we love to see it #FreePalestine #Oscars

“I’m the first Black man to receive the costume design award” Paul Tazewell PERIOD!!! 💚 #Oscars

manifesting #Oscars

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Opinion | Bird Flu in Dairy Cows Is a Slow-Motion Disaster for Public Health The country’s poor public health response to the outbreak is rooted in the inability to bring in dairy farmers as partners.

bird flu is festering in dairy cattle, and unlike with chickens, there is no federal program to contain it. instead of creating one Trump is gutting the USDA and CDC, specifically its disease control programs www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/o...

I treasure my archive of 80's/90/s queer zines. They helped form Queer Nation before the internet.

Trump disbands health equity panel examining Medicare and Medicaid The health equity committee aimed to reduce barriers that people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans encounter with government health care programs.

The committee was designed to reduce barriers to care for people of color, LGBTQ+ people and rural Americans. A new executive order deemed it "unnecessary."

this is just fucking terrifying, Patel has no line he is unwilling to cross

the full force of the FBI will be turned against anyone they consider a domestic enemy

Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost A lot of us know by now that Substack has a Nazi problem. It not only profits from fascist voices, it actively promotes their work and recruits them. And it's funded by Silicon Valley anti-democracy b...

I just wrote a quick blog post about why Substack writers should switch to Ghost! micahflee.com/2025/02/not-...

I understand that the ship has sailed on masking for most people, but I will simply never understand why you would sit in an emergency room full of other visibly sick folks or an actual CHEMO WARD full of immunocompromised patients without a mask on, at the absolute peak of illness season no less!

Screenshot of a Forbes headline, “Over 96% Of Airplane Flights Had Covid-19 Coronavirus In Their Wastewater”, published Jan 08, 2023.

Gang, at this point I’m too disillusioned to expect all of you to mask always (even though you should), but for the love of GOD, please at least mask at airports and on planes when you travel to events!!!

Post from NLRB Union: Yesterday, the NLRB’s Buffalo office (Region 3) received word from its landlord that GSA—acting on behalf of DOGE—had unilaterally cancelled the Region’s five-year lease, without any prior notice to the Agency. The Region has been given 90 days to vacate the building.

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.

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i too have a fondness for regal themes

Very accurate

Not only is this going to literally kill people they are setting up a system to medicalize and institutionalize vast swaths of this country. I’m just waiting to see when we start seeing massive movement in for profit mental institutions construction bids being granted by the feds

I think many people are about to find out, on a very immediate and personal role, how much real estate the federal government controls. If you thought the pandemic-related office space crash was bad...

How SARS-CoV-2 evolved through the pandemic A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved from initially prioritizing increased transmissibility to enhanced immune evasion after th...

A new study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 virus evolved from initially prioritizing increased transmissibility to enhanced immune evasion after the omicron variant emerged. #COVID #SARS-CoV-2 #MedSky

BREAKING: House Republicans have released their budget resolution. They are aiming to cut Medicaid by at least $880 billion, and cut SNAP by at least 20%.

the fact that they called us “useless eaters” really drives this home re:cutting SNAP and medicaid,

Re-Construction and Altadena From uprising to fires, Blacks in L.A. continue the fight against erasure.

'Of the thousands who’ve lost homes in the L.A. fires, it’s clear that the community with the most to lose — financially, culturally — is black Altadena.'

Heeding the call for an international day of remembrance for Omar Aziz, we announce this webinar discussion on his legacy and the future of Syria.

Feb. 15 - 12PM PST / 3PM EST

Speakers: Jwana Aziz + a member of Emergency Committee for Rojava

Register: bit.ly/omarazizlegacy

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