Mia Mingus

When you feel yourself becoming complacent or surrendering to hopelessness or apathy, remember that everything that exists today exists because someone(s) dreamt it up and decided to put in the work to make it a reality. We can create new ways of doing things, new ways of being, new worlds.

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

The Student List had no party machinery. It operated through university assemblies, protests and hiking between cities & towns. They had 2% of national TV political advertising airtime vs 93% for Vučić. This is one of the most remarkable grassroots democratic victories in modern European history.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

One of most interesting pro-voter maneuvers this fall: After facing years of attacks against popular initiatives, organizers in Missouri and Montana are pushing two measures this November that'd give their states arguably the strongest legal protections in the country for direct democracy:

Same message for my fellow East Asians. Proximity to whiteness will not save you.

"Pushing some" SOME? SOME?? Indian Americans supporting this party are fully self-loathing bootlicking fascists. Fam, your proximity to white supremacy was NEVER going to protect you.

"Growing anti-Indian rhetoric within the GOP is pushing some lifelong conservative Indian American voters to reconsider their allegiance to the Republican Party"

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Bolsonaro, Vucic and Orban out, Flamingo and Cockroach Revolutions, French uprising and Iberian housing movements, Nepal and Bangladesh popular insurrection, Iranian and Serbian movements, these too are heralds of the current moment. We are once again in a time of movement and revolution

People in Belgrade celebrated following Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic speech conceding defeat to a student-led protest movement in a historic election that ends his long grip on power and heralds a new political era in the Balkan country. reut.rs/4zkXvww

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

The global pro-democracy, anti-fascist movement just notched two major wins today, after Students List in Serbia ousted strongman Aleksandar Vučić and Brazilian President Lula defeated the son of the man behind Brazil’s Jan 6 to win reelection! In 9 days, U.S. next!

all of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever

“Some of us have been detained for months. Some people have been here for yrs. We are not serving criminal sentences.... We are afraid that what inspectors see will not show how we normally live. We have serious concerns about the food, sleep conditions, medical care, & the length of our detention.”

NEW: HHS has awarded an additional $3.9 million to Duquesne University to research a "body literacy" education program. The principal investigator on the grant is Marguerite Duane, whose nonprofit is separately getting $4.5 million to create a national infertility training center.

🚨BREAKING: With the threat of federal election interference looming large over the midterms, Senate Democrats plan to send more than 100 congressional staff to observe voting sites in nine states — the first program of its kind for the upper chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff knew in 2024 that a student had reported being gang raped at a fraternity house, but never followed up to learn what had happened to her or whether any of the accused students had been punished. https://to.pbs.org/4ypJJaO

The reason we don’t hear about gang rapes often isn’t because they’re rare. It’s because it is so uniquely hard for victims to come forward. Jane Doe had to participate in twelve Title IX hearings. TWELVE.

Anti-blackness has ableism baked in. We will never be seen as intelligent enough and when we win something, we become targets of eugenicists.

I hope Dem leadership is ready to go to the mattresses here. They haven't in the past when it comes to Ilhan Omar.

NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war

Long, dry, very technical article that nonetheless makes a very cogent point that the reopening of US fascism has a lot to do with the _success_ of capitalism rather than the failure of it. But also of the inability of social democracy to fully attack that.

WSJ: 'The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe'

ICE is offering children as young as 5 years old $3,000 “incentives” to voluntarily depart the country, legal advocates have reported, as the Trump administration works to separate immigrant families under the hammer of their mass deportation machine.

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

"Carlos" is in Oxnard CA opening rows to start planting strawberries. He's dreading the predicted El Niño storms as it will mean harvesting in the slippery mud under a cold rain. "People never think about how the stores remain stocked even during crazy weather storms." #WeFeedYou

“We’ll enter into a world of which we have no experience. We’ve never lived in a world that warm,” says IPCC co-chair Dr. Debra Roberts. www.thexylom.com/post/every-d...

yes, and it's dramatically underreported

This Cornell Chi Phi alum's story of being sexually assaulted as a pledge—and his ensuing mental health struggles—has really stuck with me. (Chi Phi is the fraternity where Jane Doe was gang raped.)

Happening now: 100s rally outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in BK, where 100s of our neighbors - including Oscar Belgal, recently shot by ICE - are inhumanely detained. @indivisible.org @bradlander.bsky.social @jumaane.bsky.social @cmalexaaviles.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

I hope every disability group out there publicly opposes this and is in deep and sacred solidarity with racial justice, abolition and more. Especially the disability groups who love to tout that they are Disability Justice groups.

Shocked this country famous for lynchings, strangling Black men on the street, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders & arming genocides everywhere is doing a public execution by gunfire. This is NOT the American way.