Trump didn't like Ramaswamy until he saw him sticking up for child rapists and their enablers. He hated the Ivy League until Cornell had a prominent fraternity gang-rape story in the news. He's not just a rapist, not just a serial rapist—he's a rape *enthusiast,* and it's why Republicans love him.
Trump: "What's happened is the press has ganged up on a woman making a horrible statement about her daughter, and I don't why she should be shielded. She said she was a dirty liar ... I say she's fair game."
it's honestly kind of wild to watch 50+ years of "noooo the coups and corporate malfeasance weren't part of the plannnnn we were just trying to promote democracyyyyy" liberal revisionism get one-shotted by the stupidest man on the planet
The thing I don't think dems who have lost Texas understand: ceding ground to Republican talking points doesn't win you voters. No one who thought you stood with The Trans Menace is going to vote for you even if you say you don't. They're fuckin' crazy. All you're doing is losing Progressive votes.
The only reason I myself am not a “convicted felon” is because when I committed a serious violent crime I was under 18, white, and my family could afford a lawyer. I didn’t do anything to “deserve” the chances to move on that I got. Everyone deserves them.
I have awful news.
Youman Wilder, the Harlem baseball coach who courageously protected his kids from an ICE raid and said he was "willing to die" for them, very tragically, passed away this week
Wilder's sister started a fundraiser set up to help with his burial:
www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-y...
Anyone from Western Washington happen to know Carl McDaniel, the man who was tossed by the buffalo in Yellowstone? I'd love to talk to the guy, far too many smug idiots gloating about his poor fortune on the internet and I think that says a lot about how people interact with nature currently.
Are there dead voters on voter rolls? Absolutely.
About 8,500 people die every day in the United States. 70 percent are registered voters. If it takes a week to take someone off the voter rolls, roughly 42,000 dead people are still registered to vote.
There is no evidence of mass voter fraud here.
The ideology in question is opposing fascism.
This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression.
We cannot allow the state to disappear them.
Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.”
Here is a statement from Champagne, aka Benjamin Song, the most maligned of the Priarieland protestors. Champagne was just sentenced to 100 years for shooting and injuring a police officer who had just drawn a weapon on an unarmed, fleeing protestor.
prairielanddefendants.com/defendant-wr...
Atlanta has spent more than $370,000 on consultants tied to Mayor Andre Dickens’ Neighborhood Reinvestment Initiative, records show. Some also advocated publicly for the plan without disclosing their financial ties.
A growing number of incarcerated people across the country now have access to free phone calls and other communication services, a shift some advocates say is strengthening family connections, improving prison conditions and easing reentry after release.
From @stateline.org
On Mother's Day, we mourn Marie Ange Blaise, Renee Nicole Good, and all the other mothers who are no longer with us as a consequence of the cruelty and violence of ICE and Border Patrol.
Let's organize rapid response networks to defend our communities:
crimethinc.com/MNRapidRespo...
Our friends at Firestorm are struggling in the face of disaster capitalism. A queer- and worker-owned bookstore that has, over and over, been there for the community.
They let me set up a referral page with them. Books from my podcasts, my books, and books I love
firestorm.coop/r/killjoy.html
Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Since there's no opposition party in the US, the anti-war mantle is now carried by the Nazi who fabricated intel to establish our deportation/torture regime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...
EXCLUSIVE: Surveillance video obtained by an activist shows Liam Conejo Ramos and his father being taken to a detention center in Texas via a Delta Airlines flight, the morning after ICE allegedly used the boy as bait.
gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...
They’re killing people in the concentration camps. The kids they’re not killing are going through some of the worst trauma humanly imaginable.
This is what’s happening outside the people we’ve seen murdered in broad daylight. Lock the fuck in, people.
I’m tasked with snacks for like 5 meetings this month. I used to love these things but nah, I’ll find something else.
Fuck these guys for this evil shit.
A friend recently bought me these Tiny Tates Gluten Free cookies and they're pretty delicious. I googled them to see where I could buy more but instead this popped up.
Gross. Evil.
I'll find another sweet treat.
ny.eater.com/2021/3/12/22...
Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
Man, we don’t even have any names for Pretti’s killers, ffs!
Dems and media pros wanna act like we just won the battle, when in fact the folks in the street have made the other side step back and take a breath before pounding us again.
It’s time STRIKE, you idiots.
If media is going to claim a "pivot," let's stipulate some threshold questions: Is ICE still treating US cities like occupied territory? Will there be serious governmental investigations into ICE killings? Any accountability for them? If not, nothing is changing. 2/
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
TURN UP the demands dummies!
Y’all need to be in congress pushing to abolish ice, not mewling for a new head of it.
Swear to god, the last thing I’m gonna see when the gas fills my lungs in Camp Miller is these fucking Dem chumps toasting their donors.
It’s your fault.
You did this.
Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go.
Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go.
Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go.
As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.
These three things are NOT VERY MUCH to demand of our representatives, if they have any basic perception of the moment we’re in.
Also, incidentally, they’d buy you a shit-ton more votes than whiny fundraising emails will, @ossoff.bsky.social
“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”
1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.
2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.
3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.
“But what do you expect Democrats to doo-hooo?”
1) Refuse to fund this criminal government anymore.
2) EVERY one of them call to abolish ICE (and bonus, DHS). No more “they need training” shit. Promise prosecutions.
3) EVERY one of them call for Trump’s impeachment, relentlessly, EVERY day.