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“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Nation wide strike. it’s the only thing that the bourgeoisie fear

This is of course very bad.

And I feel like not enough of you know that having a disability has been grounds for denying visa processing since the late 19th century due to supposed risk of needing public assistance.

New Jersey Remains Among Last Blue States Without Trans Shield Law As Democrats Punt To Next Session There’s a new governor, a new legislature, and a new call to action. Will New Jersey lawmakers finally protect trans kids’ care?

1. A few days ago, we reported that New Jersey Democrats were running out of time to pass their trans shield/sanctuary bill.

Sadly, it would appear New Jersey Dems failed to do so, making them one of the only blue states without such protections.

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This steady drumbeat of transphobic agitprop was maybe even more successful than its proponents had hoped. Today, fundamental legal protections for trans people—the same protections the conservative-controlled Court extended in Bostock—are less popular than they were three years ago, according to Pew Research Center data from February 2024. This is true not only among Republican voters, but also among Democrats looking to apportion blame for Harris’s loss. In the aftermath of the 2024 election, some Democratic politicians publicly argued that the party’s support for trans rights contributed to its losses at the ballot box. One Democratic member of Congress went so far as to parrot vile anti-trans talking points to The New York Times, explaining that he did not “want to discriminate against anybody,” but did not believe “biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.” Back in 2018, YouGov found that 29 percent of Americans thought society had gone “too far in accepting people who are transgender.” Today, that number has increased to 36 percent. Support for explicitly anti-trans policies like bathroom bans, sports bans, and bans on gender-affirming care for young people is stronger than it was as recently as two years ago. Sports bans like those at issue in Hecox and BPJ are especially popular, supported by two-thirds of voters, including 45 percent of Democrats, according to the Pew Research Center.

The moral panic over the existence of trans people isn't just aimed at Republicans, though. Basic legal protections for trans people are now less popular *among Democrats* than they were three years ago. An unconsionable failure of Democratic leadership. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is a pretty severe escalation from CBS, just straight up lying like this.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.

You could be next.

When we all get imprisoned for posting I’m definitely gonna be going around the yard asking what y’all said that got you locked up & it better be a banger because that’s how we’ll be establishing our hierarchy

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

Your fingerprints, rental scan and DNA will now be part of Palentir in order to visit our dog shit country. Welcome to your TechnoFeudal Hellscape fam

I hate that we continuously have to keep doing this when we’ve had honestly wayyyy too much straight media at this point and they should just make queer media from here on out to balance it imo

You’re welcome handsome 😘

One day 🤞🏼✨

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Love it 😍

I hate that we continuously have to keep doing this when we’ve had honestly wayyyy too much straight media at this point and they should just make queer media from here on out to balance it imo

🇵🇸 Settler Terror in the West Bank Dozens of masked Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, torching dairy trucks, tents, and farmland before clashing with locals. Soldiers arrived only after the fires spread — then settlers attacked them too. UN data shows 260+ settler attacks in October, the highest since records began in 2006. Most targeted olive harvesters. Rights groups say police and soldiers routinely shield settlers or join in. Only four arrests were made Tuesday. Palestinian official Muayyad Shaaban, head of the government’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, called the rampage part of an organized campaign to “drive Palestinians from their land,” accusing Israel of granting attackers “protection and immunity.”

Quds News Network @QudsNen Breaking | Israeli settlers set fire to more Palestinian Bedouin homes and vehicles near the village of Beit Lid, east of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank.

🇵🇸 Settler Terror in the West Bank

Dozens of masked Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, torching dairy trucks, tents, and farmland before clashing with locals. Soldiers arrived only after the fires spread — then settlers attacked them too.

UN data shows...

Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.

And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.

Emma Thompson on AI and writing

😘😘

My dad, explaining AI to my mom: “It doesn’t think. It copies stuff wrong.”

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Make out, make love, make a mess

Damn 😍

Omgggg 😍😍😍

They’re using AI to make videos of Black women yelling about their EBT cards on Tik Tok. I knew this would be the first way they would use AI to come after us. Please stop using it! Stop feeding the machine!

I could be your weighted blanket—
*call disconnects*

Sometimes the nights engulf me.
Sometimes they bring me peace.

Tonight I’m caught in between.
But I'm looking to brighter days.

It won't always be this hard.
It won't always hurt this much.

There's joy on the other side.
But there's also joy NOW.

I just have to grab hold of it.
And not let go. ♥️

please remember your sick and disabled comrades in your calls for community. we’re here and belong to this world too.

LA Peeps! Come hang out with me and some other really cool people this Sunday!