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Good lord. This is right out of a scene from North Korea.
This is tonight, Friday, November 14, 2025
#Fascism #Resist #Revolution #USPOL
More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.
We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.
Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.
He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.
He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.
ICE deported him anyways.
They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.
Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.
What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?
He died a few weeks after deportation:
ICE enforcement may be a mass disabling event.
Disease is rampant in the camps.
Disabled people report having their medical needs ignored and their conditions drastically worsened.
The indiscriminate use of chemical weapons and violence causes harm.
Abolish ICE.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/n…
#disability #uspol #fascism #ice #abolishice #eugenics
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatmentRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
Sooo, is that going to work?
"A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from suspending all food aid for millions of Americans amid the ongoing government shutdown and directed it to use contingency funds to pay for the benefits."
yahoo.com/news/articles/us-jud…
#Politics #USPolitics #USPol #SNAP
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.
Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.
The people who need help are not the problem.
It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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Attached: 1 image I'm launching my newsletter, and you can sign up here! https://buttondown.com/impureleftist There will be 1 free post each week, plus 2 only for subscribers—one of which will feature the Anarchist Book Club.Be More Kind
“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”
techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-…
#USpol #apple #censorship
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…Techdirt
"Let me say this clearly: nobody in this country is safe."
"Federal agents detained American citizens without individualized probable cause this week. They handcuffed children. They sorted people by race. They treated an American city like occupied territory."
"This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week."
notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-s…
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Starvation as a tool for genocide was always part of the invaders acts to crush and exterminate resistance of the natives.
#USpol #History #Starvation #Genocide
Chat Control is one of the most important issue for human rights and democracy in the West right now.
There is little time left to fight back!🚨
❓If you don't know what it is: read this article
🇪🇺 If you are in the EU: Contact your MEPs NOW
🇪🇺 If you already contacted your MEPs: Contact your local media TODAY to ask them to report and inform on the dangers of Chat Control.
🌎 If you are not European: Spread the word! Talk about it on social media. Contact your local media. Contact your representatives to share your concerns about similar proposals and the loss of privacy rights. This would affect you too!
This is an urgent matter. We cannot let the West slip in this authoritarian dystopia.
We must stop Chat Control ✊🛑
#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #DigitalRights #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli
Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline this Friday on September 12th. We must act now to stop it!Privacy Guides
For residents of the U.S., health insurance open enrollment is beginning.
Good time for a reminder that, if you have the option of enrolling in a high deductible health plan, those policies come with Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ded…
"HSA contributions, unlike other tax-advantaged investment vehicles, offer a triple tax benefit – tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses."
How's all that self-interest working out for all the tech companies? Dictators are gonna dictate. It's not like he didn't tell you who he was. Project 2025 was the real goal. They don't want anyone but white people to have the privilege of getting jobs. Everything else is nothing but excess.
#tech #USPol #USPolitics
Is anyone making a list of companies that have fired people for quoting Charlie Kirk’s views?
Seems like a list of companies that support fascism and free speech only when it’s in support of fascism should be well known to all.
I know it’s just a social media post, but I stand with my colleagues and the students at America’s HBCUs.
It’s a short hop from radical anti-intellectualism to outright racism, and we’ve experienced these headwinds before.
But the work to build America’s pluralist democracy will not be halted by this kind of cowardice.
For #Somerville, Massachusetts residents, the DSA voting guide has some useful information for the current election: docs.google.com/document/d/1H5…
#elections #MAPoli #MAPol #USPol
Somerville Preliminary Election 2025 Somerville Voter Guide by Boston DSA Somerville has a preliminary election on September 16 and a municipal election on November 4. The registration deadline to vote in the prelims is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH.Google Docs
Yeah. That sums it up.
#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #CharlieKirk #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism
This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…
We should live in a world where selling out to corporate money or being completely spineless and ineffective in office is what threatens re-election.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
There is really no comparison in American history to the blatant corruption.
nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion…
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
Please get the word out and spread these articles widely: 404 Media is publishing its ICE coverage in Spanish -- no signups, no paywall.
404media.co/were-publishing-ou…
#ICE #immigration #uspol
From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
From the Disability Visibility Project:
"Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights"
disabilityvisibilityproject.co…
"… a true commitment to justice for disabled people must recognize that many undocumented immigrants are themselves disabled and deserving of basic rights, not total erasure from the disability rights discourse."
#USPol #Disability #DisabilityRights #Ableism #Immigration #HumanRights
Immigrant Rights Are Disability Rights Joe Stramondo In 2019, a White disability rights leader with a national reputation, Bruce Darling, had a spectacular fall from grace because of commen…Disability Visibility Project
Not that anyone cares…
If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell, ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank
fortune.com/2025/07/14/trump-f…
#JeromePowell #FederalReserve #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #TrumpVotersChoseThis #USPol
Deutsche Bank's explosive scenario in a note titled, “What if ?”Jim Edwards (Fortune)
After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument
erininthemorning.com/p/after-t…
#Stonewall #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #queer #USPol
The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
Wooohoooo to all the islamo-leftists in the houseeeeee 🎉🎉🎉
thejc.com/opinion/zohran-mamda…
#uspol #ZohranMamdani (deep thoughts on eating customs by the non-bidet tribes of the west)
He eats rice by hand to fake Third World authenticity. Identitarian theatrics, anti-Zionism, and socialism are coming to the world’s largest Jewish cityDominic Green (The Jewish Chronicle)
Chris Van Hollen explains that tax cuts for the wealthy don't expire, but other provisions, e.g., no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, DO PHASE OUT.
Republicans are lying to you. Again, and again.
#BigFuglyBill #BBB #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
You no longer have to wonder whether some of the masked men with guns in unmarked cars taking people off the streets might not be real law enforcement officers. We now know that 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
That includes a guy in NC who sexually assaulting a woman by threatening to deport her.
#ICE #Trump #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
Experts say trend of agents detaining people while masking and wearing plainclothes increases riskJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:
youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHD…
"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."
(automated captions, some errors)
#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist
Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.Su...YouTube
We need urgent community action to stop this incredibly ableist plan from moving forward.
The DOE has ruled that new federal buildings don’t have to meet accessibility standards.
That will mean many disabled people won’t be able to work in or access these places.
They’re literally excluding us from as many facets of life as possible, because they have a eugenics plan.
Call, email, speak out!
Accessibility is not a “nice to have”. It’s a legal right. It’s necessary for our survival.
federalregister.gov/documents/…
#uspol #fascism #disability #chronicillness #ableism #accessibility #doe
Today I invited a couple friends to the #NoKings protest this Saturday, and they were more open to it than I thought. (Not my most political friends.) Turning out lots of folks who don't usually protest would be amazing. I hope Saturday is the day many people wake up and realize the resisting this administration is not fringe, it's what most Americans want.
If you're in the USA, I hope you'll join us!
nokings.org/
Someone captured the moment an Australian reporter was shot by a rubber bullet at the anti-ICE protests in LA.
It’s wildly concerning that a country which prides itself on freedom of the press is now shooting at journalists.
Also, watch closely. She was away from the crowds. She was clearly reporting and no threat to anyone.
Yet the agent took direct aim & shot.
This is enraging. This is state sanctioned violence. This is an attack on the press. An attempt to silence.
Keep speaking out.
#ice #fascism #la #losangeles #abolishice #uspol
I'm not about to turn this account into US political drama posting full time, but I'd like to take a moment to talk about the Linsdey Graham tweet about the Gaza flotilla and anti-genocide activist Greta Thunberg. If you haven't seen it, there's a screenshot in the Zeteo article below, but the short story is that Graham posted or quoted an image of Thunberg on the deck of a flotilla vessel, and wrote over top "hope Greta and her friends can swim."
Graham's behavior is of course disgusting and condemnable on its face. I want to talk about it today however because I think if you take the Senator from South Carolina's post in the proper context, it reveals quite a lot about where the US government, buttressed by a pro-genocide corporate media, stands in contrast to the rest of the world on the subject of Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Lindsey Graham's Disgusting Tweet About Greta Thunberg Is 'Brain Rot' in Its Truest, Most Vulgar Sense
zeteo.com/p/lindsey-grahams-di…
"The warped logic, wildly insulting to the intelligence or basic morals of the Americans he serves, is one thing. As with their comical hypocrisy, the refrain about the modern Republican Party that “the cruelty is the point” is baked into US politics. But the extent to which these threads undergirding American conservatism are put into total overdrive when it comes to Israel is jarring to any observer.
Because, to be clear: Graham, a US senator, paid by our taxes, is apparently calling for a government that’s killed at least 54,000 (and likely, far more) Palestinians to bomb a boat carrying food to a starving population (or, if I’m being incredibly generous, he is just hoping the ship sinks). It’d be one thing if Graham was operating in the already-broken framework of the draconianism we’re used to: egging on the detaining of protesters and cheering for the bombing of Gaza under the auspices of “eliminating Hamas.”
Think how far we’ve come: pointing out Israel’s bombing of humanitarians was a “blood libel.” Now, it’s a punchline.
Here, we reach the endpoint of it all: a Republican, sealed off in his grotesque, hermetically-sealed bubble, finding it not only appropriate, but actively helpful in his (and his Israeli friends’) PR crusade to buoyantly rejoice at the idea of 12 volunteers – including a young college-aged person – being bombed, and left to tread in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea."
There's honestly so much going on here that you could write a whole book about this tweet, and the political moment in America that produced it. There are literal layers of grotesque inhumanity behind a US Senator cheerfully wishing death on a world famous activist and her friends for the high crime of trying to feed people we're helping to starve out of existence. Graham's callous, if not gleeful disregard for human life speaks to a modern, cultishly-devoted to Trump Republican Party whose broader motto might as well be "we're for killing and starving people" at this point; a sentiment their voters seem to embrace so long as the leopards aren't eating *their* faces.
If you know that the previous flotilla food aid attempt involving Thunberg was unable to reach Gaza after being struck by weaponized drones widely-believed to be Israeli in origin, then Graham's tweet reads like an open threat by a US Senator on behalf of a foreign government conducting a genocide we're paying for; which at almost any other point in American history would be earth-shaking news, but passes more or less for business as usual in the American pro-genocide reality bubble. This would be appalling under any circumstances, but for Graham to post this at the very same time the US government under Trump is pretending it is forcing Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, while openly concentrating starving Palestinians into corrals for the IOF to shoot at, is next-level Third Reich-type shit; and the whole world knows it.
Which then brings us back to the larger point about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and failing international support for the Netanyahu regime and an IOF committing open war crimes and mass murder. At the precise time that the entire international order except the United States is running away from their prior support for Israel's genocidal actions because starving children to death on livestream is extremely unpopular, the United States is accelerating the body count and a US Senator is openly threatening a European peace activist on behalf of our openly eliminationist ally, for the high crime of attempting to feed starving people our govt would clearly prefer dead. The Trump regime and the broader pro-genocide establishment in America are out of step with the rest of the Pig Empire, and out of touch with reality; Israel isn't the only country flirting with pariah state status as the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues to unfold.
#USPol #Gaza #Israel #UN #LindseyGraham #GazaFlotilla #GretaThunberg #Genocide #Starvation #WarCrimes #Palestinians #GOP #Trump
As the Zeteo contributor set sail on the Gaza aid flotilla, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted: "Hope Greta and her friends can swim!"Prem Thakker (Zeteo)
Republicans decided that they didn't need to know who they were starving.
Trump Administration Backs Off Effort to Collect Data on Food Stamp Recipients
nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/poli…
#TACOTrade #Impeach #Convict #Remove #Indict #NoRepublicansEverAgain #FoodStamps #USPol
