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…
I lost my Mom to pancreatic cancer when I was 19. She was only 47.
My grandmother also died from it at 53.
When Mom was diagnosed, she sat me down and said she knew exactly what I was feeling because she felt the same way when her Mom was dying.
She said she hated knowing that her girls were going to grow up without a mom.
She wasn’t afraid of dying, but she was afraid of leaving us behind.
She was sad that she would miss major milestones like graduations, marriage, grandchildren etc.
She wanted more time.
Unfortunately pancreatic cancer is quick and lethal.
It’s almost always caught too late, and few people live more than a year after diagnosis.
My Mom made it nine months.
I’m forever grateful for the time we had together and the fact that she prepared me for her passing. But I wanted more
The mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine was a beacon of hope for my family.
It was hope for so many whose lives have been touched by this deadly disease. Who’ve lost loved ones.
Who live with the fear of being diagnosed themselves.
There’s no words for the rage I feel when I think about RFK Jr’s decision to cut funding for this life saving research.
His anti-vaxx grift has already killed and disabled many people. Measles is back. Covid is still here and still killing.
Now he’s basically siding with cancer.
We deserve better than this.
We deserve an HHS leader who actually believes in science.
We deserve leaders who promote life saving interventions, robust public health and cutting edge research.
Shame on him and everyone who supports him.
MAHA just announced that states will be able to prohibit people from purchasing junk food with SNAP.
They claim this will make people healthier.
That it’ll force them to make better choices. It won’t.
Why? They aren’t addressing the privilege involved with healthy eating
I’m all for a healthy diet. I only consume whole and unprocessed foods myself, and even did a year as a raw vegan to try and reduce my overall inflammation.
It was an eye opening experience that I was only able to do because of my privilege.
In a perfect world, we would all be eating the healthiest and most nutrient dense food available.
But we don’t live in a perfect world.
Whole foods are more expensive, take longer to prepare and require more effort than “junk food”
People who are disabled, elderly, living in poverty and/or food deserts sometimes have no other choice.
Fed is better than dead.
This latest restriction will result in people going hungry. Kids starving because their parents can’t make them a healthy meal.
You can’t cut off an entire category of food without addressing the various systemic barriers to healthy eating.
There needs to be a plan to lower the cost of fresh whole foods. They need to be made more available, cheaper and in easy to prepare options.
People need a basic living wage to ensure they have the time to shop, prep and cook.
If you’re working two full time jobs just to survive; you can’t possibly be cooking from scratch every day.
Even if all those goals were accomplished, there are still people who rely on junk food for survival.
There are still people who may want it as an occasional treat.
Banning it altogether sends a message that poor & disabled people don’t “deserve” treats.
This isn’t about making people healthier. It’s about blaming them for their illnesses.
If we blame diet and lifestyle, we can feel better about not treating people when they get sick.
It’s eugenics and it’s on full display.
There are so many better ways to encourage people to eat healthier.
We should have universal healthcare, a basic income, childcare and affordable housing.
If basic needs are met, healthy living becomes much easier.
Finally, disability is no one’s fault.
Healthy living can help, but you can’t wellness your way out of chronic illness.
It doesn’t work that way, and the only reason to convince people otherwise is a desire to label disabled people expendable.
We are not expendable.
#uspol #disability #FoodInsecurity #snap #ableism #rfkjr #hhs #chronicillness
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
Cuomo, a man with multiple credible sexual assault allegations against him, was thoroughly trounced by Mamdani in the Democratic primary for NYC mayor.
Does he concede quietly? Of course not.
He’s “in it to win it” as an independent.
This is what happens when men never learn that “no means no”.
Jeff Bezos threats to buy Conde Nast should absolutely be taken seriously.
It would give him control over a number of media outlets that are strong voices in opposition of fascism (like Wired and Teen Vogue)
Under the oligarchs control they would be forced to become right wing propaganda.
Now more than ever we must support independent journalists… many of whom are speaking truth to power despite the personal risk.
If you can boycott Amazon, please do it. Send a strong message with your wallet that you don’t support fascism or the billionaire class.
If you can’t boycott, please don’t feel guilty. Many disabled people and those in poverty may be reliant on Amazon for supplies they can’t get elsewhere.
Trust that your community is boycotting on your behalf.
We’ve got you, and you need to take care of yourself in order to survive.
No guilt. We all resist in whatever way we can.
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
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#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)
It just blows my mind that some people still don't seem to see the urgency and severity of the trouble we are in right now with the fascist government here in the US. This is fascism. How do you not see that? We have brownshirts kidnapping people off the streets. We have concentration camps being openly built. We have borderline autocracy.
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."
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#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist
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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
In some #awesome news, Trump's #AI plans have been leaked on #github, which others have now backed up for themselves.
First reported yesterday by 404 Media, the #tech is to launch on July 4th. Besides a #chatbot, there are APIs to connect to other models, and some other agency tech.
Despite Trump's rush to deploy widespread AI, many experts have valid #security and #privacy concerns regarding access to #confidential #data.
theregister.com/2025/06/10/tru…
#news #technews #trump #unitedstates #uspol
Updated: The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished when we asked questions, but don't worry – we captured backupsBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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
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"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
Forget the money.
25 million kids.
25 million kids.
25 MILLION KIDS.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/05…
The modeling estimates don’t account for other costs, like parents’ lost work.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.
They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.
When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit
They told me it was “normal” to be in more pain 8 days after surgery than on day 1 (it’s not).
They said “what do you want us to do?”
They refused to run any tests beyond basic vitals, and scolded me for wasting their time
I knew something was wrong, but I was young and hadn’t yet learned how to advocate for myself.
The pain, swelling and bruising were getting worse with each passing day. I was dizzy, listless and had no appetite.
I slept ALL the time.
I was not getting better
I did what anyone would do, I went back to the ER. Surely this time they would take me seriously?
They didn’t. They made no attempt to hide their frustration that I had returned”. They made misogynistic comments about how “sensitive” I was & that being in pain was normal
I went home feeling completely dejected and disrespected, but also starting to gaslight myself.
Maybe it wasn’t that bad. Maybe this was normal pain. Maybe I did need to suck it up.
I tried to force myself to eat and go for light walks. I tried to play through the pain.
I was vomiting everything up and frequently collapsing from fatigue.
I could not suck this up.
My boyfriend had to carry me into the ER for a third attempt to get help
They did the exact same thing. Asked what we expected them to do. Told us the pain was normal. Refused to call a consult or run tests.
Thankfully my boyfriend believed me over them. He was certain if I went home, I wouldn’t make it through the night
He refused to let them discharge me. He told them, loudly and sternly, that he was not taking me home to die. That they needed to do their jobs.
They threatened to call security but he did not back down.
Thankfully a doctor overheard him and decided to look in and see if he could calm the situation.
When he saw me, half unconscious and white as a ghost, he immediately ordered tests. He told the triage staff not to call security and to take me into a private room
It turns out my boyfriend was right. Had I gone home that night, I wouldn’t have made it to morning.
I had a massive internal bleed and a giant infected abscess which had been growing since the surgeon sent me home.
I was rushed to another hospital for emergency surgery and given 50/50 odds of survival. I spent over a month in the hospital, developed a second hospital acquired infection, and needed 11 months to fully recover.
I survived due to luck & privilege. Had my boyfriend not believed me, I wouldn’t be here. Had he not been a white man? He likely would have been removed & I would have died
This is medical misogyny. They didn’t listen because I was a woman. They thought I was being dramatic
I tell this story because of what happened to Adriana Smith. A young black woman in Georgia who tried to get medical care for severe headaches, and was dismissed and gaslit instead.
She suffered brain death at home because no one believed her. Because of misogynoir.
To make matters worse, she’s been turned into a medical experiment because she was nine weeks pregnant and living in a state with an abortion ban. She’s on organ & tissue support being treated as a human incubator.
No care when alive & forced “care” when dead
Misogyny in medicine kills. It maims. It disables and traumatizes.
Women are frequently treated as hysterical and not given the medical care they require.
We often need a man to accompany us just to be taken seriously.
It’s not right and it needs to change
I will forever deal with medical PTSD because of what I went through, but at least I survived.
Adriana wasn’t so lucky, and no one’s survival should ever be based on luck, privilege or their ability to find a man to speak for them
I survived due to luck and privilege, Adriana didn’t.
What’s worse, due to abortion bans and dangerous forced birth policies, her body is kept alive on organ and tissue support without her family’s consent.
We must do better:
disabledginger.com/p/adriana-s…
#misogyny #misogynoir #ableism #patriarchy #abortion #mybodymychoice #disability #ableism #uspol
Adriana Smith couldn't access competent medical care when she needed it, and it killed her. Now the hospital is forcing 'care' on her by keeping her alive as an incubator due to Georgia's abortion banBroadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
From Tuesday May 20th, 2025;
"Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says Democrats should not abandon defending the rights of transgender people as they figure out how to win again."
"'It's a mistake', he insisted. 'And here's the thing: we need to tell people your cost of eggs, your health care being denied, your homeowner’s insurance, your lack of getting warning on tornadoes coming has nothing to do with someone's gender'."
In case you missed it earlier this week, Tim Walz is still out there being wholesome, pushing back against the anti-trans narrative 💜
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
#News #OrganisedAffiliatedFuckers #ProtectTransKids #USpol
Kamala Harris’s former running mate says ‘your cost of eggs ... has nothing to do with someone’s gender.’Eric Garcia (The Independent)
Where to go for a PhD? Change of interest from non-US students.
Source: Economist, 2025 economist.com/science-and-tech… #science #uspol
Other countries may benefit. Science will sufferThe Economist
“Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud,” Popular Information reports.
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#ImpeachTrumpNow #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlue #NoFascism #USPol
Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
You might have seen a post being shared around saying Canada has opened up its suicide hotline to American citizens with Trump threatening a shutdown of ours in the US.
The number it links to is the Trans Helpline. This is likely a right wing attempt to try to flood and overwhelm the hotline and hurt trans people.
Please be careful and check on this before you share them. And if you see an account for a Jeras Ikehorn which seems to be bridged here from Bluesky, know this is the second time in several weeks they have blatantly shared misinformation that harms trans people.
