Ren "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender
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Queer writer-performer/producer making a film, writing at NY Times, NPR, Village Voice and Slate. 2021 National Critics Institute Fellow. *Deeply* petty. CDMX/Boston Gmail: njender Insta: renjender. https://renjender.contently.com
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I watched a clip earlier today where Nawal el Saadawi said there’s no Democracy under capitalism and this is what she meant.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I watched a clip earlier today where Nawal el Saadawi said there’s no Democracy under capitalism and this is what she meant.
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This is a very big deal. And Powell is a mensch. If democracy survives, he should get a presidential medal of freedom.
BREAKING: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court's hearing on Trump's attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
AP Source: Fed Chair Powell to attend Supreme Court argument on Cook case
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will attend the Supreme Court’s oral arguments Wednesday in a case involving the attempted firing of Fed governor Lisa Cook, an unusual show of support by the central bank chair.
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
This is a very big deal. And Powell is a mensch. If democracy survives, he should get a presidential medal of freedom.
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When I hear my folks say the words “socialist” and “communism” at the MLK breakfast, people are ready for *something*.
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
When I hear my folks say the words “socialist” and “communism” at the MLK breakfast, people are ready for *something*.
A great thing to hear first thing this morning. "I fought the law... and I won!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dB_...
Dead Kennedys - I Fought the Law
YouTube video by Taktwo2
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January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A great thing to hear first thing this morning. "I fought the law... and I won!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dB_...
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This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This is probably the most accurate description.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
Someone in their mid-50s today told me that this is the first time he had thought about or been affected by politics. And that guy is actively guarding buildings and his coworkers from ICE.
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Omg yall Talk Sport Radio UK just invited us back on after the sparing match we had on there in June for saying folks needed to boycott the World Cup.
As much as I love to gloat, I don’t feed racists platforms.
No one should come here!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
As much as I love to gloat, I don’t feed racists platforms.
No one should come here!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Authoritarian-friendly Fifa fest shows why next year’s World Cup must be boycotted | Heba Gowayed and Nicholas Occhiuto
The Club World Cup is being staged across the US as citizens from 12 countries are banned and masked agents demand people’s papers based on the color of their skin
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Omg yall Talk Sport Radio UK just invited us back on after the sparing match we had on there in June for saying folks needed to boycott the World Cup.
As much as I love to gloat, I don’t feed racists platforms.
No one should come here!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
As much as I love to gloat, I don’t feed racists platforms.
No one should come here!
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
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fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...
ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
January 18, 2026 at 5:26 PM
fwiw these are unionized hotels and their local sent a formal request to employers not to accept ICE bookings or allow ICE to use their facilities www.facebook.com/share/p/1aV9...
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Oh, and if you’re ICE, the military, BOP, DoD, FBI, or a right winger? You get your own special thread of cold weather advice, because you’re special. Good luck, champ!
Hey, I want to offer some helpful tips for coping with the cold for ICE folks who might have come from warmer places.
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
1. Wear cotton socks! Cotton is nice and soft next to your skin and will absorb your sweat so your feet stay warm. Cotton everything but ESPECIALLY socks!
Good morning to fuckers in our neighborhood kidnapping our neighbors! Can you see the city skyline? No? You’re wondering if Minneapolis burned down again overnight? Oh no, sweetie. That’s ice crystals in the air . It looks like it will get to around -8F without windchill! Please enjoy your stay!
January 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Oh, and if you’re ICE, the military, BOP, DoD, FBI, or a right winger? You get your own special thread of cold weather advice, because you’re special. Good luck, champ!
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Clown Town seems to be populated with a number of bitchasses
NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Clown Town seems to be populated with a number of bitchasses
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This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.
January 18, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.
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I still think people are struggling to get that the Democrats are not actually unified in opposing Trump.
In fact many of them are perfectly fine with his behavior.
In fact many of them are perfectly fine with his behavior.
The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
January 19, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I still think people are struggling to get that the Democrats are not actually unified in opposing Trump.
In fact many of them are perfectly fine with his behavior.
In fact many of them are perfectly fine with his behavior.
Everyone who's apparently never done activism before: you can't call a walkout for everyone to protest the regime *two days in advance* and you certainly can't call it by saying, "I heard that..". You need a whole weeks-long campaign that's fun/funny enough that it's reposted over and over again.
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Everyone who's apparently never done activism before: you can't call a walkout for everyone to protest the regime *two days in advance* and you certainly can't call it by saying, "I heard that..". You need a whole weeks-long campaign that's fun/funny enough that it's reposted over and over again.
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When you have no values, but only ambition, you end up like Newsom, Buttigieg, Emmanuel, Booker: indulging man’s worst instincts. It allows you to throw trans people under the bus and defend ICE’s continued existence. And everyone sees right through you.
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 AM
When you have no values, but only ambition, you end up like Newsom, Buttigieg, Emmanuel, Booker: indulging man’s worst instincts. It allows you to throw trans people under the bus and defend ICE’s continued existence. And everyone sees right through you.
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Josh Shapiro writes in his new book that he was being grilled by the Kamala Harris team about his views on Israel because he's a Jew.
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
January 19, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Josh Shapiro writes in his new book that he was being grilled by the Kamala Harris team about his views on Israel because he's a Jew.
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
In college, Josh Shapiro wrote that Palestinians as a collective "are too battle-minded" and that peace can only happen if Arabs don't "ruin it".
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It'll be really funny if Trump just dissolves the Senate and Congress and the supreme Court is like, "no you can't do that" and Trump is like, "I just did" and Congress and the Senate are like, "can we go home but also keep our paychecks?"
No sorry gotta pull those bootstraps to another job
No sorry gotta pull those bootstraps to another job
January 19, 2026 at 1:16 AM
It'll be really funny if Trump just dissolves the Senate and Congress and the supreme Court is like, "no you can't do that" and Trump is like, "I just did" and Congress and the Senate are like, "can we go home but also keep our paychecks?"
No sorry gotta pull those bootstraps to another job
No sorry gotta pull those bootstraps to another job
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just saw a video of abigail spanberger introducing pusha t for an inauguration-related show in richmond. we’re so back.
January 17, 2026 at 1:00 PM
just saw a video of abigail spanberger introducing pusha t for an inauguration-related show in richmond. we’re so back.
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If you are someone that wears makeup, please be aware that Ronald Lauder - as in Estee Lauder is THE guy pushing #Greenland. Time to boycott!
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
These are BIG brands - MAC, Smashbox, Bobbi Brown..
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:23 AM
gdi
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This is one hundred percent true. Government programs that provided aid and subsidies, and were de facto white-only, were popular across party lines and widely accepted before the Civil Rights movement.
When open discrimination in their application was outlawed, the pullback began.
When open discrimination in their application was outlawed, the pullback began.
If you could’ve guaranteed that black folks wouldn’t get free healthcare, it feels like we would’ve gotten nationalized medicine a fucking century ago as part of the New Deal or something.
January 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This is one hundred percent true. Government programs that provided aid and subsidies, and were de facto white-only, were popular across party lines and widely accepted before the Civil Rights movement.
When open discrimination in their application was outlawed, the pullback began.
When open discrimination in their application was outlawed, the pullback began.
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Really recommend reading Tal Lavin's (@swordsjew.bsky.social) Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America to understand the long game of White Christian Nationalists in the US & how it is playing out in this moment.
The mainstream media has not & will not cover this honestly.
The mainstream media has not & will not cover this honestly.
CONFIRMED:
Earlier today Don Lemon reported a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, MN where they said pastor David Easterwood is Acting Director of the ICE Field Office.
They were 100% right.
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/homeland-security-secretary-noem-on-ice-operations/667821
Earlier today Don Lemon reported a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, MN where they said pastor David Easterwood is Acting Director of the ICE Field Office.
They were 100% right.
https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/homeland-security-secretary-noem-on-ice-operations/667821
January 18, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Really recommend reading Tal Lavin's (@swordsjew.bsky.social) Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America to understand the long game of White Christian Nationalists in the US & how it is playing out in this moment.
The mainstream media has not & will not cover this honestly.
The mainstream media has not & will not cover this honestly.
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First, which vintage perspective are we supposed to have? The past was not a monolith.
Second, there is no way to fully put ourselves in the past. It's closed to us, we aren't immersed. We can only research
Third, quite often, the things people think are modern viewpoints are older than they think
Second, there is no way to fully put ourselves in the past. It's closed to us, we aren't immersed. We can only research
Third, quite often, the things people think are modern viewpoints are older than they think
January 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
First, which vintage perspective are we supposed to have? The past was not a monolith.
Second, there is no way to fully put ourselves in the past. It's closed to us, we aren't immersed. We can only research
Third, quite often, the things people think are modern viewpoints are older than they think
Second, there is no way to fully put ourselves in the past. It's closed to us, we aren't immersed. We can only research
Third, quite often, the things people think are modern viewpoints are older than they think
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i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.
"If you're explaining, you're losing." –Senator Ruben Gallego on the "Abolish ICE" debate.
January 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
i’m a little confused about how “abolish ICE” requires too much explaining to be good politics, but a set of opaque incremental reforms does not.
It becomes more and more clear everyday what needs to happen to change things permanently, but nobody does it.
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
It becomes more and more clear everyday what needs to happen to change things permanently, but nobody does it.
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everybody in the trump administration looks like this
January 17, 2026 at 4:25 PM
everybody in the trump administration looks like this