JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Florida authorities deny that a detainee uprising happened at 'Alligator Alcatraz' last month.

Human rights advocates familiar with conditions in the detention camp say reports of a revolt are plausible:

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞

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If ICE firing guns on a crowded street and slaughtering a man driving ~away~ from agents, a man who clearly posed no risk to anyone else

Is not met with national outrage

Its already-reckless agents will kill anyone, anywhere, anytime they deem it necessary

It stops now or never

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/15/a...

In Columbia Heights D.C., memorial signs are going up for residents abducted by the state.

(📸 Igor Bobic)

Oh yeah, let's work to save this "democracy"

American community organizer and activist, Claudia De La Cruz, is the 2024 U.S. presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

original.newsbreak.com/@janetta-har...

While Israelis cower in terror at the mere prospect of retribution for their innumerable crimes, the people of Yemen stand tall.

Socialism and the Churches (1905) by Rosa Luxemburg. Marxist/Socialist Audiobook + Discussion.
https://youtu.be/YUt0gCvWZMg

I should have gotten a philosophy degree

Texas is charging prisoners 50% more for bottled water as they struggle to endure a deadly heatwave in facilities without air conditioning

Not to be an obsessed dork, but Godzilla: Tokyo SOS gives a very simple explanation on how to properly make amends

Bennie and I live in the same area, which is a trans refuge state with explicit protections in law for our care. I went to an informed consent clinic for my HRT and it took a couple months. I am 37 (was 36 at the time!).

RIP to Minnie Bruce Pratt, who died yesterday at 76. Poet, writer, lesbian-feminist activist, and wife of late trans activist Leslie Feinberg. Pratt was a prolific and celebrated writer, and helped found Syracuse University's LGBT studies program.

Not seeing any obituaries in major publications yet

I will add this as being of general interest in this conversation.

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice

Conservative gays and transgender people who carry water for the political party diametrically opposed to their existence should learn from past history. It never works out well for them.