Matt Cowley
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Powerful writing by Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts who was detained by the US authorities because she called a genocide a genocide in a student newspaper
“I was looking forward to taking a short walk and catching up with friends at the Interfaith Center, when I was suddenly surrounded and grabbed by a swarm of masked individuals, who handcuffed me and shoved me into an unmarked car.” www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
July 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Powerful writing by Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts who was detained by the US authorities because she called a genocide a genocide in a student newspaper
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TODAY is our national day of action.
Around the nation, we’re hitting the streets to protest the Trump regime’s brazen attacks on our civil and human rights. It’s time to remind them who holds the power—the people.
Find a protest near you at the link below, and let’s go make #GoodTrouble together.
Around the nation, we’re hitting the streets to protest the Trump regime’s brazen attacks on our civil and human rights. It’s time to remind them who holds the power—the people.
Find a protest near you at the link below, and let’s go make #GoodTrouble together.
Good Trouble Lives On
On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...
Goodtroubleliveson.org
July 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
TODAY is our national day of action.
Around the nation, we’re hitting the streets to protest the Trump regime’s brazen attacks on our civil and human rights. It’s time to remind them who holds the power—the people.
Find a protest near you at the link below, and let’s go make #GoodTrouble together.
Around the nation, we’re hitting the streets to protest the Trump regime’s brazen attacks on our civil and human rights. It’s time to remind them who holds the power—the people.
Find a protest near you at the link below, and let’s go make #GoodTrouble together.
This sums up nicely what I ‘ve been thinking for 6 months : that all the things that make America, well, great are being systematically broken, as if that’s the plan. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This sums up nicely what I ‘ve been thinking for 6 months : that all the things that make America, well, great are being systematically broken, as if that’s the plan. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...
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We’re training a million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. This is how we dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media or neighborhoods. One Million Rising launches in three days and we hope you will join us.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We’re training a million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. This is how we dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media or neighborhoods. One Million Rising launches in three days and we hope you will join us.
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No hell hot enough.
ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless
Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.
www.latimes.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
No hell hot enough.
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"79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country."
New Gallup survey shows that 30% of Americans want immigration decreased, down from 55% a year ago. A record-high of 79% of Americans call immigration a good thing, a reversal from 64 percent last year.
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
Surge in U.S. Concern About Immigration Has Abated
The percentage of Americans wanting less immigration has dropped by nearly half this year to 30%, with 79% now saying immigration benefits the U.S.
news.gallup.com
July 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country."
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Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)
news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...
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California surgical center staff demanded a warrant when ICE tried to snatch a landscaper. Now DHS is falsely accusing them of assault. Sure—nurses assaulted armed, masked thugs with clipboards🙄. This is retaliation for standing up & exercising free speech.
#OnYourSide
#OnYourSide
July 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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This has a really wide range of ideas for useful actions against the horror
It's making me feel less overwhelmed & more like, 'Hang on, I can't do x, y or z... but I could do letter q, and I hadn't thought of that before'
It's making me feel less overwhelmed & more like, 'Hang on, I can't do x, y or z... but I could do letter q, and I hadn't thought of that before'
July 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This has a really wide range of ideas for useful actions against the horror
It's making me feel less overwhelmed & more like, 'Hang on, I can't do x, y or z... but I could do letter q, and I hadn't thought of that before'
It's making me feel less overwhelmed & more like, 'Hang on, I can't do x, y or z... but I could do letter q, and I hadn't thought of that before'
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The time is NOW to show up.
How this will work is if it's all of us, together.
Solidarity is the only way home.
We can do this. But only if we all do.
That means you, too.
How this will work is if it's all of us, together.
Solidarity is the only way home.
We can do this. But only if we all do.
That means you, too.
One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings
Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...
www.mobilize.us
July 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The time is NOW to show up.
How this will work is if it's all of us, together.
Solidarity is the only way home.
We can do this. But only if we all do.
That means you, too.
How this will work is if it's all of us, together.
Solidarity is the only way home.
We can do this. But only if we all do.
That means you, too.
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
I know it's a movie cliché, but sometimes it really is therapeutic to go down to the cemetery and talk about your feelings in front of the grave of Congress.
June 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I know it's a movie cliché, but sometimes it really is therapeutic to go down to the cemetery and talk about your feelings in front of the grave of Congress.
I saw a bunch of American flags yesterday at the No Kings protest in St Pete. It was the first time in a long while I saw someone waving a flag and didn’t wince. As someone there said, “we’re taking the flag back.”
June 15, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I saw a bunch of American flags yesterday at the No Kings protest in St Pete. It was the first time in a long while I saw someone waving a flag and didn’t wince. As someone there said, “we’re taking the flag back.”
"Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from "Hope in the Dark"
June 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from "Hope in the Dark"
“Well, we’re all going to die.”
I know there's a lot going on, but the Secretary of Homeland Security declaring that federal troops are in California and Los Angeles to "liberate" the state and city from its duly-elected leaders really is a fourteen-alarm fire.
It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
June 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“Well, we’re all going to die.”
“Well, we’re all going to die”
RFK Jr now going after ALL vaccines.
He argues that the Covid vaccine (which he’s restricted) was the only one that had proper safety testing.
He says they “dysregulate the immune system”.
Get your boosters. He’s setting the stage for “natural immunity” where only “the strong survive”
Eugenics.
He argues that the Covid vaccine (which he’s restricted) was the only one that had proper safety testing.
He says they “dysregulate the immune system”.
Get your boosters. He’s setting the stage for “natural immunity” where only “the strong survive”
Eugenics.
June 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“Well, we’re all going to die”
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Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
June 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.
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This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.
Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.
June 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
