Think about the nerve here. Foreigners demanding the arrest of an elected official in the country they're visiting. The unmitigated gall of these war criminal motherfuckers is insane.
To appease Paul Singer’s Zionist propaganda outlet, @FreeBeacon, the Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom will change its definition of who qualifies as a journalists so it no longer has to count journalists murdered by Israel in Gaza or Lebanon.
I do want to mention that 15 Minnesota community and union members are facing federal indictment, a clear effort to punish and chill effective organizing against ICE, so I hope you'll consider contributing to their legal fund which can be found here-> https://t.co/XA28OgGBTJ
This is how you protest. Not with cutest signs, not with cringey chants. Not with stupid hats. You roll up your sleeves and fuck some shit up.
I never thought in 2026, that i’d be rooting for Albania and Iran. But here we are.
I want the Republican Party to go extinct and I think our society would drastically improve if we had a powerful left-wing party and the Democrats were the furthest right party.
Women don't enter trades like men do because the working conditions almost guarantee a lifetime of sexual harassment and sexism, not because they're too weak to learn carpentry.
Actually it is bad. Not discrediting literally anyone in this photo because they are all talented. The problem with nepotism isn't a lack of talent. The problem is that it's the default. The problem is that the door to the arts has all but been shut on the general public in favor of the lineage of entertainment royalty. It's classism, and it's not just bad for art, it's bad for society.
The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.
They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.
Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.
The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.
The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.
By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.
According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.
The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.
Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.
Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.
The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.
She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.
She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.
They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.
The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.
The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.
Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.
It’s been made clear time and time again that the WB/Paramount deal has never been about making movies and has always been about politics.
When the psychotic Trump cabinet says things like “we can’t wait for David Ellison to take over CNN,” it’s time to cut the bullshit and do the right thing.
The WB/Paramount Merger must be stopped.
- Paramount will be $-70 billion in debt
- Mass layoffs will happen
- Paramount is in the pockets of the Trump administration
- 30+ theatrical releases per year is unrealistic as Paramount had the least amount of theatrical releases this year
- they want to push MAGA ideals
Reminder that the civil rights movement was not just random people who had enough one day. They were carefully and militantly trained political activists who deployed strategic forces to end Jim Crow segregation. Never forget them.
The owners don’t get fully compensated for the loss, and they also lose out on months of profits to rebuild the warehouse.
And all the workers get unemployment in meantime. We should be pushing for workers to get higher unemployment for these occasions not protecting capital.