Fortunately, LA Metro converted their fleet to CNG & contracted for fossil fuel-free sewage and dairy farm gas.
Take transit, ride a bike/ebike. Buses have front bike racks. Trains have bike sections. Download the Transit app & set it for bike+bus+train. You have options beyond the gas pump
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
we haven't even been properly lied to about why we're doing this
I’m not watching that video st 3am but I don’t need to see it know this is a grave violation of US and international law. From my area of study I can tell you that it’s easy to think the UN Charter doesn’t mean much, but we want to live in a world that values its prohibition on aggressive warfare
the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
I'm just so fucking tired of this fucking nightmare hellscape of a society
Imagine if even a fraction of what this administration plans to spend on cages went toward housing people.
halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
Me surprised every year that the Super Bowl is happening next week when I find out the week before… 👀
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
Completely painted over in black / redacted now 🙃
remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”
💔 this is incredibly inhumane
On NPR on Friday, there was a story of a 4-year-old--an American citizen--who hasn't left her house since early December, not even to play in the yard. And her 8-year-old brother recently stopped going to school, too. Their father is undocumented, and the family doesn't want to risk him being taken.
To those American academics out there who have chosen to remain silent/mostly silent about the horror going on in the USA these days at every corner of the federal government, please start speaking out and fighting back.
What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,
Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.
this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.
The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color.
All. People. Of. Color.
🚨"We wonder why people in the 1930s were quiet, we need to show we weren't quiet. History is gonna look back at all the people that didn't show up—their grandkids are gonna ask what were they doing! It's like -10 degrees and we're here!" -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW⬇️
Them, but also more directly: 285 people out of 535 could end all this (218 + 67). That fact should not be treated as an "oh they'll never do it" shrug, as if they don't have agency. They should be hammered constantly as traitors and cowards every day they don't.
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
I don't think we should give more money to the people who kill moms and kidnap children
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
smiling portrait of Liam, age 5, in a school picture
witness photo, courtesy of the school district, showing Liam outside his front door with a masked agent by his side.
Liam is one of four Columbia Heights, MN school district students who have been taken by ICE in the last two weeks, the school district said. Liam's teacher: “He is so kind and loving, and his classmates miss him. He ... just brightens the room. All I want is for him to be back here and safe.”
