Florida's plan to end vaccine mandates for schools could spark a trend in other conservative states. The state has been a trailblazer in other areas of education policy too, from school choice to curriculum restrictions.
Euronews - New sanctions by the EU target Russian banks, 118 “shadow fleet” vessels and cryptocurrency platforms Moscow uses to launder financial transactions. https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/09/19/eu-targets-russian-lng-banks-crypto-and-shadow-fleet-in-new-round-of-sanctions
Trump Administration Retreats on Combating Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation https://portside.org/2025-09-18/trump-administration-retreats-combating-human-trafficking-and-child-exploitation
If you’re Black or Brown in America, you can be disenfranchised, racially profiled, abducted, denied due process rights, physically abused, and disappeared. By law enforcement, the FBI, ICE, etc. You can also be murdered, on the spot, by the same people.
If you’re White in America — and a convicted fraudster, an adjudicated rapist, and a failed insurrectionist — you can be voted president of the United States. Twice.
#America #Trumperica #hypocrisy #racism #AllKindsOfFuckedUp #DonaldTrump
Oh hey, in case this post does any kind of numbers, almost anybody can resist ICE with these simple actions:
-Hand out know your rights information! You can just go into businesses and hand them to people. They appreciate your concern for their safety.
https://ndlon.org/resources/take-action-against-raids-and-concentration-camps/
-Find a local pro-immigrant group, call them and ask what the local hotline is to report #ICE sightings and get a rapid response team out. This is going on all over the US. Spread that number all over town!
Mocking ICE is bags of fun, but it's a serious matter to show them this is what almost everyone thinks of them.
Poniewozik, NYT: « Maybe what Trump & his allies are doing is not precisely what Viktor Orban did to control media in Hungary, or Vladimir Putin in Russia, or Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey.…. But a media system in which comedians are forbidden from mocking the president’s faction by corporate fiat is not functionally freer than one in which they are forbidden by law. » #Kimmel #resist https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE8.qMt4.XhxJJkdRv28O&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Revealed: US law enforcement claimed emojis could signal Tren de Aragua affiliation"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/fbi-cbp-tren-de-aragua-emojis
From the article, "Claims are ‘an unsophisticated, uneducated approach that demonstrates a lack of knowledge’, says one professor" That about covers US law "enforcement." Others descriptors are bullies, knuckle draggers, ignorant and dumb as rocks.
@noondlyt @inthehands @mcnado I figured out what I was missing. Nexstar is actually the one who decided to pull Kimmel, and Disney followed suit. Nexstar owns my local ABC affiliate (and hundreds of others).
So, we should boycott Nexstar, too.
Trump and his FCC chair preached protecting free speech. The Jimmy Kimmel move shows they want to control it
#JimmyKimmel #NBCThreats #MediaControl #FreeSpeech #FCCIndependence
Mostly reclusive and carrying slightly damaged goods. A 56 yo survivor by some accounts. Definitely in need of much therapy. ;)
Staunchly anti-fascist
Bear in mind that, while I may "like" your "toot", about a person, event or particular topic, if it links to the "bird-site" I will no longer boost and inadvertently contribute to their grift. Everyone has a choice and a part to play when crimes go unpunished.
"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers".
-Elric