awkword
@awkword
Hip Hop Artist | Sociologist | Organizer | Activist | Strategist | Journalist | @tendemands.bsky.social Co-Founder | @crushcolonialism.bsky.social Board • Work: Unicorn Riot, Counterpunch, Melina Abdullah, Pantea Javidan • aka @philmandelbaum.bsky.social
Indigenous people represent 18% of the world’s extreme poverty, but only 6% of the population In the US, median household earnings are among the lowest Unemployment rates are among the highest They are 400% more likely to be incarcerated And they are 300% more likely to be killed by police
The Trump admin admitted in court that they canceled nearly $8 billion in grants for clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state”. apnews.com/article/trum...
ICE is arresting and booking 1,474 people each day, the highest pace on record open.substack.com/pub/austinko...
Soon, leftists many not be able to travel outside the United States, or return after leaving
ICYMI: The new $500 “American made” Trump phone is actually a 2-year-old phone made in China www.ifixit.com/News/117789/...
The FBI raided the home of a Texas activist using flash-bang grenades and armored vehicles… And then offered her up to $200,000 to become a confidential “Antifa” informant. theintercept.com/2026/07/07/antifa-informant-raid-texas/
Donald Trump has just ousted the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission. The EAC is an independent federal agency that helps administer election funds. This is just the latest example of Trump’s efforts to subvert US elections. www.propublica.org/article/fede...
ICYMI: The DEA *allowed* hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets between 2023 and 2025 alone. This is the government agency charged with keeping drugs *off* the streets. apnews.com/article/dea-...
BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net
This follows a May 28 decision that left three Washington state residents convicted on federal conspiracy charges for protesting ICE As well as the the conviction of the Prairieland 9 in Texas for a July 4, 2025, anti-ICE fireworks display. www.instagram.com/p/DY-IlicM7qT
🚨 8 Texas activists have been sentenced to hundreds of years behind bars for protesting ICE 🧵
15 people in Minnesota have been charged with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers for protesting ICE earlier this year… minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/16/f... 🧵
ICYMI: Trump has put 500 babies and toddlers in ICE detention since January 2025 alone. @themarshallproject.org reports: themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/babies-and-toddlers-in-ice-detention
ICYMI: A convicted Jan. 6 rioter has been hired by the Trump administration to work for the Pentagon managing classified military operations. He’ll have the nation’s highest-level security clearance. archive.is/2026.06.11-1...
Crime rates have reached all-time low under Mayor Mamdani in New York www.nydailynews.com/2026/06/03/n...
Trump has released a new executive order that puts all immigrants at risk of losing their assets and bank accounts. He announced it on Truth Social. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-integrity-to-americas-financial-system/
Three Washington state residents been convicted on federal conspiracy charges for protesting ICE. www.justice.gov/usao-edwa/pr...
Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar have introduced a new bill that would: • Provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack to every student • Eradicate school meal debt for every public school student • Incentivize schools to buy from local farms sanders.senate.gov
Key Biden-era regulations designed to protect our drinking water from the most dangerous cancer-causing substances have been removed by the Trump administration. This decision will impact at least 105 million people — or nearly 1 in 3 Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
90% of ICE detentions have been illegal, according to 10,000 judges’ rulings www.politico.com/news/2026/05...
Your iPhone tracks everything you do — and say. Here are three quick-fixes to tighten your security settings. P.S. No technology is safe.
8 in 10 countries have named the United States the world’s number-one threat. allianceofdemocracies.org/democracy-pe...
Nearly 7 in 10 Black mothers with children under 18 are also their family’s sole or primary earner. [source: US Department of Labor] www.instagram.com/p/DYKUqUGANWf
🚨 Trump’s new National Counterterrorism Strategy identifies the “left-wing” and “anti-Fascists” as terrorist threats equivalent to jihadi groups like al Qaeda and ISIS. This follows the recent federal terrorism conviction of nine anti-ICE protesters in TX www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
ICYMI: Every car sold in the US will soon include technology to spy on you and your passengers. [source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]
DHS has stopped monitoring ICE activities on the streets and in the camps. www.wola.org/analysis/den...
Palantir has already embedded itself into 27 government agencies — including the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, DHS, IRS, NASA, and the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Health and Human Services. usaspending.gov
A new “Mamdani” law would deport any US *citizen* considered to be supporting socialism The “Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists” Act — acronym “Mamdani” — specifically targets (not extremists but) the Democratic Socialists of America roy.house.gov