Cops are rushing and arresting protestors in NYC right now. Follow @NYCRust for comprehensive updates

I just wanna say, love to everyone out there tonight. Cops were back on their bullshit, and they outnumbered us, but people stayed tight and communicated and gtfo of their when we needed to get out. And solidarity forever to the comrades who got snatched and assaulted by the pigs. We can always get better but people showed amazing spirit tonight.

ICE says abolish ICE

tHIs MessasaGe cOULDdnnt be Dsisolpayed on YoUR dEvIce beCAUSE it VioLATEs the TELEGRAM terms of SERvice.

Call for demonstrations against ICE this #J20 from crimethinc
https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1351263420742578179

#CloseTheCamps #EndFamilySeparation #AbolishICE

Black Lives Matter affiliated channels getting shut down on MLK Day

Thread on Biden
Just to keep track of the next horrible US administration.

General:
- Meet the New Boss, Part I
- Meet the New Boss, Part II
- What is Bidenism?
- Biden Is Finding New and Inexplicable Ways to Screw Up His Cabinet Picks
- Joe Biden’s Cabinet Is a Lost Cause for the Left
- The Left Has Valid Criticisms of Biden’s Appointments But Centrists Won’t Listen
- Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment

Foreign Policy and National Security:
- Joe Biden’s New National Security Picks Are Very Troubling
- Biden’s Pick for Secretary of State Has a Record of Militarism
- Joe Biden Is Filling His Cabinet With Pro-War Hawks
- Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars
- On Arms Sales to Dictators and the Yemen War, Progressives See a Way In With Biden
- We Should Be Very Worried About Joe Biden’s “Domestic Terrorism” Bill

Climate Change:
- As Biden Names Advisers, Climate Activists Push Back on Fossil Fuel Influence
- Biden Treasury Pick Could Defund the Fossil Fuel Industry, Climate Organizers Say
- The Obama Reunion Isn’t Nearly Enough to Stave Off Catastrophe

Immigration:
- Biden’s Immigration Moves Are Making a Mockery of His Vow to “Heal the Nation’s Soul”

Education:
- Biden Has New Progressive Education Rhetoric — But Policy Will Be the Test

Economy, Corporations & Corruption:
- Regulators! Stand Back: Under a Biden administration, Big Tech is set for a field day
- New Poll: Majority of Americans Want the Senate to Reject Biden’s Corporate Nominees
- Biden/Harris are going to expand the H-1B visa program for the benefit of Silicon Valley
- Biden Taps Two BlackRock Executives for Top Economic Posts
- BREAKING: Potential Biden Officials’ Firm Is Promising Big Profits Off Administration Access
- Biden coronavirus appointee has cut ties with Facebook, transition team says
- Beltway Liberals Aren’t Fighting Biden’s Pro-Corporate Admin Picks Hard Enough
- Progressives Denounce Biden Pick of “Mr. Monsanto” Tom Vilsack to Head USDA
- Biden’s Inauguration Will Be Mostly Virtual, but He’s Still Raising Millions for It From Corporations and Wealthy Donors
- Biden’s State Department Nominee Is a Walking, Talking Conflict of Interest
- Biden Cabinet Picks Pocketed Millions From Corporate Consulting and Speeches
- Joe Biden’s Neera Tanden Pick Is Even Worse Than You Thought (also, this)

Social and Workers Issues:
- Inside Biden’s Meeting With Civil Rights Leaders
- Joe Biden Wants to Bring the Dems Responsible for the 1994 Crime Bill Back to the White House
- Biden’s Labor Secretary Pick Personifies Compromise — That’s Not What We Need

Military:
- Biden Picks Raytheon Board Member Lloyd Austin as Pentagon Chief

Republicans:
- Biden Administration Will Create Position to Reach Conservatives
- Trump Accountability Project has been closed
-The Trump Administration Has Planted a Land Mine in Federal Agencies
- Republicans Have Held On to Enough Power to Influence Future Elections
- Joe Biden Is Yet Again Trying to Woo the GOP. He Should Give It Up
- The Escalating War Between The Republican Party and Democracy

Democrats:
- The Democrats’ Maddening Cowardice Is Carrying Over Into the Biden Era

What could Biden do?
- Joe Biden Doesn’t Need the Senate to Boost the Economy and Tackle Climate Change
- It’s Not That Complicated. Cancelling Student Debt Is Good
- A Biden Administration Can Raise Wages and Give Workers More Power — If It Wants To
- What Can Biden Do Without the Senate? (Podcast)
- Biden Needs to Spend Big—And Fast. Here Are 4 Immediate Priorities
- “Better Than Trump” Is Not Enough. We Need More From Biden on LGBTQ Policy
-With Senate Control, Here’s a Simple Way to Start Rolling Back Trump’s Legacy

What can we do?
- Now the Work Begins
- To Push Biden Left, We Must Build Movements to Challenge His Corporate Backers
- We Should Cause Trouble, Not Make Nice With Biden

TELEGRAM CENSORS BLM-AFFILIATED CHANNELS
AFTER FAR-RIGHT DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 18 January 2021

In the weeks following the January 6th assault on the U.S. Capitol, various right-wing extremist Telegram channels coordinated a campaign to remove BLM-affiliated and anti-fascist groups from the platform by submitting false reports to Telegram’s moderators. On the morning of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, owners of the targeted groups woke up to find that a number of their communities had been shut down overnight without warning or explanation. These groups were used to share information, resources and community in times of unrest and uncertainty. These groups date back to the George Floyd protests or mutual aid initiatives in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic. Their censorship and removal are the result of a deliberate effort by white nationalist groups to silence opposition during a moment of political turmoil.

Telegram did not provide detailed notices of any kind to channel owners, instead replacing all content with a generic message alleging a Terms of Service violation. While BLM-affiliated channels were taken down, many of the extremist groups coordinating the campaign were left in place, including “Proud Boys: Uncensored” (where the Proud Boys retreated after being removed from other platforms for violent activity) and “GypsyCrusader News Network” (a non-stop deluge of racial slurs, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, and a man dressed as the Joker giving Nazi salutes) as well as the group "archived1488" which gloated over the TOS announcement on one of these channels.

After several hours most of the targeted channels were brought back online. Telegram has offered no explanation for the initial shutdowns or the reinstatement of these channels. One possibility is that the spurious mass-reporting by right-wing spam accounts triggered an automatic removal violation, but no actual Terms of Service violation was found upon review by content moderators.

Attacks like these targeting non-violent groups on the left exemplify the double-standard used to silence marginalized people and their allies. Activists use Telegram to provide and receive real-time information related to protest actions, to communicate with allies across regional and national boundaries, and to share resources ranging from recipes to first-aid training. Topics of conversation range from heartbreak over news of Black deaths at the hands of police, to coordinating support for unhoused people in their communities, to organizing mutual aid efforts for those affected by the pandemic. These community resources were taken down while multiple channels openly affiliated with far-right hate groups remained online and functional.

As fallout from the Jan 6 Capitol attack continues to be felt, we anticipate increased attacks on leftist social media channels as well as political targeting of leftist activists. We vehemently maintain that there is a fundamental distinction between groups calling for justice, equity, the end of state sanctioned murder, and an end to homelessness and poverty, and groups calling for the murder and abuse of vulnerable populations to aid in the dissolution of our democracy.

That fundamental difference must be recognized by content moderators at Telegram and other social media networks, and freedom of peaceful organization and protest must be maintained. Equating groups advocating for Black Lives or Anti-Fascism with those calling for genocide, murder, and race war to perpetuate systems of white supremacy only serves to assuage a misguided sense of fairness, and lacks both moral and ethical judgement.

JPG: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9806
PDF: https://t.me/BLMProtests/9807

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY TO PRESS & MEDIA!

Mass arrests happening at a Black Trans Lives Matter in NYC. Follow https://t.me/NYCRUST for updates

MN: #livestream estimated 30+ arrests

Fuck NYPD. Thread: https://twitter.com/chrisgelardi/status/1351369158513061893

The guy who filed the lawsuit is literally the definition of a white liberal: https://twitter.com/ambmcg

This is the suit they supposedly filed

https://coalitionsw.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/001_Complaint-and-Exhibits.pdf

“[Ambassador Marc Ginsberg and The Coalition For a Safer Web] sued Apple in federal court Sunday, demanding that it remove Telegram, a chat and social media app, from its app store for failing to crack down on violent, extremist conversation in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/17/apple-capitol-siege-telegram/

It’s very weird that they’re acting like the plaintiffs are some secret. By law you have to provide this information. For example, here is the attorney they are retaining, which is listed in bold on the first page of the suit:

Keith Altman (SBN 257309) Lento Law Group P.C.
(516) 456-5885 kaltman@lentolawgroup.com