I’m glad Van Jones apologized for his sick joking about dead kids in Gaza. But the problem goes deeper: he spread Netanyahu propaganda that the mass killings of civilians in Gaza—including 20K+ kids—is Iranian fake news. It’s not the students and young people who are fooled. It’s Van Jones.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Incredible @perrybaconjr.bsky.social interview with Chris Van Hollen newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The total collapse in trust between voters and politicians is an under-disussed aspect of the current fascist surge.

A great piece in @baltimorebeat.bsky.social on the history & revival of rec centers for youth in Baltimore. A critical community infrastructure with deep roots in Black neighborhoods given new life by @mayorbmscott.bsky.social. baltimorebeat.com/the-rec-cent...

🎧 On this week’s show: @jamellebouie.net on how fear of Trump is holding us back, and Corey Robin on eerie parallels between now and McCarthysim. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Finkelstein also opposes BDS. How can you paint yourself as pro-Palestine in any way, while rejecting what Palestinian civil society has asked of us?

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently. But also such a smarmy so and so.

This is what authoritarian governments want to do to everyone who defies them, even non-violently, especially YOUR authoritarian government. The tearful televised apologies, the hiding of faces in shame, that's the gentlest reward polite deference has in store for you if you fail to kiss the boot.

They will pull hardworking Americans out of their regular jobs and away from their families all to participate in a manufactured performance -- not a serious effort the protect public safety. For Donald Trump, this has never been about safety. This is about control.

This demand follows unprecedented escalations of aggression against Illinois citizens and residents.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

MANHUNT getting a shout-out in VOGUE from @emotrophywife.bsky.social <3 www.vogue.com/article/requ...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

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Ima keep saying this over and over: under the previous administration, ICE deported more Haitians than any other administration in history.

More of this, please!⚡

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

There's a real Herlihy Boy House-Sitting Service dynamic to the broader Bari Weiss thing, except instead of Chris Farley bellowing "let the BOY sleep in your BED" it's rich boring people who wish their kids were as respectful to them as she is.

These fascists have taken my friend, Palestinian scholar and feminist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social into custody.

“infinite video” means not infinite entertainment but infinite boredom; the death drive incarnate

I can't find a job flipping burgers that also has 6 years of college. I have advanced knowledge of this because my sister works in Healthcare and manages my welfare. People need to know that the cuts have started so please repost!

Medicaid cuts have started. I make 1550 a month on disability for schiz. They are saying I need to pay 426 before I get meds and services. I have searched for a part time job in Hannibal, MO for ten months with no luck. I'm a navy radar tech vet that has worked on industrial factory lasers and...

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

For more on the Trump official who's been dreaming about this shutdown "since puberty," read @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social's excellent deep-dive into Russell Vought. He's one of the "key figures leading us into a new and violently authoritarian future.”

a gifted kindergarten program does not need to exist and as a kid who was arbitrarily sorted into both gifted and regular track classes throughout my education i think gifted programs enforce race and class divisions and don’t do much else

and if you want to read "We've Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse" by James Hillman with our liberation psychology reading group we will start that in Nov and are accepting new members:

I’ve said this many times, and I hope you’re not sick of hearing it because you’ll prolly hear it many times again: Art is the Journey, not the Destination, and AIGuys fundamentally do not understand this. Art is the Means, not the End, the sum of it’s parts, which is why AI images feel so empty.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory (U.S. colony) Bad Bunny is a U.S. citizen. There's a lot of weird framing about him and the super bowl going on right now. He's not an immigrant. He didn't come to America, America came to Puerto Rico. America is the immigrant in that situation.

wow - regardless of whether they break the siege, the flotilla seems to have unlocked new levels of international solidarity, even if we don’t see/feel it here in the US

To keep her in detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.

@vanhollen.senate.gov @repjohnnyo.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov ICE ineptitude and blatant cruelty in Hyattsville MD These fascist SS wannabes are going to continue to hurt, and kill, completely innocent people

Al Jazeera reports on Israel intercepting the global sumud flotilla, boarding boats & detaining people. Those boats were in international waters & what Israel is doing is piracy and kidnapping. Where is the condemnation from our govt?

This is illegal

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

A lot of discourse on the left/liberal side is plagued by false dilemmas and binary thinking that gets in the way of creativity and result in stale arguments that do not address what is at hand: authoritarianism *is* a bread and butter issue

Chat GPT talks to itself. A cup-de-sac of nothing

And medically and physically and and and

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Exhibit A at The Hague just dropped

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The messenger, whoever he or she or they may be, matters less than the medium. AI-generated images have arrived in Maryland, and there’s no going back. www.thebanner.com/opinion/colu...

reminder that this directive functionally massively discriminates against Black men and should be understood as part of an ongoing campaign to resegregate the military www.military.com/daily-news/2...