America’s Mayor 💗

Cities thrive not on fear but empathy, on cooperation not division. That's the NYC we know and love. It has found expression in this movement. And it is rising up at the ballot box today. Polls close at 9pm: zohranfornyc.com/vote

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

‘Let children be children': Pritzker asks feds to pause immigration operations for Halloween 'No child should be forced to inhale tear gas or other chemical agents while trick or treating in their own neighborhood,' Pritzker wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security.

This was a piece I needed to read. Maybe you will, too. organizingmythoughts.org/we-have-to-m...

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AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

The man in charge of our nations health thinks foreskins cause autism and babies come out of the placenta.

I love a reminder, especially one as gorgeous as this - that for all our human drama, there are forces that know nothing of our petty chaos and they just keep on going. #sunrise

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

suza kenyaba is the name of the girl in the link picture. she was five

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The man who dismantled the Department of Education, everyone:

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

“And really, that’s always been Trump’s allure: He allows people to be the worst version of themselves. He tells them it’s OK that you’re a bad person, for I’m a bad person too. We can be bad together.” - @dennycarter.bsky.social badfaithtimes.com/its-not-ok/

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments. Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies. He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.

The red line is when Republicans gleefully allowed President Clinton’s assault weapons ban to expire

Little kids with brain cancer. That’s who Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are screwing over by cutting health care.

This is what you voted for⁉️ Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies. Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.

Wifey: what’s that animal your brother loves again? The cubachabra? Me: what? Wifey: the really chill one that likes hot baths with yuzu. What was it called? Chapacubra? Me: yeah, that’s it. You nailed it

What a headline.

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

THIS. THIS. THIS.

The President could deploy troops to help disaster recovery efforts from devastating storms, but instead he sends them to Los Angels to chase fry cooks and landscapers.

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social on ny1 : “People are going to get sick and go hungry… They’re giving people crumbs and taking away the whole loaf… One of the saddest days in 🇺🇸 history.”

republicans: we are voting no on this dangerous bill that will kill many of our constituents donald trump: what if i give you free hats republicans: we are voting yes on this beautiful bill that will kill many of our constituents

the stories that come out of the ICE camps are going to look like the stories that come out of every camp system; rampant corruption, epidemic disease, physical and sexual abuse on a vast scale, a death rate far higher than normal, and medical abuses.

i wrote about what it feels like to live in the collapse of the american empire "a flake of shale in a great upheaval of the earth" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

That Tr*mp took time to go to do a PR hit at the new concentration camp in Florida but didn’t pay respects to Melissa Hortman and her family after she and her husband were shot and murdered by one of his supporters is shameful. And not remotely surprising.

“We asked for their help to hunt down the people who attacked us on September 11th, and at infinite personal risk, they gave it. Then we offered our help, giving them a safe place to live—and now we’re going back on our word.”

Look at this sweet, innocent baby —small, scared, utterly alone in a courtroom. No lawyer. No protection. No justice. Trump cut legal aid for migrant children, tearing away their last lifeline. They say they care about families. But this? This is sanctioned cruelty. @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

they went door to door and took a third grader to a detention center? this is gestapo shit!

One flight attendant recalled being told: “‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off.’” By @mckenziefunk.com