ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

This NYT story about how Mamdani dealt with the opposition by the city's elites fails to mention one particular elite institution: The NYT editorial page, which last June railed against him as "uniquely unsuited to the city’s challenges... lacks political savvy" www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/n... 1/

Markets panic after socialist victory in NYC—oh wait a minute.

Hello. Tariffs are taxes. Can I be on the Supreme Court now?

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

The last hospital in Darfur's el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken. n.pr/4qBqlF7

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Amazing sign being held by a small child

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

No Kings 2 is coming to Atlanta on October 18! (art via member Laura Borealis | @laura-gordon.bsky.social)

On hot button issues, a majority say children should be vaccinated; controlling gun violence is more important than gun rights; and Epstein files should be released, in a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

“Unless you're gonna pretend to be a character from The Wire, ultimately what's attainable for people is compartmentalization, not anonymity." - @harloholm.es to @wired.com

A DOJ study showing most domestic terrorism in the US comes from the far right is suddenly missing and replaced with a note saying DOJ is complying with Trump's executive order www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Charlie Kirk did push hate speech.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Reporting on Republican vote to advance the Ambler Access Project, @nytimes.com notes copper is "crucial to renewable energy" but should clarify here that copper from THIS mine is not crucial and that it's abundant in the lower 48, per @americanprogress.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

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Getting rid of vaccine mandates is a long-held goal of the medical freedom movement. Nearly two years ago, I went to Mississippi to write a story that foreshadowed what happened in Florida today. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/03/u...

#BREAKING: Judge Breyer has held that the Trump admin. *violated* the Posse Comitatus Act in its military deployments in and around Los Angeles, and has enjoined further use of those troops for law enforcement tasks. The order is stayed through 12 PDT on 9/12: georgetown.app.box.com/file/1973361...

REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?

From twitter, thanks for this image of @drdemetre.bsky.social from powerful CDC actions today, @jpatadams.bsky.social And we will need many many more resignations and protests to have a hope of obstructing this death cult—for starters join us Sept 2 -> bit.ly/SAVEPEPFAR #ImpeachRFKJr

Thank you for helping to clear Ms. Vlahos’s list last week! Our next teacher is Mrs. Martel who is a high school teacher in New Jersey! Clear Her List Here: bit.ly/4oW8UOL

Just a general FYI: I get that the CIA and FBI did some shady and crappy things in the 50s-80s. But if you are using those examples as referents for their (legal) powers *now,* you are showing your ignorance of some major constraints that were placed on them by Congress*

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight, a spokesperson for the CDC says.

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here: youtu.be/Lz9Cguax7oY

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

bleak: The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/c...

I’m hearing CDC leadership is investigating “an obscene sign” placed in the window of building 18.

Not how this country is supposed to work. And here’s hoping that this gasbag gets this point explained to him, by whatever means will do the job.

"The First Amendment allows Nazis to speak, but it does not ennoble Nazi speech. The fact that people say fascist things in a country with freedom of speech is how we know that they are fascists -- and that, if they themselves comes to power, they will end freedom of speech." - Timothy Snyder

Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Journalists writing about Trump's plans to send the National Guard to cities in blue states have to think carefully about how to frame it. The federal government (including the National Guard) call it an anti-crime narrative. But it increasingly feels like that's a pretext for military occupation.

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a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Having read @clintsmithiii.bsky.social's piece in The Atlantic, "Actually Slavery Was That Bad"—which, as words must, understates the truth of that title—I've just found, watched the first episode of, and subscribed to his "Crash Course Black American History" Youtube series. I commend it to you.

Enslaved Black women were particularly vulnerable to insidious and unrelenting sexual violence at the hands of their enslavers. In his 1857 book, William Anderson, born enslaved in Virginia, describes this:

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Whether Americans can elect a majority of Democrats in the midterms or stop Trump from running for an unconstitutional third term, what matters is that one political party is waging war on free and fair elections,” our columnist @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes.

Since we already said good night, let’s leave on a more hopeful note. Maybe - just maybe - Everglades Concentration Camp could shut down within a month 🙏🙏 Thank you to all those fighting this horror. Thank you to a strong coalition of indigenous, environmental, and immigration rights groups. 💪

Also, and not for nothing, they depend on the rule of law, too.

Our constitutions are not the same. We have been very proud of always holding elections, no matter what else was going on. I am so tired of Trump shitting on the United States of America.

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

“Would have never happened if I were President.”

The American political right is plainly authoritarian, openly racist and bigoted, and entirely hostile to science and education. It’s a toxic mix and nothing but a detriment to the country.