From PPI's useful analysis: state and local entities that seek to block immigration authorities' access to jails have lower rates of ICE arrests

Is the so-called party of populists going to start running on progressive politics?

As tech bros have been one of the biggest demographics of white racial resentment… this completely tracks

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

He and his parents left their *still extremely privileged life* in post-apartheid South Africa because it wasn't racist enough, hi

From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.

Meanwhile, JRR Tolkien is rolling over in his grave

Had our first snow in Denver today, and as a teacher I’d like to report that there’s still always that one kid who wears shorts and no coat. And yes he’s white.

People with disabilities are funneled into the system starting at a young age: ➡️ As children, they face some of the highest rates of arrest & confinement. ➡️ And as adults, almost half a million people with disabilities are locked up in state prisons on a given day.

It be people who have never applied for a single government service bemoaning the idea of people "who don't need it," getting access to it. And like, that is not a problem we have. Our problem is that these systems are so Byzantine that many people who need them cannot access them.

I’m trying very hard to be measured about this conversation but I am so, so frustrated with the idea that accommodations are easy to get and enforce. They are not, and every parent of a disabled child spends an extremely considerable amount of time getting them and then making sure they’re enforced

Let's talk turkey: After months of targeting incarcerated people who received commutations from Biden, Pres. Trump pardoned 2 turkeys today. Sparing a turkey while supporting the death penalty and punishing people for no longer being on death row is no act of festive goodwill.

I mean the thing that Summers resigned over is directly admitting that he was pressuring students into sex (while making racist little jibes about her!) in an email to his notorious paedophile buddy. I do wonder how one could not be incredibly embarrassed to run this kind of pedantry in this case.

almost seems like a pattern in the White House…

'I’m no expert but I know what it means to be dehumanized, rendered disposable, and oppressed,' Alice wrote of the imperative to be in solidarity with Palestine. 'I know that all people deserve freedom. I know that genocide is a mass disabling event and a form of eugenics.'

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

A threadful of love for Alice Wong ❤️

I hope Alice’s memory is never sanitized. She supported free Palestine. She believed in deep pleasure for disabled people, sexual, aesthetic & otherwise. She was unflinching in calling out people’s bullshit. Don’t let the mainstream turn her into some desexualized defanged inspiration porn!!!

NEW | Representative Rashida Tlaib, alongside 20 other members of Congress, is introducing a resolution to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It calls for the U.S. to take immediate action to fulfil its binding legal obligations as a party to the Genocide Convention.

Relatable.

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Hey I found an explicit, credible threat to commit murder, from an entity that has committed murder in exactly this way previously. bsky.app/profile/dept...

Every morning when waking up.

What a time to be alive and to witness such rhetorical maneuvering that would leave Derrida’s head spinning

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

None of this is good. Most especially for the victims.

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

To also cite a book from my younger days, Richard Wright’s Native Son, when I was 16. Older me appreciated James Baldwin’s critique of the book, but younger me was forever changed (for the better) through this story so drastically different from the world I grew up in, and was presented with

no money for politicians

What a thread from years of The Onion getting it right. May he rot eternally.

🔴 In the past 48 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 22 killed (17 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 9 injured arriving at hospitals. This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 68,858 and 170,664 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

Too Good To Go is a great app for local grub on the cheap. We got 3 baker’s dozen of fresh bagels for $10

“some people abuse SNAP” your soul is rotten

I wonder who has been making this case for decades

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

This isn’t a real ceasefire in Gaza – it’s a holding pattern before war returns | Sanam Vakil

If you haven't read this yet and study education, I would strongly recommend that you do. The treatment of students is appalling and I need to see these test scores (and information on the sample that took them) before I believe any of their claims. www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

I often tell my students this. Paper is a technology.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

The government has the money to fund SNAP but they are choosing not to! The government has the money to fund SNAP but they are choosing not to! The government has the money to fund SNAP but they are choosing not to! The government has the money to fund SNAP but they are choosing not to!

If convicted, people who showed up to a protest could face “decades of prison time,” the National Lawyers Guild says.

Did people call for reforming the Gestapo? [Rhetorical question]

Israel still fires on Lebanon almost a year after a ceasefire. Some predict the same for Gaza My look at the Lebanon "lessfire" model, with interactive map courtesy of the @apnews.com graphics team apnews.com/article/leba...

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...