Breaking the 12 year long GOP supermajority in Mississippi seems like a big deal. A bunch of Black women mayors seems like a big deal. Can’t wait for the hot “How Democrats winning is bad news for Democrats” takes.

Big day for people who care about other people

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

A big L for motherfuckers tonight.

look ... the American people voted for a senile fascist who would empower a group of psyco bribemongers to go to war with (checks notes) Nigeria and Venezuela while starving the American people and crashing the economy all while he threw parties and had an unhealthy marble and gold toilet fixation.

And again, a pattern of putting out statements accusing people of serious Federal crimes and then releasing them hours or days or weeks later with no charges. And no retraction.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Watch this. And then the whole thing. They are destroying the rule of law: www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Hope folks feel less alone today, that people join with others to take further and deeper actions, and that everyone fights like hell to protect those most vulnerable to this regime.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

No Kings in Muskego, WI! Over 400 strong in deep red Waukesha County. #nokings

My latest for @msnbc.com: The Trump administration's gutting the special education personnel not only betrays people with disabilities; it rolls back the work of four Republican presidents who passed bills for special education (Nixon, Ford, and the Bushes) www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

If you work at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services and have been RIF'd, I'd love to speak to you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I will need to verify your identity, but will conceal and protect your identity.

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

lock in friends. look out for each other. we're gonna get through this together.

I'm furious on behalf of everyone who was brutalized by ICE today in Chicago. My GOD, this is completely horrible. I've been in meetings most of today and I just checked messages and see that comrades & friends were part of the people they brutalized today.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

now they're snatching elected officials

These people want any excuse available to abuse women.

This is an occupying force that is operating without restrictions, oversight, or perceived possible consequences.

I can't even begin to articulate how seethingly angry I am rn

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.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

The disability rights movement was built to be bipartisan. So what happens when Trump assaults disability rights? www.newyorker.com/news/deep-st...

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

This is one of the most important posts of the day.

A timeline in which I have to rally behind Jimmy Kimmel. Dark times, indeed.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Yet another seismic decision fundamentally reshaping our system of government issued on the shadow docket with not even a single word of explanation.

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

I am beginning to think there is not a coherent and consistent legal philosophy at work here.

The UFW can confirm farm workers were critically injured yesterday during chaotic raids in Ventura County, CA. Other workers, including US citizens, remain unaccounted for. UFW staff is on the ground supporting impacted families. Our full statement below. ⬇️ 1/

There is only one possible ending to this story, and sports aren't the last chapter. I guarantee that if you haven't lost five decades of rights in two weeks, you have no idea what this feels like, so I'm begging you: protect trans kids right now with everything you've got.

Something really sickening about watching so many people cheer for millions of people losing their health insurance. Just a fundamental, unbridgeable disagreement in morality, about whether other people matter.

It’s been a hard month. I wrote about death, grief, and Magic: The Gathering. dansinker.com/posts/202…

It is mechanically not possible to bankrupt Medicaid. Unlike Medicare & Social Security, there’s no pot of money for the program where spending stops if it runs out. Cutting ppl off Medicaid doesn’t leave more for others. Republicans are cutting Medicaid because they want it to cover fewer people.

Absolutely HORRIFIC decision by UPenn. Will scrap all of Lia Thomas' wins, will adopt "biological definitions" for Title IX under Trump's order, and more. Some of this could lead to bathroom bans at UPenn too given the admin views bathroom usage as in violation.

My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

NEW: We @immcouncil.org just published our in-depth analysis of the immigration enforcement provisions of the reconciliation bill. Want to know what funding ICE and CBP get, and for what purposes? We've got you covered! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...

Fuck these people.

The administration wants to deport a lot of people — so it needs to look beyond the criminals it's said it is focused on. Yessenia Ruano hoped the fact that her visa application for victims of human trafficking was processing would help her stay. ICE told her to leave. 19thnews.org/2025/07/upro...

David is right. What JD Vance is saying is nothing is more important than destroying this country’s basic principles and crash the economy to expel a population he doesn’t like. There are other options! Ones that actually make this country BETTER, not WORSE.

One reason impoundment is illegal is that it prevents Presidents from remaking laws previously passed by Congress by, for example, discriminating against disfavored groups