I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

REBUILD is now also providing no-fee therapy to people who have been detained by ICE. Please support REBUILD by donating, and share it with those who may benefit from it. findmeatherapist.org

The criminal legal system has always been used as a tool to dehumanize and control people with the full participation of communities who have been convinced that this is the only option for safety. The immigration detention system uses the same myths and tactics. We must choose freedom over fear.

San Diego stroll.

Justice Eddins has been assailing SCOTUS. In another decision this month, he said the Roberts Court is "pretend law." In this decision, he said federal rights protections are "suddenly fluid," he describes Dobbs as "stripping autonomy" and "force births."

If you attend, work for, once went to, or plan to send your kids to a University of California school, write to the presidents and board of regents and demand UC stand up to Trump's attempts to bribe and cower the greatest public unvierstiy system in the world: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

not to brag but @democracydocket.com has this incredibly helpful timeline where you can see how the department of justice voting section has turned upside down since january. if you haven't been following you can get caught up. from @mattdcohen.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/timeline-tra...

Parents of young children should be organizing relentlessly for free universal childcare because this seems unsustainable. Truly. At the very least, folks should be vociferously backing politicians who run on this.

Precisely.

better things are possible!!!!

Thread, on how LA and MS are sending NatGuard troops to DC even as homicide rates are higher in many of their own cities, and even as Trump guts federal funding for any and all programs that reduce crime but don't use a gun. Social control, not safety. Over and over and over and over.

Big appreciation to unions and workers today and all days.

On Labor Day, we rise together. While billionaires buy up our government, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first. Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/mayd...

61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened: “IS THIS AMERICA?” youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM

The Illinois constitution guarantees each defendant a right to effective legal representation, but public defenders throughout the state are facing significant understaffing that undercuts their ability to win their cases. boltsmag.org/illinoi...

A Democratic message that leaned in HARD into uplifting the idea of the commons and re-teaching people about importance of PUBLIC GOODS and the fact that they are GOOD and FOR EVERYONE would be an easy place to mobilize lots of people towards a project of building.

Anyway, folks will end up debating every word. But what's needed is a simple clear message and action. Followed by relentless repeating of that simple clear message over and over and over again. Followed by specifically telling people what to do/what actions to take in support of the message.

This is unfortunate: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u... I wrote to the president of Harvard. I hope other faculty will speak their conscience, even if it means more struggle ahead.

Always enough money for cops, but never enough for the public defenders... "More than 120 cases, including some for assault on family members and police, were dismissed... fallout from a monthslong dispute over pay that has led public defenders to stop taking new clients" Reports @apnews.com

Many, many, MANY studies show that the cumulative costs of harassing homeless people—cops, prison, jail, etc—are much more expensive than just housing them and providing income, and that doing those things helps people get to the point where they’re not in crisis any longer. We choose cruelty.

Crockett: Earlier someone was talking about cities being hellholes. Los Angeles contributes almost 20 billion in taxes. That’s more than all states in this country except for four.

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.

It's just hilarious (in an existential dread sort of way) that SCOTUS didn't consider Covid and climate change emergencies meriting extraordinary executive action, but Trump's completely made-up migrant "invasion" and laughable fentanyl-tariff link get complete deference.

Yes, please

Kill the fascist within you.

Americans have really got to unlearn the propagandist indoctrination that socialism is bad. It means that everyone has what they need, resources are shared, and we care for the earth & those around us. We've been taught to hate it so capitalists can keep exploiting us and working us to death.

The tens of billions of dollars being allocated to ICE could provide food and healthcare to everyone who needs it. This regime chose tyranny and terror instead. They would rather fund a militia to kidnap & disappear people, than give folks healthcare, school lunches and food assistance.

Keep reminding folks of this.

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill

The Supreme Court has ruled to allow parents to opt out of school curriculum that includes LGBTQ themes in a decision that ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio says casts queer and trans people and families as an "ideology" rather than a community.

NEW: Nearly 300 EPA workers have signed onto a “Declaration of Dissent” against the Trump administration’s climate policies and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s leadership. This is the second declaration to come out of this administration from angry federal workers.

I’m currently building a dataset on police forces around the globe. No other country has a force quite like ICE (w/ broad enforcement powers, tactical gear, immigration focus); the most apt comparisons are to secret police in authoritarian regimes rather than border/immigration forces elsewhere.

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

Republican senators have been racing to pass their bill before people learn about these numbers. But at some point Americans are going to notice anyway. Including the ~half of Medicaid recipients who voted for Trump.

By Bill Bramhall

If Jeff Bezos can afford to rent Venice for a $50 million wedding, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.

This is actually huge.

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

The leaders who got us to this point were never going to be the ones who get us to the next one. A generational shift in power is here.

Wake up Democratic Party old guard establishment. This isn’t about New York City. This is the way the wind is blowing. Step aside for young people who this country will need over the next several decades long after you are gone. Enough with your egos and the big money interests.

This is mostly for myself, but you're allowed to take care of yourself first even while the world is on fire. By that I mean you shouldn't feel bad for seeking help just because many are suffering. Go seek the mental health or substance abuse treatment you need. Go to the doctor. Stay alive.

"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..." "The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

For those asking, Yale recorded a lot of their popular lecture courses and put them online for free. Just faculty doing our thing in a classroom. In front of students. You can find them here: oyc.yale.edu/courses

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.