Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

As of 2pm today - less than 6 hours after receiving formal notice that the President had federalized Oregon’s National Guard in Portland - we filed a lawsuit. The president has overstepped his authority. #portland #nationalguard #orpol

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

Fevers can be dangerous during pregnancy. Listen to your doctor, not a wannabe dictator and his crony who swims in sewage water.

This idea that you need to run culture war conservatives to win a Dem seat is absurd and it’s part of how we’ve arrived at a state where you have a political consensus emerge around lionizing edgelords like Charlie Kirk, who was an objectively terrible person.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

We’re going to see articles of impeachment for doing these crimes, right? Or is Congress just going to tolerate a president that conducts extrajudicial murders?

Wow. Not at all surprising, but wow. Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

I'm biased, but I thought Leah was on fire here.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul endorses NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

The Senator from Maryland gets it: “That kind of spineless politics is what people are sick of" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

When Andrew noticed a little old man among a group of new arrivals at his prison, he instinctively knew that the man was Korean. He went over and greeted him. From there, they formed a powerful bond: "He needed help navigating incarceration. I needed a father."

More than 200,000 people in Gaza — 10 percent of population — have been killed, says former Israeli Defense Force general

Let's go along with the majority of us on this, whaddaya say?

In an effort to expand his power even more, President Trump announced he’s deploying National Guard troops into Memphis. Sending untrained soldiers into our communities will sow fear and won’t make anyone safer. We condemn this dangerous escalation by the president.

Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org

Is now a good time to have that conversation about gun violence?

Today @merkley.senate.gov and I released a report on our recent trip to the Middle East. Our inescapable conclusion: the Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Tune in as we discuss what we saw and where we go from here:

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

NEW: The National Guard analyzed its mission and found it is perceived as "leveraging fear, driving a wedge between civilians and the military, and promoting a sense of shame among troops and the military." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.

Fascinating new results on Gen Z from the @nbcnews.com Decision Desk poll -- views on family and marriage www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

They’re claiming the signature isn’t real but I’m going to remind everyone that 11000+ photographs and videos were removed from Epstein’s properties by the FBI and this is the tip of the fcking iceberg. And I think everyone in the GOP knows it.

The public deserves transparency. I’m calling on District Attorney Nathan Vasquez to release security footage from the Central Library regarding the August 25 incident so everyone can have a better understanding of this incident.

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

These consultants are going to get us all killed.

Dem consultants out there saying "voters won't care unless it affects their daily life" even as we are living through an extended nationwide hysteria about trans girls in high school sports, an issue which affects literally maybe a dozen Americans.

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.

Hankyoreh Editorial: "Is this any way for the US to treat an ally?" It's not just "regrettable" - it's criminal. No reason to hold back. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

I'll say again: This matters. For months NYT has been pushing "Harvard is about to cave" line. That line is 100% in MAGA's interest. Every other institution will think, "If not even Harvard can stand up, how could we." Today, NYT: Oh, I guess it's a disagreement WITHIN THE TRUMP TEAM.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

How @portlanddsa.bsky.social and Allies Defeated a Smear Campaign and Protected Free Speech on Palestine Great article!

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field. New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

“They say they are ridding D.C. of violent crime, and at the same time they’re giving early release to people convicted of gun crimes, even if they have a dangerous, violent criminal history...[this] is the height of hypocrisy for this administration.” - Eric Tirschwell, Everytown Law

As long as I’m on council I’ll continue to defend against transphobia with all the power of the office. And I’m certainly not alone. We’re not going to roll over for fascists when they come for trans people.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

Really angry today.

That David Shor wiener has caused a truly impressive amount of damage to the party and the country

They were fighting fires burning through the Pacific Northwest. Federal agents arrested firefighters, more reign of terror on immigrants as Trump rapidly expands policing and paramilitary forces

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