A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now

Breathless reports on Twitter from Project Veritas & fellow creeps of infiltrating ICE watch signals. I thought, Oh, no, they found a couple of jackasses & are going to blow them up. But no, the "conspiracy" is that many people volunteer, take turns on shifts, and train at nonviolence.

Lot of replies saying MAGA’s nothing but astroturf. There is astroturf—O’Keefe’s part of it—but no, it’s not limited to that. I’ve been reporting on it 10 years. Let’s not respond to MAGA’s delusions w/ our own. The fascist threat is real & big; the truth is everyday people democracy can be bigger.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

If yall think this is "crazy" or "outlandish," you should read what those folks in Savannah said to General Sherman in January 1865 after he asked them "what they wanted." We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing

“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.” Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more.

The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color. All. People. Of. Color.

"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay

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@samthielman.com writes an absolute heater about a zombified American empire that nevertheless retains its relentless appetite for brains and flesh.

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social:

The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals. We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government.

Slow clap for all the “economic anxiety” pundits, from 2009 to today. You’ve always been clowns.

This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening.

Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment!

FWIW I do think it's still important to show up to vote in overwhelming numbers & to clog up the courts as much as possible, but y'all, it's the state that's doing all this stuff. The state will not willingly provide a remedy for its own lawlessness. That's not a legitimate exit strategy.

The president has been encouraged to express himself with 15 to 18 "pieces of flair"

A thread for those who've been following the scheming between the University of Virginia's far-right board, Trump's Department of Justice, & various MAGA politicians. 👇🏽

“..the goal for MAGA is to swap out democratic liberal ideologies w/ a Christian nationalism.. preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.” My Jan. 6th Morning Read:

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

And like I get it, people want a return to "normal" but if your normal is a police state that doesn't target white people and leaves everything else the same? You aren't actually interested in progress or liberation

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes.

What a perfect analogy and response to resistlibs who whinge about "why are you protesting democrats and not republicans." Well done. 🧵

What is the liberal position on Israel? Crime? Immigration? Regime change? Oil extraction? On all of these highly relevant issues that motivate people, they have some vague answer that tries to play both sides. Meanwhile, conservatives can give you a confident straightforward answer on all of them.

Right wing parties are winning around the world, and a major contributor is that liberals can’t give a straight answer on fucking anything for fear their answer might offend someone.

This is excellent and worth reading now--even though it was written about the boat strikes, and not the invasion and proposed occupation.

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

Wow today is going to be weeks long

White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done. Sit down, Peter. This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception.

Wrote a little thing on Facebook for my non-online friends and relatives about caution around Charlie Kirk’s killing. It’s public so feel free to share it with your non-online friends and relatives too. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DS2...

I wonder why it is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

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

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...

Anybody watching this Trump program knows that it’s all fiction & performance. His “instincts;” his “deal-making;” his status as “the ultimate CEO.” It’s utter fiction. It’s awful that media figures w/a reasonable level of sophistication pretend that the silly stories from Trump camp are credible.

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

Has a Dem introduced a "no law enforcement with masks, no I.D.s and a right to hold you indefinitely" bill? Or put more simply, "defund ICE"?

some people confuse the "ruthless pursuit of power *in order to win advance one's political projects, principles, and values*" Realism with "ruthless pursuit of power that betrays the absence of political projects, principles, and values" Realism. there's nothing serious or adult about the latter

i’m here you fuckaas bitch

They will tell the courts to get fucked but they can only tell your union to get fucked if you let them! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...

To the #BrokenPost, shredding the Constitution in a fascist, authoritarian coup is a "power move." Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.