If you are feeling helpless in the face of All Of It (and it's a lot), I am telling you: find a way to plug in locally. Figure out who is doing something-- anything-- meaningful, and see if you can help. The first org you find may not be the one. But you will get there. It will help your heart.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Jesus

If you’re still carrying the torch for the Democrats or spending your time defending them, please, I beg you, look around. They’re saying they agree with this illegal war, they just demand the privilege to make it legal. This isn’t opposition. This isn’t capitulation. This is cooperation.

If this war were truly about opposition to oppressive Islamist regimes, the US wouldn’t be allied with Saudi Arabia or have its 5th Fleet stationed in Bahrain. There are other examples, but let’s just be clear this is NOT what the war is about.

"We have to side with our country during wartime!" Actually no, we don't. That's just government imperialist propaganda.

No word of the death toll? No word of the Constitution? No word of impeachment? Come TF on bsky.app/profile/audr...

85 little girls, massacred.

Has anyone claimed these schoolgirls were “human shields” yet? Because they will—and it will be a lie.

He could just as easily be talking about the Democratic Party, many of whose leaders are making similar mistakes:

Look, y'all don't have to read the whole book Enshittification by Cory Doctorow, but ... wow, some things that made me go, "ohhhh, of course that's why ... " I think I refer to Enshittification on the daily. (Which, BTW, a fantastic word to say in an academic setting) bookshop.org/a/15212/9780...

Los Angeles is ready for bold, transformational change. Join the movement at raeforla.com

Divide and conquer is not just a trite truism. Solidarity is the only tool to save multicultural democracy and too many groups are unfortunately now learning this the hard way.

Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc

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Should be noted that the surveillance devices Amazon, Google, Flock and the rest of them try to sell us are versions of this. The idea of fortress in place of community and surveillance as safety is good for fascists and keeps people buying their products.

I woke up thinking about how women (final girls) will be the ones to save us from the connected horrors of capitalism, imperialism, settler colonial, white supremacy. Think Bree Newsome Bass’ badassery with the flag. #horror of the now

So scared of knowledge. So scared of learning. So sad. Never forget. Knowledge is power. This….this.

What is one book that stayed with you in the last couple of years? 📚💙 #booksky I'll go first ... Sofia Samatar's The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain. Short and lyrical, kind of perfect. bookshop.org/a/15212/9781...

Rev. Jesse Jackson built the Rainbow Coalition as a political home rooted in dignity and solidarity. That struggle continues here in New York City, in every fight for housing, justice, and equality. Today, we lower our flags in his honor — and recommit to the movement he called us to build.

Our communities are not safer with an LAPD that chooses to not enforce a mask ban but encourages arresting the parents of students who protest against ICE.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Read more about #RaeforLA Sign a petition to get her on the ballot: www.raeforla.com/newsroom Here are the front runners for LA’s mayoral race: lapublicpress.org/2026/02/la-m...

Being joyful about civic life is such a powerful statement.

Worth noting: literally any US born politician could get some of that Mamdani glow by siding with people over billionaires every single time. Just love your neighbors more than money and fight for them relentlessly! (And have years of coalition building and great communication skills, etc.)

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

I really think the whole notion of “bearing witness” has gotten deeply twisted “Witness” does not mean merely to observe firsthand. It means to carry truth and to testify to that truth in the pursuit of justice You don’t need to traumatize yourself in order to know that atrocities are happening

more institutions putting everyone's faith back in faith-based institutions

NEW writing: a letter to these brave Angelenos "I see your efforts to oppose the terrible actions of la migra, which has terrorized our Black and Brown communities in Los Angeles for generations, as part of a proud tradition of STEM students and practitioners who refuse to shut up and calculate."

"restored the Constitution" lol don't piss me off also Senators start preparing yourself now to hold that seat open

There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having): Moral injury. Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.

Big update on our global reporting on USAID, HIV, sex work and LGBTQ health: our feature for @pulitzercenter.org from my month in Uganda will drop at @theintercept.com next week!

The Fair Games coalition is gathered outside LA28’s headquarters in South Park calling for Casey Wasserman to resign, drawing attention to the board’s MAGA appointees, and demanding that ICE leave LA — and Milan, where the Winter Olympics begin today

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Imagine being allowed to look at Lupita Nyong'o and complaining about it

1. This 2016 exchange between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel is so essential, really gets to the heart of Epstein's project. Epstein: brexit, just the beginning. Thiel: Of what? Epstein: return to tribalism... finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain

House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it. While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

I just a joined UpScrolled … think it might be good. What do y’all think?

I'm fucking HEATED. If we're going to survive and get out of this disaster, we white people need to uplift AND protect Black and brown leaders, with our bodies and lives. I don't want to mourn another Black leader. I want them to lead. We need them here, not as martyrs in a goddamn history book.

"May we look at Minnesota as a reflection of where we’ve been and a window into who we can become — a people bound together not by fear, but by a network of care, and shared commitment to life, dignity, and mutual support." belonging.berkeley.edu/what-fierce-...

An Open Letter to the Minnesota Law Community -- lpeproject.org/blog/an-open...

I think it's important for them to see that someone who looks like them doesn't think or talk like them. It's a big part of why I'm as outspoken as I am: being the human embodiment of white privilege, I had better use it for good.

ICE agents should be pariahs, lepers, social outcasts from now until they die alone. Repentance will never be enough, not without truth and recompense. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-morale-reports-minneapolis-shooting-b2907742.html

look I’m willing to allow The Ballroom to stay up instead of being crushed by a wrecking ball on Day 1 if we can use it to host Miller’s trial and execution

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

What we saw in 2020 & what we’re seeing maybe more pointedly now is that the state exists primarily to protect the property, persons, & *ambitions* of the moneyed class. It simply WILL NOT RESPOND to our collective demands in its current form. It is, in fact, designed to do the opposite.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis