Breaking: Happening now in Annapolis — hundreds rally as #Maryland lawmakers and community groups deliver 12,000+ petitions to Gov. Wes Moore, demanding the state cut ties with Avelo Airlines, which holds a $150M #ICE deportation flight contract and operates out of BWI.

Profiled a local Jewish activist who traveled the West Bank this summer to resist the ethnic cleansing of Palestine wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/inte... #palestine #gaza #israel #peace #baltimore @wagingnonviolence.org @jvp.bsky.social

At midnight, masked Israeli settlers woke Baltimore Jewish activist Nikki Morse"Your time is almost up." 2 months later, the Palestinian village was empty. For @wagingnonviolence.org I reported on the systematic ethnic cleaning of the #WestBank: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/inte...

it was great to interview a diverse range of #nokings protestors for Democracy Now!

Also someone needs to explain to, not just Rappoport (who is an idiot), but a lot of other people too, that the premise of democratic socialism is not that everyone is poor but that everyone can have nice things and afford an occasional date night out

Tens of thousands marched in DC for #NoKings. Interviews coming soon!

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more. My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

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.

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this: Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

This is an astounding leap in just three years, and it's great news for American society in general that these guys are starting to see just how destructive the proliferation of sports betting is. Convincing every sports league and TV network of the same thing is going to be much more difficult.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander expressed regret for not doing enough “to speak out against Israel's war crimes, against ethnic cleansing, against forced starvation of Palestinians.” Lander, who was with Mamdani on stage, called for anti-Zionists/liberal Zionists coalition committed to ending Gaza war.

thank god we’re all against political violence

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition. But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update. Thanks, WSJ.

Since Republican Senator Eric Schmitt brought up "Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge" in his speech arguing that America's heritage is white and Eurocentric, I have to say one thing about the whiteness of Continental units at Valley Forge. 🧵

The thing that depresses me about Trumpism is that 2009-15, however imperfect, felt like positive incremental change. Reading this, all I can think about is how Steve King felt real repercussions for his racism in 2020. Schmitt won’t get stripped of committees for this. Because it’s mainstream now.

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

“The idea that campus activists would be suspended en masse for protest activity would have been unthinkable back in 1985 when Columbia divested from apartheid South Africa after years of student protest and pressure. But these are very different times…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When authoritarians wish to destroy a people, they first deny their humanity. Trump today stated "Trans people do not exist," thus signaling they are fair game for persecution. Scapegoating and vilifying one group after another, as this administration does, is straight out of the fascist playbook.

Within 24 hours, several nonprofit clinics providing free HIV services would be closing as President Donald Trump announced the United States was slashing foreign aid.

Per FAA regulations, drone operators must maintain Visual Line of Sight and have a Remote ID that IDs the owner of the drone, and typically you need permission to fly over people. It’s possible to get a waiver, but this drone could have been operating in violation of FAA regs

NYT (pre-election): Vance is right, Haitians are straining resources in this Ohio town NYT (post-election): oh, forcing the Haitians to leave is crashing the economy of this Ohio town

What in gods name is this

Did a Jeff Bezos write this

By me: the appeals court has overturned the dubious conviction of Mylene Vialard, a nonviolent climate activist trying to halt construction of a fossil-fuel pipeline through Indigenous territory in Minnesota, on the grounds of pervasive prosecutorial misconduct. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At a vigil to honor the journalists in Gaza held today in Atlanta, it took the speakers over 20 minutes to read through the names of over 270 Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel during the War in Gaza, as identified by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

NEW: Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations to train the company's AI models without permission www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...

This tow truck driver is a true hero! He bravely took their vehicle while ICE GOONS were in the midst of kidnapping.

The US revoked the visas of two former senior health officials in Brazil for their involvement in a program that sent Cuban doctors to remote areas in the South American nation.

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office picked up the lawsuit after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dropped a similar one in March.

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

I wrote about the rise of @redemmas.org and Baltimore’s worker cooperative ecosystem

Last week we hosted the first ever national gathering of worker co-op restaurants here in Baltimore— @jnoor.bsky.social wrote up a post-convening report for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social: baltimorebeat.com/how-baltimor...

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble:

Republican governor Glenn Youngkin was overruled Tuesday as a Virginia circuit court ordered eight of his nominees be removed from their posts on three public universities’ boards, the @apnews.com reported and court records confirm. bit.ly/45swdIb #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

A big deal. As @aryasundaram.bsky.social explains, sponsors intend this bill to “decriminalize” street vending. Like the 19th century Lower East Side pushcart peddlers were, many vendors are immigrants. Police ticketing vendors brings criminal charges, now putting them at risk for targeting by ICE.

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths. ENOUGH. I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

I’m here at BWI Airport to demand Avelo Airlines stop assisting ICE with its human trafficking operation. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE

This assumes the GOP introduced work requirements in good faith. The point of forcing people to frequently submit paperwork is to push people with jobs off the program. That's the money being "saved." If AI can help people prove they have work (I don't know how it would) it defeats the entire goal.

Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, Kirsti Noem, Joseph Mazzara, Emil Bove, Drew Sargent, and everyone else involved in planning, executing, and obstructing justice around the CECOT imprisonments are responsible for Andry's torture and rape. Each bears a share of the blame. Don't ever let them forget it.

How many local news outlets in Baltimore covered this evening’s sizable and newsworthy protest against the starvation of Gaza? The day major Western news outlets like AP and Reuters condemned the force starvation of their journalists’s families?

From Nasser hospital in Gaza, Prof Nick Maynard (consultant surgeon at Oxford university hospital who has been travelling regularly to Gaza for 15 years): I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Journalists covering firearm violence should be aware of these harmful practices and actively avoid engaging in them. It will make their coverage better, improve the public’s understanding of firearm violence and minimize the harm poor reporting does to the communities most impacted by shootings."