Nev Jones––our era's most essential mental health researcher––and I published this essay yesterday, highlighting alarming moves by Mamdani. Ending psychiatric coercion and building abolitionist care systems is an ethical imperative; it's also what's most effective. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

This is an absolute scandal; the United States government is deliberately consolidating all deportation cases of an ethnic minority that the President has called "garbage" in front of a handpicked group of judges and with dramatically accelerated timeline. A lawsuit was filed yesterday against it.

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

"These are not signs of a democracy under threat," writes @eric-reinhart.com. "They are symptoms of one that eroded – if it ever existed – long ago." "Why, then, does American political discourse remain fixated on a catastrophe that always seems imminent but never quite arrives?"

Trump keeps giving Democratic Party leaders what they've long wanted (and themselves done): genocide in Palestine, repression of dissent and leftist ideas on campuses, further expansion of ICE and policing powers, and more imperial war, inequality, and tech-bro oligarchy.

On my friend Giuseppe's kidnapping by ICE and Chicago community response: Even as Democratic Party leaders retreat into caution, rhetoric, and procedural theater amid the rise of fascism, many ordinary Americans have stopped waiting. Across the country, including in my Chicago neighborhood, have

Mental health crisis training for police doesn't work. We need a civilian alternative. www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/09/c...

Yesterday, The Guardian published an essay I wrote for their Fighting Back series. Here is the longer original version, with a link near the end to donate to my friend Giuseppe's mutual-aid fund to fight his kidnapping by ICE and to continue his asylum case. ericreinhart.substack.com/p/america-is...

The NYTimes publishing an editorial condemning an illegal, manufactured war alongside a columnist lending support to that war, which has already massacred school children, is not a sign of healthy debate. It's a reflection of a newspaper with no guiding ethical principles or purpose.

Exactly. Not cowardice. Agreement.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Foreign governments would do best to take a clear stand: We do not negotiate with a terrorist American government. Trump has does not negotiate actual deals. He bullies, bulldozes, and bombs while lying through his teeth. Nothing he says is reliable. His promises mean nothing.

Schumer must be removed from office.

please don't call this weakness or cowardice or whatever. schumer supports the war and wanted more cover than he got. that's why dwelling on process stuff is ultimately a dead end: because even if every form was filled out correctly, this would still be an abomination.

Does anyone think that these blatant wars of aggression against weaker states––with bombing of schools and slaughter of children––won't continue provoking asymmetric warfare (ie, "terrorism") that reprises for decades to come? Assholes and idiots run the US and Israel. They must be deposed.

Amazing hypocrisy from this man who just gave a speech about the vital importance of universalism and international law. Like so many others, he doesn't object to imperialism and disregard for international law; he just objects to it when it affects rich white people.

The world should put severe sanctions on US political leaders and their oligarch associates. Continuing to accommodate these white-supremacist imperialists will not end well for anyone.

Israel and the US. They have been acting in concert throughout.

Our friend Giuseppe, who has an ongoing legal asylum case, was taken by ICE in Chicago yesterday morning and has been moved to Indiana. He needs urgent aid to file habeas corpus, to get money to his family that depends on his monthly support, etc. Please donate. www.gofundme.com/f/support-gi...

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived & incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children" "for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds" LORD

More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.

Bari Weiss has just hired Peter Attia for “alternative views” for CBS News. In these emails, which have the subject line “Fresh shipment”, Attia rues the fact that he can tell no one about the amazing Epstein lifestyle:

Good. Now, will CPD actually do this? Their entire history has been dominated by covering up abuses by cops, not documenting them. A strategy that relies on CPD to side with us over federal ‘law enforcement’ seems very unlikely to be effective. What will Johnson do when his cops behave like cops?

FULL STORY: The order directs members of the Chicago Police Department to document actions by agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection and attempt to identify those responsible for suspected misconduct or criminal violations. @wttw.bsky.social

Trump said starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to states with local governments resisting his administration’s immigration policies.

I know I’m not the first to note this, but it’s bizarre that all these grown men correspond with Epstein in language you’d expect from a 6-year-old. It’s like they’re stuck at the age of the children they traffic.

Hundreds of rich and powerful people have been exposed by the Epstein files and associated with what is supposedly the most taboo of all possible transgressions—pedophilia and child sex trafficking. As far as I know, virtually none have faced any meaningful consequences.

This is a real scoop of information

i can’t believe the lead nazi is antisemitic

NYPD’s shooting of Chakraborty after family called for an ambulance to help in a mental health crisis but were instead sent cops is exactly when Mamdani must come out aggressively explaining what we need a Dept of Community Safety to do (eg, newrepublic.com/article/2053...). His response isn’t it.

Economics, a famously ethical field.

Last week, NYPD shot a 22-year-old in front of his family after they called for an ambulance in a mental health crisis but cops were sent instead. Mamdani has a chance to stop this—but only if he confronts that crisis response alone is not enough. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

The players themselves could boycott any World Cup matches staged in the U.S. and force all to be held in Mexico and Canada. They don’t have to wait on their corrupt FIFA overlords or national representatives.

Last week, NYPD once again shot a young man in front of his family after they called for an ambulance because he was having a mental health crisis, but cops were sent instead. We know how to stop this. time.com/6988584/us-p...

Persistent Anonymous disruption of DHS and its surveillance tech would be rather valuable right now. I am highly doubtful that their digital security is terribly robust.

The irony is that Jay has pledge his soul to a literal security state run by fascist ghouls.

An actual opposition party would fight fascists, not try to appeal to them. Democrats are not an opposition party.

Trump admitted on Thursday evening that his administration is “not at all” deescalating its immigration raids in Minneapolis, confirming that his administration’s pledges to do so were lies, just hours after Senate Democrats folded on negotiations to prevent a government shutdown.

During a DHS shutdown, ICE and CBP continue to operate, but we begin to use up their slush fund from OBBBA. We also aren't stuck w/ a Sophie's Choice situation where SSI and Section 8 hang in the balance. It's a place of maximum (albeit still weak) leverage. We must ensure Dems do not squander it.

Notice that Democratic Party leaders are not only not proposing meaningful measures to stop this, but they are actively proposing to *keep giving ICE money to do it.*

Nobody saw this use of police-state surveillance coming: ICE agents are scanning the faces of people who protest, serve as legal observers, or otherwise annoy them and then DHS is immediately revoking their TSA and Global Entry status without any explanation. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Some context for the FBI search of a WaPo reporter's home, from last May: "Press freedom in the U.S. now falls in line with developing countries, such as Gambia, Uruguay and Sierra Leone."

Democrats keep trying to negotiate with a fascist dictator as if good-faith debate and promises are possible. That’s not how this works.

No guarantee from the Trump administration means anything. They have no reason to be true to their word. The only thing that has real meaning right now is stripping their fascist machine of funding and shuttering state terror agencies. Abolish DHS.

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Many of the busiest bars and restaurants in Chicago are closing tomorrow, a Friday night, to join the strike against ICE initiated by students in MN. Solidarity comes in many forms, and it aggregates. The people are showing so much more principle than our elected leaders.

The editors of the NYTimes should be, even if for purely symbolic purposes, charged with abetting a genocide.

Make the rich richer and make sure the poor and young people are stuck in debt servitude forever—that’s the goal.