look at all the giant crowds in big cities and the big crowds in small towns like!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now at the Broadview ICE facility, where ~100 people have gathered to protest. Compared to the carnival-esque atmosphere of the No Kings march in Chicago, the vibes here are tense. State & local police eyeing the crowd in the "free speech zones" while masked feds watch from the facility roof.

Bring the trans flag to the next fash roast (metaphorical). I’ll raise it with you.

I’m not looking for deep understanding. Honestly, unless people walk next to me, my words about inaccessibility bounce right off, and I don’t expect people to do that. I do expect them to notice when communities I belong to are under attack, and I do expect them to step the fuck up.

This, 100% honestly, is good allyship.

Yep. New US “standard” is another veiled attack on science science.org/doi/10.1126/... @lewan.bsky.social Gold standard "is thus best understood as yet another of at least 318 actions against science that the second Trump administration has taken since the president took office in January 2025."

Yes. The resistance accounts are again pushing extremely dangerous misinformation that could get people hurt. Do not under any circumstances sit down at a rally if fascists are attacking people or otherwise. It's extremely dangerous.

This is absolutely the case; the president of the National Sheriff’s Association is one of the January 6th seditionists.

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

Huh your contrarian lefty outsider riding a groundswell of support is actually a big piece of shit? No, it can't be. fox23maine.com/news/local/g...

Something really striking about that video of the ICE guy being arrested was not just the professionalism of the arresting officer, but that both that officer performed what we’d call “emotional labor” on behalf of the ICE guy and also we saw exactly why that ICE officer is getting divorced

Wrecker bullshit telling people to do black bloc for No Kings has made it to normie local politics Facebook groups where I am, and could people please stop spreading dangerous bullshit because getting normies showing up to protest dressed like puts them and everyone else in danger.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

grinding my way through kotkin's STALIN (vol. 1) and his read on the russian revolution is striking: the state was not overthrown by force. the military situation was not untenable. there was bread, somewhere. rather, the autocracy self-liquidated as the elites lost confidence in its legitimacy.

Stolen from Facebook 😂

Greetings from the ICE detention facility in Portland.

Cool, is he also going to apologize for pitching his company as an ICE contractor? www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Also, love too see the "Trump taking an L is irreparable harm" doctrine making another appearance bsky.app/profile/kels...

If the Court grants this, and ESPECIALLY if it does so on the shadow docket w/o explanation..... then things are really gonna explode, I think

i wrote about The Smashing Machine, which is not a sports movie but a sobriety movie

Stop saying this shit in private and start fucking SHOUTING IT. Yer leaving anyway. Christ.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

I've lost track of the number of times I've said to students something isomorphic to "it's not that you're wrong, it's just that if you keep thinking about things like this you'll never get to where you're right"

But again, "bigger" is, in isolation, a meaningless concept. It's incoherent. The issue isn't that the CRM was "bigger," though there are lots of ways in which one could comfortably argue that it was. The issue is that the claim that NK was "bigger," full stop, is incoherent.

If we're measuring "bigness" by number of Nobel Peace Prizes won, or federal laws passed, or number of people willing to give their lives to the cause, or FUCKING INFLUENCE ON THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, the CRM is quantitatively, objectively bigger. So no, to say NK is "bigger" isn't "true."

"X is bigger than Y" can only be true—can only be a claim whose truth value can be assessed—if there's a clear, straightforward, shared metric by which you can measure the bigness of each.

Like, if I were to claim that "No Kings is bigger than Google," or "No Kings is bigger than the Empire State Building," or "No Kings is bigger than Niagara Falls," you'd be confused. And if you asked me to explain, and I said "how many people go to marches for Google?" you'd just walk away.

Because the civil rights movement WASN'T A MARCH. It wasn't a series of marches. That's just factually, empirically, fundamentally not what the civil rights movement was. To say No Kings is "bigger" because of crowd size, you must first adopt an incorrect definition of the civil rights movement.

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works. It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

Ah the only conservative argument: "My prejudices are timeless eternal truths and it's unfair that all of society isn't structured to reflect them." bsky.app/profile/whst...

It’s very good! People should go! I will probably be at the nearest one in Rochester! But like Words mean things

This is a genuinely very cool and interesting thread about how and how not to think usefully about things like social movements and instead you’ve got hashtag resistance accounts with no profile image coming to yell about how No Kings is good and important actually WHICH NO ONE IS SAYING IT ISN’T

Oh, you can just read stuff to students and they will just LEARN it? As a college lecturer, this is news to me

ICE’s targeted arrest of a young Guatemalan man several weeks after the NYPD nabbed him for driving an unlicensed moped shows the extraordinary cost minor infractions can have under Trump’s mass-deportation regime.

Starting another thread so this one doesn't disappear: "The Exorcist is a litmus test: How strong is your aversion to liberated women? Do you hate them so much you want them to get hurt?" www.jezebel.com/horror-movie... via @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

And WTF is this?

4 months apart

Both of these photos are from the Broadview detention center in the last six weeks.

Crazy how these guys just keep showing up everywhere

Mozilla has launched a new Firefox browser with a free, built-in VPN, which some say may be in reaction to the spread of age-verification measures in conservative states.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

Happy lamp tree season to all who observe

"One evolution of authoritarian governments in larger and more industrialized countries in the last half-century has been to target minority groups and dissenters surgically, to leave as much of the population as possible able to go about their regular lives..."

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

Except apparently, California is having some of it. We’re not falling for it. We have to stop singing Gavin praises when he’s barely meeting the bare minimum. Washington passed a similar bill with zero issues. bsky.app/profile/assi...

I think two things are true: 1. young republicans were always terrible and racist 2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

On the record, I think sneering at these people that they’re somehow *bad* because they stayed on Twitter for this long is incredibly counterproductive it’s great that more people have escaped the Mussolini Piss Hole and come to Bluesky actually, their numbers shall strengthen us

Americans have gotten more than $21 billion back in their bank accounts after being cheated and scammed by big corporations, thanks to the CFPB. But Trump and his Administration love grifters and scammers. So they're trying to kill the agency holding them accountable.

The federal government is currently shut down. The NPR Network is following the ways the government shutdown is affecting services across the country. n.pr/4ncYdFr