Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

holy shit

Sen. WELCH: Did Corey Lewandowski receive any compensation from problematic advertising contracts with your agency? Noem: I can’t speak to that. Welch: Will you ask him? Noem: Are you asking me to? Welch: Yes, ask your “special” government advisor.

This is a victory for all who care about higher education in North Carolina that happened to come one day after @ncaaup.bsky.social VP Abigail Hatcher’s op ed was published in @ncnewsline.com & NC AAUP packed the UNC System Board of Governors meeting. Coincidence? 🤔 When We Fight, We Win!

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

There you go. An overt technofascist Trump ally will now own CBS, CNN, HBO, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Discovery, and a big chunk of TikTok

This refugee wanted liberty in America, but got death The refuge promised when Nurul Amin Shah Alam and family came to America on Christmas Eve 2024 became a Kafkaesque nightmare - a police encounter gone wrong, then left for dead by Trump's CBP goons My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/alam...

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we’d like to honor the legacy of Alice Augusta Ball, the brilliant scientist born in 1892 whose research led directly to the first effective treatment for leprosy. Ball’s accomplishment is even more remarkable when you consider that she passed away at the age of 24. 🧵 1/8

i'm watching spike lee's remarkable documentary FOUR LITTLE GIRLS and as much as i want to focus on the film i can't help but think about the people, with real power and influence, who want to take this country back to before birmingham

#ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited #Pinks From the mouth of babes. ❤️

Not just in the future - Thiel has been selling his creepy tech to gov’t for years. New Orleans PD in 2018 for example. www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17...

This administration will blow up boats in international waters and murder folks with no due process and then turn around and pardon those who have had due process and convicted of their crimes. Make it make sense.

This cover is perfection.

Happy Wednesday 💙 BW

Way more courage than Republican congress members and senators.

Utterly heartbreaking news from Ukraine, where an overnight attack killed two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and their one-year-old sister Myroslava, when their house was hit in the town of Bohodukhiv. Their father was also killed and their pregnant mother injured. www.bbc.com/news/article...

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time? Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Here in lies the plea for well funded public education which yields citizens with critical thinking skills. Otherwise Democracy will fail!

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

As an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)

For those going “New Jersey?!” Yes. Slavery happened in the north too. Most passed gradual emancipation laws post-Revolution. NJ’s was so gradual there were still enslaved people in 1865. Lincoln’s proclamation only applied to the South. The last people to be freed were in NJ, Delaware + Kentucky.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Fuego in Guatemala last night. Wait for it....💥🌋😎 📹 AfarTV/YT

01/31/26 PM! You can put me on mute & block me. I don't care. I'll not stop! There're NO Civil Rights in Trump & Kimberly Richey’s Deranged America! I'll repeat this Every Day until Reality Sinks In. No children's rights, women's rights, disability rights, minority rights! 150 yrs gone! Get Louder!

straight up Gestapo shit

youtube.com/shorts/h4PEm... your way out of tune tone is about tuning release the damn files

Between seizing ballots in Georgia, trying to leverage Minnesota to turn over its sensitive voter data, and political prosecutions, the DOJ is laying the groundwork to subvert the 2026 elections. I created Democracy Docket for times like this. Help it grow by supporting it now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

As tensions build with Canada, many young Republicans are expressing concern about their future ability to visit their girlfriends.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Durham NC tonite at 6

Continued protests in cities and towns across the country are making a difference. Keep up the Good Trouble work. We owe it to all those in Minnesota who are taking the brunt of Trump’s evil terror campaign. 😎🎶 youtube.com/shorts/KCr4m...

Heard the sad news about Sly Dunbar on the school run of all places. I don’t even really know where to start with his immeasurable contribution to music and, well, everything, but watching him at work is best. Here’s Sly and Robbie in action with Black Uhuru at the Rainbow in Finsbury Park in 1981

Just chilling...☺️💙😎

now hold on just one minute. when I signed on to work for a creepy right-wing surveillance company named after seeing stones used by the dark lord Sauron to manipulate and control others in an attempt to enslave the free people of middle earth I had no idea we might do some evil.

The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office “There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Watching Minnijean Brown-Trickey of the Little Rock 9 on PBS Newshour, and thinking of their courage, and the evil people who tried to stop integration. She's talking about how the people attacked by ICE need to be brave. I wish Republicans in congress had 10% of her courage.