Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:

I was giving a talk to a law school class last year and asked them if any of them had seen Clueless, since I wanted to reference this speech, and I got blank stares in response. I was devastated.

I feel like we're not talking about how "gender tests" for participation in girls sports IS SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS

IDGAF if someone has an "unfair advantage" in children's sports because the point of children's sports is for children to move their bodies, play, and build team skills. They should be co-ed anyway, because in the big grown-up world boys and girls and thems need to work together.

Nobody screams about Citizens United like they do AIPAC. It’s almost like a republican financed effort to get you to not vote for Democrats. I could be wrong though.🤷🏾‍♂️

JFC

AI has no business denying doctor-recommended procedures. I am leading the Democratic effort to shut down WISeR—Trump's backdoor scheme to privatize Medicare. We need to end AI prior authorization NOW.

Part 1: Kushner’s Albania deal - Staying informed So Ivanka didn't just happen upon the island and fell in love with it.

Demanding that Black people support you after your fuckery caused us to lose rights that we fought and died for centuries to get is straight up diabolical. We are losing voting rights. We are losing the ability to teach true history. The hoods are off and you are talking about AIPAC? Fuck you!

Utterly horrifying. Every American should be outraged. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's weird to me how Biden’s economic team achieved their stated goal of a world class Covid recovery, avoided recession (once thought inevitable), prioritized employment, navigated global inflation, and delivered benefits to the working class... and voters HATED it. Like WTF people.

America does not have a Geriatric Politician Problem. America has a Conservative Politician Problem. An old Democrat is better than a young Republican.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

It’d be great if the overpaid Obama consultants who actually lost the 2024 election and are taking contracts with gambling apps got even half the anger that Ken Martin is getting for mishandling the post-loss review.

Any post-mortem or autopsy that doesn’t highlight how the far-right invested $1.2B dollars on youth persuasion is missing the mark. They saturated online spaces and convinced young voters Trump would make things cheaper — and swung the 18-29 demo 20-points right.

This is going to ruffle a lot of feathers, and I’m okay with that. It needs to be said. It’s a Faustian bargain…

Well, it started with some asshole came back to his TV show and his first joke out the box was calling Joe Biden old and calcified:

SEC boycott picking up steam… #Memphis #JimCrow @realdlhughley.bsky.social

To those who view term limits as some kind of panacea for what ails us.....

The fact that he violated the custom of every president in the last 60 years, releasing their tax returns, violated his word by never releasing his tax returns does not give him the right to steal from our treasury because he did not release his tax returns!

The Supreme Court issued a stay pausing the 5th Circuit's order that would have required in-person appointments to get mifepristone. That's great news!! But that's not the whole story. It never is. Would it surprise you that Donald Trump Jr.'s turkey-hunting buddy is involved? I explain:

Bingo.

precisely

Recall...the president of our country can't even walk in a straight line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWV...

This little video clip of King Charles sending a birthday letter to David with the help of some friends is so beautiful 🥰❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7...

New Hungarian government has been inaugurated 🎉

Remember: Ohio GOP kept using maps its state Supreme Court declared unconstitutional until everyone basically gave up. VA differs SOLELY bc SCOTUS will get involved here like it didn‘t in Ohio. So ignore SCOTUS when it doe—actually, no: vocally say “bite it, hypocrites.”

It's very frustrating living in a country where the Republicans are given a free pass by the courts and by the media to do whatever deranged dangerous bugfuck batshit they want, but when Democrats make any change at all, the media hamstrings them and then the courts brain them with a cinder block.

The most important issue in the nation is the federal government’s attack on Black women in power. Today the FBI raided Virginia Sen president pro-tem Louise Lucas, continuing the political genocide against Black political power. All large platforms dems should be covering this.

It's so important to remember that when righwingers seem to be hypocritical, they are not being hypocritical. They are expressing what they believe: one set of rules for you, one for them, separate and unequal, with the advantage being theirs, always, according to their idea of God's plan.

Biden bet on the decency of the American people and the notion that competent governance would break the Trump fever. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a bad bet, but blaming Biden is misplaced, as the fault was that of an electorate that either had amnesia or wanted the cruelty.

All roads to our current hell lead to Mitch McConnell.

Since they made him take the video down due to being reported. The internet lives forever! Sit with this truth, be mad at your ancestors for instilling it in some of you too.

Even during the darkest days of the Jim Crow era, efforts to disenfranchise Black voters have always claimed to be "race neutral." The Supreme Court's decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act is Jim Crow in new clothes.

And if Jasmine Crockett made that statement progressives would eviscerate her.

it really speaks to the double standard pervasive throughout all of politics that even when Democrats play dirty they put it up to a public referendum and still get harsher media coverage

You want to see how you can criticize Israel while still being on their side? Textbook example below from @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov:

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Ageism is as gross as any other ism. I know it’s the new fall guy for decades of shitty voting by the same demographics- but if you’re not voting for or hesitant to vote for someone who shows they are mentally and physically able to serve w/kick ass resume and exp- that’s ageist. And gross.

If J.D. Vance sees this, his head might explode. And I'm not going to clean it up.

😂😂 who made this?

Reminder! Mens rights don’t vary by state by women’s rights do.

An underused word....

Trump and his family are profiting off of war while American families pay the price. op: nathancjun via IG

Easy, peasy. We can add, the Israeli settlements on the West Bank are illegal and should be removed. The IDF has been violating its own human rights standards. The sooner the Israeli public gets rid of Bibi and his Kahanists the better for everyone.

I published this on March 20. Every day that goes by has done its part to revive the reputation of Bidenomics. Good. www.editorialboard.com/its-like-tru...