They are afraid of Kat because she stands for what most Americans want and believe. That's why they indicted her for protesting outside an ICE facility. But like you, she is not afraid. There are more of us than there are of them. She is going to win. She is going to make a better future possible.

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

The indictment charges the protesters committed such unforgivable offenses as “banging on a government vehicle” and “making an ICE agent drive slow.” Hard to imagine what First Amendment protest rights exist if this is now a crime.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC' FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it? WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

I'm obvi biased but it's rare that an executive is this honest and open about the challenges that have faced a company - and this frank about the tough decisions made to turn it around. Kudos to @coachtony.bsky.social for laying this all out medium.com/the-coach-li...

people: mamdani is going to turn NYC into a theocracy!!!! SCOTUS: it's ok if ur religion thinks being gay is evil and don't want ur kids to read about it in school

A 49 year old Canadian has died while in ICE custody.

The regime has posted signs at Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp for Japanese Americans, asking visitors to report "negative" historical interpretations. Hard to imagine a positive interpretation but it's probably just an excuse to shut down the park. www.sfgate.com/california-p...

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If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

I get why people think everything is a distraction. But this appears to be a genuine falling out between the two most powerful people in the country. Fascists are just messy and their power struggles always get weird. There are a lot of awful things still happening, but this isn't a distraction.

anyone else curious about news dumps that happen in the next 24 hours?

Cannot rec this @panicworld.com pod episode with guest @akilahhughes.com enough. She and host @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social go deep on how celebrity + politics have morphed in the past 15 years into insatiable beasts built on responses and endless escalation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

Please stop building AI tools to deploy bots to "engage" with unknowing posters. And especially stop doing it to "engage" with "radicals" or any other group you are identifying based on ZERO EXPERTISE IN THE MATTER. www.404media.co/student-make...

The appropriate answer to this is "Who gives a single fucking shit? He was better as a dead guy than the people installing the Plane Crashing Machines and disappearing people off the street so they can cash in on military contracts while firing veterans." It's possible to not take the bait, I swear!

Not to mention destroying the environment for babies and children

Imagine believing you can hurt Springsteen.

grateful for @alexwilhelm.bsky.social's writing, both in tone and content, more than ever. www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/so-that-wa...

I'm getting more sad about getting laid off. My work means so much to me. I'm a really good reporter. I've been getting scoops every single week lately, while also doing in-depth, award-winning reporting. I have good ideas! New email: [email protected] www.polygon.com/23776996/bar...

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Most people do not understand how much regulation it took to stop food poisoning from being a daily cause of death. They are about to learn the hard way that you can't feed yourself from those apartment deck planters year round.

Here's my new hobby. Seeing how many people lose their health coverage if Republicans pass their $880 billion in Medicaid cuts. In David Valadao's district 67,000 constituents lose their coverage. 67,000!

There's a never ending stream of madness in the news, so every now and then I think about how a story that seems small potatoes compared to everything else would have produced weeks of pearl clutching in a Democratic admin (in the before times) www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

INCREDIBLE opinion by Wilkinson refusing to stay Judge Xinis's orders in the Abrego Garcia case, condemning DOJ's arguments as "shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"As some companies dismantle their programs and walk back their commitments, we would like to state our stance clearly: Medium stands firm in our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion." blog.medium.com/yes-to-a-div...

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

Hell. Yes.

Omg it was called before bedtime lololol

I sent my letter this afternoon to [email protected] urging Eisgruber to remember that Princeton has stood up to more consequential thugs (George III, Hitler, Stalin) in its history and to remember that when standing firm against Trump and his band of ankle biters in DC.

THIS IS THE ENERGY WE NEED.

As a Princeton alum who is aware of the massive size of the endowment... I'm sure hoping it can buy a backbone. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Hear hear @crampell.bsky.social wapo.st/4kU9ESq

Theres a headline from the 1930s for every single thing happening here today

How can you be on the wrong side of history when history is repeating? You’re failing an open-book test. wapo.st/4kU9ESq

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

It makes me very sad that it is highly unlikely my parents will come and visit me at any point in the foreseeable future. Why won’t they? Well, read this and think of every Canadian traveler wondering if it will happen to them. medium.com/@jasminemoon...

Thank you @jamieloftus.bsky.social for the empathy with which you approach early 2010s corporate social media managers. I ran the bird account of a travel start-up in ‘09-10 so this “Sixteenth Minute” series is bringing up the LOLs and elder millennial feels. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...