NBC News poll “Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the issue of border security and immigration?” JUNE 2025 51% approve 49% disapprove FEBRUARY 2026 40% approve 60% disapprove A 15-point rise for “strongly disapprove.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Probably a day to promote this research from David Cortez. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

"Rachel Friedberg, a Brown economics professor, said the mass shooting happened in a review session for the final exam of her Principles of Economics course. She said she learned what happened from a teaching assistant who led the session. Friedberg herself was not present."

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

My local school district in Alachua County, Florida is making free breakfast and lunch available to children of families who receive SNAP, with directions on how to apply www.alachuaschools.net/o/acps/page/...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

When donating to food banks, MONEY goes the furthest bc they can purchase food way cheaper than us. If you are going to get food: pasta, sauce, peanut butter, canned fruits & veggies. Also, food kids can make on their own like ready Mac & cheese. Whatever you can do is a spiritual gift to humanity.

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” -Article 1, Section 8, US Constitution Not a "norm" violation. A legal and constitutional violation.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...

Just an outstanding choice. Well-deserved for @jamellebouie.net!

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

Source: "Yellin’ at Yellen: Hostile Sexism in the Federal Reserve Congressional Hearings" journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

shocking

More attention here please.

I bring up this chart showing media coverage of shootings during an election year in NYC a lot. The local news is 100% complicit in making it look like crime is out of control to help “tough on crime” politicians like Eric Adams and Trump spread the false narrative that crime is out of control.

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California was consistently Republican through the Mid-1990s. In 1994, Republican Governor Pete Wilson championed the Prop 187 ballot initiative which aimed to cut off illegal immigrants from medical care, education, etc. It passed big, but it alienated CA's large and growing Latino population. 1/x

The Immigration and Nationality Act is pretty darn clear: native-born citizens of the United States can voluntarily relinquish their citizenship but cannot have it involuntarily stripped from them. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/b...

We have a fact sheet for that! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/h...

Why are Democrats still pretending that they need to hide from this as an issue?

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

people seem really confused about racial categories maybe we should have some educational programs to teach how these historically constructed categories structure our entire society in insidious ways we could even do programming in workplaces to improve how people communicate with each other

"For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

Oh.

I don't know about you...but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT being raised by leadership about masked individuals jumping out of unmarked vans, refusing to identify themselves...and just shoving people into a Goddamn vehicle and whisking them away.

In a time when unprecedented is used a little too much and hopelessness comes a little too quickly, take some time today to learn about the stories of the enslaved, how some fought back and won, and where push for democracy actually started. The fight is continuous. Always has been.

“The broad trends in terms of who is targeted are not new,” @heathersmo.bsky.social said. “These trends are also consistent with Trump’s language from his first term about ‘bad hombres.’” newbedfordlight.org/after-the-ic...

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out. The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

I've been working on something! It's not nearly done yet, but I thought no need to gatekeep the work in progress. This is an AI ethics "syllabus" based on a post-hoc curation of hundreds of short form videos I've made for social media, to make the content more accessible. bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...

@heathersmo.bsky.social wrote that piece; she writes more about this in her book www.amazon.com/New-American...

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.