Folks have really turned out this afternoon to speak against expanded surveillance in Seattle.

This is a staggering amount of money. It’s bigger than the Department of Transportation spending on all infrastructure. It’s bigger than all of the federal R&D done for both the military and all federal science agencies. Disgusting.

anil isn't kidding. this level of transparency and detail — talking to voters like adults — is remarkable. i would imagine it also helps people feel like they are part of something bigger. and, christ, mamdani is insanely charismatic and good on screen. like, you just want to watch him talk!

We don’t live in a neutral marketplace of ideas. We live in an attention economy shaped by algorithms, tribal identity, outrage incentives, and profit models that reward engagement over accuracy.

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

printing out a copy of this post for every Member of Congress, hand-delivering it to every office, and then performing my own personal interpretive dance version in the House Rotunda just to drive the point home

these fuckers being able to destroy everything is not a foregone conclusion

Republicans want to restrict access to the ballot and eliminate online and mail-in voter registration. Tell your senators to reject the GOP’s voter suppression bill (especially if your senator is listed here): KELLY (AZ) WARNOCK (GA) PETERS (MI) SHAHEEN (NH) HASSAN (NH) CORTEZ MASTO (NV) ROSEN (NV)

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

Without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. As we gain solidarity, we feel more courageous. As we feel courageous and stand up to Trump, we weaken him and his regime. As we weaken Trump and his regime, we have less to fear. By @rbreich.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

lol. We’re hitting 13, soon to be 14

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

American colonists literally threw a revolution in part to prevent unjust penalties imposed by an overly punitive tyrant leader; 4 of 10 amendments in the US Bill of Rights are about rights afforded to people accused of crimes (5, 6, 7, & 8). Here we are again. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social et al, shows that when 3.5% of a population rises in opposition, change happens. TWELVE MILLION IN THE STREETS. That’s the 🎯.

If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

It would take some time for this funding to really start getting off the ground but this would make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the history of the United States, and quite possibly the entire world.

"This malevolent quest towards supposed Jewish safety has always been predicated on endangering anti-genocide and pro-Palestinian students—including other Jews."

Doctors for America Calls for the Resignation or Removal of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unfit to serve as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary and must be removed. The health of our nation depends on it. doctorsforamerica.org/statement-re...

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”

It is time for Democrats to go on the attack, and take away tax-exempt status for every church that unabashedly campaigned for Trump. Take off the gloves, start to destroy the opposing institutions that fund the fascist movement.

Increasingly difficult to see how blue states and cities can continue working with the feds in any capacity. We're getting into Fugitive Slave Law territory.

Didn’t get a chance to post this earlier, but there was a huge turnout in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at the federal courthouse. From my seat in the jury room, I heard the supporters outside chanting throughout the hearing.

The shame and horror we should all feel at what the Trump administration has done to this family. Bring this man home to his kids.

Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

Smart move. The right-wing is engaged in non-stop PR and misinformation; it requires time, energy, and investment to counter it. Detailed information about the benefits of research at Harvard is a great way to start the push back.

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

New — The court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of Mohsen Mahdawi from the US or Vermont. The Trump-Vance administration ignored such an order previously, when it moved Rumeysa Ozturk out of Massachusetts to Louisiana.

A good strategy in general

The funny thing is Target really thought they were special and irreplaceable in people’s lives and this has been a tough lesson for them.

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

RELEASE HER!

absolutely insane, a betrayal of the most basic principles of freedom of speech for which the American republic is supposed to stand

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

A good message for Dems, via @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "We don’t have dictators in America, and we’re going to take away any power he intends to wield tyrannically." www.offmessage.net/p/we-dont-ha...

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

This👇 Get some sleep, tomorrow's a big day. #HandsOff

1,187 Hands Off! protests across EVERY state this Saturday. 117 in CA. 61 in NY. 55 in MI 51 in OH. 42 in TX 17 in MT. 14 in AK 5 in HI! And in Ottawa. Guadalajara. Amsterdam. Berlin. London. Lisbon. Lyon. Saturday is gonna be historic. Are you showing up? What's your sign gonna say?

👇🏽”That’s not efficiency, it’s cruelty and chaos” @ossoff.bsky.social is really good at this

Getting real tired of Senate Democrats constantly having clever reasons for why they're doing nothing. "If they were dangerous," the Trump admin would not need to use extrajudicial process to ship them to a foreign labor camp, they'd use standard deportation tools.

Following an emergency consultation with Indivisible leaders nationwide, Indivisible is calling on Chuck Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. indivisible.org/statements/i...

Our Democratic senators need to step up and call for new leadership. Send your senators an email and urge them to publicly demand that Sen. Schumer steps aside.