They can’t fathom basic civic engagement

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Ok I just finally watched Paris, Texas and wow that is beautiful movie but man do I have some thoughts on the gender politics of it

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

Truly thank goodness.

I am going to my 30th college reunion today and boy that is a plot twist I was not expecting.

I initially read “Sliwa” as “Yarvin”and for a brief second it all tracked perfectly

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you. And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it. This is not about politics. It's about people. Let’s break it down:

I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Could we NOT get Dem establishment consultant-approved messages that promise “try this one simple trick to save democracy” please and thank you?

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

If you're in Illinois and facing criminal charges from protesting ICE, or if you were attacked by ICE or law enforcement supporting them, I might be able to represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

Jude Law is not convincing as a middle-aged New Yorker.

UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Trump “Compact.” We, at least, remain committed to the historic values and mission of the university.

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

Just because I’m a member of the Oregon Trail generation doesn’t mean I wanted everyone to die of Oregon Trail diseases

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

So Trump is defunding the police.

Miguel Ángel García, one of the immigrants shot in attack at ICE office in Dallas, has died. 
García’s wife was allowed twice daily visits for two hours while a DHS officer guarded her husband’s hospital bed. Officers kept soft restraints on his arms and shackled him.

All summer I’ve had this low level ambient broadcasting noise outside my window and kept wondering who is watching tv in the alley. Today i finally investigated. On one hand this is super annoying but on the other, respect to this dude for making summer work in NYC for him 🗽 🍎 🏝️

PA voters: mail-in ballots are being dispatched this week Vote YES to retain the 3 Democratic judges on the PA Supreme Court who are up for reelection: Donohue, Dougherty, Wecht This will maintain a Dem majority that we need to defend the state against Trump

I’ve heard Ezra now twice take one part of Hilary Clinton’s “deplorables” speech, without mentioning the rest of it, which does exactly what Ezra calls for Dems to do. I recognize that we have a politics of sound bits, but in full context the speech hits differently than he suggests.

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.” Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins? www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

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Rest in Power Assata Shakur.

This is upsetting but also we have to watch

NEW: I’m calling for a Government Accountability Office investigation into ICE’s billion-dollar detention center contracts with private corporations. Trump’s admin is funneling cash to shady private prison corporations — including GOP donors. The American people deserve answers.

Wait I’m sorry … Cass Sunstein is married to Samantha Power?

🚨 Please share—12 hours left 🚨 The giving circle families have never wanted to be reliant on strangers for survival. And now with little internet, they are COMPLETELY dependent on us to help them escape Gaza City. Read that back—with hope. 195/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

...This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to familial confounding." The article is free. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I usually hate how Trump uses language but “… a long and brutal slog through their radicalized quicksand” is a pretty apt description for our times.

NYers: Chuck Schumer’s phone tree is allowing callers to access a live person. Call them and tell him to hold the line and fight the administration on everything happening.

Medically complex and disable children shouldn’t be bargaining chips, period. This outrageous act by #immigration officials is inexcusable and ultimately led to the separation of this 5-year-old autistic girl from Massachusetts 😡

happy new year, repent your sins, apologize to people, eat a lot

The UFW wishes our Jewish friends a sweet #RoshHashanah. The first institutional religious support for grape strikers came when boards of rabbis in big Eastern cities declared boycotted products non-Kosher. More @ ufw.org/roshhashanah

Say what you want about Bluesky but the idea I “shrunk my audience” is not borne out by the data here. I feel like by 7-fold increase in 2 years suggests kinda the opposite.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

LFG! We have the power PA! Get involved. Write postcards, knock on doors, make calls, donate & most importantly register by Oct 20 & VOTE 👉 vote.pa/register #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory