ICE arrests Des Moines public schools superintendent reut.rs/4gHX2fv

If you're looking for a group to support in honor of Assata's passing, Assata's Daughters is a great one. They are a queer Black woman-led and youth-focused organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition in Chicago: www.assatasdaughters.org

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

Please join us tonight, rain or shine, for a mass mobilization to make clear: We want ICE out of New York City. We won’t stop showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors.

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Join Dissent & @versobooks.bsky.social for a conversation with @chiosse.bsky.social, @ceaweaver.bsky.social, and @jwmason.bsky.social about how Zohran will govern. October 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Verso office in New York. www.eventbrite.com/e/how-will-z...

she spelled tick tock like the app lol

in a proper functioning democracy, every election would have a guy who wears the same red beret literally everywhere, to the point where nobody knows what he looks like without it. he should be referred to in the constitution as Hat Guy. if you ever poll below Hat Guy you must end your campaign

NYT: “Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in Sept 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump admin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Zeteo with an exclusive: The Block The Bombs Act, which would suspend offensive military assistance to the State of Israel, has been officially endorsed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

NYC: “Make Billionaires Pay”. The demonstration was part of a global series of protests named “Draw The Line,” urging world leaders to prioritize “rights, jobs, justice, democracy, and a meaningful life on a secure planet” prior to the United Nation’s climate conference in November.

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

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.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

In response to the Kirk shooting, Trump once again invokes the danger of trans people, saying: "Radicals on the left are the problem... They want men in women’s sports, they want transgender for everyone, open borders. Worst thing that happened to this country." Why does he talk about trans people?

Do you find it bizarre that Trump would invoke trans people on an issue that seems to have nothing to do with them? @srgalloway.bsky.social and I believe this isn't just the ravings of a lunatic but a central strategy of rightwing fascism we call grooming authoritarianism doi.org/10.1017/S104...

The Alien Earth evil sheep

"The most dangerous rationalization is also the most delusional: We can always stop Trump later if he tries to cross the line into outright dictatorship. Of course, that’s what the 'good men' said about Caesar, Mussolini, and Hitler."

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

"law-abiding" is doing some heavy lifting because they're trying to criminalize being queer/trans

My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism.

A study released last year shows that when a state slashes Medicaid, crime rates go up. “You might save some dollars,” one of the authors told Bolts, “but that may lead to some other problems with other objectives, like promoting public safety.”

More than 1,000 people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020. Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases. With @veritenews.org

Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Israel blocked Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley from joining Jordanian airdrops over Gaza. Congress has sent Israel $26 billion this year—yet U.S. lawmakers are forbidden from seeing the destruction they fund.

“Vintage slim” jeans - wheezing

What’s remarkable about this memo from a prominent Dem data guy is that it… 1) advocates for Dems to not publicly challenge Trump’s deepening descent into authoritarianism 2) gives Trump suggestions on how to better message this dangerous consolidation of power

Lame

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

This place is a refugee community that stifles healthy - even low level pathological - conflict, which has the effect of displacing politics onto the subaltern in ways that looks like their over-policing and punishment.

@npr.org take notes

My take on the unfolding MAGA civil war over Israel for @972mag.com. It’s a long time coming- the product of imperial exhaustion, neocon overreach, generational change, horror over genocide, & shifting Christian nationalist views on Jews & Biblical prophecy www.972mag.com/israel-us-ma...

Can’t wait to dig into this, I always learn so much from Alyssa’s work. But also it’s just a really aesthetically pleasing object!

I am begging people to pay attention

Ghouls. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.

Trump barred using a practice called disparate impact that uses statistical analysis to prove racial discrimination. But his administration is effectively using the same approach to accuse Harvard of reverse discrimination. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/18/m...

It never fails. The people who say there’s a “bike lobby” pulling the strings in city government almost always have a direct line to City Hall the bike advocates only wish they had! It’s all a giant act of projection.

these guys have no theory of his mind. “he wants to change the subject from epstein!!” my man, he wants to rule over the country as a military-backed dictator and permanently disempower you politically, and probably eventually send me and my friends to camps. a domestic deployment is a big deal!

A new Williams institute study shows that there are 2.8 million trans people living in the United States which is about 1% of the US population over 13. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...