1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care 🧵

It’s funny to act like what’s happening with Stephen Miller’s Gestapo running roughshod through US cities is an elaborate electoral trap set up to get Democrats to say Abolish ICE, which will cause Republicans to win again

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

It’s horrible. We live in hell. But we need you in the street. don’t fedpost don’t fedpost don’t fedpost

I have been tracking Democratic Senator Chris Murphy's public comments for some time. He's been one of the most cartoonish boosters of ICE and depraved purveyors of anti-immigrant sentiment. Any movement to make our world less violent and more just cannot have such leaders.

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets

Here's how I'd do it: First post: Trump is unhinged and is trying to take over Greenland. His actions in Venezuela were illegal and unconstitutional. We will stand up to him. A totally different post: Here's what we're doing to tackle affordability while Republicans do nothing. We actually care.

The Trump administration just conducted an illegal attack on Venezuela and has spoken about attacking Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and Denmark. These Democrats just voted to confirm Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of Defense: Fetterman Gallego Kaine King Reed Rosen Shaheen

It’s too late, I have already portrayed myself as Chortling Bernie and you as Seething Eric Adams

AI ad creep keeps getting weirder.

This goes against decades of global data on the safety and efficacy of the Hepatitis B vaccine and will mean some children will get entirely-preventable liver disease, organ failure, cancers, and die. The CDC is officially pro-disease and pro-death when it comes to children.

Gonna tell the DM this is what he sounds like when he says I lose invisibility by attacking.

*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Two weird occurrences I appreciate: • Videos on socials whose ending loop back into their beginning just enough for you not to immediately notice. • Ads mid-video that pick up weirdly well from where the video you were watching get cut off.

“the USPS must turn a profit” makes me want to set things on fire they put a clause in the fucking constitution about postal service, that’s how important it is nothing in there about “only if you can make money on it”

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Nashville! Have y’all been getting a bunch of spam calls with no one on the other end from local numbers over the past few days? 🦞 📞

Tapping the sign again

Donald Trump is moving too quickly to embrace Zohran Mamdani. by Chuck Schumer

BREAKING: Dozens of Starbucks baristas & hundreds of allies are demonstrating at Starbucks’ largest regional distribution center in the country in York, PA. Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.

i was telling @tisjune.bsky.social about this. mundane people have an overwrought sense of propriety; when they receive an award, they won't bring up connected struggles that may embarrass the people giving them the award. alice pointed out the Palestinian struggle in her MacArthur grant statement.

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

My phone just autocorrected “also” to “Al’s.” Feel like In recent years autocorrect has been making some odd choices. Sure love that nothing is safe from enshittification.

The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists. They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver. apnews.com/article/trum...

lol

There’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that ICE deported a man in a persistent vegetative state Or the fact that he was perfectly healthy when he was detained, and his family have no idea what was done to him to cause such a severe decline He died shortly after being deported to Cuba

Pains me to say it but I think this is true. Some of my colleagues in the media who’ve stayed on X don’t even realize how badly its noxious algorithm is skewing their perception of politics and reality. Also, that place seems designed to make you miserable unless you’re a Nazi. It’s just wretched.

You should know that celebrations tonight are not just about one victory. And they aren’t just about one person. Folks do this together. Not because someone swooped in to save them.

Even in Nashville 🦞 Even in Tennessee

People show up for policies worth showing up for. Polls consistently show them as popular. They just aren’t popular among the donor class.

Victories like this start with work in your community to build collations and power. We’re coming together across Middle Tennessee (and not just in Nashville). Join us. midtndsa.org/sign-up/ 🌹

[Ken Burns Civil War music playing over sepia-toned images] "My dearest Gertrude ..."

This would be a great dramatic reading.

If most of what we’re seeing is TV shows, why is that a category? And is TV so bad that Greg Gutfeld really what we’re gonna go with?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Nashville, go see “Frankenstein” at @belcourttheatre.bsky.social while it’s here. I don’t think it will be the same on a TV. 🦞

Every so often, I open up Twitter to check something and I have a lineup of notifications that are basically “someone you follow tweeted.” Among those this last time, someone am not following:

This is incredible framing. Folks. We have the best framing. Everyone’s saying this.

CALL TO ACTION! This Sunday, we'll be knocking doors across Nashville, Franklin, and Clarksville. Join us to help #FlipTN07 as we talk to neighbors and build up momentum across the district. 🔗 Sign up at link in bio VOTE EARLY, VOTE OFTEN, VOTE AFTYN

Rumor has it a certain council member has been dancing under the pseudonym “Captain Smokeshow.” 🦞

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.” Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Vice Mayor asking CMs not to leave so that they don’t lose quorum. Lots of folks already left. One CM huffing as she left well earlier that “We have done everything but the business of government tonight” to either no one, us council nerds, or the lobbyists still hanging out on the middle.

Shoutout tonight at council for verbs.

Federal programs going away? Sounds like a good time to relieve costs on Nashvillians and provide free transportation using dollars we have locally!! At least just mail out Journey Passes to everybody making under 300% above the poverty line.

Folks, I think this race is gonna be a big deal. 🦞