No kings protest. Edwardsville, Illinois. #nokings

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

A budget is a moral document.

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

[taxes fun] RE: https://mstdn.social/@Bongolian/116030384329840372 I *know* a large portion of US people just got those W2s. Do not type the numbers into TurboTax or HR Block this year. There are free and low cost options on this thread: FREE https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/ LOW COST […]

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Zohran is expanding the number of public toilets in NYC and improving how the existing ones are cleaned and maintained. If this is a big enough initiative it will have a huge impact on quality of life for new yorkers. I don't know if it is big enough. Nonetheless *this* is the way to address […]

The video here is harrowing, but the woman refusing entry to ICE gets stronger and stronger throughout. She also exercises her rights with skill and knowledge, doing so precisely as she should have. Every American should watch […]

During the Iraq war I let people gaslight me into thinking I didn't know enough about "foreign policy" and "global politics" to say the war was a bad idea. I would hesitate because, I'm not an expert on those things. But I was right then and I'm right now. You don't need to be an expert, it's […]

The threat of demolition escalates at the Cohen Building in Washington, D.C. https://www.archpaper.com/2025/12/threat-demolition-escalates-cohen-building/

The "People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15 for a rally and march to demand, "housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy. During the rally […]

In the Netherlands, cycling meets art & sustainability in a remarkable way. A glow-in-the-dark bike path inspired by Vincent van Gogh's painting Starry Night lights up the town of Nuenen, where the artist once lived. The bike path uses thousands of […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

I'm so tired of people saying Democrats shouldn't move too far left when the GOP has moved so comfortably to fascism.

Eldon Hazlet State Park/Carlyle Lake, Illinois

hm. i wonder what this may cause

#Omaha did a good drive during #NoKings they collected enough for 2 food banks to be full and a car load for a 3rd. Photo credit to @indivisible.org

The maga crowd calls us terrorists. They say we hate America. But we are out here because we love our country and we’re not afraid to fight for it. We are the real patriots. #nokings

The rains didn’t deter us in Edwardsville, IL. The crowd covered the sidewalks for several blocks. #nokings

The US is at a point now where a professor who got bullied by the far-right sends a message basically saying "Phew, we made it out of the country". It is worth reflecting on this for a minute.

Such a cool discovery: Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms?CMP=share_btn_url

Attorney for woman shot by #borderpatrol claims officer said 'Do something bitch' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her […]

Federal agents charged and knocked down two 84-year-olds (84!) as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Psychopaths.

I’m not a football fan, but I have to hand it to the Super Bowl for its forthcoming role in educating millions of Americans about the fact that Puerto Ricans are, actually, US citizens.

"Blackhawk helicopters. Flash bangs. A chainsaw to cut through fencing. Doors blown off hinges. Holes in walls. An entire building’s worth of American citizens treated as enemy combatants in a war zone. This happened. In Chicago. In America. This week. And […] [Original post on newsie.social]

There really is something darkly funny about the fact that, after 3 decades of efforts by scientists & journalists, thousands of work hours, millions of words, explainers, videos, models, charts, after all of it ... Republican climate denialism is exactly as crude & stupid as it was in the '90s.

#insectsaturday 🦋 We have been seeing bad news about the decline of insect populations. But building back some of that insect habitat is not difficult. And scientists say it's necessary! 🐛 If you have a garden, check out this simple organizer which will help you support any local butterfly […]

"Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows..." If MAHA were anything other than dipshit reactionary fantasies & conspiracy theories, it would focus overwhelmingly on air pollution.

A deranged, propaganda generating, arrogant lawyer with no scientific training once again disparages scientists who work at the agency of which he is the head. A man opened fire at the CDC because of rhetoric like this a mere 15 days ago. HHS has been doing gold-standard science for decades.

Renewable energy escaped the polarization that has consumed everything else in US public life for a remarkably long time. It is *still* broadly popular across party & geographic lines, in polling. But the right-wing shit machine has decided it's bad & is currently working hard to change that.

A complete lack of reasoning and willful ignorance is the most upsetting thing of all. As I said, I want to blame misinformation — because at my job, I see it all the time. But at the same time, I keep coming back to the fact that, at some point, critical thinking should kick in. And I don’t […]

Individual self-sufficiency is a capitalist myth. Everything about our individual lives is made possible by the work of many hands. This has been true for as long as there have been people.

We do not comply: how do we disrupt the momentum of Trump’s cruelty? | V (formerly Eve Ensler) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/27/trump-cruelty-israel-immigration-healthcare?CMP=share_btn_url

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/18/only-two-years-left-of-world-carbon-budget-to-meet-15c-target-scientists-warn-climate-crisis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu

🔥 Senator Duckworth scorches Hegseth: "Your failures have been staggering… You're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe.” (She even went after his tattoos)

I’m begging people to also see that poverty is not a crime, but choosing not to house people should be

#nokings Alton, IL

#minnesota Senator #johnhoffman & State Representative #melissahortman, along with their spouses, have been shot by men dressed as #police officers who showed up at their homes in Brooklyn Park & Champlin, according to law enforcement sources & local media. The first shooting happened just […]

Zen priest, Peter Coyote, on protest: A protest is an invitation to a better world. It’s a ceremony. Know who the real audience of the protest is. The audience is NEVER the police, the politicians, the president. The audience is always the American people, who are trying to decide who they […]

ICE is putting the immigrants it sweeps up mainly into privately owned prisons. All of those prisons, and the communities where they are located, now have a direct financial incentive in maintaining fascist immigration policy. Awesome dynamic, nothing could possibly go wrong.