The best argument for abolishing DHS is that Kristi Noem and Markwayne Mullins are both seen as people fit to lead it. If they can lead it, we don’t need it.

AOC: We rely on hundreds of thousands of home care workers across the country. This labor force is going to expand a lot as more of our parents reach older age, and these folks need to be paid a fair wage. These are some of the most exploited workers in the country.

As it relates to current news, I don’t know what to say. Keep screaming. Keep fighting. Protect your loved ones. Protect humanity. Vote. Vote. Vote. Refuse to roll over. Refuse to give up. They cannot win. They simply cannot.

I hope that when I'm 86, I too understand that, particularly at that age, $1.9M is more than enough to constitute “fuck you” money.

The combination of BHM & this post reminds me of this MLK quote about the white moderate (fits just as well for liberal/progressive today): "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

I hope Nancy Guthrie is found soon and is safe. Also, her abduction has got me thinking, what’s the point in letting cameras, geolocation on my phone, and other surveillance tech watch me all day, every day, if it can’t deter or help rapidly solve a case like this?

Look at the @chicagotribune.com really leaning into the sympathizer aspect of Nazi sympathizer. I don’t wish any harm on this baby, but I absolutely refuse to be happy for the despicable, soulless, hateful adult Vances.

Any elected who represents me & isn’t about abolishing ICE (training, reforming or guardrails is mealy mouthed bs) & isn’t committed to holding these criminals against humanity accountable no matter how long it takes is gonna see me volunteer & max out contributions to their opponents who will.

Klobuchar: "Somehow 50,000 peaceful protesters in 10 below weather were able to march without any problems, and then the next day half a dozen ICE and CBP agents couldn't handle a guy with a cell phone taking video of them and shot him. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here."

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out. For the record, the small example I chose: My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

i am very close to quitting Chrome entirely but just discovered that you can hard-disable this slop prompt by going to chrome://flags/#ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point and choosing 'Disabled' on the drop-down menu

All day I’ve been reading posts and watching video of local police fucking over the residents of their cities to the dismay of many “reasonable” people who chastised people like me when we said defund them. My purpose isn’t to say what popular it’s to say what’s true. 1/2

Of course the Mango Mummy said something stupid. The epitome of nastiness, mediocrity, mendacity & malfeasance is scared of Putin so he sends Americans to fight elsewhere so he can feel tough. Threatening Denmark & Greenland is so sad and weak. I don’t know if it’s more enraging or embarrassing.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move. 1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year. Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

It’s not hard for to take an action that will side with workers over billionaires today. Stand with @sbworkersunited.org don’t go to Starbucks (not even the one in your grocery store AND especially not at Target) & don’t buy Starbucks branded products. #NoContractNoCoffee at Starbucks.

Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

Jamal Khashoggi came from a prominent Saudi family but fled his country in June, 2017, after he'd become increasingly critical of his government. The Saudi journalist was murdered in 2018. n.pr/43JW7WJ

Alice Wong sending us love and wisdom from the other side is a thing I needed today. May she rest in power.

This is so cute! And the POTUS thinks it’s an IQ test that proves he’s a super genius.

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Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

We need to get a lot more comfortable bluntly and loudly asking people who are anti-SNAP why they want children to starve.

Spoiler alert: Gavin’s going to run. He’s been running. Running is his reason for breathing. Roadrunners are less likely to be running in 2028 than him. He’s running so much he’s runny & his name is River Nose Broken Toilet.

Not sure how I missed the story of Clarence Thomas’s racist clerk. Also not sure there’s anyone who dislikes and disrespects Black people as much as him. I’m starting to think Get Out was a fictionalized version of his true autobiography. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Remember when we had mask mandates to try to stop Covid spread & rightwing folks, including many 👮 👮 claimed it wasn’t safe to inhale your breath and they could not do strenuous tasks wearing masks? How is it they can wear masks to “patrol” and “arrest” (i.e.?terrorize people) right now? 🤷🏽‍♀️

Thank you, Chicago.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” —Nelson Mandela

I keep listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Ezra Klein show trying to figure out how he stayed so calm. At the 20 minute mark EK is so condescending I would have had to take a break & do some deep breathing to avoid saying “fuck you.” Ta-Nehisi and I are the same age but he’s growner than me.

This Is Fascism

I'm a sociologist opposed to fascism. I hate racism. I love my community’s diversity of religion, language, gender expression, and the fact people from all over the planet live here. I pay attention & fight for justice. I AM A WOKE, PRO-DEI, ANTI-FASCIST, CRITICAL RACE THEORIST & BLACK AMERICAN.

Imagine being a nearly 80 year old brat throwing a tantrum because you didn’t get a 🏅 and getting all your little friends to yell about how it’s soooooo unfair. I’d literally be humiliated if my teenager was behaving like this. Makes me wish for the bad old Bush Jr. days.

In today's inaugural installment of Who Said It & When? "If they are funding these things, they're going to have some problems. Because they're agitators and they're anarchists," Trump 2025 or George Wallace 1963 bit.ly/46IIusL

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities. I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

Argue with the government the way you argue with Black ppl in their mentions. Maybe we’ll get some shit done✨

It's not hoarding if it's books.

Until a change in editorial leadership CBS will now stand for Come Be Stupid or Clueless Bum-Assed Simps or (if I’m being nice) Come-on Be Serious

This is my brief recap of Hegseth’s speech today.

Marking this so as a textbook example of a mediocre AF, half-assed, POS “apology.” Also so I can show people of the future an example of the asymmetry in permitted political discourse that is a key indicator that one is currently and completely occupied by a fascist regime.

I guess there’s no reason to study public policy if the only current US policy in their world is whatever Trump writes on Nonsense Antisocial

This is just a reminder that when given only two choices, trust a Black woman or don't, one should definitely trust a Black woman.

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Watch this 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾and you will know why I am out here emphatically demanding that this raggedy-ass acting country TRUST BLACK WOMEN/FEMMES if it really wants to be great. Among other things, I can trust Black women to “respectfully” put a mf’er in their place and look fabulous doing it!

I know so many Black folks, especial Black women, doing this exact gesture while they also spend everyday trying to save democracy, even the fools who insisted on dragging us back into this mess. The national debt ceiling ain't nothing compared to the debt this country owes to Black Americans.