Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM (From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...

War-ravaged Portland

Genuine question; does anyone have good reporting about the ICE resistance in Portland, such that it is? I do know there have been fights around the federal building, as there have been for years.

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

The fact they are suing Segpay, a payment processor, based on what a client of Segpay is alleged to have done? That's a shocking escalation, and I don't see how the law as written in any way justifies that.

Bill Berrian, the anti-trans, "family values," WI gubernatorial candidate has been forced out of the race after he was discovered to be following @jizlee.bsky.social and other sex-positive accounts. Following porn stars isn't a disqualifier for office. Hypocrisy is.

I don't think you need complex political triangulation when the president is shrieking "I am sending in the WAR DEPARTMENT because Portland is AT WAR!" You should just keep saying that he should be removed from office because he is plainly insane

An iron law of reactionary thinking: when they are in a weak position vis a vis an institution, they demand fairness; when they gain power, fairness goes out the window. Which is to say: once the reactionaries take over higher eduction, liberal voices will be eliminated.

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

This is Trump’s fault but it’s also Democrats’ fault: when the initial wave of resignations happened after the Adams quid pro quo, the next logical step in the ladder of escalation was for the opposition to rain fire and brimstone down on the corrupt admin. Instead… nothing happened. Silence.

as a sex worker, these metaphors are insane, because we get emailed by rich guys all the time just graphically talking or “let’s find a time to hook up” or “an engagement” if they’re very careful. You only get shit like this from guys up to truly bad shit. Seeing a regular escort is normal, safe.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Amsterdam, 2025. Shot on Fuji disposable by @ashleylatke.bsky.social

The legislator behind the new Ohio age-verification law doesn't even know what's in the bill. He claims that it excludes social media sites. No such language exists. This is why you don't push something you couldn't get passed the normal way into an budget omnibus. www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/ho...

It's as though those of us who warned back in 2002 that Bush/Cheney were capitalizing on 9/11 to create a fascist federal force under a "Homeland Security" department aptly named after a Nuremberg nazi term were right about them all along. bsky.app/profile/volt...

Oft repeated Democratic Party scenario 1. Left wing adopts a logical fact based position that nationally polls *well above* 50% 2. Centrists say, "hush, we need to attract Republicans" 3. Dems lose 4. Centrists belatedly realize their error and/or blame left wing. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

A state Medicare for all plan isn’t mentioned in here once, but they’re finally pushing the blue states to that point surely, right? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

i don’t post much about my organizing or mutual aid work, but im so damn happy that thru our nonprofit we were able to help secure a $400K grant for Prison Library Support Network, an abolitionist network of resources for inmates with libraries and schools plsn-nyc.tumblr.com

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The entire right-wing shit machine is promoting a demonstrably, empirically false narrative that the left is responsible for more political violence than the right. How long until some centrist pundit accepts this framing and demands that Democrats renounce their party's violence?

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

This is why they don’t want to show their faces. Because they’re still weak when we know who to hold responsible.

do you ever stop to think how we had achieved utopic level search engine where you could legit ask anything and worked perfectly and we gave it up to a robot thats wrong 40% of the time

Trump regime has disappeared billions of dollars of taxpayers' money -- not even Congress has been able to trace what it's being spent on, and who's getting the loot. Congress isn't trying very hard -- the Republicans are complicit and the Democrats are not just powerless but incompetent. 1/3

The move appears targeted at left-leaning progressive nonprofit groups, which Trump days ago vowed to dismantle, falsely claiming they fund and support political violence and terrorism in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

same along racial lines.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

why isn't the headline just, "Trump lies about autism drug" or some such? is the goal to inform or not?

amazing people are really out there thinking sex workers came up with “no touching” as a way to make extra money

that’s not why strip clubs are so lucrative lol, it’s a criminalization imposed by the state so they don’t make too much money and start buying real estate

so where the fuck are our state medicare-for-all bills?

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Saw someone post about how it's really fucked up that we all have to speculate about whether or not the FBI manufactured evidence to back their version of events. The thing is, you should always suspect that about law enforcement—these guys are just more clown-ish and obvious about it.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

people have actually put an incredible amount of study and thought into how to prevent gun violence and lesson murder rates, but the people now getting shot at did everything they could to shout down those experts and implement the opposite policies. tragic, really.

I don't expect them to become abolitionists or move funding to actually effective measures, but it really is something to see people in power forcefully confronted with the fact that american style policing can do literally nothing to /prevent/ criminal violence they gonna patrol every rooftop?

I’m spending way too long on these event flyers

Now.. imagine we do what we did with Disney with more and more mega corporations… until we have healthcare, housing, living wages, bodily autonomy, gender and racial equity, money out of politics… and like… just keep going all the way until we get to the liberation of everyone worldwide.

good job chat we successfully bullied a major corporation to the point that the late night host they canned is making jokes about it in his return monologue american fascism versus the cancel subscription button: who will win

Proud of this absolutely sick event flyer I went overboard on for October’s queer nerd club events

The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...