Wait, we are making civil immigration detainees do forced labor??? For a private for-profit firm? For no pay? Jfc this is evil and unlawful.

the Alabama governor unilaterally voiding election results and it barely making news just seems kinda ominous to me idk

The ballroom is a Trojan Horse to distract from his fully weaponized bunker beneath and above it. And yes, it's designed to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power

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"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/

Abigail Youngkin? Abigail Sinema? Gov Abigail Spanberger has vetoed popular Dem bills—depriving Virginians of the right to form public unions, bring class action suits, pay less for meds, avoid voter purges, and enjoy free speech at unis. She's fine with cops helping ICE thugs persecute immigrants.

SCOTUS ultimately blocked Alabama's illegal map in 2023, but not before it cost Democrats House seats. Purcell-justified stays of orders blocking challenged maps in AL, LA and GA likely cost Dems around 4 seats in 2022; House Republicans came out of that election with a 5-seat majority.

So many shitty things at once: huge waste of OUR $ in a system badly in need; setting $ on fire to facilitate attempted corporate capture of students; paying to undermine student learning&achievement; destroying the solid rep of these unis; complicity in destroying students’ futures in so many ways

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Trump has purged federal agencies of black workers, the military of high-ranking black officers, supports GOP efforts to purge Southern states of black representation and wants elite universities to discriminate against black applicants, lest they admit too many (who obviously don’t deserve it.)

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

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As far as history is concerned, the news doesn’t get much bigger than “Trump regime to continue planned rollout of concentration camps that will exceed Japanese American imprisonment.”

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

"The Callais decision has been catastrophic in substance and timing. The Roberts Court not only dismantled the country’s most important civil rights law, but put its thumb on the scale of the 2026 elections, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering arms race" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is using your money to buy off local police to become junior Gestapo members.

NYT sanewashes another fascist www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/m...

“No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent.” Florida Constitution, art. III, § 20

And so, the right posture needs to be some combination of escalating the hardball while always keeping alive the offer of deescalation, provided that it's *mutual.* newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

those loser Dems tried to fix the system but were outdone by those savvy Republicans note how this framing completely erases any sense of Republican agency from the equation

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

The Daily News editorial board: "Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is the one man in Albany blocking adoption of a bill that is sure to save lives. He needs to get out the way for the Stop Super Speeders bill" Call Heastie's office today: 518-455-3791

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ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

The IRS is expected to lose up to $479B over the next decade because of a drop in immigrant filings. These immigrants were doing the right thing & filing taxes, but Trump is sharing IRS data with ICE. Trump’s deportation agenda is ruining lives & costing the country billions.

I can’t think of one reason that House Democrats would not be preparing Articles of Impeachment for Hegseth.

I do not know if an updated COVID19 vaccine will be available for Fall in the United States. All because little men got their feelings hurt because their ideas are fucking dumb and thousands of scientists told them that. firstwordpharma.com/story/7157141

Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade

Nobody deserves a Trump-bestowed, Trump-tagged award from the Trump Kennedy Center more than Bill Maher. He's like a German gold medalist at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. On the list of Mark Twain Prize recipients, Maher's name should get a YUGE, gilded asterisk next to it.

He appointed two women. I call DEI

You think the Smith files were leaked to distract us from the Epstein files? Or the Iran imbroglio? Or the airport nightmare? Or the ongoing demolition of the White House? Or his effort to deny us the right to vote? Or the fact that is out of his mind?

​​We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year. Meta got $13.7 BILLION. Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND. Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them. We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.

It’s crazy that he is negotiating on behalf of the U.S. at all. He has no government appointment and no one elected him and he has no business being in those meetings even without the grift

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

Reminder: DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August. He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA. The grift continues.

The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.

I really hope the folks who run @theatlantic.com understand that @adamserwer.bsky.social is a vital, load-bearing part of their structure and that, if they should ever lose him, most people will be able to walk away from it entirely.

I’m my Target boycott leader, I started when they let chuds wreck Pride merchandise displays, and pulled Pride event support. Target’s later DEI abdication merely added fuel to my resolve I can forgive, but that starts only after repentance, for ALL of it, reparations, for ALL of it, and time

Judge Gerald Pappert, a Repub appointed by Obama, wants Penn to produce lists of Jewish faculty and club members so the Feds can ask them about antisemitism. Penn instead offered to make a campus-wide announcement for those who want to be interviewed, but the judge says that's not good enough.

It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.

Universal child care inches closer. Poll: "54 percent of New York state voters, and 62 percent of New York City voters, want the governor and legislature to go along with [Mamdani's] plan to tax the rich." hellgatenyc.com/tax-the-rich...

Got it. There's plenty of funding to send troops into harm’s way, but not to take care of their health afterwards. This is shameful.

Biden was also the first president who could credibly say he didn't send more US soldiers to die in pointless wars and the media eviscerated him for getting US soldiers killed while pulling out of a forever war

Never gets old.

Tech companies could afford to fund their own applied AI research. But they’d rather get a free ride by taking money that had been used for mathematics and ecology and a couple dozen other fields. This hurts all of us.

Functionally, this is the end of foundational science research in many fields in the United States, the money taken away to subsidize already wealthy billionaires and their companies.

As you read @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social's piece on how Trump is fast-tracking his concentration camps by bypassing the bidding process, remember that Tom Homan accepted a pre-bribe from concentration camp co & Trump decided that was totally cool. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...