We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

Starving can cause chronic illness and disabilities. Malnutrition is not to be trifled with. Cutting off SNAP funding will cause people to suffer. Some will get ill. Some may die. There’s no excuse for this. 40 million people rely on that program. It’s a cull.

And so it begins...

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law. By @richardawebster.bsky.social

#MedSky: In August, we reported that the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year. We know that for many of you, the decision to leave the VA could not have been easy. Here’s how you can share your story with us ⤵️

Here's something people seem to completely struggle to grasp: if Zelensky, or, say, Abu Mazen ever compromise on this notional principle in exchange for nothing, as a society we are fucked in ways that go wildly beyond Russia and its neighbours. It would legitimise the right of conquest.

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten. They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in. The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH! Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

“Drone strike on a kindergarten” is not a sentence that should fucking exist, but it does, it happened this morning, in Ukraine.

What's this... ANOTHER #irishlanguage translation!? Stoked to announce that my team worked on the official localisation of the horror game Crowded.Followed available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2948790/...

US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa

First moments after the Russian attack on a daycare in Kharkiv. Kids crying for their moms, rescuers and civilians rushing to get them out of the building... Heartbreaking.

NEW — I'm suing DC Metro Police for the full body cam footage from the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace back in March. The public deserves to know why MPD chose to sell out the people they’re tasked with protecting in order to bend to Trump's will. I'm repped pro bono by @rcfp.org. Details:

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

New story about the NIEHS Director appointment from Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/2110202... 1/2

NEW — Oak Park attorney Scott Sakiyama supported a neighboring Black family while federal prosecutors accused their son of assaulting a Border Patrol agent. Ten days later, federal agents arrested Sakiyama himself. thetriibe.com/2025/10/chir...

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase. The President is building an army to attack his own country.

It looks even worse by video 😢

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow

This wasn’t that long ago… A reporter asking white folks in 1964 what they thought about the Civil Rights Act. And the answers are just 🤦🏽‍♂️

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

Sanders: Today, October 18th 2025, there are more people out on the streets in more communities all over our country than we have ever seen in American history

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

Anchorage, Alaska joins the nationwide Hundreds No Kings protest. Hundreds rally at Town Square Park downtown, lots of creative signs and inflatable animals, and speeches about to begin

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

They’re operating on a completely different field from the likes of Vance and the authoritarian Evangelicals. Been listening to an audiobook covering the Thirty Years War, so thoughts about what it means to be a universal Christian church have been bouncing around in my head.

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

yupik singers and dancers greeted kipnuk evacuees in anchorage 🥹 i love you alaska!! there’s no where else i’d rather be than right here with you

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go." The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

Vought has blocked CFPB staff from doing their work, and is also charging CFPB $5 million for his bodyguards. So technically, they are protecting one consumer. www.govexec.com/management/2...

There are so many obvious constitutional violations in this story. It is enraging. There is no war, there is no foreign invasion, there is nothing that justify it. This is a choice to create a military presence that will brutalize residents of cities that do not support the President.

A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing. And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power. When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits. I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

“Approximately 90 members of the Alaska National Guard and Alaska Organized Milita have been activated, with 100 more standing by to provide relief efforts to our fellow Alaskans who have affected by the devastating impacts of Typhoon Halong” www.facebook.com/share/p/16qA...

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...