I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

lmfao

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Humphrey's Executor has been on the chopping block for a while. But I'd watch your wallet with Question 2, folks.

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

Someone should ask Trump whether he agrees with an advisor using this language and displaying this disrespect towards a member of Congress. www.blackenterprise.com/jasmine-croc...

In the US, we tell women that they have to be Supermoms. That their kids are in constant danger, and it's their job to be on watch for threats and then swoop in to save the day. That role can feel empowering for moms*. But it also leaves them vulnerable to disinformation campaigns.

Hello, senator, two questions: WHO IS IN CHARGE OF THE COURTS? Have the justices in charge been big on protecting democracy lately?

www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ad... @lindastevens.bsky.social

📖✨ Introducing The Book of Bragdon — a collection of David Alan Bragdon’s most extreme, radical quotes. Spoiler: they’re not fit for bedtime reading, and definitely not fit for the federal bench. #UnfitAndUnqualified #StopBragdon 🧵:

Today is Constitution Day and Citizenship Day! This year, both the Constitution and core concepts of citizenship are under attack, and they deserve our attention and protection more than ever. Read more from CAC’s Praveen Fernandes in @acslaw.bsky.social: www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

There’s a lot of bizarro reasoning here but the apparent foundational premise—that ppl voted for Trump bc of something Harris said on questionnaires in 2019—is 🤯🍌🤷‍♀️. Surely it’s obvious Trump will say whatever he’s gonna say regardless of “facts”

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

BREAKING: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a team of independent experts commissioned by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council concludes.

I know this is basically a given but, man, sometimes im just....scared, sad, and tired. and tired of being scared, sad, and tired

Ooh thank you!

Stephen Miler is open about what's coming: a federal law enforcement crackdown on its political opponents

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If a terrorist organization was convincing young people to commit mass murder there would be some kind of law enforcement response, but it’s YouTube and social media companies so nah

The Supreme Court “didn’t hear our pleas. They disregarded humanity. They disregarded the people,” said a US citizen Brian Gavidia. “We fought for these rights many years ago, and apparently we’re going back in time.” “It is not OK. Racial profiling is not OK.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@51st.news is vital reading for anyone interested in D.C., or in the existence of democracy in the United States

A short First Amendment 🧵: First, the professor was fired b/c he urged "revolutionary socialists" to organize: “Without organization, how can anyone expect to overthrow the most bloodthirsty, profit-driven, mad organization in the history of the world — that of the United States?”

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Chief Justice Roberts in SFFA just two years ago: "Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it." Yet when the government is EXPLICITLY using race & ethnicity to detain & question people, he gives it his blessing.

Yday the Court’s conservatives blessed wanton racial profiling w/o so much as a word of reasoning Lower courts that apply the law and people oppressed by law thus have no clear answer on whether people of color have any rights the Trump admin is bound to respect ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...

I can tell this is snarky but literally cannot tell what it thinks it’s saying (from “the abundance deluson” cover story in The Atlantic)

I MEAN, you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think it's pretty weird that Epstein buddy and fellow pedophile Jean-Luc Brunel ALSO died by suicide in prison⁉️

But if you spend all day coming up with cutesy rhymes you might not have enough time to kill civilians

📣 DC is our home, not a military zone. On Sept 6, march with We Are All DC to demand an end to Trump’s DC takeover. Because we the people keep us safe.  📍 Malcolm X Park 16th St NW &, W St NW Washington, DC 20009  🕰 11 AM #WeAreAllDC Learn more at weareallDC.com

DC residents and allies across the country will rise up on Saturday to demand an end to DC's occupation. BE THERE! Get your friends, neighbors, congregation, and community to join the national event this Saturday at 11 AM in Malcolm X Park. Sign up at bit.ly/we-are-all-dc

A platform where Jamelle Bouie is one of the most influential and respected people is one that is going to cause discomfort for a certain kind of liberal (or person who thinks they are liberal). Yes, Bouie is black, but what these people really reject is strong criticism of America's status quo.

Marking the occasion of RFK Jr’s bonkers testimony by getting flu and COVID vaccines, thank you Maryland CVS

It is wild for sitting federal judges to say *anything* negative about the Supreme Court in public, much less on the record to a reporter. Pretty embarrassing for Roberts and the conservatives to get called out like this, and also entirely well-deserved.

Articles assuming helicopter parenting is driven by individual choice drive me crazy, what about asking why parents today would be arrested for letting a 10 year old play outside unsupervised all day like he did www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

"All 12 judges spoke on condition that they not be identifiable, some because it is considered unwise to publicly criticize the justices who ultimately decide whether to uphold their rulings and others because of the risk of threats"--in other words, threats from MAGA trolls on & off SCOTUS

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

So glad to see this. The survivors are the ones who were harmed, they're also the ones who know what happened, and they should be the ones telling the story.

Conventional wisdom says tenure-track/tenured faculty at private universities lack statutory rights to form unions and bargain collectively. That's wrong. Thanks Helen Zhao & James Brandt for fine research and editing. lpeproject.org/blog/why-not...

Tenure is important, but one downside is if professors start to get sick of college students, they're gonna write a book about how the annoying habits of college students are the Biggest Problem In The Whole World. Normalize retirement or switching to teaching 3rd graders for awhile, maybe

What the actual hell, @mayorbowser.bsky.social. Residents of your city are angry and terrified that we're living in a police state and you're like, This is fine? wapo.st/3VyXMcY

this piece has been a *massive* traffic hit, by far our biggest piece this year prospect.org/justice/2025...

As a human in DC right now I would get a significant boost to quality of life via a widely available COVID vaccine compared to armed men harassing my neighbors. Would call my representatives in federal government to point this out, if I had any

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Happy Labor Day! Anybody see this in today's newspaper? ✊🔥 Sign our pledge to stand with over 12,000 union Starbucks workers and say No Contract, No Coffee! 👉 bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

In a statement responding to @mayorbowser.bsky.social’s comments today on the ongoing presence of federal agents in the city, @freedcproject.bsky.social says: “D.C. needs these federal forces out immediately. Every hour that they are still here is an hour that people in D.C. are in danger.”

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

This is an essential seven-point guide from an authority on how to counter disinformation claiming there isn’t really a famine in Gaza. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...