I love that I pour my heart into 8,000 words about my students—kids living in poverty and fear, getting left behind—and I’m offering it for free. But it’s a fixture of the white liberal establishment that gets featured in an article instead.

Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

The most effective deterrent to escalation remains noncompliance at every level of implementation. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Ole Plessy vs. Ferguson ass

Given the alarming rates of depression and suicide among trans youth, how do you reconcile your concern for children’s mental health with your support for policies that exclude trans kids from social activities like sports—policies we know will worsen their stigmatization and harm their well-being?

🎵HEAD LIKE A HOLE, BLACK AS YOUR SOUL🎵

sector 420

how it feels going easter egg hunting in this economy

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

JD Vance is 100% cooking up a long as hell and utterly shit tweet starting with, "Frankly, I am sick of the Pope's moralizing. It's gross."

Van Hollen’s trip to El Salvador is a form of embodied protest and helped put Trump’s illegal deportation of Abrego Gracia on the front page of the NYT two days in a row. As Bayard Rustin once said, “The only weapons we have are our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.”

Republicans will mobilize a nationwide, rapid-response crisis comms strategy over a single trans athlete but just can’t seem to care about the innumerable gun deaths.

I've been saying it for a little while now and will say it again; we don't have three branches of government right now. We have two real branches (executive and judicial) and a junior varsity branch (legislative) that is acting like it's a smol bean with no power. THAT is a constitutional crisis.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s never seen a fascist gathering. That inspired me to make a fun little quiz. Let’s see if you can spot the difference between Trump’s America and Hitler’s Germany. Winner gets a one-way ticket to history class.

In the early stages of dictatorship, authoritarians move in stealth. They count on moderates and low-info voters to stay asleep while the noose tightens. The opposition must force them to overreach early.

I invite everyone who did not respond AOC or Pritzker to go get kicked in the teeth

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Outsourcing the war crimes: when empires subcontract brutality, hiring one group of the colonized to crush another—cheap, deniable, and still profitable for the white powers pulling the strings.

In 1939, Nazi Germany staged a fake attack, sending concentration camp prisoners into Polish territory to “attack” German border crossings. This was used as a pretext to invade Poland and begin WWII. That kind of manufactured excuse for war could never happen today, right?

Literally one of my heroes. I was so happy to teach about her to my 6th graders two years ago!

Mass, relentless public protest is all there is. Every other mechanism for stopping despotism has failed. There's a reason that so many state constitutions include the phrase "All political power is inherent in the people"

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Here is the situation if I’m understanding it correctly: 1. They are deporting lawful immigrants erroneously to prisons overseas 2. They are claiming no recourse to return these individuals 3. They say they are open to deporting citizens in the same way

There's an alternate reality where the US is now a utopia because this incident went just a little differently

“Flooding the zone” was their big mistake. The press was so willing to launder fascism. If they had gone slow and slowly chipped away, freedom would have been gone and the low information voters would never have realized. Well the avalanche is coming, and those people are waking.

Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

It should go without saying, but this is the antisemitism we should actually be concerned about.

SCOTUS has ruled that the President has immunity in the US legal system for crimes they commit while in office. They have not, however, said anything about transporting a former President to the Hague to be prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity. Something to look forward to in 2029!

The billionaires have decided that freedom stands in the way of profit. That is the core of our current situation.

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

My odd prediction: this is the next weapon they use to fight their culture war. They offer Disney and others large exemptions if they remove queer and black content, and harsher tariffs if they refuse. At long last, their dreams of taking Girl Ghostbusters off the Internet will come to fruition

Our crisis is like the frog in the boiling pot. If the Trump Admin turns the heat up slowly, the politically disengaged will stay asleep, and we’ll all be boiled alive in the tyranny. But if Trump starts making stupid, overt displays of tyranny, the disengaged might wake up and start fighting back.

What if, and just hear me out on this, One big union

“Bluesky is too much of an echo chamber” have you spent five minutes in a political discussion here

“Actually she probably deserved it” Rape culture applied to the country at large

If all the leftists got their own independent island and all the right-wingers got their own island, the leftists would get caught in a recurring singularity of point of orders in committee meetings, while the right wing island would immediately sail over and start slaughtering the lefties.

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

Seems like this is extremely popular but then I’m not a well paid centrist Dem consultant responsible for a string of Pyrrhic victories and embarrassing defeats

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery