This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."

My newest piece for Liberal Currents, and a paean to public health. It needs to be the tip of the spear against fascism and it’s a natural leader in the fight for a better world. Thanks to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social for talking to me as I worked on this.

Florida takes on Planned Parenthood

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

On the new Resistant Communiqúes Podcast, Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social discusses how the Palestinian genocide galvanized action, shifting U.S. public opinion. Yet, a deep divide remains between what the U.S. populace believes & what the government does. 🎧 bit.ly/rc2025eabdelhadi

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

I mean, maybe, but all their replacements are just as bad if not worse and so the Dem Party doesn’t and won’t change

Turns out Black people having jobs isn’t the load bearing pillar of capitalist hegemony so many somehow convinced themselves it was.

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Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir. A cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps ICE with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Travelers brace for airport chaos as flight cuts begin: 'People are just fed up'

If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement. mappingdeportations.com

The airline cancellations are going to cause a riot. The dude from the Real World is about to see what happens when constituents stop being polite and starting getting real. 🤣

The horrors of Israel's prisons are further proof of Israel's state of depravity - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west-rehabilitates-israel-prisons-horror-depravity-coming-light

Waking up at 415 in the morning in an overwhelming panic about the exorbitant cost of health insurance premiums is such a uniquely American experience. I’d genuinely like for it to stop now.

WOAH. Texas GOP Executive Director Jen Hall and another top party official just resigned. In her letter to party Chair Abraham George, Hall said she "cannot in good conscience continue to work this way" but doesn't elaborate. Hall and George are both longtime Tim Dunn allies. This is...interesting.

Wise words from Professor Nur Masalha: "Some wonder rightly: Will he disappoint us after winning? Let me put it this way: even by the standard of what he has done so far (which no Arab leader has had the courage to do): standing up to Trump, we can attribute a lot of credit to this man."

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Staten Island is such a dork

Lmfao even

lol. lmao.

Zohran's win is a city fighting to save itself, I wrote for @inthesetimes.com. And he can only deliver on his promises if the movement stays engage. Tonight we celebrate, tomorrow it's back to work. Read here! inthesetimes.com/article/zohr...

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.

Nothing has changed. Not enough aid is getting in. No money for rebuilding has reached Palestinians. Please check out the fundraiser in the replies of the below post, donate or at least share. Thank you

I don't know what will happen in NYC tonight, but I do know that regardless of outcome, any number of public figures, celebrities, politicians and institutions that oppose Mamdani have done so with a level of rhetorical ugliness, racism, and dishonesty that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven.

Dick Cheney was one of the architects of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the faces of a deadly war that should never have been waged, that killed millions and destabilized the region. If there was justice in the world, he would have been tried at The Hague for war crimes.

Dick Cheney, who died at the age of 84 on Monday, never addressed the worst transgression of his decades in politics and government: his deployment of lies to grease the way to the Iraq invasion that led to the deaths of more than 4,400 US soldiers and 200,000 or so Iraqi civilians.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

All these evil bastards live too long

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

INFURIATING sequence of events. Shame on Time Magazine for this behavior. Absolute shame.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

How race-baiting against Zohran Mamdani continues an American political tradition - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-race-baiting-against-zohran-mamdani-continues-american-political-tradition

I don't want to give them clicks so I'm not reposting it...but this is post 9/11 level anti-Arab racism. Holy shit

I sincerely wish that the people who defend PhD education were better at it. A: this is objectively untrue. B: the author’s premise is that critical thinking/deep reading/PhD soft skills are valuable career skills, so it’s all fine. (Nevermind that even though they are, they’re not golden tickets).

I had an incredible time interviewing my old comrade & friend, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, for @resistantcommpod.bsky.social. The episode is historically grounded, while also providing hope for the future of our movements—Palestine & beyond. 🎧 Listen & review the syllabus: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

New England educators & students brace for ICE raids, @shruti-rajkumar.bsky.social reports. Educators say that students & their families fear going to school, resulting in a decline in attendance & an increase in mental health struggles among students.

I wondered if this is what happened. I am floored by $500 million, at the same time as the government shut down, when 40 million SNAP recipients aren’t going to receive benefits. They’re starving people to cause social unrest and to justify their current actions and the use of the Insurrection Act.

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“During a soft lockdown, the school’s teachers are asked to check the hallways for staff and students before locking doors and windows. There are no outdoor activities …” people.com/chicago-scho...

So good. I’ve been a @proton.me user for years, then I deGoogled for privacy & political reasons #BDS, becoming a paid user in 2020. I already love Proton. But while Google and Microsoft are profiting from the genocide, Proton is showing up. At this rate, I will forever be a customer. #FreePalestine

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

A friend recently told me that they didn’t think ICE would deploy tear gas in well to do neighborhoods with a high density of white people. I understood their thinking, but disagreed. Today, they gassed Lakeview. Nothing is off limits to these people.

NEW: Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say abuses from it parallel what’s playing out now under Trump. With @azluminaria.org