Jump in where you can to improve and expand public libraries. www.librariesforthepeople.org

I'm just so proud of all of us who came together to start For The People Leftist Library. We punch so much above our weight. We have no money and yet we have done sooooo much by being creative and by relying on each other. I am grateful and also determined to keep pushing for the next 2 years.

there have always been people who like to write, and people who like to say they have written, and the latter really love the idea of AI and the former can not understand why you'd let a computer do the fun part.

This government shutdown should be called the "trump-stein" shutdown of 2025. By every Democrat.

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption. My full statement:

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We've been making noise about this since it started, legislatively and in Congressional requests. But I remain really concerned that it has become partisan to defend due process and to oppose child trafficking.

This is really important. I was recently talking to folks in Chicago who said that much as they fear ICE detaining children without due process, they worry even more that child traffickers will don their same masks and do even worse.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay" www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

short notice but there's also an ICE watch training program if you can attend, tonight in Chicago www.citybureau.org/events/publi...

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My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

This.

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How is it even possible that they can get away with so much insanity with absolutely nothing standing in their way.

Worcester's city council has passed a resolution barring the city's police from assisting ICE after a chaotic ICE arrrest filled a city street and one city councilor was arrested: https://bit.ly/4nyJ3LD

2/ People in America are being dragged out of cars and homes and even courthouses — and then disappeared. Let’s be clear, we don’t actually know who is doing these things.

the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here) deadline end of october!

In Trump/Vought's targeting of massive, punitive spending cuts only at blue states, the brazen corruption of it is the point. The sadistic, open flaunting of the use of state power to hurt Dem constituencies is itself the thing that's supposed to thrill MAGA. newrepublic.com/article/2012...

I just called the governor's office because I'm deeply concerned with what I am seeing at Broadview today, with Illinois State Police detaining people who are doing what the governor has been telling Illinoisans to do: protesting and filming federal agents gov.illinois.gov/contact-us/c...

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The writing scams are everywhere and they prey on writers hoping to put their words in front of readers, and for that reason alone every one of these scammers should be on the kissing end of a roundly swung shovel mysterywriters.org/scam-alert/

It will continue to get worse, much worse

🎯 Mamdani's rhetoric should be a case study for Democrats, the lesson being you can: (a) talk about kitchen-table issues (b) in widely accessible language, while (c) holding to a consistent set of moral & political principles, and (d) showing how 47 poses a threat to democracy & the rule of law

here's today's post: "dunk-tank clown and demented pantload lecture actual soldiers on soldiering" — what the fuck was that? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

NEW: The recall effort against 18th Judicial District DA Amy Padden (D) has failed. The recall, led by conservative Aurora councilmember Danielle Jurinsky, needed 75,875 valid signatures and turned in zero signatures. #copolitics

My husband has a life threatening disease. We own small businesses and get our insurance on the exchange. I don't know how we'll afford ins. if we lose the subsidy, but my husband can't afford to go without insurance. The R's talk about supporting 'job creators' but are stripping our heathcare.

This series is so legendary!!! A good time for me to get the ebooks. 💓

Minnesota: Split bipartisan legislature. Kept the government open. Invested in improving lives. Responsible budget cuts. Washington: Republicans control House, Senate, Oval Office. Government shutdown. Driving up health care costs by thousands. Skyrocketing national debt.

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Today, Trump declared war on his own citizens, calling for U.S. cities to be used as “training grounds” for troops to confront what he called an “invasion from within.” Americans are a proud people, and no one (foreign or domestic) will threaten our home.

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

It is, I think, reasonable, that if somebody goes "please let me try to convince you that it is good for the State to massacre hundreds of thousands of people," you would establish your boundaries with a hard "no", and also ask them to stay out of your neighborhood, but I'm the intolerant left

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

Donald Trump is president. He completely usurped the power of Congress — and his MAGA lackeys are more than happy to go along with whatever he wants. If the government ends up shutting down, there's only one person to blame.

THIS

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Pete Hegseth demonstrated - in real time - what it would look like if a drunken toddler stumbled into the wrong classroom, grade, city and country, to give an unassigned book report on a subject they had only ever vaguely heard about via mismatched articles on paper mache.

The dems need to get down and dirty. It’s time for some jungle warfare with the Republicans who are a bunch of wimps. Where are the hackers when you need them? Hack the Epstein files

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I’m still processing what happened this morning. Is it now the administration’s position that the U.S. military does not observe or adhere to the laws of war?