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If you want to stop hatred and bigotry against YOUR “group,” you first must stand against hatred and bigotry against everyone else. Because all hatred travels together.

“It’s the new Jeffrey Epstein jet.” Kristi Noem “posting a fun video in front of caged, tatted men.” Look how Bari Weiss’ The Free Press wrote about CECOT — the El Salvador megaprison Trump shipped people to — just months before she stopped the 60 Minutes segment on it: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

This year, many people resigned their posts at the slightest hint that the Trump regime was displeased with them instead of staying and making someone fire them. Sharyn Alfonsi is showing us why you stay and refuse: you make clear your superiors are wrong and may them pay the costs of firing you.

Bobby Nunez was arrested and prosecuted for "brazenly towing an ICE vehicle" according to the U.S. Attorney. He towed the vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in downtown Los Angeles on August 15th. After a 4-day trial, he was acquitted! His lawyers were two Deputy Public Defenders. ✊🏼

Interesting how I haven’t seen a single person who tried to whitewash MTG’s violent history and claim she’s “coming around to our side now” speak a single word about her latest anti-trans bill.

If you are a health care worker and have concerns or are looking for additional support and strategies around not complying in advance, and resisting criminalization and harm in your role as a provider of care, you can also reach out to our Beyond Do No Harm Health Care Strategy Consult:

If you're a provider of gender-affirming care, please check out The Good Health Project's Know Your Rights update/memo. Trans health care care is still lawful under federal law. static1.squarespace.com/static/686eb...

One parishioner who lacks legal immigration status "learned about his rights for the first time at a freedom school and shared his new knowledge with his landscaping colleagues and neighbors, telling them not to open their doors during a warrantless raid.”

great analysis of the fiction that DEI initiatives worsened white men's material reality. "Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."

evil is corrosive.

good morning to vanity fair and vanity fair only today

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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💯 When Lander was my councilman I saw him all over the neighborhood. On the other hand Goldman refuses to engage with constituents, gatekeeps public events to prevent dissent, and rarely even sends a form email acknowledging multiple calls and voicemails I've personally left with his office.

YESSSSSSSSSS!!! So excited to vote for @bradlander.bsky.social again (this time for Congress)!

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

TBH, I feel like everyone should have the option of these types of accomodations. Let folks use whatever concentration tools necessary and take the time they need to demonstrate their learning.

be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world

They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing. This is who MAGA is now.

Not a single major news outlet has covered this story. There is such a blatant, obvious attempt to suppress any and all news that deals with the actual facts about transgender life and experience. As the government rolls back our rights on an unprecedented scale, we have been left out to dry.

for context Alex Vitale is the author of the much-cited (including by me) book The End of Policing

Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.

The only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life. "What if they do something irreversible?" actually means "theyre not allowed to make a decision!" You cant undo or reverse any decision you make, you can simply change your mind later and handle the consequences

Nothing in the research supports these invasive requirements. Do you know what does have a ton of evidence supporting it?? Gender affirming care, where we trust young people and support their bodily autonomy!

this would assume those folks had good political instincts. Say all the terrible things you want about the fascist in chief and you'll be right but he has good political instincts.

💀💀💀 These clips are absolutely wild.

I am so excited for the possibility of Brad Lander representing me (again! he was a wonderful City Councilman for years), instead of genocide denier Dan Goldman. So hopeful that this happens.

Below is the video to which Trump has responded: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

NEIGHBORHOOD DEFENSE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES. These are two-hour online trainings by NY Immigration Coalition on how to prepare yourself and how to build community to defend against ICE raids. I just attended one; thought it was good. @riseandresist.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I don't want to be like "Everybody go do this," but... everybody go do this if you aren't already plugged in to activism in some way.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

here at the Paper of Record, when an open white supremacist leaks someone's college application in an attempt to imply he got unfair race-based special treatment, even though he was rejected, we know what to do: publish it immediately prospect.org/2025/07/09/2...

I always get a kick out of the NYT Defense Squad trotting out harrumphing takes about how serious journalists don't report on mere speculation, blow things out of proportion, dig into their colleagues' email, etc etc

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Obscene in every way theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

Monstrous

See: NYT coverage of progressive politicians, trans people, and now, beloved children's musicians.

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

Well, unfortunately

"Authoritarianism can’t abide the concept of public health[...] It proposes limits on both government and individual activity, and the rationale for those limitations is grounded in the scientific process—it quite literally can appeal to an authority greater than whoever leads the state."

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

I skipped this article for a while because I figured I'd read enough about the NYT's Mamdani coverage. I don't want to say the headline does the article a disservice - it is also very much about that - but goes well beyond as well