As Tennessee Republicans voted Thursday to approve an unprecedented Congressional redistricting map that would divide Memphis, protesters and Democrats pushed back with walkouts, protests resulting in arrests and burning a printed Confederate flag in the Capitol. nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

Must-read from @robertdownen.bsky.social, incomparable reporting on Southern Baptist Convention and its rampant sex abuse and cover-ups, but also a tale of our current politics, and how much of GOP/Christian nationalist power is entwined with those cover-ups www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Tomorrow morning, we will be dropping a ~12,000 word story on Paul Pressler, the alleged sexual predator who remade the Southern Baptist Convention and helped ordain the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. There is *a lot* in there and I hope you'll read it.

Whole generation got their brains pickled by the idea that politics is a process of patient triangulation and consensus-building instead of a knife fight that decides how pain, suffering, and resources are distributed throughout society

From 1977-2024, the anti-abortion movement has committed: 11 murders 26 attempted murders 42 bombings 203 arsons 570 assaults 109 attempted bombings or arsons 100 acid attacks 668 anthrax or bioterrorism threats 4 kidnappings and the list goes on!

One of the worst things the current era has done is to make progressive people act like two wrongs make a right when a Democrat politician is caught in a scandal. “But Trump gets away with it” is not the flex you think it is.

Have you found yourself looking at the current candidates for U.S. Senate in Maine and wondering if any of them show up for workers then they aren’t campaigning? I’m the only elected union officer in this race and I’ve been speaking up for workers for years. Check it out: www.andreaformaine.com/news

Monday, March 30th marks the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Board of Supervisor’s approving the Men’s Central Jail (MCJ) Closure Report, and the 16th angelversary of John Horton the 3rd who was murdered inside MCJ by Deputy gangs.

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

10 people have died in Men's Central Jail so far in 2025. 46 died in 2025. Despite changes in leadership, court orders to improve conditions, conditions don't improve.

This seems to be in keeping with the church that supported chattel slavery...

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

"In moments of war, our Constitution is unambiguous: Congress authorizes war. The President does not."

“Will anyone in the Epstein files be held accountable?” What you have to understand is that while sexual violence is technically illegal and frowned upon in the abstract, in practice it is accepted, ubiquitous, de rigeur, and a primary vehicle for male bonding.

you could opt out of caring about the Trump Show last time. the institutions were still puttering along and the ACA repeal collapsed. there is no such option for Trump II, you are trapped in here with the rest of us

New in PN: Trump is clowning his evangelical base "Trump now knows religious conservatives and their motivations well enough that he doesn’t feel a need to perform anymore. Like his supporters, he’s stopped pretending he’s anything but his worst self."

I understand the reasons why it’s more jarring and consequential to see it happen among billionaires, but the kind of shrugging disinterest or impishly approving encouragement of sexual abuse among Epstein’s circle is the same dynamic that happens in less powerful milieus.

In a wide-ranging interview this week with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Marimar Martinez discussed her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fight for accountability.

"Whether it’s enslaver missionaries criticizing Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. or defending an ICE pastor, Southern Baptists have yet to shake their original sin." ~ @briankaylor.bsky.social

If the US took the right to self-defense seriously, there wouldn't be so many battered women in prison for killing their abusers.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor. You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought. They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

one of the gofundme campaigns sent to me today is only trying to raise $1,600 and has a horrific story of an experience of a Hmong elder. they've only raised $10.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Let’s keep this going!!!

Good thread on the Vichy Church with the ICE pastor. Thia Doug Wilson-adjacent church is home to a "sin of empathy" theobro troll who's also a Southern Baptist "intellectual" who likes infant baptism. It's a safe space for collaborators, snitches, and bootlickers who have ICE on speed dial.

From a follower in Minneapolis: "Today is our big day here. Currently -20 and -45 windchill. Frost bite can occur in 10 minutes and it is a decent walk from Portland Ave to the Target Center. So those who cannot risk attending and to the rest of the country we are asking for your help."

"History will not look kindly upon______" Damn history ... i don't look kindly upon it... we aint gotta wait

“protesters” are not “clashing” with law enforcement. violent federal agents have waged war on minneapolis and regular people are telling them to get the fuck out. and last time i checked being in a group chat doesn’t mean you’re in a professional organization. it means you have friends.

Renee Good would be alive today if white Christians had not voted for a rapist.

Please watch this clip, and share as widely as you can.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

An off duty ICE agent shot and killed his neighbor on New Year’s Eve. LAPD has not investigated because they claim it is “Federal”. The DA says potential charges may take years. Help Keith Porter’s family, if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

We live in a culture where it is far more dangerous to say what a man did to you than for the man to actually do the thing to you. And that is because of all the people who know without actually knowing…That silence is its own kind of sexualized violence. www.ms.now/opinion/jeff...

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

DAILY MEMO: Over 50 Arrested in Record Raids: Baby, Pregnant Mom, Gardeners, Sons, Elderly, Vendors, Unhoused In Last Two Days Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-o...

Important to understand that sexual violence is political violence, enacted specifically to enforce class, race, and, yes, gender hierarchies.

The only thing that makes Epstein an outlier is his wealth and connection to powerful people. Every time a serial sexual predator gets caught, it turns out that multiple people reported it for years and multiple people did nothing or actively covered it up until some sort of critical mass is reached

When it comes to the ghouls that crawled to the top of the muck heap during the global war on terror (which never ended), there's no one I'd rather read than @attackerman.bsky.social. His Cheney obit is no different. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

New from me: The police are defunding our cities. In LA, LAPD’s growing liability lawsuits are costing taxpayers millions of dollars in payouts. $400m in payouts since 2019. The biggest culprits: protests, police shootings, and car collisions. More👇 lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

again a reminder that the NYT leadership supports Cuomo *because* of his record of sexual harassment, not *despite* it. they have a strong interest in making sure that they and their friends can never again suffer the indignity of being held accountable by their inferiors.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

god grant me the confidence of a man with a nazi tattoo to run as a democrat for senate

Helpful tip for anyone considering their options for health insurance during open enrollment - DO NOT choose Anthem Blue Cross. They are HORRIFIC to deal with - I'm on hold with member services right now on my 15th phone call of 2025. Every issue takes multiple phone calls to resolve

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote' 'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'