I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

so beautiful 🥹🥲

Pls share billionaire crashouts I need them all

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

No joke: made myself lightheaded screaming.

CWAers (@nabetcwa.bsky.social) joined @freepress.bsky.social at today's FCC open meeting to make sure FCC Chairman Brendan Carr knows we stand against attacks on our First Amendment rights by the Trump administration and media companies like Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

fwiw Rebecca Slaughter, an FTC Commissioner that the Trump administration is determined to illegally fire, just spent the one week she was back at work between court orders trying to re-issue the “Click to Cancel“ rule, which would make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up

The context here, of course, is that the “local broadcasters” Carr is egging on are actually huge conglomerates with a pending merger before his office that would give them (and him) vast control over all broadcast television stations

I wrote this essay right after inauguration day and it’s even more true today. dansinker.com/posts/202…

I repeat: This is WILDLY illegal. Trump is just outright, explicitly, egregiously ignoring the law. The fact that NONE of these words in the Times post say so is a failure of journalism.

Your email finds me deeply burned out and disassociating.

This was extremely predictable to anyone who has critical thinking skills, is familiar with Carr, and is paying attention. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Sports and politics may sometimes coexist uneasily, but they're inseparable at Washington Spirit games – where fans have been loudly and proudly chanting and displaying their opposition to Trump's takeover of D.C. Me for @51st.news: 51st.news/dc-spirit-tr...

Hard to forget the social and political moment in DC and in America in 2025. But the trans and pride flag combos, the Free DC protests and the drag queen performers definitely made the resistance to the actions unfolding really visible. Including the @spiritsquadron.bsky.social tifo

It may not have happened yet, but in the meantime, we have other things to do (e.g., the Spirit have 2 more games this week and Bakeoff returns Friday). I've also decided to (re)build my physical library. If I have to live through *gestures around* I'm going to do it surrounded by art I love.

Trans People Belong 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

it's giving this [complimentary]

this point—that this era is not forever and accountability can come in many forms—has for some reason proved bizarrely elusive for democrats

Tim Walz : trans rights are human rights JB Pritzker : we’re taking names of all you fuckers and coming after you Gavin Newsom : lol my pr firm made another meme while i guest starred on another right wing podcast

Ok so, if we’re in a situation where some American soldiers have to be pitted against other American soldiers, what’s that called?

It’s because — at least in part — those media outlets are owned by billionaires who are further cashing in right now. More from @freepress.bsky.social (no, not the Bari one): www.freepress.net/who-owns-media

I doubt a Black reporter could have done this story and been "invited in." But, apparently, the Times does not consider that this fact may bias their story? How is segregated access "objective?" Whiteness is a credential often presented as neutrality.

A guy who was at his very first Spirit game last night was in front of me in the stands, and he looked worried when we went into stoppage down 2-1. “It’s not over til it’s over. They do some of their best work in stoppage,” I assured him. S/o to Rose🌹

All the @washingtonspirit.com supporter groups and most of the stadium all went for the “Free DC” chant tonight

it shouldn’t be the tweet … this truly isn’t ~nwsl after dark~ this is just horrible officiating

"Free D.C.! Free D.C." Chants of protest against Trump break out in the 51st minute of tonight's Washington Spirit game at Audi Field.

that’s our team 💛💚

How many groupchats do these people have???????

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on 7/16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history.

700,000 people live in DC. Even more live in the surrounding areas and come here daily to work and be with loved ones. Trump already deployed the National Guard here in 2020. This isn't a distraction -- it's a test run. And our neighbors' lives and safety are at risk.

this is a disgrace and a national shame

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany. But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Also, not for nothing, House Democrats had the votes to kill the rescission bill back in June…if only they’d all showed up to vote. People are going to die because this passed. Democrats had a responsibility to put up a fight.

There was a legal deadline. Not a fake “Trump wants to sign this on a specific day” deadline. An actual deadline where every single second of delay counted. Is missing your flight home a bummer? Sure. But letting this bill go through without a fight was way worse.

Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.

let's take stock here: (Democratic) Presidents, via the Dept of Education, can't cancel student debt because statutes don't clearly authorize it. Republican Presidents can cancel/shut down the Dept of Education because, even though only Congress can shut down departments ..., ... 🤷‍♀️ YOLO?

Congress approved $170 billion for immigration enforcement, incl. $75 billion in extra funding for ICE. But it may also approve a budget CUT package to claw back $1.1 billion from public broadcasters PBS & NPR. Join us tonight to discuss how we save public media & global health funding:

Free Press is grieving the loss of our dear friend Brandi Collins-Dexter, who devoted her career to improving the material conditions of humankind and redressing anti-Black racism. https://www.freepress.net/blog/remembering-brandi-collins-dexter

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share the devastating news that our dear friend, longtime collaborator, and former staff member, Brandi Collins-Dexter, has passed away. Read our full statement, honoring Brandi's legacy in our movement and our hearts. mediajustice.org/news/honorin...

Please join @freepress.bsky.social and our friends at @publiccitizen.bsky.social, and more to talk about the fight to stop the White House's attempts to claw back funding for life-saving international aid programs and public media in the United States! Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In yet another cynical bid to win FCC regulatory approval, T-Mobile is making a mockery of its professed commitment to eliminating discrimination, promoting fairness, and amplifying underrepresented voices. History will not be kind to this cowardly corporate capitulation. 🧵

just wondering how many times we have to go through this before we all agree these companies aren’t actually just a few GPUs away from curing cancer or solving climate change

This morning, the Federal Trade Commission is hosting a workshop titled: Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices in “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors. If the scare quotes don't give it away, Trump's FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has promised from the start that harassing trans people would be on his agenda

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.