Seems important: "FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed" Padilla says he "didn’t “barge” into the presser, he was signed in and escorted, and was listening in the room for 10 minutes before he tried to ask a question" www.mediaite.com/media/news/s...

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

Local news coverage of Indiana University-Bloomington's Faculty Council endorsing a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC). Faculties of three state flagships so far have called for a united front: Rutgers (whole system), IU-Bloomington, UMass-Amherst. Michigan starts voting this week Who's next?

“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com

UPDATE: ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt reports that certain individuals Trump recently deported to El Salvador have been returned to the U.S. It was discovered these individuals either weren't Venezuelan or were women. Therefore, the Salvadoran government declined to take them.

Love this.

Some transgender Americans report they’ve been refused a passport altogether — with any gender marker — in recent weeks. “The goal is to make life untenable”: www.vox.com/politics/399...

Reminder: this is completely lawless

Do you like hurricane and tornado warnings? Do you not want them privatized and edited by Trump's sharpie? Well, Musk is breaching NOAA, an agency that's trustworthiness is more critical than ever before: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

Resisting Trump and Project 2025 in Austin, TX Please SHARE because the MSM is mostly silent on these protests abcnews.go.com/live/video/s...

Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?

If only Biden could have gotten Mexico to mobilize 10,000 troops! Oh wait, he did. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office

DOGE is a criminal organization. Lock them up.

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is it. The start of the new J6 but much worse this time.

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Elon Musk is not a Federal employee or a political appointee. DOGE is not a real department. None of their activities are legal. This is a coup. The Republicans in Congress are willing participants in it. At what point do Democrats in DC get that and start acting like it? It’s not the price of eggs!

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

Am I the only one worrying that we are going to find out that the plane crash over the Potomac was a political murder? That’s just paranoid, right? Too much thinking about Russia, or Rwanda?

The evidence against vouchers also has the markers of a good scientific literature: 1) Clear identifiable pattern (larger, newer voucher systems —> worse results) 2) Replicated by: multiple research labs (teams) and in multiple field sites (states). 3) Results hold over time.

Putinesque. I guess Trump figures that dozens of others have paid for their own security against Trump’s people, so Bolton shouldn’t get it for free? www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/p...

It is apparently still possible to write about Greenland without reference to the US or Trump (note to the US press). Check out this fabulous piece on coercive Danish use of the IUD in Kalaallit Nunat (Greenland) targeting Inuit girls. #ReproductiveJustice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Biden’s big miscalculation on the economy was thinking that the press would give him credit for the massive numbers of working class jobs he created. So far as I can tell, historians understand it quite well. But not so much other people. wapo.st/3WeLQ0Q

Elon Musk and Donald Trump spread disinformation as wildfires rage in the LA area

LibsOfTikTok Knows Who To Blame For Los Angeles Fires, It Is Black People And LGBT People And Women And ... www.wonkette.com/p/libsoftikt... By Evan Hurst @evanhurst.bsky.social

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

"The lawsuit filed on 6 January in a US district court in the Eastern District of Missouri alleges that the abuse began when Ann Altman was three and Sam Altman was 12" and continued into his adulthood. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

👇🏽🤔 (We don’t know who made this… but 🎯)

As attacks on gender-affirming care continue under the pretext of “rigorous scientific evidence,” let me re-share this article explaining that gender self-determination is a medical right, which entails that offering gender-affirming care should be the default, not exception.

If a bill that the House of Representatives passed Tuesday becomes law, undocumented immigrants arrested for nonviolent crimes will be targeted for deportation.

For fascism to thrive, fascists need to dictate the narrative. Trump’s allies now control what you see on X, Snap, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and soon TikTok. Plus, Sinclair Broadcast Group controls local news in 40% of US households. Oligarchs tell us this is “free speech”

Enraptured by his recent political success, Elon Musk is trying to expand his far-right influence to Europe. France, Germany, Norway and the UK have warned that Musk must stop meddling in their countries’ politics. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

Hiding: Attorneys for Trump asked Garland and the DOJ not to release Special Counsel Jack Smith's upcoming report on his investigation of how Trump handled classified documents after his presidency. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-asks-garland-to-stop-release-of-special-counsel-jack-smith-report

Molloy is right. Making trans people illegal is the goal.

Elon Musk is such a comic book villain, and this effort to engage in pretend feminism against an actual feminist is revolting. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/o...

Why am I suddenly getting all these followers that are just dummy accounts shilling for Only Fans?

Because family violence and misogyny are, you know, personal matters. Except that they aren’t. Which is why Latin American feminists speak of femicide—state-sanctioned POLITICAL violence against women.

"This body and this nation has a territory and a colonies problem. What was supposed to be temporary has now, effectively, become permanent. We must do something about this."

This article is such a depressing indictment of the state of heterosexuality—an account of rape culture from men who would never describe themselves as feminists, just ordinary guys justifying horrible sexual violence against women.

If Kash Patel were director of the FBI, would we even know that Shamsud-Din Jabbar was born and raised in Texas? www.salon.com/2025/01/02/f...

And in another vote for femicide and other forms of violence against women and femmes.

Arizona’s school voucher program makes it impossible to know much about the private schools receiving state dollars. In this case, parents new to Title of Liberty didn’t know it had previously been a failed charter school called ARCHES where 13% of students were proficient in English and 0% in math.

In 2024, we saw the last decade of school voucher outcomes crammed into 1 year of predictable results: Busted budgets; lack of access for non-wealthy parents; fraud and waste; bad academics In 2025, here’s to hoping policymakers turn to ideas that help real kids and families.

Straights aren't pairing off like they used to, and the press wants to blame women — for daring to have standards. I argue that it's MAGA that broke heterosexuality. They make it seem like hell. Of course more women are taking a pass. www.salon.com/2024/12/27/t...

The Trump administration is planning to hold kids in internment camps and/or separate them from their families www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...