One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Best antidote to it all is thoughtful reflection by @nhannahjones.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/p...

My understanding reading the notes from others that it’s now MMR and separately V for under 4. This is still stupid, but not cataclysmic. However. I don’t expect them to stop there, but to perhaps keep breaking things down to being worse and worse over time. This is just the first go round 😡

oh good now we get to convince a parent to hold down a screaming child for FOUR separate vaccines?

i mean really Ezra Klein doesn't feel a little bit silly given what happened to Jimmy Kimmel like, immediately? i know he doesn't listen to his Black friends but what about white men getting censored

Such a good episode 👏🏽 @mikebonin.bsky.social pushed back on the idea that “covid is mild now” w public health/herd immunity. Still disappointed Long COVID wasn’t mentioned. We know LC risk increases w each infection & CDCs own data show Black, Latiné, & LGBT folx disproportionately impacted.

Loved having @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social as a co-host this week along with @mikebonin.bsky.social, the ultimate LA Taco x LA Podcast crossover episode. Listen and subscribe here: thinkforward.la/la-podcast-82-degrees-and-rising/

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They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...

PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)

This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

“Investigators are trying to determine if the suspect was trying to pose as a federal immigration agent. Officials said the vehicle was equipped with police lights and several radios were mounted on the center console… Police also found a list of ICE radio codes.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

All the celebs crying about their burned McMansions in January, fundraising “for the community” are real quiet about their neighbors and laborers being kidnapped across LA right now. Buyout some car washes, a frutero, literally anything.

The dodgers owe Nezza an apology like yesterday.

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

You’re seeing a lot on TV rn about force and misconduct in Los Angeles sheriff department's role. Well, here’s what happened when someone tried to get serious about bringing accountability to the department: she faced huge pushback… and now she faces criminal charges. boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

Pretty messed up how they tell you to peacefully protest and that's just fine, but then they box you in and arrest you when you can't leave on time

Last week I published this story explaining the violence that LAPD exercises toward protesters and press. Today I saw them seriously injury many with the exact same tactics. capitalandmain.com/police-viole...

Hats off to Maya Lau for holding power to account here. “If LASD’s actions are left unredressed,” according to the complaint, “journalists in Los Angeles will be chilled from reporting on matters of public concern out of fear that they will be investigated and prosecuted.”

The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination. Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

Pure evil

Hot take: current unsuccessful attempts at privatized space flight are a flavor of moon landing denialism. Not denialism that we went there, but of how. The idea that we can get the same results with cost-saving privatization propped up by media propaganda is itself a form of conspiracist thinking

Vile.

#JournalismIsNotACrime www.latimes.com/california/s...

Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

worth the wait - this week's #WTHealth podcast! With @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, and @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social, plus @maryrziegler.bsky.social on her new personhood book! kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

wait, what, the senate can overrule the parliamentarian? Didn't the dems swear up and down circa 2021-2022 that the a parliamentarian was an unstoppable, indefatigable force of nature? They couldn't possibly deliver on their policy goals, because the parliamentarian said no, ah shucks?

Democrats insisted for years that there's absolutely no way around the allegedly all-powerful parliamentarian - and credulous liberals believed them. Then within a few months of taking over the Senate, Republicans just went around the parliamentarian to get their way. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

So old I remember...

Turns out you *can* just ignore the Senate Parliamentarian!

With obituaries of DOGE and Elon Musk's political career circulating prematurely, @brbarrett.bsky.social is must read: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Has anyone tabulated how much all of these Trump-instigated lawsuits are costing taxpayers?

Seconded!

when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high

Missing this energy from the dodgers last month

Democrats don’t need a liberal Joe Rogan. They need to offer and enact positive material change for their voters and all Americans. Not technocratic change but real positive material change in the short term, they have to follow through with holding the fascists accountable in a long term manner.

I think that a major driver of adherents to the COVID19 lab leak theory is that they cannot handle the simple truth that we are not in control of pandemics. The idea that novel pathogens emerge naturally is too frightening for them to handle. Yet that is how pandemics have begun throughout history.

UnitedHealth uses algorithms to deny and cut off care even if the patient's medical team deems the care necessary. "What we went through as a family, we're just one story among thousands." For-profit health insurers like UHC need to be banned. #HealthcareForAll www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/u...

Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unreported news story: CA Gov Newsom proposes eliminating GLP1 meds from coverage under state’s Medicaid program. The story - the state is saying only wealthy and commercially insured deserve the latest standard of care for their chronic health conditions. This is not health equity.

we cannot just put all our eggs in one basket (💉) & then act like there’s no recourse when the ethos of vaccination is with the intention—supposedly—of preventing disease. yea vax hesitancy sucks, it’s going to take some serious work to reverse, so we MUST prevent disease other ways while it’s done.

in this edition of Many Things Can Be True At Once: - Biden should never have run for a second term - Biden running for a second term + pulling out late devalued trust the public had/has in Dems - Trump has, for his entire life, been unfit for office on levels unmatched by Biden on his worst day

“Black Americans would bear the brunt of a Medicaid overhaul: About 20% of Medicaid enrollees are Black, while Black Americans make up just 14% of the U.S. population. Making big changes to the program also could devastate rural hospitals that depend on Medicaid reimbursements.”