This thread 👇. Thanks, Karin.

Awful to see federal forces terrorizing Charlotte, like how they recently terrorized Chicago. Truly awful. At the same time, don't miss how they had to withdraw from Chicago to do it. It's the same guys, like a hit squad. Bottomless desire, limited capacity. Push the regime enough and it'll break.

Some of the most respected Chicago journalists in modern history came together to pen a letter decrying the terror being waged by the federal government against area residents. Source: open.substack.com/pub/jennifer... The letter: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/13/l...

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

Yes! As Rep. Pingree from Maine said, this is not a merely "change [in] the tenor or tone or trajectory" of the NEH, "this is a dismantling,” "'rapid destruction' of the agency’s systems of scholarly review."

You'd think the narcissist-in-chief would want to release the files for this reason alone.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

Republican men are absolutely obsessed with masculinity - is eating edamame feminine?? Is it gay to please your wife in bed??? Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress & played a girl bunny???? Then they say things out loud like “I’m a Grok guy”

One of my favorite things about NYC is that the entire fleet of NYC ferries was named by 2nd graders. I think about this every time my run takes me past the docks. Anyway, there are people who went to work this morning aboard The Tooth Ferry and the Ocean Queen Rockstar.

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

So many emails. . . Terrible horrible description. . . 😳 Watch out ketchup ‼️

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Historians! If you’re within driving distance of Gettysburg, come to the Fortenbaugh next week with David Blight, Drew Faust & Stephanie McCurry. I pushed to try a panel format this year—excited to see it come to life. www.gettysburg.edu/news/stories...

Swarthmore faculty: Join us on Nov. 19 at 4:15pm.

This. Knowing that they were going to do this, they should have addressed the public on the decision. Made USE of the moment.

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

50 years ago today Horses is the debut studio album by American proto-punk / punkrock musician Patti Smith, which was released on this day in 1975. #punk #punks #protopunk #garagerock #womenofpunk #pattismith #horses #history #punkrockhistory #otd

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

Listen to more Nina Simone.

Do you ever have that feeling that your life (at this moment) is a lot like wrong-way rover's?

"We are now witnessing what the historian Richard Rhodes termed “public man-made death” ... The toll is appalling and will continue to grow. But these losses will be harder to see than those of war." 600,000 preventable deaths ... All because Musk and Rubio (on behalf of Trump) gutted US AID. 1/2

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump violated the Constitution and federal law by ordering hundreds of National Guard soldiers to Portland, Oregon, earlier this year, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“The evidence demonstrates that these deployments, which were objected to by Oregon’s governor and not requested by the federal officials in charge of protection of the ICE building, exceeded the president’s authority.” - Judge Karin J. Immergut

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Beep Beep! (Look out for that cliff!)

Luka Doncic Leads Lakers’ Electrifying Comeback Over Spurs, 118-116 — With a Little Help from the World Champion Dodgers – NBC Los Angeles https://www.europesays.com/us/359818/ The echoes of October glory were still alive inside …#la #LosAngeles #lanews #LosAngelesnews #us #news #usnews

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Miguel Rojas! Will Smith!! Yoshinobu Yamamoto!!! Go Dodgers!!!!!

I'm glad to see our organizing with @AAUP.org is giving more colleges the courage to stand up to the Trump administration. Trump's offer to give preferential treatment to colleges in exchange for allegiance to his ideological agenda is entirely corrupt. www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

“Issuing his ruling from the bench, Judge McConnell acknowledged that “SNAP benefits have never, until now, been terminated.” He ordered the administration to use its emergency money to pay benefits” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/u...

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

I have a very bad feeling about this...

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in connection with the heist of France's crown jewels from the Louvre Museum in Paris.

Historians at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello have announced the identification of 6 additional individuals who were enslaved at the plantation. www.29news.com/2025/10/21/m... It marks the first time new names have been added to the estate’s memorial dedicated to honoring the enslaved community.

While we’re on the subject of Ronald Reagan.

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

It's a wonderful time to gaze out my window!

Quote of the week, month, and year.

Zero surprise here. I hope every democratic org from the DNC to Indivisible to the Cub Scouts is battle planning for the midterms, when I fully expect we’ll see armed troops at polling places

Hugging a moonlit tree last February. #BlueskyArtShow #Vertical Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.

Los Angeles came out in droves. #NoKings