According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Only the imposition of significant costs and consequences on Israel would lead it to change its policies.

Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration. Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

Trump announced that the U.S. is now formally engaged in an “armed conflict” with drug cartels, lacking any legal standing without a formal Authorization for Use of Military Force from Congress and violating constitutional requirements saying that only the legislative branch can declare war.

Trump is playing king, and Republicans in Congress are bowing down and letting him do it. Republicans want Democrats to let Trump continue to shut down whatever he doesn’t like and destroy our democracy. To play along with that farce is a betrayal of the American people.

Teach about impact of 1919 #ElaineMassacre (and so many more) on economic rights & the legacy today of Black dispossession (of land, right to organize, businesses, schools). #Reparations Article & lesson ⬇️ by Linda Christensen of @rethinkingschools.bsky.social www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-o...

Furloughed Department of Education workers’ out-of-office emails were changed to blame Democrats for the shutdown without their permission. Why is Trump resorting to such desperate, and likely illegal, tactics? Because he knows that he’s the one to blame for this shutdown.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store. The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ. Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

Prescribed burns are on hold during shutdown while logging continues.

Father Michael Pfleger calls out Trump’s cruel cuts: $2.4M slashed from SNAP, hitting 360,000 Illinoisans, and $500M ripped from Medicare & Medicaid, threatening hospitals, nursing homes & lives. “The real state of emergency is America itself.” #TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Presidents? SCOTUS gives them immunity. Corporations? SCOTUS makes it easier for them to pollute. Billionaires? SCOTUS says they can buy elections. But if you look Latino, speak Spanish, or work at a low wage job, SCOTUS says you can be abducted by masked agents. The legacy of the Roberts court.

“Protecting workers from high heat improves not only their lives but employers’ interests in maintaining productivity. It shouldn’t be a political football.” calmatters.org/commentary/2...

If you’re an Islamophobe you don’t get to complain about antisemitism And if you’re an antisemite you don’t get to complain about Islamophobia. It’s really that simple. (So many shameless hypocrites around.)

Speaking to @inkstickmedia.com, a military officer in California warned about the increasing “MAGA-fication” he's seeing inside the military. As Trump deploys troops to more cities, he says he's worried that some of his fellow soldiers have “softened at the idea of abusing their fellow people.”

How Many Palestinian Lives Would It Take To Equal One Western Life? Westerners really do think the lives of their house pets matter more. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-many-p...

Stop conflating the Jewish people with Israel's genocide. Those who present opposition to Israeli war crimes as attacks on the Jewish people aren't just deeply cynical - they are dangerously irresponsible.

Indigenous-Led Movement Against Austerity Is Gaining Momentum in Ecuador truthout.org/articles/ind...

They sold us a lie: that single-use plastic was modern, clean, and necessary. Now we’re choking on the consequences.

BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

So Speaker Johnson gave the congress another week off. Paid of course, while they shut the govt down. The GOP has made it clear they have no interest in compromise with Dems. So they will have to figure how to reopen their govt that they closed. And they get another vacation

Oh look! The Trump regime says that climate change is a scam, and it's cutting funding for carbon-removal startups in blue states. But, shocker, it's still giving oil and gas billions of dollars to pretend to suck carbon out of the sky. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

If the sole responsibility for yesterday’s attack lies with the attacker, why is the Chief Rabbi allowed to claim a direct link between the terrorist attack and Pro-Palestine rallies? Casting the movement as menacing is really a refusal to try to understand what is going on. #r4today

I want this post tattooed on my knuckles, prison-gang style.

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse. Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

Denver’s e-bike rebate program is a massive success story with 10,000+ new e-bikes riding around Denver and over 1,000,000 ebike trips that replaced car trips. That’s 1,400+ tons of greenhouse gas emissions saved every year! bit.ly/4gSY2gT

At least 60% of the Ecuadorian Amazon region is currently under oil concession, and a fight in the streets and the courts has been raging to protect what’s left.

The war on “Antifa” is a blueprint: turn activism into terrorism, then use that label to crush protest, dissent, and democratic opposition.

Workers at Wafler Farms are fed up. They've been waiting for two years since they first voted for the UFW to get their contract, but all the company gives them is delays. Sign their petition demanding Wafler sign the contract now. act.seiu.org/a/waflerpeti... #WeFeedYou

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure? Got it.

Don’t be confused by the title — immigration judges are not part of the judicial branch. They are hearing officers who report to the Attorney General, and their qualifications are all over the board.

"EXCLUSIVE: Over 30 Human Rights Experts Demand UEFA Expel Israeli Soccer Teams" European soccer’s governing body reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel after Trump released his 20-point 'peace plan' for Gaza, reports @premthakker.bsky.social

These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"... -Ensure our food is safe to eat -Keep our air and water clean -Alert us to natural disasters -Protect us from financial fraud and scammers Remember what Trump is actually attacking.

Trump has run roughshod over the Constitution. He's used this power to cut vital funding for healthcare programs while passing massive tax cuts for himself and his rich donors. Now is the clearest opportunity for Democrats to point out the devastating realities of this regime.

Israel has kidnapped hundreds of people in international waters. They were trying to break an illegal siege which is starving the people of Gaza. The flotilla is the best of us 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-kid...

Overnight on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers raided more than a dozen boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, blocked the ships’ communications, and abducted over 400 volunteers from 47 countries. During the raid, Israeli forces attacked volunteers with water cannons and doused them with “skunk water.”

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

📣 War is not the answer -- overseas or at home.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

“The federal government’s priorities are misguided. But the people’s priorities are clear: healthcare ... food on the table, essential services, and democracy.”

"Think of the words of Dr. King from decades ago. He said, 'call it democracy or call it democratic socialism, there has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country,' and that's the heart of it." ✊

"To my colleagues in mainstream media: your silence is complicity. Your 'boths-sides-ism' is complicty. Your euphemisms for genocide is complicity." From my speech accepting the 'Path of Truth' award from Palestinian diaspora group KTH. Full speech: zeteo.com/p/palestine-...

A U.S. citizen detained by federal agents during anti-immigrant raids of construction sites has filed a class action suit against the Trump administration on behalf of “all those who stand in his shoes.” “I got arrested twice for being a Latino working in construction.”

The undeniable drumbeat of American Jewish opposition to the genocide in Gaza grows louder. But “Judeo-Christian values” keep most Jewish-American institutions cemented to Israel. Jewish theology doesn’t support genocide and incarceration — it points toward the holy promise of solidarity.

If you take a close look at the so-called 20-point plan, you’ll see that it’s really a one-sided Trump-Netanyahu-Blair outline for Hamas and Palestinians to surrender. No responsible party should support this without a *major* rewrite! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

“If you can beat the oligarchs here…that will send a message to every community in America that real change is possible.” More of my conversation with Bernie Sanders on democracy, oligarchy and his time as Mayor.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3