MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...

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Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

Photos: Hundreds of S.F. protesters form banner with message to ICE www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

every damn day I’m reminded

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Every time I see someone like Abbott choose self-inflicted decline, I think of this quote from Pedro Sanchez: "Spain needs to choose between being an open and prosperous country or a closed-off, poor country. It’s as simple as that." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

incredible work here

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

living like my arranged-married uncles in the 90s Gulf ass except for the tracking sleep and running far they did not do that shit

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

again sheer naked ambition should be sending more Dems in the AOC / Crockett / Sanders / Frost etc direction

The online-ification of politics is producing enormous tension here. Elected officials have become accustomed to tweeting or holding a press conference and having words accepted as reality, and in this instance people are noticing that the actual reality on the ground does not match it at all.

“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

On behalf of over 120 civil society groups, I've sent an open letter to @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @president.europarl.europa.eu @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu, urging EU leaders to resist Trump's fossil-fueled imperialism! oilchange.org/news/eu-phas... @tadziomueller.bsky.social

Never left. Can’t leave. His wealth is entwined, inversely, with the fate of American democracy.

Can we say the truth.

"What we are inside of is not only a media environment but a political economy: death created by the state, its footage circulated on platforms, monetized through attention, and metabolized by viewers." —Sarah Thankam Mathews on the murder of Renee Good smathewss.substack.com/p/snuff-film...

if you were a dirtbag millennial who spent the recession drawing up plans for your commune & ignoring how many cavities you had, this book will feel like a gentle vivisection:

In this special issue, Hammer & Hope commissioned the photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to show us the Trump administration's arrest and deportation campaign. hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

What a spot-on and incredibly sad article on the current state of affairs. Job searching is never fun, but like so many other areas of life right now, it seems to be at an all-time low. @smathewss.bsky.social www.thecut.com/article/job-...

"goodness has been dying from the scaffolding and the organization of our lives, in a variety of ways, and for a long time. Its withering, its impoverishing, and its murders all deserve naming, deserve observation and sustained action ..." @smathewss.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/smathews...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

no but why did I wake up to this

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

new newsletter: Zohran Mamdani, once elected, will not be the first socialist mayor of a major American city smathewss.substack.com/p/zohran-and...

A multi-day freakout about Mamdani's chances apparently happened because Millennials were waiting to vote until they could get the special Halloween-themed "I voted" stickers

I kept telling @chrysaora.bsky.social and @smathewss.bsky.social new sliwa facts and eventually this happened

I would not be me without libraries. An inspiring and devastating read—with helpful action ideas.

Can you help @nurseeehamam.bsky.social today? A bathroom, a tent.

"Anurima, who has cycled through the same humiliations as many others, put it this way: '...If more of us stop accepting bad terms, we might see the strength we actually have, instead of being pitted against each other.'" Sarah Thankam Mathews does such a great job here - inc scale/big-picture.

a rare crossover event: 1) bring back shame 2) I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."

Deranged ICE Trump regime trooper in Washington, D.C. points a gun at civilian bystanders for filming him drop it, as two other troopers brutalize a man in the background who is screaming "help! help! help me!" and "I am American!."

Unbreaking has been an ideal worrystone / container for my doom-research impulses, and a dream opportunity to work with some of the people I admire most in these internet streets. DM me if you’re curious about joining us or partnering in some way!

I edited together all the social interactions from the Cuomo campaign relaunch video and it became a short film about clinical depression

Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican from Tennessee, has sent a letter to Pam Bondi calling for Zohran Mamdani to be stripped of his citizenship and deported.