So, just to repeat, there is literally one economist in the world cheering this tariff war: Peter Navarro, and his theories are not only crackpot, but rest on the work of a scholar that he made up. The Emperor Has No Clothes meets Turtles All the Way Down.

I don't think it's being talked about enough that Trump is basing his tariff assaults on Peter Navarro, and Navaro's theories rest on the "research" of "Ron Varo" which is an economist he made up and cited for decades: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-e...

If we had unified dem leadership with a clear plan, it would include this. @warren.senate.gov @hillaryclinton.bsky.social @commerce.senate.gov @judiciarydems.senate.gov

This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode the deficit. 3) Demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat. They're trying to get away with it again.

It’s simple: it’s anti-Black racism.

In February 2025 alone, we tallied 2085+ protests, incl major protests in support of federal workers, LGBTQ rights, immigrant rights, Palestinian self-determination, Ukraine, demonstrations against Tesla, & protests against Trump’s agenda more generally. This compares w/ 937 protests in Feb 2017.

I need to commit more dangerous gender transgressions. 🤣

You don’t have to have every answer. Doing what you can is critical. We need fuckloads of people doing okay at and trying to getting better at fighting facism. We need every person we can get to be the bystanders intervening. Break the surface tension. This isn’t normal. Say so. Act like it.

The guy even looks like a creep. ::shiver::

This is such fantastic news. Seeing the way that Judge Reyes acted during the hearings, I am not surprised - she saw right through their bullshit. The fight isn't over for our trans friends in the military, but this is an important victory.

This is chilling.

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

they get it. good for them.

BREAKING: A judge just ruled that the US DOGE Service is likely subject to FOIA and ordered the preservation of documents and expedited processing of CREW’s FOIA requests.

Red alert. These people don't understand science or medicine.

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

Senator Mark Kelly was commander of the Space Shuttle. He flew four missions to space. He flew 39 combat missions in Iraq. He went to visit Ukraine for himself & is calling for its freedom to be defended. So, Elon Musk brands him a "traitor". I’m careful with language on this site. Fuck Musk.

“ICE’s arrest and detention of Mahmoud follows the US government’s open repression of student activism and political speech, specifically targeting students at Columbia University for criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza,” Khalil’s lawyer, Amy Greer said.

DO NOT SIT IDLY BY.

It continues to be gross how many Democrats are forgetting the true Golden Rule: If you're about to say, "fascists have a point about this marginalized group they're scapegoating," you should shut up, punch yourself in the face and not speak again until you've watched a few Holocaust documentaries.

today it's the edgier portions of pro-palestinian activism, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", a year later maybe it's "the climate hoax". you draw the line here or not at all.

This is the new McCarthyism. You may lose your livelihood, your liberty, even your citizenship if you speak out in support of the Palestinian people.

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

this is called “being disappeared,” ask your Argentine friends about it

This is how both the first and second red scares began: deporting legal permanent residents for nothing other than their (also legal) political beliefs apnews.com/article/colu...

once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

NEVER.

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

To my colleagues at Columbia: if you were wondering where the rubber hits the road, this is where the rubber hits the road. I beseech you not to act like this is business as usual or it will indeed become business as usual.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

they’re disappearing dissidents, i do not want to see one fucking sentence in your little op ed about “the illiberal left” or “the techniques of wokeness being worryingly exercised by the state” i swear to god

Setting aside the incredibly dangerous and fascist aspect of this, is there actual evidence that Khalil was a “Hamas supporter”? Or is the standard for a green-card holder being sent to a secret location and possibly deported just “critical of Israel”?

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

Immigrants, trans people, palestinian rights activists, eventually it’s going to be your turn when the regime decides you are an enemy

like, major papers wasted so much ink on the dangers of cancel culture this and speech policing that. people got paid to act like the biggest threat to the 1st Amendment was a disagreement amongst sophomores at Oberlin only for Trump to start actually disappearing people off campuses for wrongthink

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

While the State Department CAN revoke *visas* with very little legal process involved, stripping someone of a green card is done by DHS (not the State Department) and requires filing formal charges alleging a violation of immigration law and a removal hearing in front of an immigration judge.

Speak up now, together, university presidents. Keeping your heads down is not going to work. Again, we know this from lots of past experience. You're totally ceding the public & political debate to the authoritarians, & it's the worst possible strategy you could pursue. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Being Anti-Israel, Anti-Zionist, or Anti-Genocide does not make one a supporter of Hamas. I mean, we all know this, but we must say it every time they do. Also the rest of this is evil batshit bonkers

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

Y'all this is REALLY BAD. They disappeared a Palestinian activist green card holder who is married to a US citizen. He could literally be ANYWHERE 🌍 right now! ICE claims they cancelled his green card, something no judge has ruled on yet. Columbia colluded w/ ICE to make this happen.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

@joyannreid.bsky.social I was so shocked and dismayed when I heard the news. I’m SO sorry. ❤️‍🩹 Many blessings for whatever comes next - I’ll be there!

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

WTAF, Carville?

I'm not that old but I can tell you what smoggy air looked and smelled and even *tasted* like, if it was a bad day. Lakes and rivers were often toxic, and occasionally *caught fire.* We solved all of that.

“They’re not coming out and saying, ‘We want to fire the queers,’” said “Michael,” a gay employee at the Department of the Interior. “They’re not asking people, ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?’ But in the end it’s going to have the same effect.”