seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

Zohran Mamdani Refuses To Share Plan For Making Rich Richer

Gaza aid still critically scarce, say agencies, as Israel delays convoys

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

i would like to put sliwa in the same type of job i would like to put eric adam in where we can hear colorful absurdities from them from time to time without any effect on city power. classic nyc maniacs.

god I hate that Chuck Schumer is retroactively making Rotating Villain Theory true but how else do you describe actively recruiting a late-seventies filibuster supporter for the top offensive opportunity on the map

Our job is to teach students the critical thinking and literacy skills to realize why this Forbes headline is dumb.

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

ANOTHER SAD REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,000 一 among groups.

As with all previous agreements that Israel is party to, it will lie and claim the other side violated it, and begin massive unilateral violations. Israel has bombed Lebanon thousands of times, killing dozens (including several children who were US citizens) since the Nov 2024 ceasefire.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

so they gave the Nobel peace prize to the lady the CIA is trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government with? lol

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Supreme Court on banning gender-affirming care for trans youth: Sure, that's fine, no constitutional violation. Supreme Court on banning so-called conversion therapy for gay youth: No, can't have that, grave constitutional violation. Here, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets to the bottom of it:

hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

To those who say that capitalism is democratic because consumers "vote with their dollars", this is not true and I explain why here: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capita...

“If we view feminism as the struggle of gender-marginalized people for bodily autonomy, rather than just calling these things “women's issues,” then we make room for all trans people within feminism.”

Yes to this whole thread and: the point of understanding this context isn’t to diffuse blame but rather to impress upon all the breadth and depth of reform and repair needed. Simply putting Dems back in charge doesn’t fix it. We did that twice already!

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

ice has brought far more violence to chicago than was there prior

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

It’s not our first turn with authoritarianism (Jim Crow; internment) but also this took about 8 years, with an assist from Biden in his refusal to impose consequences on an attempted coup because he didn’t want to face political backlash

Being a columnist is so cool. You can have absolutely no experience whatsoever and still drop whatever takes you want. Serve in the military? No? Work in natsec? No? Have an academic background in defense? No? Have any government experience at all? No? Who cares! Fire that column off anyways!

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

look, there have been a couple good studies that attempt to find causality (and a handful of bad one’s) on this which show very muted effects, no effect, or a negative effect for the students left out. practically all the research on it shows it worsens class/racial segregation

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

There's fundamentally no legal difference between allowing Trump to fire the FTC commissioner pending litigation and not allowing him to fire a Fed governor except that the latter directly implicates the investment portfolios of SCOTUS justices and their benefactors. It's comical how corrupt this is

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Dude if the Democratic Party has a place for anti-trans and anti-abortion candidates then I’m not a democrat and I won’t vote for one I don’t know what to tell you man, there’s already a political party who believes these things It’s not a “big tent” to have zero fixed values in pursuit of power

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

a public service announcement: junglepussy has been making music under the name “junglepussy” for over a decade. she’s playing her own rap persona in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. “this pussy don’t pop for you” is something she’s been saying for years. PTA didn’t write that!

The Democrats already decided disabled ppl and Palestinians are worth sacrificing for everyone else’s comfort. Trans ppl are next if we don’t take a stand. It will be awful, but let him shut it down. At some point, you have to stop sacrificing ppl and stand for fucking something

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

These scripts are GREAT and these calls are EASY and ESSENTIAL. Call your senators and reps today and tell them to vote against ANY bill that contains cuts to trans health care. #DidThisToday

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

Man, fuck this guy.