What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

The oyster farmer Graham Platner is angling to unseat Susan Collins. He’s been endorsed by Bernie Sanders, and a recent internal poll has Platner ahead of Collins by 12 points. Can he make the leap from harbormaster to senator?

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

How on earth can this country still hold the World Cup and Olympics next year??

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

As a mother? I don’t want to hear a word about Mother’s Day when this is what we’re doing to mothers in this country.

No lies detected. This is our country now.

This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.

Hey Marco

Why, no, you shouldn't have to have your 'papers' on yourself at all times or face extraordinary rendition to a foreign country, actually

Fun fact: the International Criminal Court at The Hague does NOT recognize any immunity based on official title or diplomatic status.

forever re-learning that the poem comes out of what I don't yet know. I don't have to know or plan what's going to happen when I go to the page, and it's usually better if I don't. the point is to sit down and let it happen.

"ICE took our students, we want them back," @aaup professors from NYU/Columbia among other universities chant, marching to Foley Square.

““No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

if Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release,” People want action, this is action. This is the highest form of doing something www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-r...

President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

good grief... www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

BIG UPDATE TODAY: This afternoon, the ACLU filed a new "class action habeas" lawsuit in New York challenging the Alien Enemies Act removals. They are seeking a temporary restraining order which would basically replicate the same thing they previously had with Judge Boasberg's order.

"University leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance": read my brilliant colleague Dave Pozen @ryandoerfler.bsky.social and Sam Bagenstos in @thenation.com here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: As the Fourth Circuit today considers whether to block her order, Judge Paula Xinis releases a strong opinion defending it, calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia's detention "wholly lawless" and her order "the narrowest, daresay only, relief warranted." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Oh HELL YEAH

Montpelier, VT #HandsOff It was 40° F and raining. This is a pretty impressive crowd for Vermont.

To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.

I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S. This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff

really into this new collaborative art installation

The #HandsOff rally in Chicago is packed!

Lots of people willing to try new foods

Protest changes the permission structure. It says fascists will not be allowed to proceed unencumbered. And if you didn't think there was anything to be done, a protest shows you many think otherwise.

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march. They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

Also, a woman was handcuffed at a subway station in NYC (Franklin Ave) when she intervened asking why a delivery man was asked to show work permit by undercover agents. There is a video of that.

An elderly holocaust survivor confronts ICE and Tom Homan. His bravery after what he has experienced and endured shows his incredible indomitable spirit even the Nazis couldn’t crush. #MomSky

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

They are rounding up the students. Anyone acting like this isn’t a 4 alarm fire is deluded.

Another student kidnapped and disappeared by masked ICE agents for voicing an opinion.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

This by @bechamilton.bsky.social seems complementary.

Here at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out. tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed. From me and science colleagues: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

It's World Poetry Day, and we're revisiting 'It's About Time', a poem by Michael Bazzett from our February / March 2024 issue.

Heather Christle, for the day that's in it.

"Human beings are all the limbs of one body." —Saadi Shirazi

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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

The irony of today being the Ides of March and the Senate having missed the opportunity to put a halt to the gutting of our democracy.

@tupelopress.bsky.social Tupelo Press sets an example. williamsrecord.com/469281/featu...

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...