I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 maw.heysummit.com

Here it is. Trump's Gaza cease-fire deal just went up in flames. Reported just 12 minutes ago. Israel not only has suspended aid into Gaza but has launched a massive wave of attacks. Time Magazine is going to have to come up with a new cover of Trump.

Breaking news: Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would 'destroy' Ukraine if it did not agree on.ft.com/4ou5h1A

Hundreds of people turned out in Meadville, PA (population 13,000)

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

DARTMOUTH OUT! We are at 6 rejections. Vanderbilt is the only private left standing "considering" the compact along with UT Austin and the University of Arizona.

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I would say it's more like the "Love America, Hate MAGA-Murica" rally

When a Young Republican says it, well that's just a dumb joke. When someone here legally with a visa suggests Charlie Kirk reaped what he sowed, well, their visa gets revoked.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“.. Today, we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon’s new requirements, which would restrict journalists’ ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues ..” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

It's wild how quickly we bounced from "is it wrong to call conservatives fascist?" to "we're officially labeling liberals as a terrorist organization." It's extra wild because we don't have any official policy for dealing with fascists, but we have crystal clear, official policy to kill terrorists.

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

NEW: Oregon and Portland filed an amended complaint in their lawsuit against Trump tonight, with a new plaintiff added who is joining them: California. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“I am living with the deep pain of watching someone I once loved become the face of evil.” From July 17th: m.facebook.com/share/p/16yL...

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Any institution that accepts these terms lays yet another paving stone on the path to fascism. Take a page from news outlets, all of which refused the Pentagon's ridiculous terms limiting their freedom to do journalism.

www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... It's one thing to succumb to the stick, but Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Penn, USC, MIT, UT, Arizona, Brown, and UVA absolutely must refuse to go chasing after promises of carrots.

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

I have no time for willful ignorance at this point. If the Times is going to legitimize a Trojan horse designed to destabilize higher education (created by a person who incited violence and harassment of faculty for years) they don't deserve to make money off of your attention any longer.

The average person has little to no idea of the absolute avalanche of corruption enabled by this administration, and the way it will warp and distort public life and politics permanently.

The rampant violations of academic freedom and intrusions on extramural speech are escalating rapidly. Faculty members have the right to speak or write as citizens, free from institutional censorship or discipline. Expression of opinion as a citizen does not constitute grounds for dismissal.

Whether it’s Republican politicians joking about the murder of Melissa Hortman or Democratic politicians expressing their condolences after the murder of Charlie Kirk, both parties have a extreme rhetoric problem.

I condemn violence and murder in all its forms, including the shooting of Charlie Kirk. Also, Charlie Kirk was a racist, transphobic, homophobic, anti-democratic ‘activist’ who helped make this country a worse, less just place for millions of people. These statements are not contradictory.

The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

I can't tell if this is what happens when craven partisans who benefit from structural imbalances combine with an upswing in authoritarianism, or if they know this is ridiculous and are in on the cruel joke.

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We aren’t going to make it more fair by pandering to the lowest, basest instincts of people who aren’t inclined to support progress either way. What happened to a politics of leading people to their better angels and inspiring greatness in average people?

I remember Obama being torn to shreds for “picking winners & losers” when it came to solar power companies.

If Dems have to walk on eggshells while the other guys are talking like this, what kind of world are we living in? bsky.app/profile/atru...

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

President Trump said he was removing Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve's board of governors, an extraordinary step that could undermine the central bank's independence and seeks to oust the first Black woman to serve on the board. Legally, a president may only dismiss a governor “for cause.”

A federal judge warned Kari Lake, an outspoken Trump ally who oversaw the effective shutdown of Voice of America, that she could be held in contempt for failing to comply with his directive to resume broadcasts at the taxpayer-funded news outlet.

Earlier this year, SCOTUS tried to construct a stupid legal framework where the President was allowed to destroy basically all independent institutions except for the Federal Reserve, which was deemed too economically important. Unsurprisingly, even that was not enough for Trump.

New, from me: A Trump official is concocting mortgage fraud claims to target opposition. It's a classic authoritarian trick. Now they are doing it to Lisa Cook, the first Black female member of the Federal Reserve to push her to resign. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-uses...

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

A much more substantive advance would be for prominent Republicans to stop calling their political opponents “cockroaches” and for them to be investigated or imprisoned — that happens with much more frequency than any prominent Democrats saying “heteronormative” or talking about critical theory.

the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.

Perhaps you would feel differently if you identified with one of the terms that smart politicians are no longer supposed to say. I wonder how Tom would react if, in 40 years when white Americans are in the minority, smart politicians were advised to stop referring to them.

Also, it isn't bad to be smart, or to demonstrate intelligence. If culturally that has become a net negative, then Dems are doomed. It doesn't matter what we say or how we say it. A race to the bottom leaves us all fucked.

This is an unwinnable game. No matter what language we use, they'll twist it and turn it against us. Don't believe me? See diversity, equity and inclusion as examples. It isn't too much to expect people to know what at least 2 of those three words mean, and yet, here we are.

Since you've turned off the ability to comment directly, we have to chat in quote posts I guess. Ok, so then how do Democrats address the inequality of and discrimination against the LGBTQ community?

Advocating for the avoidance of Democrats *saying* these things is the same as advocating that we just ignore these things altogether, because how are we supposed to address them otherwise?? Anyone notice there are entire groups of people on this list of supposedly verboten words??

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.