The N Carolina immigrant rights group Siembra is teaching business owners their rights if federal agents show up at their door. While most can name their first and second amendment rights, far fewer are familiar with the fourth, which prohibits unreasonable government searches and seizures.

Former Rep. Tom Perriello, a Virginia Democrat who won his sole term in a huge 2008 upset, unexpectedly announces campaign against GOP Rep. John McGuire. Trump carried the current version of #VA05 56-43, but it could look a lot different if Democrats convince voters to approve a new map this spring.

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Tomorrow at 3:00 House and Senate Democrats will be holding a "shadow hearing" on the detention of U.S. citizens. I'll be there testifying about the broader policy changes which led us to this moment. /my name isn't in this press release but I'll be there! www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

@wandrme.paxex.aero you know you want these lines ;) www.gatechecked.com/air-peace-of...

I’m happy that my PhD time will count at some point in my life. Or death.

Genius

My report on Nonviolent Action against Democratic Erosion is finally out today @harvardash.bsky.social! I try to put the US democracy movement into global comparative perspective. For the tl;dr crowd, see below for some key takeaways: ash.harvard.edu/resources/no...

@theairshowpodcast.com not sure if we found @briansumers.com car or Scott Kirby's car in London...

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Latest projection suggests that more than 505,000 adults and kids have died due to USAID's illegal dismantling by Musk, Rubio, and Lewin Source: www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...

next drink is on me for whoever gets a ride on one of those 40 AA A321XLR TATL check airmen/airperson flights! ;) 🍻@theairshowpodcast.com @moredotsmorelines.com

Massive! #FreeDC

@moredotsmorelines.com highly recommend this beer if only because the brewery is in French zipcode 74700. Seriously. Also very good beer. #GVAStopover

Given strategies that are not working like they used to and a slashed budget, how does international democracy support need to change? What Future for International Democracy Support? - TWP Community of Practice Webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-O...

Finally the silence is broken (and the media report it). Lower court judges have been attacked by both the White House and the Supreme Court - and they are finally speaking out in self-defense. The rest of us should support them too for upholding the rule of law! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

@moredotsmorelines.com you know you want one www.flightglobal.com/airlines/chi...

Ice blue ribbons are being used to call attention to ICE kidnapping members of our immigrant community. Throwback to the yellow ribbons that people tied on their trees during the Iran hostage crisis in the 1970s. #ReleaseTheDisappeared

Straight fire from @erikloomis.bsky.social in today's NYT. Especially on this particular point. Class traitors shouldn't be welcome in the movement. Period. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today

There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

America’s public servants are caught in the crossfire of a retribution campaign, William J. Burns argues. They deserved better.

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”

Remember that dude with the Plasticine Action tshirt, with the pic of Morph on it, who got arrested for wearing it in London? He has set up a site selling the tshirts with all proceeds going to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). You know what to do! ⬇️ plasticineaction.com

@moredotsmorelines.com with QR in T1 and CX in T6 what are the odds AA runs a jitnAAy to T8 @jfk? 🤪

@moredotsmorelines.com before you leave for your F adventures I dare you! lol www.google.com/travel/fligh...

Tonight in Washington D.C. The sign reads: “The Bondi order is unlawful you are not obligated to follow it”

IMHO this is law enforcement and a violation of Posse Comitatus, full stop, no matter whether they carry out arrests or not.

Not nearly enough people are saying “The Palestinians were right all along. We are so sorry.”

What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest

Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."

Photo of the Day: Just Following Orders. An 89 year old woman is arrested in London for opposing the genocide in Gaza & supporting Palestine Action. According to the UK Government, this is the face of terrorism in 2025. Credit to the photographer, Chris Ratcliffe, for AFP.

@moredotsmorelines.com I knew LH offered a SXB-FRA mainline nonstop to coincide w the European Parliament sessionsBut LO ops SXB-FRA nonstop a couple times a month too. Weird. do you know why? www.google.com/travel/fligh...

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

UK people had better pay attention, because Nigel Farage, who the British media are attempting to shoo-in as the next British Prime Minister, will attempt to copy-paste every move that Trump is making.

i find it amazing that media outlets generally fail to report trump actions as across-the-board discrimination: race, ethnicity, gender. religion, sexual orientation, immigrant. name the status and this admin is on assault mode. but outlets never connect them all.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If Benjamin Netanyahu “decided tonight that every Palestinian child in Gaza should have breakfast tomorrow, it could undoubtedly be done,” Alex de Waal writes. “Seasoned humanitarian-aid professionals can still bring Gaza back from the brink.”

The idea that there was no way to stop the mass shooting in New York is insane. A few years ago, I wrote this essay, showing international comparisons and debunking many of the key pro-gun arguments. The US *chooses* to be an international outlier. That's it. It's a choice.

'If Israel wanted every child in Gaza to have breakfast tomorrow, the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could say so, and it would happen' Alex de Waal

"They falsely stated that I, a U.S. citizen, have no Constitutional rights at a point of entry, and officers became increasingly agitated as I continued to assert my rights regardless."