Former ICE attorney and academy instructor resigned so he could testify about what is happening inside ICE's training center. He chose to honor the oath to uphold the Constitution. 🙌🏼

The next No Kings mass mobilization is on March 28. It is going to be unprecidented!

It was cold but the Gator helped!

I never thought it could happen here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...

Vinny got her own #Costco Warehouse! She knows how to support ethical businesses!

Happy Hanukka!

In case you missed Connections at noon today, Cassandra Bocanegra & Gino Fanelli discuss the recent detainment of Oscar Ramos Jimenez. @wxxirochester.bsky.social www.wxxinews.org/show/connect...

Caring is an act of resistance in a system that thrives on indifference.

December 12, 2025

Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary. ~Sean Carlton

"Banning the word 'disability' from Head Start is morally repugnant and a violation of federal law," National Center for Learning Disabilities. "No administration can claim to support children with disabilities while banning the very word that protects them." www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...

Please save this date. IndiWMC is holding a rally to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Saturday, January 17! We hope to see you there!

"Kindness lives there now. Not in grand gestures curated for an audience. Not in declarations of values. But in the split second when someone decides another person’s fear matters." ~ Jennifer Canter

Indivisible Westside Monroe County is ACTive! We stand in solidarity with children and agencies supporting them. Making wishes come true together with The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester.

Signs of Fascism in front of Pittsford Plaza, Rochester NY December 6, 2025.

We kicked off International Human Rights Week this morning at City Hall alongside the Greater Rochester Community of Churches’ Faith in Action Network. Mayor Evans and County Executive Bello issued a joint proclamation reaffirming our community’s commitment to fairness, dignity, and equity for all.

Such blatant racism...expect big protests on both holidays!

November 30, 2025

🔥 WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “Tennessee is ready to elect @aftynbehn.bsky.social. Miracles can happen… to run in an R+22 seat takes a very special kind of person with a very special kind of guts.” #TN7 Full: www.threads.com/@thetnholler...

Imagine what it does to morale in the military to see the defense secretary hang an admiral out to dry to avoid responsibility for war crimes.

Collaborator Update | Kulldorff Our worst Swede is leaving ACIP for HHS. Kulldorff, a previously respected biostatistician, lost his marbles in COVID and joined the antivax express. His credentials gave cover for taking away vaccines and firing the real experts at ACIP. Fuck him. #babykillers

The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.

There is no such thing as a ‘preventive MRI.’ This is not a thing. When something that doesn’t exist gets done anyway, it’s reasonable to ask: what was the real reason? 🤔

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

Hegseth has now pushed Adm. Bradley into the center of potential murder-charge and war-crime allegations. The White House said today, “Adm. Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was totally destroyed.”

Another truly loathsome act by DHS "leaders" Read the whistleblower Katrina declaration — it comes from deep care for doing disaster relief properly. 🔗 www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina... FEMA colleagues: You’re brave, brilliant & essential. America needs you back on the job 💚

Update: we will have a banned books exchange and a kids table!

"All I can hear are the screams—the deafening desperate screams, from a mother, from her daughter, from the woman holding the daughter’s baby." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Abbe Lowell starts a new firm to snap up all the associates quitting from firms that capitulated to Trump. www.cbsnews.com/news/abbe-lo...

Trump is reminding me of the folktale about the fisherman's wife. First she wanted a better cottage, then she wanted to be rich, then she wanted to be queen, then she wanted to be Pope, then she demanded to be God and lost everything. He's on step four now.

Thousands of small grants to libraries and scholars were cut. Instead, "the agency announced it would be redirecting $17 million of its funding to create the National Garden of American Heroes, a patriotic statuary park" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a...

This is being systematically under-reported. Say it with us!

Check your name, your friends, your family, and your neighbors: thegriffinlist.com And please spread the word across North Carolina.

There are no tariffs being put on Russia. Hmmm

The moment when @corybooker.com displaced segregationist Strom Thurmond for the longest marathon in Senate history. 24 hours, 33 minutes and counting

Don’t look at me, I voted for the black lady who didn’t want to burn down our economy.

Asked my smart economist friend about how #TrumpTariffs help Americans or even the rich, because I couldn't see it, and he said, "It doesn't. He's destroying stuff. It doesn't benefit anyone...except our enemies."

I watched all his rallies during the campaign. Saw all his interviews. Never saw this chart or heard anything about “short-term pain.”

We've heard concerning things about the Social Security Administration lately, so I decided to check for myself. SSA says Wednesday is the best day to call, so I called then. Their system told me there would be a two-hour wait time, told me to call back, and then just hung up.

You all make us proud. Every time we share information, you’re right there helping us amplify it and push back. Huge thanks to those who stepped up—especially the lawyers. Word spread, and Musk’s team was made aware that Wisconsin law prohibits payments for voter turnout.

Wikler: Musk deleted that tweet because he knows that that tweet was a crime, and it's still a crime in Wisconsin law. It is plain as day. You cannot promise something of value in order to induce someone to vote or refrain from voting. This is Wisconsin statute, and it's a felony to cross that line.

NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts has granted a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from deporting any person to a country they are not a national of (so-called 'third country removals') without written notice and an opportunity to apply for protection from that country.