Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

In 1993 Rev. Jesse Jackson was arrested after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting the Clinton Administration's policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees. A lifetime of direct action and protest regardless of who was in power. Rest in peace

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Wow: Amnesty International official says they were sharing info with the Biden-Harris admin as soon as October 2023 that there wasn't even a "semblance" of Israel following international law. They kept trying again and again — soon declaring Israel was committing genocide. Admin kept ignoring them.

FLASHBACK — 1988: @schumer.senate.gov brags about blocking the "Jackson plank”, a DNC platform item by Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign which would’ve supported Palestinian self-determination. (From @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social )

The 2-month-old baby in ICE detention was so sick he was hospitalized and unresponsive last night. Despite that, today, he and his entire family were deported. Now we don’t know where they are or if the baby is receiving healthcare.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧 The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement. May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

Swiss TV presenter remind's viewers of war crimes committed by zi0 bobsleigh pilot #AdamEdelman taking part in the Winter Olympics..... #DefDef2TheIdeef 🔻 #BoycottOlympics #ICCWarCrimes #WhiteWestComplicity #Hypocrisy #WinterOlympics2026 #MilanoCortina2026

Mamdani taps ex-Biden official to audit NYPD, other agencies for sanctuary law lapses: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has appointed Bitta Mostofi, a former Biden administration official, to audit six municipal agencies for sanctuary law compliance, aiming to count… https://ranked.news/180126?u=b

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

Again: bsky.app/profile/hype...

The platforms can juice the algorithms to help anyone they think will help them get richer and more powerful. Elon's doing it with X. Mark is almost certainly doing it (more subtly) on Meta platforms. And chatbots can do it with insane results. We need real guardrails on algorithmic manipulation.

!! Something I've been working on for a year is finally live!! A report from @eff.org , @justjournalism.bsky.social, and IPVM geared toward journalists but important for law makers and the general public decoding the nefarious ways police and surveillance tech gets sold, marketed, and deployed. 🧵

Authoritarianism is partially in our heads. The Trump regime’s desire for domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not. They rely on bluster and fear to make up the difference, to get people to "obey in advance."

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Tim Cook is ramping up tools for more surveillance for fascist control between White House visits demonstrating his own compliance. #NeverUpdateNeverUpgrade bsky.app/profile/hype...

This isn't a story about AI gaining consciousness, it's a story about the capacity for AI agents to contribute to frighteningly scalable harassment. Because "go off my little bot friends and gather intel and write crappy linkedin style blog post hit pieces" is a thing a crappy human can do.

"Is Will Stancil a liberal Antonio Gramsci" -- the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

BREAKING: 1 in 4 unemployed people, or 1.8 million Americans, have been job searching for over half a year, per CNBC

More than 85 countries, plus the Arab League, OIC, & EU, issued a joint statement today condemning Israel’s latest illegal moves in the occupied West Bank, & called for their reversal. They rejected annexation & settlement expansion, warned against demographic changes & displacement, & reaffirmed...

People have actually been throwing dildos at ICE in Minnesota The Great Dildo Rebellion is here.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Imagine being a child, thinking you're going to the "Most Magical Place on Earth" ...and instead you and your mom end up in “Dilleylandia”: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I was just wondering where USAID stands today, and whether or not it could be reconstituted…

unfortunately thats not how dems work. chuck schumer and hakim jeffries will say that purging trump appointees, even ones that broke the law, is too far and might alienate chuck schumer’s imaginary friends

well luckily according to the Trump v United States decision the next Democratic President can just have the 6 rogue SCOTUS members all killed

biden should have drone striked mar a lago the second trump v us was released. this country is a corpse for the maggots to feast on unless reincarnated huey long is the dem nominee in 2028

Any Dem that comes in without a plan for court reform will effectively be a lame duck on day 1, who will spend 4 years giving orders to agencies that the Supreme Court tears up and reverses with the help of burrowed right wing bureaucrats.

NEW LAWSUIT: We’re suing the Trump admin for issuing a rule that bars legal immigrants from holding commercial driver's licenses. This final rule could destroy the livelihoods of asylum seekers, DACA recipients, & refugees all to advance Trump's anti-immigrant agenda.

LOVED these guys, just listened to “Whirlpool” (yet again) a week ago. That entire album still melts your face!

Hegseth just killed a bunch more people.

Dwight Baird (Canadian, b. 1957, lives and works in Montreal), The Aloneness of Winter, 2023. Acrylic on wood panel

Underscores that in practice, truancy laws function as the childrens' equivalent of anti-strike laws. And I say this as someone who believes strongly in universal public education

criminalizing truancy seems completely wild, who would ever....

The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.

This story is wrong. It combines two separate women-- the woman Kimbal dated and another anonymous victim from a lawsuit who is seven years younger, as seen in the very documents the story cites. Epstein had more than one female pair marry each other.

“Unpaywalling” is good not only for democracy but for business. Hear more about the importance of dropping paywalls with FPF board member @johncusack.bsky.social and FPF Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern on @wbez.org:

A group of pediatricians wrote an op-ed detailing the traumatic, lasting effects kids in detention centers will endure: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They have voted in record numbers. They have invested the faith, hope, and trust that they have in us. The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care."

Oh no, not “climate stuff”.

I was 10 years old watching this, transfixed. m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxh...

A photo I took, as an AP reporter, of Jesse Jackson on the campaign trail in West Virginia in 1988. He would capture 14% of the vote in the Democratic Party primary (way behind Michael Dukakis) in a state that was 96% white.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

Elon Musk turned Twitter into a right wing propaganda mill, Jeff Bezos is turning the Washington Post into a right wing propaganda mill, Larry Ellison is turning CBS (and potentially soon CNN and TikTok) into a right wing propaganda mill. You'd think there'd be more stories about it.

Dirk Schulte Im Basement 2023