Which policy proposal would you write a valentine to? #UBI

Some people choose to eat their Kit Kat this way. Others don’t. Yet, the diversity of ways to eat a Kit Kat doesn’t hurt anyone and only makes everyone happier. Maybe this can be applied to other things too.

We're thrilled to share another interview from the Liberal Emancipation series. This time, we chat with a contributor. Listen to Otto Lehto talk about his chapter here: youtu.be/dhc0mK9YETg

The Equal Freedom Institute joins the Nation of Laws Coalition to condemn the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. Read the full release here: lawdayofaction.org/ice-in-mn-st...

"Several Democratic-led states are pursuing laws trying to enable people to sue federal agents deployed to their communities for civil rights abuses." #ICE www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

When the state asks the private sector to spy on you, who’s in charge of respecting your rights? When gvts bully apps like Discord to adopt data collection to “save the children,” we pay the price. It lets them collect info they can’t collect themselves, but can ask a firm to hand over at any time.

Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican, making him an American by birth. There’s only one way you can be more American than that, and that’s being an American by choice. #SuperBowl #Immigration

There is no reason for trans athlete bans in schools. State legislatures cannot continue to punish a small number of kids to court favor with cable news hosts. Figuring out who you are as a teenager is hard enough without government overreach.

Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks. It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.

Let's abolish ICE. It isn't a radical idea. The organization is barely old enough to drink. With that as the starting point, the interesting question for community leaders is what pro-immigrant border policy truly looks like. #ICE #AbolishICE

After the last few days it's safe to say that, while the Doomers' prognosis is unjustified and their prescription worthless, their diagnosis of the situation is increasingly persuasive

"What the world needs, I think, more than ever, is liberal emancipation, both as an overarching response to our challenging age and as redress for the misguided ideas... proposed as the chief means to deal with contemporary traumas." Buy/access Liberal Emancipation: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Today marks the day President Lincoln signed the Thirteenth Amendment, sending it to the states for ratification. The Constitution doesn't require the President's signature for an amendment, but he decided to endorse it anyway. #BlackHistoryMonth

When neighbors solve problems together without waiting for a mandate, that's freedom. Real change starts from the bottom up, not the top down. What can you build today?

When the Founders declared independence, they affirmed the equal rights & dignity of all people, who were endowed with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No Founder conceived of a person's worth or rights as being contingent on where they were born. Blood and soil rejected.

"The liberal agenda has historically been at the forefront of ideological doctrines unremittingly in pursuit of equal freedom for all people." - Dr. Mikayla Novak www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8r... What's the most interesting thing you learned from Dr. Novak?

Anonymous federal agents can't coexist with democracy. The foundation of our republic is at stake. #ICE

"We now find that it is not only right to strike while the Iron is hot, but that it is very practicable to heat it by continual Striking" - Benjamin Franklin to Richard Price (June 13, 1782) #AbolishICE

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way

The 250th anniversary of these words is exactly 23 weeks from today. Thousands of patriots died to make them a reality. It's a good day for all Americans to ask themselves: what would they have thought of what I'm doing right now?

"A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by any body." -Thomas Paine

Facts

Liberalism is patriotism

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But they don't. So they won't. We should learn from the Bernie movement's success by encouraging liberals to run and organizing ourselves as a voting bloc. What we lack in a DSA of our own we make up for in liberals' pre-existing position as the Dem base and the party's tanking polls even as of now.

Having wrote a dissertation on the rule of law and specialized in immigration law and policy for 15+ years, my fear is that the Dem establishment is too out of touch to ever grasp what most people with relevant experience have known for decades: they've mistaken elite consensus for the rule of law

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

wrote about the occupation in minnesota with a closing note on how the white house has exactly one tactic — repression with goons — but no particular strategy for dealing with entrenched resistance. gift link.

Moral divides in a society will lead to civil wars. How immigrants are treated is as much of a moral divide as how slaves were treated. I hope we resolve this one with less violence than the last one.

Obama was quite good at this. he was against Iraq in 2003 even though that was very unpopular at the time, but in 2008 that won him the primary against HRC

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

What does liberalism mean to you?

i have been meaning to write something longer about how the various ideologies of the tech right are just warmed over pro-slavery apologetics

Markey: ICE has become the criminals they say they are supposed to be catching

Now that #AbolishICE is in striking distance, how far can we reasonably hope to push the Overton window?

MAGA = The Confederacy Reborn

Like all bullies these guys are fundamentally cowards the second they aren’t sure they’ve got control of the situation.

DHS spokesperson admits: the officer who killed Renee Good was too cowardly and irrational to be trusted with a weapon! 😮

TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change? FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.