Early-teen girl carrying a WITCHES AGAINST FASCISM sign.

Union Square anti-Trump rally is on the move.

I did a walkthrough, here’s a timelapse. This is probably the biggest demo in D.C. so far post-inauguration, brought together by the 50501 Movement which originated on Reddit. Everyone was chanting “fire Elon!” while I was filming this.

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

haven’t spent money at target in about a month … which is a big deal for our household. 🤷🏻

Suddenly thinking about all the SpaceX rockets that have blown up, with Elon saying things like "we meant to do that, that's how we learn."

This. And holding as @profblmkelley.bsky.social noted, the federal workforce has a large amount of Black folks, one can see how the idea that "federal workforce is doing nothing and getting paid well to do so" is built on anti-blackness. Using racial capitalism allows our analysis to become sharper

People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.

it’s the same as the USPS, as education, as healthcare, etc etc etc.

Trafficking is a central theme of the QAnon worldview, with the idea that Trump would act to stop it when in office. Instead...

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The judge says Trump's EO on transgender health care would create a perverse situation in which a cisgender person could get puberty blockers to treat cancer but a transgender person could not get puberty blockers to treat cancer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

i will be humming this all week: “Rut-tut-tuh-duh!”

🚨 Update: we were able to track down Yesenia, the mother picked up with her 2 kids in Tucson. After a night of interrogation at Border Patrol station, the Venezuelan mother of 4 was deported to Mexico. Her husband and two of her kids remain in US. azluminaria.org/2025/02/16/v...

the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

we pulled the trigger & got a costco membership this morning. trying to cut target out of our shopping. it’s definitely never going to be the same shopping experience but it’s still worth it to us to cut ties to target.

During the nazi regime, there was a common saying of "if only Hitler knew." The negative repercussions of his dictatorship were never his fault, and if he knew, he'd rectify it. People will build elaborate fantasies to protect their cognitive dissonance and act out in weird ways.

This is the Great Deconstruction. They want to dismantle everything they think enabled the Obama coalition and America's impending multiracial majority. They're preparing for white minority rule. They even hired a white South African expert consultant...

Eric Adams’ law-breaking and shady alliance with Trump have destroyed his mayoral legacy. by Rudy Giuliani

If someone on national TV asked you "What has Trump done in the last 4 weeks that you find most concerning?" would you just say, "He hasn't lowered prices." Or is there anything else you might mention about the last month?

Mandatory repost. Barely a parody now

I appreciate summary, I really do. I summarize constantly. It’s one of the quintessential skills of thought and communication. But if someone reads a summary and assumes they fully understands the thing being summarized, I think they’ve fundamentally misunderstood the tool they’re using.

I'm not against going after waste in the government and the Pentagon is the biggest offender! Nearly $900 billion a year in spending and has never passed an audit. I wonder if Elon Musk will take on the Military Industrial Complex or if he’s scared he’ll lose all those Pentagon contracts?

An underappreciated danger in school voucher schemes is families may take on new debt—to private schools or other vendors—beyond what vouchers cover. HS degree grantors and for-profit microschools can hike tuition and all but force families to take out top-off loans to complete.

If colleges comply with this letter by the Trump administration, all affinity orgs, affinity graduation ceremonies, and cultural centers funded by the schools could be forced to be shut down before the end of the month. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Over the past week, russia sent at Ukraine 1,220 glide bombs, 40 missiles and more than 850 drones, including a couple against the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. If russia stops fighting, there will be no more war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no more Ukraine.

Imagine writing a sentence as tortured as this just to say “Nazis support other Nazis”

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

been working for 12 days straight. sooooo looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow & not worrying about work.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

People who refuse to sanitize what’s going on, who’s in charge on the Right, how extreme their goals are, tend to be discarded as “alarmists” or “hysterics.” Those who sanitize it all are upheld as “reasonable” voices. As a result, the broader public perception constantly underestimates the threat.

all day every day

this thread right here is why i don’t use AI, ever.

Go off queen

FYI, coming up next week: a #SaveOurServices day of action led by unionized federal workers to reject the Musk coup, complete with rallies and social media action. More details at bit.ly/SOSaction, h/t @ericblanc.bsky.social

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

*education

When SDNY refused to drop the Eric Adams case, it was moved to the Public Integrity Section. The acting leader of the Public Integrity Section also refused to drop the case and resigned.

It's basically this: Over the last 15 years, deeply alienated and lonely internet trolls, amplified by influencer grifters and algorithms trained to increase time on metrics by stewing division, convinced huge swathes of American men that every facet of modern life is feminine and, thus, bad.

A message to Jewish Americans, especially our leaders, please join us in this appeal to Vice President Vance: Until you condemn the many connections to neo-Nazis in your new administration, please stay off of the sacred ground upon which our parents and grandparents were slaughtered.

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

This.

i do not understand what elon and trump would be doing differently if there weren’t themselves actual agents of beijing and moscow