It’s important to read this and share it widely.

True. Manufacturing cases against political opponents is the opposite of democracy.

True. The basis for this is utter b.s.

This is incredibly dangerous and utterly irrational. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Freedom of the press is more important than the president’s ego. The NYT needs to stand strong and refuse to settle.

Xenophobia unrestrained:

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

Hell, yeah! We will all keep resisting. Oct 18 in the streets, and in conversations and writing before and after.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

A few weeks ago, I went down to El Paso to see what’s really happening inside Camp East Montana. And let me tell you — what I heard and what I’ve since learned doesn’t add up. People in ICE custody still deserve due process and a lawyer. Period. Anything less is unconstitutional. (1/2)

"But Thiel’s Antichrist checklist—a paranoid obsession with apocalypse, control, and surveillance—describes Thiel himself." newrepublic.com/article/2004...

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

We need to keep attention on multiple stories right now, including this one: open.substack.com/pub/tracynew...

Worth reading: open.substack.com/pub/tracynew...

There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them. This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

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Thou shalt not claim to be a champion of free speech out of one side of your mouth whilst crushing free speech out the other.

1. Vance, Miller, and Trump announced crackdowns on left-leaning NGOs that the regime views as responsible for Charlie Kirk's death. They targeted specific nonprofits for an article calling Kirk a racist and transphobe, the Ford Foundation and Open Society. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. As we honor the memory of the four young girls who died we should also remember that their deaths were fueled by the hateful rhetoric of political leaders. I talked about it live on X x.com/dougjones/st...

Absolutely!!

Vive la resistance!

NEW: Reuters asked the Michigan Tax Authority whether Lisa Cook violated any mortgage tax rules for her home in Ann Arbor. They said no. That's in addition to Reuters earlier reporting that nothing was wrong with the documents for her home in Atlanta. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

There are lots of conspiracies about the Kirk shooting, most informed by bigotry, whether anti-trans, anti-Dem, xenophobic, racist, or a combination “special.” We’d love you to join our crew taking on misinformation & bigotry in FB feeds. If you go it alone instead, we urge you to 👇

Yup. Read & share this.

"The only known solution to creeping authoritarianism is broad-based, peaceful, geographically dispersed mass engagement by everyday Americans. That’s it. That’s what works." Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This kicks ass. Imagine walking around and seeing these up everywhere in shop windows. Imagine folks starting to question why some businesses have them and others don't. This is what building community wide defiance looks like. It's not everything, but it's something. And it's something you can do!

I concur. This is a worthwhile starter pack.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

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! Chuck Schumer just filed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) requiring the Justice Department to release the Epstein files within 30 days — same as the Massie/Khanna bill, per his office: “The Senate will now have to vote on releasing the Epstein files.”

Let’s be honest: we know that every leader of another NATO country, except Orbán, is wishing that any other administration were leading the US government right now. They may need to find a way to suspend the assets…

This is about fundamental, internationally recognized human rights. Kavanaugh and his cohort *should* know better. Since they don’t, they *should* listen to Justice Sotomayor. There is no place for xenophobia or human rights violations.

this is extremely real and I don't think people totally grasp the scope of it yet. June's No Kings had literally 3x as many protests around the country as the single biggest day of protest in Trump 1.0, and penetration into rural and red areas that we never reached back then

Wondering how to start organizing businesses in your area to post signs for solidarity? This is a great thread!

People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC

Once again, ICE arrested, detained, and abused a documented immigrant.

Human rights violations:

They shout “America first” but are always putting Americans last. Cutting SNAP and food assistance doesn’t make children healthy. You can’t talk about making America healthy again while taking food out of their mouths

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.