There are a lot of great things about being married to a lawyer/in-house counsel and one of them is that he insisted that I truly understand that the law is whatever the people in power say it is. He trained as a critical race theorist & this actually one of the legit reasons these people hate CRT

New all the wrong takeaways from the Hunger Games lookbook just dropped

In a first coordinated African-led effort at the United Nations, leaders have declared the Transatlantic Slave Trade as “the greatest crime against humanity” and called for reparations.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Netanyahu: "We have to fight back. How do we fight back? Our influencers." "[I]nfluencers are likely being paid around $7,000 per post on social media such as Tik Tok and Instagram on behalf of Israel." #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #USA #Genocide

Labeling one’s opponents as insects or vermin is frequently a precursor to things like pogroms or the Hutu massacre of the Tutsi. I’m sure Jeffries & Schumer and the consultants will have a strongly worded letter ready in a week or two.

Apparently state TV is not doing it's job correctly.🙄 Do you think he actually believes this nonsense? I know he lies constantly about literally everything, but he's also delusional and lives in a fictional reality where he is everyone's hero. IDK which psychosis is operative at any given time.🤷‍♀️

This is accurate.

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

Last week, Missouri GOP leaders blocked a voter-led ballot measure to stop the state's new Trump-approved gerrymander, a move that a voting rights expert says is part of a broader national effort to undermine direct democracy. https://bit.ly/3Ky0Ofw

doing this basically from reconstruction onwards is why we're in this fucking mess

NYPD tried to run down protestors in Flatbush in 2020, recorded from multiple angles. People just don't want to believe.

"Suspect is in the car with his wife and 1-month-old baby. I recommend going in with guns drawn for no reason whatsoever, and if they appear to be confused by what we're doing, angrily and immediately smashing their window." Because doing this calmly, humanely, legally, would be soooo unsatisfying.

UMBC has these too, tho I think it's to move materials from one bldg to another. My squad learned to lockpick and used to sneak around in them constantly. We found an old storage room under the library that housed TONS of artefacts they weren't displaying for whatever reason.

a respected senior CDC official telling the public that the federal agency has undergone a hostile takeover and it barely makes the news because that’s the state of the world today

Honest I said someone should write a spy novel about how American adversaries could take out top NatSec people only by getting one of three right wing trolls to lie about the target on Xitter before WSJ did this story on Laura Loomer. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

After a federal judge barred Trump from using Oregon national guard in Portland, Trump orders California guard to Portland: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

After a 2013 Supreme Court ruling weakened the most powerful part of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark law will face ANOTHER test before the court in two weeks. This time, it will decide whether to gut the law’s ability to prevent racial discrimination in voting. https://bit.ly/42SuDh6

History lesson: the best way to stop farm consolidation is stop doing bailouts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD50...

ProPublica and @theassemblync.bsky.social found that in some North Carolina counties, homeowners with the highest incomes received two to three times as much FEMA housing assistance as those with lower incomes after Hurricane Helene. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and Ren Larson

Imagine going home afterwards and having to tell your family that you had to retreat because The Frog jostled aggressively at you. "The armor and guns did nothing to stop The Frog's magic!"

I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Trumpnomics: Get tariff money from US consumers on Chinese goods. Our farmers can’t sell their products because the Chinese refuse to pay our tariffs. China buys from farmers in Argentina instead. We send Argentina $20 billion. Then we pay our farmers to throw their crops away.

America experiencing the rollout of Trump’s economic plan

Trump’s stupid tariffs killed the top market for U.S. soybean farmers (China). So he’s going to subsidize them. Meanwhile, his Argentina bailout subsidizes soybean farmers there who, thanks to his tariffs cutting out U.S. farmers, are now selling in China. And that, friends, is the Art of the Deal!

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies. This is dangerous and could cause serious injury. The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke. They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”. Stay strong Portland.

This sort of thing can cause positional asphyxia, a potentially fatal condition where the weight of one's own body collapses the diaphragm and makes it extremely difficult to breathe. Someone could very easily die in this position, and most law enforcement agencies are taught not to do it.

The Federal Election Commission, which regulates campaign finance, has lost another member. But the FEC has actually been without a quorum for months, leaving the agency unable to do much of its work.

Brenda Hernández, 34, reportedly made a passing comment to her mother, Lucia Ruiz, 58, about wishing she could install air con in her rented property, prompting a barrage of questions and concerns that Hernández admits she really should have seen coming.

Fitzgerald said: “I thought that childhood was a game that I had to win, so I’ve been doggedly copying everyone around me. Now, everyone thinks I’m normal, except they all still seem to hate me a little bit, for reasons I can’t quite put my finger on.”

Payment for stabilizing emergency medical conditions in the emergency department is required by a federal law signed by Reagan, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. That payment is not Medicaid funding. It is wholly separate from what Leavitt is babbling about, not in CR or OBBB.

I try to avoid reskeeting substacks but this is an important piece that highlights a side of the medicaid losses that often goes unnoticed. I'm acutely aware of the rural hospital closures but hadn't really considered all the trauma services/social services that might also be lost.

This is so tasteless.

It is all about trying to keep all of us scared all the time. It is what fascists do. These American fascists are no different. Those of us with any sort of privilege MUST stand up. We must not turn away from what we witness. We need to document it and share it.

"Now characterizing the additional funding as a “Biden-era slush fund,” the Trump administration cut $500 million that had already been allocated." Their excuse is that, under Biden, the USDA issued guidance to school lunches that included a reminder not to discriminate against LGBT+ Students.

Poverty in America is clearly a matter of choice - but not for those who suffer its ravages. Children are going hungry while food rots, all because rabid electeds & bureaucrats choose different winners. And it isn’t just at the fed level.

The brownshirts brought some of those kids outside *naked and zip-tied to each other*. There is no morality. Anyone with even the tiniest scrap of morality would not be in ICE.

Yeah here’s where offering to bail out the GOP on a political problem they created while leaving threats of military occupation untouched really baffles me.

Furloughed employees have been told to schedule automated email messages saying the Democrats caused the shutdown. Some agencies have used hostility charged, anti "radical left" language. Political activity by Federal employees is prohibited (1939 Hatch Act). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Three of the four CA counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities have not done so, and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year. https://cal.news/4gQMN8J 📷 Miguel Vasconcellos

Not gonna lie this feels very Elon-esque

What are the odds this privatization gets funneled to Trump's buddies so they can grift even more than they already do.

OMFG--Getting rid of commissaries? They actually help the low levels soldiers making 24k or whatever