If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

Trump forces the U. of Virginia president to resign rather than endanger UVa’s funding. The New York Times weakly describes it as “Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.” I call it “fascist strong-arming.”

Federal agent “I will fucking shoot you” to a man in a car as another agent, wearing an FBI vest and mask covering his face, grabs a woman. According to eyewitness, no warrant was shown or probable cause given.

If so, it is time to start crafting some cool-ass laws. What a time to be a state legislator or an AG in a blue state. The Supreme Court just said you no longer have a boss. It's the last day of school, Democratic state majorities and AGs! Time to abuse some power.

Horrifying to see SCOTUS limit the power of the lower courts and of people to sue today. And just a reminder, if this Birthright Citizenship EO goes through it will create millions more undocumented people in the US www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri....

quaker here. do i now have a right to have my children opt out of seeing any school books that relate to war?

Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith

Because their campaigns aren’t entirely built on the legacy of their last name

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

The American Academy of Pediatricians bluntly telling us the current CDC can't be trusted, and of course they are absolutely correct publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

ICE is monstrous. Where are the Congressional investigations? The press investigations? Who will hold them accountable?

Every single time an attempted ICE kidnapping occurs we MUST rally around the victim, bully the perpetrators, and call 911 and MAKE THEM RESPOND. Wanna not be bastards? Wanna be one of the good guys? Show up and cuff the terrorists!

This is the best thing I have read in some time. It focuses the mind and heart.

oh no! don't do it!

It’s also necessary to note how the Trump administration‘s destruction of IMLS threatens interlibrary loan: www.slj.com/story/Cost-L... action.everylibrary.org/imlsill

Had @librarypolicy.bsky.social put a call out today I’d answer for Colorado. There are MANY stories that haven’t been shared because people have been I instructed not to.

Let’s be real: this ain’t about “protecting life.” It’s about weaponizing poverty and race to strip away care, choice, and dignity from communities that dare to seek basic care in a system already built to fail them. (2/2)

This is how speakers against police-ICE collaboration at the Miami-Dade County Commission meeting were treated this morning.

Coloradans will continue to have access statewide to a key medication that reverses overdoses — thanks to a $3 million grant. coloradosun.com/2025/06/25/c...

Behold, Planet Earth’s largest digital camera—and its first shots. Here’s what the Vera Rubin Observatory’s images of swirling galaxies, sparkling stars, and sherbet-colored nebulae reveal about the cosmos.

Direct File is the kind of forthright, straightforward, unapologetic make-government-work-for-you kitchen table pitch that Dems who are looking for national analogues to Mamdani's winning platform should be grasping with both hands.

Reading alone won't save democracy but you can't have a democracy if people don't read

The GOP cuts to healthcare coverage will likely add another $50B in medical debt to the $340B in debt Americans owe. We should be helping bring relief to ordinary Americans, not punishing them for seeking care. Let’s pass my bill with @sanders.senate.gov to erase medical debt.

NEW: I speak to the author of the ethics report showing Stephen Miller owning stock in Palantir; MAKING MONEY off his own mass deportation policy using our personal data. Free to listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you want public libraries to be better funded in the city, same thing. Again nothing is just going to happen on its own.

Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.

Commentary: Coloradans can count the governor’s office as yet another institution that won’t save them from the Trump administration’s cruelty and lawlessness. Gov. Jared Polis, at least on some crucial matters, is on team MAGA.

Dave Bautista. Alan Ritchson. We love Giant Dudes of The Left and need more of them.

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. *Way* too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

And then this shit just came out. When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car. When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.

Disabled people are being arrested in DC today as they're protesting Medicaid cuts. Source of this photo, ADAPT www.facebook.com/theRealNatio...

It used to be legal to own Black people in this country.

Disabled activist Carol Olinger is still in custody after peacefully protesting GOP Medicaid cuts. She needs insulin NOW & has kidney dialysis at 6am. This is medical neglect—cruel and deliberate. Her life is at risk. We demand her release & care. Please share widely!

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

New — I wrote about how Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of a positive vision for the future, New Yorkers’ rejection of fear-based politics, and provides a blueprint for progressive Jews and Muslims to create a multi-racial, multi-faith coalition that supports prosperity for all. Read it here:

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

Tennessee passed a law threatening felony charges against local elected officials who vote in favor of policies supporting immigrant communities. This is an attack on the legislative process and democracy itself — @aclutn.bsky.social will see the state in court.

I can't second this enough. What you need is a set of flexible skills, like critical thinking, textual and semiotic interpretation, media literacy, political competency, and an understanding of how knowledge is produced along with the specifics of a discipline or industry.

“I don’t want to hear about the Biden administration you’re here to answer questions on behalf of the Trump administration” MIC DROPPED SO HARD IT HIT THE EARTHS CORE

"Answer the question, Mr. Vought ... I don't want to hear about the Biden administration. You're here on behalf of the Trump administration" -- Jon Ossoff *was not* putting up with Russ Vought's bullshit

This ruling confirms what we already knew: The separation of church and state isn't a suggestion — it's the law.

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Native-born Americans" are just immigrants plus time. Once we accept this, the logic of the Great Replacement Theory becomes nonsensical. In @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's latest essay, he offers some excellent evidence of this, including this great cartoon.

New York City must be safe for people of all ages. Children are especially at risk of traffic violence, and the areas surrounding schools must be protected. Nobody should have to fear for their life when crossing the street.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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