“People will call my politics radical, when my politics are pretty much ​‘Look out for one another… I’m telling you not to be dumb enough to let the one percent, who wouldn’t piss on you if you’re on fire, take away your freedom and your future.” inthesetimes.com/article/drop...

Brilliant idea.

“It is very evil and it’s hard to watch—to wrap your mind around the extent of it,” Lansdale said. “But if you can find where to look, it’s not hard to be inspired by all the people standing up to fight it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/baker-past...

Not sure the point of deporting hard working people who fled awful conditions in their own countries and are caring for the sick, elderly, and paralyzed, not only harming our own economy, but vulnerable people who rely on this assistance.

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father. Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

Of course, after repeated Covid infections it’s gonna be pretty hard for people to “just be healthy”. And all those people will be discounted under the “pre-existing conditions” banner. bsky.app/profile/chro...

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6

Our poet president ✨☘️ 💚Today is Michael D. Higgins’ last day as President of Ireland! I’m so immensely grateful to President Higgins and his time in office. His legacy is one of kindness, joy, inclusion and community. #michaeldhiggins #presidentofireland #miggildyhiggins

Tonight was a very bad night.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

A young woman on TikTok recently posted a video speaking about how she will die without the insulin she will no longer be able to afford. How she won’t be able to stockpile it forever. How heavy it was to consider that as a young person full of dreams and potential. My heart breaks for her.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

This is one of the reasons we cannot get people to take Democrats seriously when they say, "We're trying to make your lives better!" when literally within a week of a landslide election where people said, "Yes, Democrats, make our lives better!" they go, "lol, nope, can't do that."

Tell the Democrats that if they vote for this you will not be voting or donating to them, let them know there are consequences for their votes and capitulation.

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

there was a screenshot that i'm trying to find from today that essentially had Senate Democrats going "yeah we won the election so we waited a couple of days to concede"

☎️ Call Chuck Schumer and the other Democrats and tell them #DoNotCave Schumer's office: (202) 224-6542 📞 US Capital (202) 224-3121 ‼️Red alert Schumer and these Democratic Senators are voting on bill that does NOT extend #ACA #Obamacare subsidies.

So, listen, call Schumer’s office no matter where you live, no matter if you’re registered to vote. Leave a voicemail that says if Senate Dems cave without an ACA premiums fix, you will never vote for or donate to another Senate Democrat as long as he is Leader

Have R senators? (Like me?) Call Schumer’s office to tell him you will never donate to another D senate campaign again as long as he’s Senate leader. Tell him this deal is a shameful joke and a betrayal. (202) 224-6542

As it turns out, people did not understand what mass deportations would look like.

“In spite of all the challenges we face, there remains within the Irish people a profound and unyielding commitment to seeing beyond the self to seeing the ‘other’ as friend.” - President Michael D Higgins at his final garden party. He and Sabina have hosted up to 20,000 people each year.

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Incredible news — Ruben Torres Maldonado is coming home! The community came together and worked tirelessly to bring this father back to his family so he can be where he belongs and support his daughter in her fight against cancer.

ICE has now sent at least 72 people to prisons in African countries where they have no ties. Via two ICE flights to Rwanda, two to Eswatini, three to Ghana and one to S. Sudan. Some had US convictions but had finished their sentences. None have convictions in the places where they're now jailed.

WHO condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher, Sudan. Read the full press release: bit.ly/3WuVZ9u

A running team from Chicago posted that Trump’s federal agents dragged a runner (67 years old) from his car, broke his ribs, and caused internal bleeding. IG: dwrunning1

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated 139 years ago today.

It is HIGH TIME to FLOOD DC. It is time to concentrate your POWER/NUMBERS where THEY are. It is time to make a focused, collective, & clear DEMAND: •Impeach. •Convict. •REMOVE!! Someone obviously need to feel the people's pressure/support/presence to simply do their darn JOB. Spread the word👇

How many fathers do we need to haul away from their children before America is great again?

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

This is so utterly sad. But what a striking gesture. 🙏🏻

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities "Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US" "The church cannot be silent"

I had no idea James Connolly spent a couple of years in Troy, NY. I love that he is memorialized there.

This is as much a legacy of the War on Drugs than anything else. He has a controlled substance conviction separate and apart from the exonerated murder conviction.

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

I thought I’d have another few days to post this well-known John Gordon Thomson cartoon from 1880 featuring a Jim Gavin lookalike & actalike character as the #aras2025 race continued, but it looks like it’s post now or post never…

ICE Trump regime troopers attacking David Black, a US citizen and pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, for advocating for human rights outside of the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. (Sept 21, 2025)

Comptroller Lander’s 2nd post says “Seconds earlier, her husband had been abducted by masked ICE agents who did not identify themselves, did not present a warrant, did not give any lawful grounds for his detention” The federal government is openly disappearing people, then attacking their families

I said for years that the only way to permanently reduce migration to the United States was to destroy the vision that the world had of this country as the land of opportunity. That wasn't a goddam suggestion!

Psychologically, we're living in very hard times for all who care deeply about science, empathy, equity, nature, and rights for all citizens of the planet, human or otherwise. Find strength, solace, and community in like-minded others, positive action, and in Mother Earth 🌎

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Charlie Kirk was a person. He might not have cared if I died, but if I don’t care that he died then I’ve already lost. I believe in the dignity of all human beings and I want to live in a society that treats each of us as sacred and ensouled.

my entire bluesky feed is people speaking out against political violence, meanwhile right wingers are foaming at the mouth calling for blood

I see we’re having a flag “discourse” again at the moment in Ireland and the UK, and I think we do well to remember John Hume. Clip via @sdlp.bsky.social on Facebook.

De Valera was American. James Connolly was Scottish. Erskine Childers was English. Countess Markievicz married a Polish guy who directed Irish theatre. Our state’s founders were funded by Americans, supplied by Germans and many served in the British Army. Our history is not a monoculture.

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.” Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.