"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

NEW 🧵The White House has now issued its first formal legal justification for the lethal attack on a vessel in the Caribbean. This War Powers report to Congress is long on bluster and short on substance. This letter does not adequately justify the premeditated killing of apparent civilians. 1/n

I'm sure this will be fine. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

62 years ago today, the late great John Lewis spoke at the legendary March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom— at just 23 years old. Read and process his speech, which articulates both the urgent need for the Voting Rights Act & Civil Rights Act, and the stakes of denying those fundamental rights. 1/3

Polling shows Zohran Mamdani leading with Jewish voters in NYC’s mayoral race. But the New York Times keeps framing him as “alienating” the community—while ignoring polls that say otherwise. 📊 Read @ahjohnson.bsky.social’s breakdown.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

This is useful.

Please help us build a following for Stand Together for Higher Ed! We are helping build a national movement to defend against attempts to dismantle, defund, and disparage the greatest #highered system in the world! Please follow, re-post, share widely on other sites. www.standtogetherhighered.org

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

Of course DeSantis's Florida would be a shining example of how to combine settler-colonialism, fascism, & ecosystem degradation. Thanks to everyone down there resisting this! apnews.com/article/alli...

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

On @onthemedia.bsky.social I have a piece about the UT Dallas campus newspaper, which was punished by UTD for its adversarial coverage of the police raid on a peaceful encampment. The student writers went on strike and ended up starting their own paper. More courage here than many professionals 👇

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

U.S. agents suspected Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

A federal judge just ruled what we’ve known all along. The Trump administration had no right to detain Mahmoud Khalil. This is a victory, but it should’ve never come to this.

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

BREAKING: A fourth court has found that President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal, seeking to stretch the meaning of "invasion" beyond its plain meaning. The ruling blocks AEA deportations in the Western District of Texas. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I thought I would be safe if I positioned myself with all the cable news crews off to the side away from all of the protesters. But nope. I was wrong. The feds shot pepper balls at us, forcing us down Alameda Street with everyone else. @lataco.bsky.social

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

ICE crossed a line in LA

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

Study presents shocking conclusion that lots of Trump voters are racist. US Historians: PLEASE READ OUR BOOKS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

We all need inspiration/joy to keep going right now, and Jeff Parker's music is one of those things for me. Here's a great conversation between one of my favorite musicians, Jeff Parker, and Scott McNiece (co-founder of @intlanthem.bsky.social ) about Parker's record "The New Breed."

It's not easy to turn a wet prairie into a dust bowl, but Illinois farmers are up to the task! Got caught for a minute in zero visibility tonight. Not fun. Not funny.

We've entered the stage in dystopic sci-fi stories where a fascist regime creates a competitive game show...

MUST WATCH: Rep. Garcia just dragged Nancy Mace to the gates of political hell and back. “I support LGBTQ rights,” she said… before voting against them. Don’t piss on us and call it rain, Nancy. We see you.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Academic Senate resoundingly approved (141 to 4, with 10 abstentions) its version of a Big 10 Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC), originally proposed by Rutgers a month ago! ✊ www.senate.illinois.edu/2024-2025/20...

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

From @ccrjustice.org: In filings in the case of Mahmoud Khalil submitted to immigration court yesterday and federal court today, the Trump administration admitted he was taken without any kind of warrant.

"And Berulis noticed that an unknown user had exported a "user roster," a file with contact information for outside lawyers who have worked with the NLRB." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Good for the IL House... I mean, this is utterly a bare-minimum and way late, but still needs to be done. #NotYourMascots

On Monday, the U of IL Urbana-Champaign—along with the AAU, the ACE, the Assoc of Public & Land-grant Unis and a # of public & private institutions—joined in filing a fed lawsuit challenging DOE’s unlawful policy that would lead to devastating effects on vital research. www.aau.edu/sites/defaul...

This is worth reading. Like all institutions, Harvard is imperfect. But today we stood up for what we believe in. www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

Last night, the @aaup.bsky.social sent this letter to the Office of the General Counsel at Northwestern University. We show why constitutional law and derivative principles of academic freedom limit what Congress can demand that private unis produce. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must facilitate the release of a Maryland man mistakenly deported from custody in El Salvador, but ordered additional proceedings before a federal district court.

This is Orbanism, brought to America. It’s a fascist takeover of US universities, stripping free speech, because the Trump regime wishes to control universities, end free thought and fight truth. We fight now, inside and outside NIH, or US science becomes Soviet science.

I think we are all Will Farrell's character in "Stranger Than Fiction", and the writer is an undergrad creative writing major working on spec sci-fi about fascist governments and is seeing how far they can go. I think they jumped the shark with the E.O. on "the left's war on water pressure" tho

Illegal ideas.

"To Trump, US Economy is a 'Sick Patient' and Tariffs are a Shakedown of the Patient's Family"

Brazil's share of global soy/corn trade def going to increase. Prob more pressure on indigenous & peasant communities, and the Cerrado, generally. Note: the US has an 18 yr $253M trade SURPLUS with Brazil who is still getting the 10% min tariff. These are not reciprocal tariffs. Like, at all.

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

Dean Spade: “Our movements are pretty much just made of our relationships — whether we can move together, coordinate, collaborate, figure out disagreements [and] stay loyal to each other when the repression comes down." This is honestly one of my favorite episodes we've ever made.