On the nose protest! Excellent placement of the malls latest monument to the wannabe dictator with his worship the leader flag in back!

Putting statues of a man who kept a “professor watch list” on college campuses to terrorize them feels very on brand with putting up lost cause statues in front of court houses to terrorize black people.

At least we have one leader we can count on to speak truth to power @chmnmendelson.bsky.social

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

This is USA- give billionaire’s “$1.058 billion in city cash + at least $5.6 billion in free rent & tax breaks -the biggest public sports subsidy in U.S. history” in exchange for them giving you back 2 million of those same tax dollars for public benefits! www.fieldofschemes.com/2025/08/04/2....

Nothing makes me sadder, than watching members of the so called party fighting to protect democracy, to watch its members throw their support behind any effort to strip my fellow DC residents of our right to make our own laws. These people all need to be voted out. Democracy should be a purity test.

Protesters disrupted an exclusive Republican Overseas UK dinner, just around the corner from where Trump is staying. This is the way—supporters of the regime must know no peace, no matter where they are. Thank you @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social and all in the UK protesting against this fascist regime!

Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did? I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.

Time for some common sense gun laws. Democrats should introduce a bill named the Charlie Kirk common sense gun reform bill and make every Republican vote for it.

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

This explains it better than I can

Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?

I would advise anyone considering a military career at this point to consider if they are willing to go to war with their own citizens and to occupy US cities- because that is what you are signing up for under this regime.

CONGESTION PRICING IN #NYC IS WORKING. Since Jan 2025: ⚠️ 17.6 million fewer vehicles entered Manhattan ⚠️ Crashes are down 14% ⚠️ Traffic injuries down 15% ✅ Subway ridership up 9% ✅ Bus ridership up 13% The $9 fee goes to funding mass transit capital improvements. www.reuters.com/world/us/new...

Come for the racial profiling, stay for the depraved indifference toward a person in ICE detention who was denied his heart medication and died in front of others in detention. State violence all the way down.

One day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.

Very weird that anyone in the press covers Trump’s illegal domestic military deployments as a crime story when the White House Press Secretary openly says “every Democrat-run city” instead of “high-crime city.” That’s not merely repeating their lie, it’s changing an admission into a lie for them.

After workers covered Delray Beach’s LGBTQ+ pride intersection in black paint, outraged city officials agreed Tuesday night to file a petition to challenge the legality of the state’s orders to remove street art.

While we refuse to hold elites and powerful to account in the USA, we do excel at punishing the weak and poor.

It took nearly a century for Congress to enact legislation to enforce the 15th Amendment. It may take conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court only a little more than a decade to fully eviscerate that law — the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

When you are concerned about the Color of Law being read by people, you are concerned about people understanding how white supremacy impacted Black and brown people through to the present day due to government zoning, housing, highway, GI bill, and banking systems and policies.

The story of the military occupation of DC began 388 years ago when a drunk, undocumented immigrant with a criminal history went on a crime spree & refused to self-deport The end is always the same.

“It’s very analogous to all the other things we’re seeing,” says the author of a 2023 report on the state of federal parks in the city. “The federal government is not set up to run the city of Washington, D.C.”

This excellent essay is published by Lucid but it is written by @marceldirsus.com

Courts are really clearing their throats in the past five days.

If the Democrats fought Trump as heartily as they do progressives in their own party, we’d be in much better shape as a nation

again we’re seeing how the glide path toward authoritarian overreach here is disrupted by regular people than by big institutions or the powerful people who run them

Jesus Christ, man -- this ain't it.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

But she had the coolest BLACK LIVES MATTER mural painted (then she removed it upon the kings demand). She clearly did not read @timothysnyder.bsky.social crucial book for fighting fascism!

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

We will not submit! #FreeDC #HandsOffDC @freedcproject.bsky.social @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social

Liberals: “We could try to DO some things to reduce gun violence; ‘thoughts and prayers’ isn’t enough.” Republicans: “Outrage! Disgrace! They’re attacking prayer.” There’s no need to be polite or defensive in response to this. Invoking faith as an excuse to shun responsibility deserves no respect.

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An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.

I'm not the only one to make this point, but there will need to be the equivalent of Nuremberg Trials when this is all over (however long that takes). If there are no consequences for fascists, we'll keep having fascism.

Republicans keep telling us not to "politicize" these shootings, but that's only because they understand that these shootings were entirely motivated by the political arguments they themselves have been making and entirely facilitated by the political campaign against gun control that they have led.

Trump's goal is to stop dissent, get people used to a permanent military presence & control cities w/ large Black communities + those who didn't vote for him. He said he'll launch similar occupations across the US What will it take for you to believe him? Action steps below

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

The 1970 shooting of student demonstrators underscores the risks of President Donald Trump’s decision to deploy the military against civilians, a history professor explains.

It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street. They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.

The Florida street rainbow struggle—like liberty poles during the Revolution—were protest statements. Replacing and replacing and replacing them was keeping protest alive.

I really, really don’t think what blue voters want to hear right now is “military takeover is redundant because we can crack down on crime more effectively.” They want to hear “this is fascism and we won’t stand for it” and vanishingly few national dems are doing that

So Jeffries’s alliterative oratory at Wall Street fund-raising parties and polished speeches, peddling platitudes, punishing progressives, and protecting profiteers, won’t protect us from power-hungry predators?

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Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

The people who say we talk too much about slavery are the same ones who insist that we need public monuments and statues of men who are famous solely for waging a war of treason in defense of slavery. Statues that were created explicitly to deny any sense of "hope and progress" after the Civil War.

Getting booed out of a neighborhood by schoolkids in backpacks and mom with a stroller.