Ya know, I'm reminded today of a story I did re Eric Adams controlling a secretive, abusive NYPD unit The connex was so tight, the mayor had access to a *live-feed* of the unit's body-cams “The unit effectively reported directly to City Hall," a source told me www.propublica.org/article/eric...

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s another day 👇🤷‍♂️

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It's a failure of Dem messaging and a sign of weakness that Steve Bannon has no problem just coming out and saying this. The president is not The President. He's just a confused old man who goes on TV to air his grudges. Stephen Miller is The President, and he's the one pushing this hateful agenda.

I think we should also ridicule Miller here, not fear him. His fascist cosplay is absurd. He thinks tweeting in a clipped, military-sounding tone will frighten us. Oooo, he said "utilized"! Scary! Meanwhile their efforts to prosecute foes are imploding in buffoonery and Trump is polling in the 30s.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

i need proof this is not a real column

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

DC statehood now.

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Beyond the false claims linking Tylenol to autism, it is especially gross to see extremely wealthy men shaming women for not ‘toughing it out’ during pregnancy.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

If you have the space on your plate to make these calls, please do.

@archive.org 👀?

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

and why I subscribe 🙏 subscriptions.thenation.com/

“These people are full of shit.” Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social, who faced multiple death threats from people who've since been convicted, calls out Trump +allies for weaponizing Charlie Kirk’s killing against the left. Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's full interview: zeteo.com/p/full-of-sh...

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

This year: Annunciation Catholic School, Minneapolis, MN Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology, Inglewood, CA Florida State University, Tallahassee FL Pasadena Memorial High School, TX Antioch High School, Nashville, TN

couple people have asked for a source on this, it’s not from her personal website but from the FAQ section of a writing workshop she used to do www.thegallopingmuse.com

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

the fuck is going on

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey, one of the most aggressive anti-abortion AGs in the country, has been named FBI co-deputy director. Quite possibly the worst abortion-related news we’ve seen from the Trump administration yet.

Terrific work as always from @pbump.com

Reminder: The leaders of the Proud Boys were found guilty of seditious conspiracy against the U.S. With the exception of Enrique Tarrio, they were among the few Jan 6ers who weren’t pardoned by Trump — their sentences were commuted. Canada and New Zealand have designated them a terrorist group.

John Kelly: Trump’s a fascist. Mark Milley: Trump’s a fascist. Mark Esper: Trump’s a threat to democracy. Axios: www.axios.com/2025/08/15/w...

Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States. D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.

DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.

Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.

The irony is not lost on many in Washington that Trump says spitting on a DC cop is justification for hitting/punching back "hard" when he pardoned hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted those same cops — and said attacks on them that day were "minor."

Schrödinger’s capital: it must be rescued from crime whilst being historically safe.

They don't quite understand Dem voters do not care if Dem leaders are exposed. We will gladly excommunicate anyone in those files.

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become king. The palace becomes a circus.

The girls get cranky before big thunderstorms. Their mood is actually a better predictor for me than the tv weatherfolk. Also yeah they’re pissed today we’re gonna get hammered

zohrandipity: when you make a new friend by sporting the same gear for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social thank you @bshaykin.bsky.social 🧡 for the only schmear campaign I can get behind ✌️🥯 @tenshookmars.bsky.social

“In a deviation from department policy, Brooklyn Park police waited more than an hour to enter the home of Melissa Hortman after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway.”

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Torres: If the bill is so popular, why are the cuts largely delayed until after the midterm election? And if the bill surgically targets fraud, waste and abuse, why is it necessary to set up a $50 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals?

“Secret police” are your words, not mine. Seems like you’ve been giving them a lot of thought. Unlike NYPD, your agents don’t identify themselves & wear masks that cover their faces. Now they ignore judges’ rulings, too. What law enforcement agents are supposed to uphold … is the rule of law.

that’s one heck of a question 🙄

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates. The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of Christian theocracy.

Racists and abuse apologists have taken me from “Mamdani is cool, I hope he does well” to “fuck yes crush their hopes and dreams, let everyone opposed to him wither.”

it seems unfair to vampires to call Miller one, but talk about one of the most bloodless and sociopathic creatures this regime has unleashed on us. can’t anyone put him back in his tomb and seal it off for another century please?

as a jew, i feel relieved and vindicated that cynical fearmongering about israel did not win this election for a sex creep and grandma killer, a win which would have been declared ‘on my behalf’ and which i and most of my fellow jews did not want

We did it. And who are we? 1️⃣ @socialists.nyc, which not only powered Zohran's campaign but made it possible; 2️⃣ @nywfp.bsky.social, which cohered NYC's organized Left; 3️⃣ @bradlander.bsky.social, Adrienne, and Zellnor, who united against Cuomo; and 4️⃣ The 50,000 of us who did the work in the field.