Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

Seriously folks we have become the Whig party! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Take stay-at-home moms. The stereotype is affluence. But as I show in Holding It Together ~75% have household incomes <$50K/yr. And most are SAHMs because their households earned too much to qualify for childcare subsidies but not enough to pay for care. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

BREAKING: The U.K., Canada and Australia officially recognize a Palestinian state, a significant shift away from alignment with the U.S.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

This should be pointed out more often. To the extent that Bsky is an ideological outpost, it’s not the first. Why are they so obsessed with us.

God those answers are insane

🧵This is a serious use of force violation. The violent attack of this woman must be prosecuted by Chicago/Illinois for violation of state’s rights. I’m going to break this down. You see her blocking the ICE van. Agents violently push her to the ground. Then you see 1 guy target her & choke her.

Nothing is inevitable. In either direction. Hope and work.

“What is therefore worth stressing is the myriad ways in which the Trump administration has been unable to autocrat its way out of a paper bag.”

hmm, i wonder why they are doing that right now

"This is not, in other words, a regime too powerful to be resisted; it’s only playing one on TV.... It can’t risk looking bogged down, looking constrained, or looking like it’s forced to plead a case." Very good piece on Trump, Kimmel, and corporate appeasement by @brianphillips.bsky.social

Also, Democrats have run many pro-life candidates in the South over the last 20 years. They almost always lose. This is not some novel idea! The fact that leading figures in the party are suggesting this is an original thought further illustrates the problem. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mis...

perfect timing to have encountered this rebecca solnit quote this morning

It is baffling.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

what's funny is that like, those protests are an excellent time to do left recruitment. i have no idea why cringe is used as a purity test here

While PRRI finds that around 4 in 10 Americans hold strong authoritarian views, adherence to authoritarian and Christian nationalist views differ across race. Read more in the Spotlight Analysis from PRRI Public Fellow Michael R. Fisher Jr., Ph.D., where he explores these differences.

So, THIS is happening "Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech" will be published by Simon & Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London. Every bit of power we take from Big Tech takes it away from autocrats like Trump. Showing how is what I'm doing to meet this moment. (tk u @robin.berjon.com)

Love having to chat to feckless worthless AI bots to receive any service in our society. So thrilled to get 13 call screening messages telling me I can do online what I explicitly called you to do. Love how the useless AI that never has the capacity to understand a situation let alone give solutions

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

More Americans are very worried about climate change than are about crime. @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

“A republic. If you can keep it.”

Essential resource. Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing,” as the from SF author Joanna Maciejewska memorably put it, “not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.” These stories show what happens when it’s the other way around."

YES. YES. YES. OBVIOUSLY, YES.

I think that my husband sometimes warms up the leftover coffee from the previous day before making a new pot that I will drink from just so he can stand across from me in the kitchen, tell me what he has done, and watch me freak out.

“Use this list of senators and call immediately. Every call counts!”

A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪 (by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)

The Dept. of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the U.S.

Africa has few initiatives seeking to boost economic integration that benefits all countries on the continent. This is precisely what the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) initiative aims to achieve.

My latest for @thenation.com is an interview with veteran Nepali journalist Kunda Dixit about the stunning turn of events there in the past week. Did Nepal just have a revolution? www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I think something we have to establish and hold firm on is that you can’t be magnanimous with other people’s lives.

Tbh I have a huge professional crush on his comms team. Just fantastic.A blueprint. Tell people you don’t want their money but their time, gently-relentlessly mock your opponents, plan fun/silly community activities, make tangible demands, explain good things are possible & illustrate w/examples.

i think a lot of american political institutions have, in years of plenty and peace, have become cargo cults that no longer understand the rituals they are suppose to perform and that there are actually costs to upholding your values

“The top 10% of U.S. households now account for nearly half of all consumer spending, a record high since data collection on this metric began in 1989.” @weisenthal.bsky.social @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

My next book, Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, comes out in one month from Bloomsbury. It's about the rise of the tech right, crypto corruption, the 2024 election, and Silicon Valley complicity in MAGA authoritarianism. linktr.ee/gildedrage

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

Does anyone on this app work for Apple?? please pass up the chain that the glorching is getting out of hand

Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.

Not surprisingly but still unfortunately, the McNair program is under attack. I was not a beneficiary of the program but have participated in it as a mentor and speaker, and I have seen how it positively impacts the lives of its students. coenet.org/protect-the-...

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

"The U.S. agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 — about 7 percent — between March and July, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. That tracks with Pew Research Center data that shows total immigrant labor fell by 750,000 from January through July."

Over the past few months @wired.com, @teenvogue.com, @prismreports.org, @truthout.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @theguardian.com, @rollingstone.com and so many other outlets have kept me more than informed.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.