My favorite scene from the Bible

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

Are we watching the Artemis return while listening to Drops of Jupiter? Why, yes.

Those of us, @protectdemocracy.org included, who warned of what Trump would do and were called alarmist for it have largely been correct and our critics have largely been wrong. I wish we were wrong. But it's an important lesson to take the warnings of democracy advocates more seriously.

A Hawai'i state Senate bill takes a novel approach that could make the controversial Citizens United irrelevant in the islands. @civilbeat.bsky.social article:

And if you look around and notice that joy, international teamwork and diversity really seem to stick it to you………

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things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

A recent Spanish study estimated health care associated infections caused >3x as many deaths as car accidents each year We've normalized seatbelts. So why aren't N95 masks & infection control in healthcare non-negotiable? shorturl.at/EydJC

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event. They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

How odd that no one is asking questions like - Was he here legally from UK/Europe? - Where/when was he radicalized? - Does his religion promote honor killings? Are they spreading this radicalism here in TX? - Why is his culture so violent? 🤔

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If the test of a theory is its predictive power, then Trump-Russia is the most robust theory in all contemporary political science.

For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:

a woman reached out to donate 500,000 delta skymiles to get people home to MN as they are released from custody in TX. we're getting flights booked today. it should be enough to get at least 15 people home. delta should be doing for free since they take ICE money.

Poet to Bigot I have done so little For you, And you have done so little For me, That we have good reason Never to agree.

My kid is really cheering me through COVID 🥹

NEW: I was one of 3 reporters granted access to the convening of 600+ clergy in Minneapolis this week. It was a striking show of solidarity with MN clergy resisting ICE, but heralded something else: the emergence of a vast, faith-based network trained to resist ICE. religionnews.com/2026/01/23/i...

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Close analysis of video footage shows Renee Nicole Good attempting to drive away from ICE agents before one of them shoots her. But that doesn’t fit Trump, Kristi Noem, and JD Vance’s narrative.

The US is sanctioning judges among whose assignments is the legal reckoning with genocide. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Failure to recognize this moment as part of the centuries long battle against white supremacist oppression is a dangerous denial, and a gift to the American fascist project. @sifill.bsky.social is right on.

Marketing: when you call prunes dried plums

George Will: "Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement. ... The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those who hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for”

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

Rain on leaves

The Wall Street Journal broke down how many times each person appeared in Epstein threads and here are the top #4. Trump is #1

Our brains work by putting things in mental categories, but this can be turned against us.

8/ I wrote about how we found them, what they went through and how different their profiles are from what the government alleged. You can read that essay here: www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Svetlana Jitomirskaya on the risks of over-relying on AI (32:36)

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

We had three monarch butterflies emerge this morning 🥹

Epstein coverup continues

Christmas came early thanks to @jonsamp.dev & @emilysamp.dev! ☕️✨

Do you hear the people sing?

“For more information about either the Hawaiʻi Food Assistance Program or the Hawaiʻi Relief Fund, call 211, a hotline run by Aloha United Way. Green said 250 people are staffing the line from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.”

Watch this ICE agent getting arrested for drunk driving tell a cop that he uses race to decide who to target. "You're a ginger, so I'm sure you're legal."

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

MUST WATCH: Tennessee sheriff defends jailing liberal activist for posting Trump meme about school shooting www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

E. disappeared me to a gulag in El Salvador.

Here’s a block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

I'm a U.S. Citizen, born and raised in Honolulu. I don't "look like" my last name, because I took my (Caucasian, TX-born and MI-raised) husband's name when we got married. Depending on whether you're white supremacist, you might also say I don't "look like" an American. This is not right.

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you. Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide. So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.