Standing on the seventh floor of City Hall on Monday morning, Seattle Mayor BrucHarrell gestured to the bustling streets below and declared, “There is no insurrection here.”

During my telephone town hall last night, a constituent asked if Members of Congress get paid during a shutdown. I told her yes they do because of the 27th Amendment, but I will have mine withheld for the duration of a shutdown in solidarity with federal workers.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says job openings are down 422,000, or 5.5%, from the same period a year ago.

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#BREAKING | Israel has just assassinated journalist Yahya Rizq in an Israeli drone airstrike that targeted him in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

We don't often see anaphora like this repetition in judicial opinions. "But not all of them." (law firms) "But not all of them." (higher education) "But not all of them." (media outlets) Constructed through footnotes.

If the Trump administration has its way, nearly *four million* people—half of them children—will be at imminent risk of eviction and homelessness. Let that sink in.

This does not mince words about how Rubio and Noem misused the powers of their office to chill free speech. Undiplomatic and now, ruled unconstitutional.

"Standards must be met." "Highest mail standard"? Mail? Is the U.S. Postal Service involved? I guess standards aren't important when homophones are involved.

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵

The language is stunning, but it's also one of the most clear-eyed and comprehensive statements I've seen from ANYBODY involved in government thus far as to the nature of the constitutional revolution that we are currently undergoing.

This is all because he wouldn't let ICE walk into des moines schools without a warrant btw

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

HAPPENING NOW: Lawyers for Des Moines schools superintendent Ian Roberts have asked the immigration court in Omaha to stay deportation proceedings against him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx7Y...

From the AAUP vs Rubio ruling: "If “terrorist” is interpreted to mean“ pro-Palestine” or “anti-Israel,” and “support” encompasses pure political speech, then core free speech rights have been imperiled."

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

Judge Young—who has been on the bench for as long as I have been alive—calls it the most important case he has ever considered.

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

⚠️ Update: It has now been 24 hours since #Afghanistan imposed a national internet blackout, cutting off residents from the rest of the world; the ongoing measure marks the Taliban's return to conservative values it espoused a quarter of a century ago limiting basic freedoms

"Stoll was subjected to... a beer thrown at her head... barbs about her brief 2024 split from her husband, and had to listen to fans chant the name of a woman who, some...claim without proof, had a relationship with McIlroy... ...Stoll was spotted with 'tears streaming down her face'..."

Patton slapped a soldier and was stripped of command during the very woke era of World War II

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

The speeches are also a permission structure—or worse encouragement—to explicitly promote that world view in one’s unit and social networks. This too promotes ideological conformity. 5/

THREAD 🧵 #OnThisDay 25 years ago, Israeli forces shot and killed 12-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza as his father tried to shield him from bullets. The moment shook the world and turned al-Durrah into a symbol of the second Palestinian Intifada ⤵️

Agricultural employment saw a loss of more than 150,000 workers from March to July, reversing two years of growth seen toward the second half of Biden admin. “If you’re thinking of a new orchard, greenhouse, or warehouse,” said one expert, “you wouldn’t do that now bc you would not get workers.”

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Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher. Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

Trump administration has already cut 25% of EPA staff, with plans to reach 33% by the end of 2025. This would reduce the agency to staffing levels not seen since the Nixon and Ford administrations. buff.ly/9zeN8p1 ⚒️ 🧪 🌱 🗃️ 🦑

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

We need scholars, the Dem Party, civil society orgs, social movements, think tanks, journalists, etc. to engage in the sort of postwar planning exercises the US engaged in during WWII, when the institutions of global order were smashed and needed to be re-imagined. This is a dying political order.

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Sec: I want to be surrounded by hot men. All the time, fit young men, fit older men, nothing but hot sexy strong men. And I want my son to be surrounded by hot men with me. Me and my son, looking at hot men, all day long, everywhere we go. Pres: I like big boats and I cannot lie

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism" www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

Hegseth's grasp at macho militarism, including pretty explicitly calling for soldiers to commit war crimes, reminded me of Barbara Ehrenreich's reaction to Abu Ghraib: "It is not enough to be equal to men when the men are acting like beasts."

perhaps pete's diatribe about fat soldiers will inspire a putsch by the pudgy generals? (a pudgy putsch, if you will...)

After Hegseth said there will no longer by any rules of engagement and the military's sole focus should be on "killing and breaking things" President Trump took the stage and called the Democratic Party "the enemy within." He told the military to prepare for war against his domestic opponents.

you know what's funny (sad) about this? u.s. mil IGs are already considered to lack independence to such a degree that international scholars of ombuds for armed forces often don't consider them true ombuds/human rights institutions. so hegseth wants to make them less independent yet, I guess.

a government run by internet trolls, for internet trolls.

When Javier Milei was elected, Elon Musk declared "Prosperity is ahead for Argentina." Needless to say, in just two years, Milei has asset-stripped Argentina into a meltdown.

Powerful testimony last week by Alain Jehlen and State Sen. Pat Jehlen against the IHRA definition of antisemitism, which the MA Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism is trying to force on Massachusetts schools.

Trump’s deployment of troops to Portland is a dangerous escalation of authoritarianism. Now is the time to find our own ways of standing up and fighting back to preserve our democracy. Fellow vets: we need you to muster. And those serving: you can refuse an unlawful order as you may receive it.

ICYMI: we reported that Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin responded to the GOP budget law by halting abortions at its clinics to remain a Medicaid provider. The affiliate in Arizona will do the opposite: it will no longer see Medicaid patients, and presumably continue abortions

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Over the weekend, we received reports of federal agents from ICE and Customs abusing their power. And now, we're being told the Trump Administration wants to deploy 100 military troops to Illinois. One thing is clear — none of this is making Illinois safer.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Our Thousand Madleens boats continue just behind Sumud. The next few days will be a test of whether the world will finally end the same impunity that has let Israel butcher Palestinians for decades