Once again the supreme court uses an unsigned opinion to dismiss months of work by lower court justices and trample on civil rights. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There is a possible future where we get a dark “planes trains and automobiles” remake about trying to get home for thanksgiving during the rise of fascism

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Follow people and organizations on social media who you see in the real world doing real work. Share and post *and show up.* The anonymous Instagram- and X-based wreckers aren't trying to help, they're trying to get more eyeballs.

is likely afraid you'll move on from doomscrolling to putting your phone down and engaging in actual organizing with people in your community––which will make your life better and their attention and income stream worse. The incentives of platform capitalism are opposed to those of organizing!

Many people spent the past two years in righteous horror and shock and a whole infrastructure of popular (and likely profitable) social media personalities popped up to feed and profit from your despair. Anyone whose response to any collective victory is to inform you why it's Actually Meaningless

underreported that while his apology lunch didn't hurt, Hochul is likely to be very friendly towards Mamdani because he staked the vampire for her

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Getting new details on this now: As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

Yesterday Zohran Mamdani put out a campaign video in Arabic (with references to Palestine) and then he went to queer venues Papi Juice and Mood Ring to recruit clubgoers to knock doors for him.

It speaks to our atrophied political environment that people imagine “Zohran is a democratic socialist” as about the man’s heart, not about him being backed by an organization that cultivated him, his key staff and advisors + incubated his campaign in the critical months before it broke through.

“'Climate and quality of life are not two separate concerns,' Mamdani told The Nation magazine in April. 'They are, in fact, one and the same.'”

This is just so funny especially with the knowledge that Zohran himself has always had an incredibly female-dominated inner circle.

this is extremely important and there are so many serious voices in the climate world who have this completely wrong?

This was the single biggest moment where the campaign began to break through. Because it’s clear that he is angry! That he has normal human emotions! It is a complexity to the focus on how affable and genial Mamdani is. But it shows how he’s willing to be confrontational when it matters.

Speaking of crashouts, my friend spotted this truck on the street in Manhattan. Imagining the nyc ultrarich decamping for New Hampshire is hilarious, like a more unsympathetic schitt’s creek

Exactly. Spanberger and Sherrill show there is fine space for 'moderate' coded Democrats who thrive in suburban counties. But they should probably demonstrate that they have human blood on their veins and live neurons.

this is why Jay Jacobs bungled the 2022 election, btw. at his advice Hochul essentially did not campaign in NYC, turnout plummeted in the five boroughs, and they nearly lost to Zeldin.

I am thinking more about this and I think that Nassau is an electorate uniquely shaped by reaction to NYC "excesses." But the typical 'moderates' that Jacobs etc love are *milquetoast prevaricating politicians* who are in the worst possible position to uniquely define themselves.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

The 'Moderate' slate championed by Jacobs was massacred on a night when the rest of the party across the country had its best election in generations. We need to purge the whole of the NY Dems operation.

This is what I emphasized at the watch party with some Die Linke folks last night- both with regards to Zohran himself and with the social infrastructure built by DSA cadre to e.g. get him UAW 9A’s support.

This is what I’ve been saying, re: “you voted for this” discourse. Whatever I think people should have known, what I think they have no excuse not to have known, for whatever reason they seem not to have known it.

Paying very close attention to which media outlets implicitly frame Mamdani’s mandate as depending on exceeding 50%, vs how they treat Trump and the 2024 election.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Historian David Wyman estimates that approximately 200,000 fewer Jews would have been murdered in the Holocaust if the US had not passed the Immigration Act of 1924. That is what JD Vance is out there defending right now.

I believe 100% that the hand of God really did move the bishops to select an American pope for this time.

💡 The takeaway: Democracy needs competition—especially in "symbolic" institutions. When established parties neglect these elections, they become vulnerable to populist mobilization. Link to study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (3/3)

It's uncanny how Cuomo has been laser-focused at appealing to the absolute worst qualities in people - their insularity, their tribalism, and now their fear. A campaign monumental in its cynicism, a colossal bet by this man and his billionaire backers that people are basically bad.

At least once a week I think of how the ZIRP was used to create a class of fascism-susceptible venture capitalists rather than a massive green infrastructure investment.

One of Trump’s little turns of phrase is that communism has “been tried for over 1000 years” and I am genuinely curious a) who he got this from, and b) what on earth they mean. … I suppose Occam’s razor is that he is just adding a zero.

Daniel Guérin, traveling through late 1933 Germany, met comrades still organizing underground. One pointed out that a number of their “Red Front” street fighters “who liked a uniform and a scuffle and who had only one ideal: to be at the top of the heap” immediately became Nazis. the cruelest too.

the major lessons of the Mamdani campaign are actually about organizing, not about social media, the candidate, or policies (although these last two are related)

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The intimidation included threats that family members would lose visas, which is both in character and *friggin insane*

Yesterday Zohran Mamdani put out a campaign video in Arabic (with references to Palestine) and then he went to queer venues Papi Juice and Mood Ring to recruit clubgoers to knock doors for him.

Hey guys the Nazi group chat people think they can block Zohran from becoming mayor

My Germany flea market trait is that I will not haggle with someone who is quoting me something completely outrageous. Nah man I’m out. What do you mean you’re asking for €15 for one of these. (We later found one at another stall for €1).

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

Every morning at my cat’s request I lift him up so he can look out over the balcony railing and see the birds in the yard and the sunrise

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

That JD Vance thing about how it’s fine for Americans to not want neighbors who speak a different language… phew I just despise that man.

We are bringing back making costumes out of random clothes that you can then wear the rest of the year. No more single-use mass-produced plastic stuff!!

🧵 on how the dismantling of USAID may affect the US search and rescue teams deployed to Jamaica.

What a good day in the woods.

I wish Canary Mission “well” on their effort to delegitimize, uh, the incoming mayor of New York City

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

And actually astonishing when you think about it: The Trump administration's top officials are choosing to separate themselves from the public—more to the point: separate themselves from any visible protest—and live on military bases. Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...