From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

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Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.

"What’s happening in Gaza and throughout the region is devastating," a spokesperson for HRC told The Advocate.

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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

its almost a month since lia smith, a trans woman who was in college sports until trump took office and banned her from competing, committed suicide her death has a wikipedia page but has yet to receive an ounce of news coverage in @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @apnews.com @cnn.com

very proud of this

Activists had been pressuring the Human Rights Campaign, one of the world’s largest LGBTQ+ groups, to stand against Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

What the fuck was the Human Rights Campaign doing having any relationship with weapons manufacturers in the first place, rather than denouncing them as the merchants of death that they are? That is the literal definition of pink washing.

Human Rights Campaign Cuts Ties to Weapons Manufacturers After 2-Year Activist Campaign https://www.them.us/story/human-rights-campaign-hrc-northrop-grumman-rtx-weapons-manufacturers

this is a big deal

Due to the organizing of LGBTQ & Palestinian activists fighting to end the genocide in Gaza, @hrc.org has confirmed it is no longer sponsored by weapons companies Northrop Grumman and RTX Corporation Out joint statement w/ @adalahjustice.bsky.social www.adalahjusticeproject.org/hrc-victory-...

my first story @theintercept.com: organizers with @adalahjustice.bsky.social and @genderlib.com announced today that the Human Rights Campaign has ended its relationships with weapons manufacturers Northrop Grumman and Raytheon following years of protests and accusations of "pinkwashing"

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

an incredible speech by Zohran Mamdani, the next Mayor or NYC!

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

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What we know so far, 8:30pm —Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —Also means Dems take VA trifecta. —Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov. —Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia. —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati. —Last GOPer in Orlando council gone. —PA: Dem justices up big so far.

A few days after the presidential election one year ago, we went to Fordham Road in the Bronx. It was a little different last week.

Yes, defend SNAP, but making econometric arguments about it saving other costs or increasing productivity is losing the plot. As Elaine Brown said, "Because we are so used to the capitalist construct, it doesn’t occur to us that we have a human right to eat; because if you don’t eat you will die."

Breaking News: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to continue paying for food stamps during the government shutdown. SNAP, which aids 42 million people, was set to run out of funds on Saturday without intervention.

It's cool how every claim trans people make about our own lives must be backed up by peer reviewed randomized control trials but the claim an entire kind of person is a "contagion" (using the unweighted data of a community survey) is gospel the moment it's made

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Governor Kathy Hochul drowned out by 13,000 New Yorkers demanding she Tax The Rich not once, not twice, but THREE times.

tonight was electric. Let's get it done!

Zohran doesn't speak until later, but he came out to personally escort Hochul off stage after the heckling. Rough stuff lol.

The best part of tonight's rally

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?” No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

very cool that the police commissioner’s family is involved!

5 years after George Floyd's murder, Minneapolis police avoid accountability through "coaching." Supervisors simply talk to officers about complaints instead of formal investigations, even for serious misconduct.

Unidentified bodies with missing limbs washed ashore on Trinidad’s coast after the U.S. carried out its first strike on a boat in the Caribbean. In Trinidad, some are questioning whether the prime minister’s hesitance to cross the Trump administration is keeping residents from getting answers.

Protesters have blocked the westbound side of Canal. They are chanting "ICE out of New York now!" and "Liberation, not deportation!"

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government. She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her. So I confronted him.

Superstars

As someone who’s been a vocal supporter of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, his reported decision to keep Jessica Tisch as NYPD commissioner is a big mistake that seems like a reasonable compromise. The NYPD will understand it as weakness, not good will. Tisch cooperated with ICE to lock up Leqaa Kordia

Yikessss. Not good.

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

Twice on Sundays

More to come, but confrontation still ongoing with the masked agents trying to leave Canal Street and a spontaneous crowd of counter protesters.

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT "A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.