Absolutely. They’re trying to pass a law right now so student ID’s can’t be used to vote

To be clear - what Trump is doing is already illegal! But this is about adding some obstacles intended to make it harder to keep doing the illegal thing

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog! So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

All of our elected representatives, the representatives of We The People, got together and decided that schools should get that money to spend on providing aid, according to a certain system set out by Congress It's important to explain that Trump is saying "fuck the law + fuck *your* disabled kid"

Once again, if your library has Hoopla, check to see if their plan includes TV shows and movies. If so, you'll have access to Acorn TV, MHz Choice, AMC and BritBox shows and more.

here's the problem: they're going up like crazy EVERYWHERE. on a private, non-union payroll? be prepared for material changes in your employer-procured plans as well this next open enrollment cycle

Let's talk a bit about the broader context of the DOJ's newly announced investigation of the Portland Police's arrest of "conservative" influencer Nick Sortor. For context, Sortor is one of over a dozen far right "citizen journalists" who has come to Portland. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

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.

Please read this instead: www.streetroots.org/news/2025/09...

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

Literally me reacting to this home run:

We're just now at the point where there are enough data points to be able to draw some clear conclusions about the administration's changes within FEMA. This is a well-written analysis doing just that, and... it's bad. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

glad to say i was part of @mmfa.bsky.social campaign to point out the political bias of the sinclair stations back in 2004 when they pushed stations to air a "documentary" attacking john kerry. fascists then, fascists now.

These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.

Orwell would also remind us: don’t let outrage be your only politics. Go to hospitals, foodbanks, union meetings, refugee hostels. Real solidarity is built in the ordinary places where people live and struggle. Defend the small decencies that make life liveable.

I am so sick of seeing this country constantly cater to the freewheeling, illogical, petulant rage of highly armed right-wingers. Watching institutions and media tap dance around the reality that the conservative movement is an astroturfed assault on democracy and civil society.

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

I’ve reported on children coughing up blood in family detention, where asylum seeking mothers were also sometimes sexually assaulted by male staff members. But I guess detention centers are only newly inhumane.

It means giving people their damned vaccines back! When you take that stance, you don't have to go back and forth with bigots. You make it very simple--America must care for Americans when Americans cannot care for themselves.

Reminder: when the Trump regime says they arrested 475 people who were undocumented, recall that they are both liars and selling the false narrative that all immigrants are suspect. www.cnn.com/2025/09/07/u...

President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.

Wyden on RFK Jr: "This committee's unwillingness to swear in this witness is basically a message that it is acceptable to lie to the Senate Finance Committee about hugely important questions like vaccines."

The Democrats’ addiction to left-marginalization strategies is especially unwarranted in Mamdani’s case, who does what the same cohort of centrist party leaders tirelessly claim they want to do: He focuses on “kitchen-table issues."

So much of our constructed world was created by the wealthy in attempts to hold off the future. Those attempts have always failed. The question is whether their failures are measured in weeks, months, years, decades.

Enjoy the day off (if you’re lucky enough to have one) but don’t forget: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

Every Labor Day I remember that the holiday was moved from May 1 to September not only for the Haymarket attacks but to break up the possibility between the US and the international labor movement (which celebrates in May). And it worked!

Trump/RFK are decapitating our public health system, a pillar of American greatness. So Dem Govs should scour every corner of the law for creative new ways to defend their people from this madness. Dems should polarize this debate to the max. Thoughts on this here: newrepublic.com/article/1998...

I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.

an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening

On a personal level, I've already made this transition. When I look for leadership, I immediately look to see what Pritzker, Walz, Beshear, Wu, Mamdani, etc., are saying before anyone in Congress. More Democrats should do the same until Schumer and Jeffries are gone.

The motive behind mass deportations is not crime (which immigrants, documented or not, commit less of); it is an explicit ideology of racial purity that cannot tolerate the idea of an America in which whites are not perpetually dominant.

Israel's massacre of Palestinian journalists has been unconscionable. And the silence of western journalists has been an utter abomination to our profession. And to humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

You can’t ask for a clearer sign that these things are a fascist tool, and so is Zuck.

Kennedy Curse Sure Taking Its Sweet Time With RFK Jr.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Many of the places under a tsunami warning or watch are *only* served by public broadcasting. Thanks to Congressional Repubs, including AK's Sullivan & Begich, the stations that disseminate warnings could run out of money to operate w/in a few months. Because who needs tsunami warnings, amirite?

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

WNBA players get 9.3 percent of league revenue, compared to 48 to 50 percent for players in the NBA, 48 percent for players in the NFL, and 50 percent for players in the NHL www.marketwatch.com/story/wnba-p...

Stop what you're doing and read this extraordinary essay by Rümeysa Öztürk: "I am free, but my true freedom is interlinked with the freedom of many women I lived alongside in ICE prison."

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

One of the most important and immediate tasks for a future Democratic administration will be simply rebuilding capacity at all these broken government agencies so that it's even possible for the government to *do* things for people

An estimated 47.4 million Americans suffered from hunger last year. 13.8 million were children. Now this country is set to strip SNAP benefits from *two million* more people—while allocating over $100 billion to "help squads of men in masks" terrorize immigrants. A searing essay by Tracy Kidder:

the only thing these people hate more than immigrants is doing their own jobs

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

The fact that 62 senators represent 1/4 of the U.S. population, while 6 senators also equally represent 1/4 of the population, is, to my thinking, even more grossly undemocratic than the ridiculously antiquated Electoral College.