I spoke to Indiana Democrats last night in Anderson. Hundreds showed up. In a “deep red” state. Serious candidates. Real debate. A party of ideas. That’s how democracy was designed to work — and it’s how we take it back. We compete everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

NEW: Florida voters have sued Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) over his unilateral effort to launch mid-decade redistricting in the state, arguing that the governor lacks the authority to issue orders to the state legislature. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Billy Bragg just dropped a new track. #minneapolis

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

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It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

We’re hosting a national rapid response call tomorrow night to go over concrete next steps. Please circulate - we need a national response. More details to come. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.

"The confrontation, which appeared to foil the raid, underscored the numerous challenges the federal government faces in trying to stage raids in a dense city like New York, where pushback from protesters in a largely liberal city appears inevitable." #ice

“We were made to feel that our struggles were unworthy of justice. That we were less valued than whites, that we weren’t fully American. We were shown that in the United States, not all men were equal under law. We were shown that when Black voices called out for justice, no one cared.” #blm

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

RIP Udo Kier.

"At this time, I suggest the general public avoid the CDC website. "At the CDC website, avoid anything on vaccines, reproductive health, environmental science, or health equity. "Data systems are still largely under the control of states and CDC scientists. Flu and wastewater data are good." #rfk

Sharon Astyk: "I do not give a single flying fuck about whether they are Democrats, Republicans or members of the Hovercraft-For-Eels party, they can all go to jail if they raped or molested children." #Epstein

This Physicist Says We Don't Take COVID Seriously Enough via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Updating my LEGO White House

"An AP investigation found that the wave of legislation has cropped up in most states, pushed by people with close ties to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The effort would strip away protections that have been built over a century and are integral to American lives and society." #maha

The #Portland #FrogBrigade speaks! (now with subtitles!) "We decided to come support our friend Toad. (aka The #AntiFascistFrog) He's a friend from another pond. They are calling Portland an explosive fire-ridden sort of warland, which it's not, because […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

"'Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,' said Chad Becker, a former GSA official. 'They didn't have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.' "Rep. Stanton said there is no evidence that reductions at the agency 'delivered any savings.'" #musk

"Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online." #censorship

"From bogus IDs to made-up résumés, North Korean and Chinese hackers have been using AI tools to supercharge espionage and slip into companies and other targets." #ai

"Mace wiped tears from her face and averted reporters’ eyes as she walked past them, signaling she would not be taking questions. "'I feel the immense pain of how hard all victims are fighting for themselves because we know absolutely no one will fight for us,' she added." #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

BREAKING Florida moves to end all school vaccine mandates, first in nation to do so. @davidovalle.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Elon #Musk has said Grok, the A.I.-powered chatbot that his company developed, should be 'politically neutral' and 'maximally truth-seeking.' "But in practice, Mr. Musk and his artificial intelligence company, xAI, have tweaked the chatbot to make its answers more conservative on many issues."

"Rewatching Brazil in 2025 — nearly four decades after its release — it’s hard to understate how well this movie holds up. Wildly inventive at every turn, Gilliam’s satirical vision of a cruel and violent bureaucracy rings eerily true of this political moment." #fascism

I've been saying this for years: space is for robots. "'Space sucks' and a lot of people have 'underestimated the scale of suckitude,' as Kelly and Zach Weinersmith put it in their book 'A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?'" #musk

"A 'critical assessment' report commissioned by the [Dear Leader] administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists." #TrumpLies

1/ We put enormous effort into this: Comprehensive Timeline of Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell Law Enforcement Failures (1996-2025) Important findings. Some will be new to many, including close observers All levels of government. 3 decades. #GhislaineMaxwell #EpsteinFiles #Corruption 🧵

I've often said that as the catastrophic effects of abrupt climate change become obvious to everyone, humanity will blind itself to the grim reality, then blame scientists for failing to warn us.

"Due to the size of the fossil and its exotic rows of teeth, the researchers named this new animal Kraytdraco spectatus, after the krayt dragon, a fictional creature from the Star Wars universe." #science

For reference: "Total violent crime for 2024 in D.C. is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves. A breakdown of the data is available here." #fascism

"The Chinese state broadcaster CCTV recently released a brief video series showing off its newly developed 'robot wolves,' equipped with combat rifles, in simulated combat drills." #ai

"With this decision, climate change denial is now the official policy of the U.S. government." — science historian Naomi Oreskes "Not since Stalin and Soviet Lysenkoism have we seen such a brazen effort to misrepresent science in service of an ideological agenda." — Climate scientist Michael Mann

NYPD Officer From Bangladesh Killed in Midtown Manhattan Shooting The slain officer was named Didarul Islam. His wife is eight months pregnant with their third child. migrantinsider.com/p/nypd-offic...

"The so-called voice of the CDC has been much quieter lately, a MedPage Today analysis found. ... 'It makes us less safe because our hospitals and healthcare facilities are going to be less informed.'" #trump

"Hackers have breached the Tea app, which recently went viral as a place for women to safely talk about men, and tens of thousands of women's selfies and photo IDs have now seemingly been leaked online." #womensrights

Berke Breathed's Bloom County, 18 July 2025. #epstein www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

“We’re scared of retaliation. We huddle in the bathroom and look under the stalls to make sure that no one else is there before we talk. I’m already at risk of losing my job, and I’d rather speak out and try to save something at NASA, rather than just hide under my desk until I get laid off.”

"As part of the breach, [China's] Salt Typhoon is believed to have collected and exfiltrated sensitive data, including configuration files for critical national infrastructure (CNI) organizations and state government agencies." #hack

Dr. Seuss, 1941. Citation: library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dsw.... #ice

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

The Stupid, it literally burns. #gop

I've often said that as the grim reality of abrupt climate change becomes obvious to everyone, even global-warming denialists, we'll bury our heads in the sand and defund the research. In the end, we'll blame the scientists for not warning us. #globalwarming