hi, cis folks in california! this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out. he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841 want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

If you don't already follow Eric, I highly recommend it; his reporting on and analysis of politics is clear and accessible, and he's especially good at cutting through confusion and messaging to present facts, not scaremongering.

it takes a windmill 27.7 hours to generate one transgender athlete

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

“And trump needs to lead.” These people are deeply unserious

Some are telling people on the left how to post but it looks like the right is absolutely loving this. If I found out someone I knew was murdered I’d be a lot less online than these freaks

The globe now refers to Americans in the same way liberals refer to The South. As deserving of whatever pain is coming. Because we're stupid. Which is our fault. All of us.

But imagine if it happened on the same day that an appeals court affirmed E.Jean Carroll’s $83M judgment against Trump for sexual assault. Oh just a moment. We’ve got breaking news…

So much news today

I mean it was obvious what the birthday card was before the image was circulated but goddamn seeing it makes it so unmistakable as to what it represents: a high five between pedophiles over their bond of loving pedophilia and doing pedophile shit together. grim

Darn slugs! 💚 🌱 #gardeningfeed #greenheart #bloomscrolling www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The stadium Trump is in is named after Arthur Ashe, the tennis legend. What many people today probably don't know is that Ashe was literally arrested in front of the White House in 1992 for protesting the George H.W. Bush administration's treatment of Haitian refugees. www.upi.com/Archives/199...

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

🗣 Support our proposal by submitting an e-comment for the next Board of Supervisors meeting: lnkd.in/gDf6qdWN

Donald Trump fired the lawyers for unaccompanied kids in immigration court. Now they’re expected to face judges alone. Unreasonable. Unjust. Un-American. That’s why I proposed No Child Alone in Court — to make sure San Diego shows up where Washington failed.

Randomly remembered this gem from Reddit

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

Pritzker continuing to have some faith in the MSM is sad. I know he has no choice but the MSM is actively rooting for an invasion, actually.

so, CA already did something like EO-14321 at newsom’s direction, but now we also have a federal order to institutionalize “undesirable” people these “clearings” find. gavin newsom is an amoral opportunist only interested in his own advancement. this is who he is behind his little tweets.

How can democrats truly oppose trump when they are playing from the same playbook.

State of DC: ICE and MPD are starving out Mt Pleasant community members - people are too scared to come to the weekly neighborhood Catholic Charities food distribution. Traitors to the city they swear to protect.

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” - Ta-Nehisi Coates

We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:

13 Jul 25 -- An 18 y/o biracial cis lesbian is suing a MN Buffalo Wild Wings after a waiter followed her into restroom, saying "This is a women’s restroom. The man needs to get out of here." She only left after the woman displayed her clothed breasts. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Why is all the food on social media crispy?

Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.

Seen crab spiders face? Sad 😢 spiders.

oh they will definitely hold that the 14th and 15th amendments dictate that nothing can be done to ameliorate racial inequality or past racial discrimination, even in voting and representation, despite the fact that the text of both amendments clearly allows for such.

So Ghislaine Maxwell’s pretty clearly blackmailing Trump, just as much as he’s trying to bribe her, yes?

Jenn Shah, fuck her up!

One of the great things about public broadcasting was its accessibility. It really does belong to us. My first job experience of any kind was volunteering at a PBS station in Chattanooga for a summer. I was 14. They were happy to have the help, and I genuinely learned while I was there.

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

“I fear the end of CBS as I knew it.” The legendary Connie Chung on the Paramount/CBS-Skydance deal which just received approval from the FCC.

SEVEN CAR LOADS OF MASKED ICE AGENTS. SEVEN. to grab a dad with a baby in the car. A dad who has a green card and in the process of becoming a citizen. COME ON. (This is a @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy video about the stop/arrest. Worth watching.)

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

And so it begins

This EO is the culmination of bipartisan efforts at the state level (including blue states like CA) to persecute and criminalize people who are homeless by busting up their camps, impounding their vehicles, wrecking their homes, and chasing them deeper into danger

Andry José Hernández Romero after hugging his best friend, who had been relentless in pleading for his cause. I’ll stop posting these some day. But not today.

“…sometimes the tiniest detail really exposes the soul.”

The institutions did not hold.

Breaking, at the newsletter right now: jessica.substack.com/p/california...

He's going to immediately be flooded with right wing donations and job offers. Good job on finding this Nazi jamoke a solid entryway into the rightwing grift. What is the point of doing theses debates? I find them insufferable. Stop platforming Nazis. Stop publishing on apps that platform Nazis.

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles