UPDATE ⚠️♿️⚠️ Abeer „We are at war when fleeing, at war trying to get water, food, and medicine, and even charging my phone has become a daily struggle. Everything around us feels like a battle, even gathering firewood to cook has become a challenge in itself.(…)“ Please 🔽 bit.ly/Abeers-Child...

UPDATE ⚠️♿️🙏🏻 Ahmed Ahmed and his family have now reached a – for the moment – safer place. They continue to hold on to hope for a solution and a better future. Your support means so much to them – not only financially, but also emotionally. gofund.me/40413acc

UPDATE ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Ola „I forgot my daughter's birthday today because we are displaced & looking for a safe place. She hasn't seen her father since the war began. We can't celebrate because we have no home or money — we are on the street now“ Please share - & give if you can chuffed.org/project/1397...

URGENT CALL FOR HELP 🚨 "They destroyed my life, crushed my dignity—turned me from a successful CEO into a father begging to keep his kids alive. Please don't ignore me." _Nabil, father in G*za • chuffed.org/project/nabil • paypal.me/nabilzaqout

„I am Rania from Gaza, mother of 4. We were ordered to evacuate before destruction, but l cannot afford transport or shelter. My little daughter and my husband are injured I urgently need help to evacuate them 600$ Help& Donate“ ⚠️♿️⚠️🆘 Verified by @mommunism.bsky.social • gofund.me/d0cc0587

They delete the accounts of our brothers and sisters in G as if bombs weren't enough Here is Alaa/Lolo - please share her appeal They took her voice „l'm a Computer Systems student in Gaza. This is my story. Please share — I need your help to get a laptop" 🆘 Please help Alaa gofund.me/5b58571b

“Do not surrender in advance…. Remember, managing perceptions is core to the fascist project—they seek to project strength at all times precisely because they are not invincible.”

Some inspiration

“H-1B visa holders and their families contribute roughly $86bn annually to the US economy, including $24bn in federal payroll taxes and $11bn in state and local taxes.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after anarchists, leftists, and other opponents of the regime…” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm? Read this @crimethinc.com how-to guide

Combine this dismantling of fair housing enforcement with the evisceration of the CFPB and the efforts to privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and you have a perfect recipe for racialized hyper-predation in housing markets. Lots of money to be made at the expense of low-wealth folks of color.

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

It’s going to happen someday and people are going to celebrate and anybody who wants to scold that celebration had best be prepared to fight.

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

#BREAKING | Flour from Malta reaches Gaza ahead of recognition of Palestinian state as Malta is also due to declare its recognition of the state of Palestine at the United Nations

#WATCH | The moment Head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, watches Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s televised address announcing Britain’s formal recognition of the State of Palestine, 108 years after the Balfour Declaration and nearly two years into Israel’s genocide on Gaza

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

If Gavin follows thru and does what needs to be done I won't dunk on him for one full business week (banker's hours) but I still won't vote for him

Yeppppp. Wrote a bunch about this! open.substack.com/pub/amandali...

Quant popularists like David Shor who want us to call fascism a "distraction" are using poor pseudoscience methods. Their messaging won't work in the midterms--and even if it did, ignoring fascism risks not having free midterms at all. My latest at WaMo: washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/01/f...

Millions of people will be out in the streets a couple weeks after the funding deadline. We are making clear now that those millions could be cheerleading Dems for fighting the regime in the middle of a shutdown. Or they could be focusing their ire to demand real Dem leadership. NoKings.org

My look at why Brazil was able to stop and punish its anti-democratic right-wing president, while America allowed its authoritarian to run and win a second term. With thoughts from @adambonica.bsky.social and Bard College's Omar G. Encarnación. newrepublic.com/article/2004...

A good time to remember that a whole bunch of us are getting together to speak out against this authoritarianism -- I used to say creeping, but it's really now just a full gallop -- on October 18. Join us www.nokings.org

Some inspiration

I wish more of us gave more of our attention to Perry Bacon than we do to Ezra Klein

It's hard to prove anything electorally. But I think the @adambonica.bsky.social plan for the Democratic Party is electorally superior to abundance, fighting oligarchy and Third Way-ism and still could include the best policy ideas from the first two. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

"The way out isn't about left versus right; it's about clean versus corrupt, reform versus a rigged system, the people versus oligarchs," writes @adambonica.bsky.social. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-democr...

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Fucksake, this #discourse AGAIN? Yes this platform is smaller, very observant. But I don't spend all day being force fed Nazi slop or getting harassed by Nazis on a Nazi platform specifically engineered to amplify Nazis. It's not a hard decision, let's all just move on.

It's a shame, because normally I've a lot of time and respect for the organisation who put this report together, however in this instance it shows dangers of treating refugee protection as a thought experiment, rather than remembering these are human beings 1/ www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6705...

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

According to Tom Homan, for the crime Tom Homan allegedly committed, Tom Homan should have his citizenship stripped away and be renditioned to a foreign prison without receiving due process in the courts. Sorry, Tom Homan, but those are Tom Homan's rules.

The best way to access what being a Stakhanovite meant is Andrzej Wajda’s 1977 film Man of Marble, a wonder for even existing in the late 70s Polish state, not to mention its excellent quality.

None of this is particularly surprising. The Soviets loved Henry Ford. The idea of turning workers into machines was equally appealing to American style capitalism, German style fascism, and Soviet style communism. All three systems saw Ford’s methods as the dawn of a new age.

This Day in Labor History: September 21, 1908. The Industrial Workers of the World met for its 4th annual convention in Chicago. This convention would reshape the struggling nascent organization, moving it clearly from an intellectuals’ movement to a workers’ movement. Let's talk about it!

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

Please contribute if you're able or share if you're not. Directly asking people you know is most effective

History Lesson: The Soviet Union built Bagram Airbase back in the 1950’s. 🙄🙄🙄

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Our problem is not the depravity, corruption, and narcissism of the president and his second rate minions, it’s the cowardly compliance of a great many wealthy and powerful people who could stop him and aren’t.

„I beg you…save my son Ibrahim. My 5-year-old son Ibrahim is injured and suffering without treatment. We lost our home, live in a tent, and now face forced evacuation. Please, your d@nation or even sharing can save our lives“ _ Shadi, father • gofund.me/ffd62c2a ⚠️♿️⚠️

The head of FIRE’s reaction to Kimmel’s firing? Retweet an Trumper complaining about the left

This whole thread is worth reading

Today, due to the recent spread of (false) narratives about trans perpetrators of mass shootings, I decided to look up search stats for the term “trans shooter.” The term was hardly used at all before May 2022, when the shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde happened.

The Heritage Foundation, along with its spin-off, the Oversight Project have called on the FBI to add "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism" aka "TIVE" to its list of domestic extremist groups. This should make alarm bells go off for everyone.

In the wake of the shooting of Charlie Kirk (by a white, non-trans man) the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation and other far-right actors have been pushing for the FBI to treat "violent transgender ideology" as a new domestic terror threat.

Statements like these have real consequences and this one directly led to an attack on a trans girl in Texas - when she reported to law enforcement they refused to make a report of the attack. It was only after Vice News got in touch they looked into the claim. www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/...

It’s worth noting that the reason we see a spike in search data around the shooting in Uvalde is that U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, a far-right Republican and major supporter of Donald Trump, tweeted the false allegation that “a transsexual leftist illegal alien” was responsible for the attack.