‪“Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave — and it is often hard to be brave — be kind.” @sarahkendzior.bsky.social thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

“The America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration… Rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism.” @brucespringsteen.net bsky.app/profile/bruc...

Comprehensive source for No Kings-Paducah right here! www.westkyjournal.com/article/3723...

We the People say I DISSENT!!!! www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/protest...

It was never about “free health care for illegals.” This is always what it was about. They have no intention of “fixing” the ACA, they intend to defund it.

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

🚨🚨🚨 Nick Sortos of MAG@ was arrested for attempting to incite a riot in Portland, Oregon. 1/2

“Trump [uses corrupt Qatar jet bribe] to distract us from the fact Musk ceded authority over DOGE to Russ Vought, Christian nationalist author of Project 2025 [to cut more money for] environmental conservation, public health and medical research, social services, and veterans.” @camaron.bsky.social

The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

“A child dies of malnutrition every 15 seconds, as 185,535 boxes of special food for starving children are stacked in a Rhode Island warehouse, paid for by American taxpayers. After shutting USAID, Trump [regime] is just sitting on the boxes… as children die for want of it.” @nickkristof.bsky.social

NEWS: Seven hostages have just been received by the International Red Cross from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, all walking upright on their own

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan: Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

The calm before the storm. It's a different story at night. When the thugs come out...

senator, you need to stop opposing the national guard! wizard frog has TOO MUCH POWER. bsky.app/profile/comp...

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Very possibly no political official in history has made so much corrupt money at a pace like this. Mobutu and Marcos looted a greater share of their countries’ wealth over decades but in absolute terms and in speed, Trump shamelessly puts them to shame.

“Practice empathy and forgiveness and care for people rather than exploit and surveil them. Instead of worrying about Armageddon, Thiel should heed the Gospels, which warn that ‘it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Gd.’” @gilduran.com

In other words, if the perpetrator WAS trying to shoot Noem's agents as she has claimed • he was a truly bad shot OR • the agents failed to protect those they are responsible for OR • the agents used prisoners as human shields

Also, I'd urge you to please consider the GoFundMe drive for Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez's family (wife, 4 kids, 5th on the way) and his medical expenses www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-mi...

Here's an excerpt -- I hope you'll take a few moments to read the whole column and tell me what you think

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.

“Stand up for what you believe in, especially if that thing is justice and peace. Hope and resilience are the enemy of fear… This tragedy must become a moment for us to come together. Hold your loved ones… Love your neighbors. Treat each other with kindness and respect.” Sophie and Colin Hortman

Remember that new study? Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests… And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news: That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

Coming soon to a town near you – or to your own neighborhood – or to you<br/>https://forwardky.com/scotus-okays-jim-crow-2-0-tag-commentary/

Save the date! Stay tuned! Indivisible and the ACLU are gearing up for this!

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness… The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live…is…victory.” Howard Zinn

the Federal Employees & Contractors Oral History Project (FECOHP) was launched in 3/2025 by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). Directed by an experienced oral historian & former federal historian, the project seeks to capture this pivotal moment through the voices of those who lived it.

I'm attending Four Rivers Indivisible's event, “Do Your Job Jamie! August Recess Edition” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/fourriversin...

I sound insane when I say this but I truly believe a big part of the Trump admin’s approach to energy policy is driven by gender anxiety. They think coal and oil are manly and renewables are effeminate.

reliable source spoke with some workers who are also in the TN national guard and they said they are being deployed to Washington DC on orders, leaving in the next week or two.

💥 ICE Brutalizes High-Profile Female TikToker Who Documents Raids. Sends her to Hospital after putting their knee on her neck, in the same way George Floyd was murdered. [source below]

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

Okay, so consensus from searches seems to be that she deliberately developed this signature to be part of the Trump “brand” and it is radically different from her typical handwriting. Not an auto pen, someone else etc. She just practiced mimetic synchrony with the psychopath.

There are too many members of ICE, the National Guard, and local police forces who are failing their oaths and betraying the trust this nation has in them. I am waiting for conscientious objectors in Trump's war on our citizenry to step up. Where are the people of morality and courage?

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.

AI Companies believe they can save money by using an AI tool It displaced workers The article below explains how 300,000 black women lost their jobs in 3 months Dystopian future is now

She runs a large anti-ICE TikTok account—now agents caught on livestream targeting her in violent arrest. Agents drag her out of Tesla & throw her on ground where she lay unresponsive—then rushed by ambulance to hospital. She is well-known to ICE as community activist who films raids Los Angeles.

America FIRST! www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Yesterday in DC: A small buy mighty crew visited multiple Wells Fargo branches to say NO to fossil fuel financing, union busting, and corporate greed. This is what people power looks like! @thirdactorg.bsky.social @thirdactmd.bsky.social #DropWellsFargo #StopWellsFargo #OilyWells #FarewellsFargo

More than 5,000 people gathered at the Capitol in Austin on Saturday to protest Trump and the Texas Legislature’s plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to give Republicans an advantage in the 2026 midterm elections. www.kut.org/politics/202...