And my pitch for why the public library is more important than ever as an institution in the U.S. - open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

Shout out to 98107 for their/our pocket NK rally!!!

#NoKings Chicago. 📸: @aaroncynic.bsky.social

Organizers say more than 10,000 people have turned out for the No Kings rally at the Atlanta Civic Center in Georgia. The actual number could be closer to 12,000, says Laura Judge with Indivisible North Metro, which is one of the event's organizers. (Photo by @alander.bsky.social)

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

What if the soundtrack for your day today were Chuck Mangione and his flugelhorn? I can be if you want it.

I am printing some to take, that @susankayequinn.bsky.social has gathered! bsky.app/profile/susa...

block this shit

As is my practice, I don’t ask people to support anything that I don’t first support myself so I am making a $250 donation. Please consider supporting them too: evloves.networkforgood.com/projects/224...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

i don’t do this often but some good folks are dealing with some serious medical bills and could use your support if you have a few dollars to spare. thank you!

The frescoes in the Cohen building are a national treasure. Ernst and her ilk are destroying everything that makes us Americans. It makes my heart hurt.

This. This. This.

I was at this debate. The Seattle Times is totally misrepresenting what happened to further the false narrative that Katie Wilson is a nitwit. Wilson was talking about the fact that the CARE team has not been allowed to exercise "its full latitude of responsibility" under the existing contract.

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20. Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

Hey friends. 🧊 activity is ticking up in the Cities. We have over 2,200 ppl on our network. We had 3 ppl respond to the kidnapping in St Paul yesterday. We need more! Next Mpls training is later this month.

Support Dave, y’all. His work is invaluable.

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

if the state of journalism and its capture by the right wing also has you in despair, a real, tangible thing you can do to push back is support/subscribe to worker-owned indie news media!! @coyotemedia.org (bay area) @51st.news (dc) @racketmn.com (mn) @autonomynews.co @505omatic.bsky.social (nm)

My ig and threadz accounts were suspended. I didn’t appeal because I waste too much time on there. I am pretty sure they are upping their censorship levels. I really can’t imagine what it was otherwise.

Oh hey, we made a cool tool to help you track where various offshore wind projects in New England stand and understand which actions from the Trump administration have affected their progress. www.wbur.org/news/2025/10... @wbur.org

Good news(not). I’ll still be able to pay my student loans while the government is shut down.

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

Barbara Gomes Marques is documentary filmmaker who risks imminent deportation to Brazil. Loud voices in the film community could be especially helpful right now.

if there’s someone whose takes you consistently like on this app, find out if they have a non-app body of work and support it Do they draw comics? Buy some! Do they write Star Trek books? Borrow them from the library! Etc

this rocks!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Look, if we have to live in this timeline at least we can mark its passage with beautiful paleoart.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Trump once suggested that injecting bleach could help cure COVID. RFK has a long, long history of peddling medical misinformation to enrich himself. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor. Please talk to your doctor.

Great @leilaniclark.bsky.social read in @coyotemedia.org this morning about a kind of neighborhood watch I can get behind: Looking out for the safety of day laborers.

Unwanted advice from me: everybody should get an actual high quality dictionary and use it.

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

Don’t want to get called the Gestapo? Stop acting like the Gestapo.

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves. The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

shit is scary right now, but i have no intention of shutting up or shutting down. support independent media. subscribe to the handbasket.

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

hey if anyone knows jimmy kimmel and he wants to speak to an independent reporter in light of all the corporate fuckery, give him my info

This morning in East Somerville, MA masked agents who told bystanders they were from Homeland Security abducted a man who lives in the neighborhood while he was on his way to do laundry. Video shared directly with me of the moments after he was detained and put in an unmarked vehicle:

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

The real issue isn’t left vs right. It’s not white vs black. It’s not citizen vs immigrant. It’s not gay vs straight. The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

The secretive shadow docket is allowing the Supreme Court to green-light major federal policy changes with little transparency.

Well 🙄 RELEASE. THE. FILES.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

This Weds., 9/10, four eminent scholars discuss Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, a prescient account of the virtues and dangers of our politics and culture. With @jbf1755.bsky.social, Steven Hahn, James T. Kloppenberg, and Olivier Zunz. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-de...