Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

#nokings Portland frog brigade

From the No Kings rally in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My new friend.

Vancouver, WA. Overflow crowd in the park. Gridlock. Huge + support from cars going by. Great crowd. Didn't see a single obvious agitator. Did see at least a dozen dinos. We high-taloned each other.

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Stopped at Office Depot. Had to wait in line behind five other middle-aged people buying poster board and markers.

Beautiful day to stand up for democracy in our beloved #Portland #NoKings

WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

If ICE agents are proud of what they're doing, then why do they cover their faces like cowards, refuse to identify themselves, and hide behind anonymity?

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Dearest Isabelle, We have taken refuge with thousands of fellow citizens at the town stadium in war ravaged #Portland, as drums pound and smoke fills the air, along with the cries of the citizenry. Around us we see the horror of empty beer cups and insufficient hot dog relish. #BAONPDX

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!” Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now. What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

People in Portland, Oregon and the vicinity, want to call KATU (a Sinclair station not broadcasting Jimmy Kimmel tonight)? Here's the phone number. Business hours are 8-5 PT: MAIN PHONE: 503.231.4222 katu.com/station/cont...

If you’re in Portland and pissed off about the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, here’s a good guide as to what you can do. Our local Sinclair station is KATU, and the post includes a list of last night’s advertisers. www.bojack2.com/2025/09/acti...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

DC stands tall and resilient, driving ICE GOONS away with determination ✊

Just so we’re keeping score & everyone understands where we are now: you live in a country where there are two tiers of citizenship, the government is sending people to concentration camps, the president sets the policies of elite universities, & there are security checkpoints in the capital city.

Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

We need to amplify the good news, the stories where communities come together, where ordinary people learn to fight back, where politicians and judges do what is right. If this ship can be saved, it will be up to all of us to not give up the fight.

Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

Among the most striking things I saw today were passing drivers who didn't simply give a polite honk in support, but pumped a fist out the window with their whole body, visibly excited to see people out there. Because a protest shows there is something to be done, and people to do it with you.

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING #handsoff

Tillamook Oregon - woo hoo! #handsoff

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Elon’s Downfall

It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

"You are meant to feel powerless. That is what a strongman wants: to make you feel as if nothing can stop the takeover of your country." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

I think what is making everyone so angry isn’t just the cowardice of Senate Democrats, it’s their cowardice in comparison to the random normal person who runs for school board to oust a Moms for Liberty freak

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 800,000+ federal and D.C. workers (i.e. people directly impacted by a government shutdown), is urging senators to vote no on the House GOP's CR. In other words, AFGE is saying a government shutdown is less bad than this GOP bill.

If it feels like no one's fighting for you, that there's no opposition, that the bad guys are being allowed to win, it's time to BE the opposition! Make your voice heard! There are 180 upcoming #TeslaTakedown protests in the US and abroad! Join a protest or organize your own at TeslaTakedown.com.

The question is what additional pressure can be brought to bear over next 18 hrs to shake this free. As noted, no on cloture Sens CAN bring pressure to bear if they really want to; reps can too. Ordinary voters can apply more pressure. I see no reason to give in until the votes r cast.

The absolute devastation that @chuckschumer.com is about to inflict on D.C. by supporting the GOP’s continuing resolution is hard to overstate. Massive cuts to schools and law enforcement. Teachers laid off en masse. Basic city services may grind to a halt because we *cannot spend our own money.*

There are so many betrayals in Chuck Schumer's vote for the CR, but perhaps none worse than going against the request of the federal workers who've been most harmed by the on-going coup. The largest federal workers union asked @schumer.senate.gov to vote against the CR and he just ignored them.

Here Are the Arguments for Why Senate Ds Should Vote Yes and Why They’re Wrong talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/here-...

www.opb.org/article/2025... Do better @opb.bsky.social -Musk “has drawn a rebuke from Democrats as the appointed head of a cost-cutting initiative”??? Wrong - he is orchestrating an illegal coup!

Thank you @indivisible.org for organizing us to rally in Portland and fight back against the coup! ✊🏼🇺🇸