DC voters approved a switch to ranked-choice voting, and the city is going to use that for the first time this spring to vote for mayor & city council. So election officials are now undergoing a major voter education campaign to prepare voters. Great reporting on what that looks like:

Speaking as a Jew living in Diaspora, who needs to exist as a minority at a time of rising antisemitism, I would really appreciate it if the Prime Minister of a country where I do not live would not say that attacks on a sovereign country are analogous to attacks on a synagogue.

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

My search agent at Indeed provided this just now. Something tells me I would get screened out.

Trump isn't worth our time. Enough with that small man. We must talk about the future we want to build. One where we take on corporations and monopolies to make life affordable, build a just immigration system, and defend and make more righteous our democracy.

The U.S. officials planning to attack Iran are the same ones who mistakenly brought a reporter into their Signal chat where they discussed an upcoming attack on Houthi rebels. Nobody got fired and they moved on to new misadventures, such as murdering 150+ people on the high seas and now … Iran.

Not listening to any coverage tonight at all. I'll read the summary later, but I simply cannot devote the whole evening to this parasite.

Trump made $4B in his first year of his second term. Trump is suing the IRS for $10B. Trump just announced the US will contribute $10B to his Board of Peace. A $10 billion contribution to a Board that he chairs without congressional appropriation or authorization. WAKE THE F*CK UP AMERICA.

Mitchell Webber (Brandeis Center for Human Rights) advised Epstein on the legal ins and outs of moving children across state lines to rape them.

@musicologyduck.bsky.social re US Marshall killing a DC resident, see FreeDC and see Harriet's Dreams

Here's an idea... Let's translate all of the Epstein files into Spanish so that the Republicans will finally be upset about them.

Cohen to Bondi: "You tried to investigate Ms. Good's widow and you tried to investigate Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."

The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez in October appeared to turn his steering wheel to the left, toward Martinez’s car, in body-camera footage of the incident released Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Chicago.

Ephebophilia is what pedophiles call it when their attraction is more to undeveloped and easily controlled minds than it is to undeveloped bodies.

happy bday writer/abolitionist/feminist Lydia Maria Child, b.1802, Medford, MA. "The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word: LOVE." “tyranny becomes a habit, and scenes of suffering, often repeated, render the heart callous.”

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.** He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Last week, the U.S. government carried out more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. We're keeping count of the civilian death toll @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

As ICE and Border Patrol grow more integrated, aggressive practices shaped by decades of border enforcement are showing up in US cities.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

He pleaded with them to stop but they just “laughed at me and hit me again.” “They were very racist people,” he said. “No one insulted them, neither me nor the other person they detained me with. It was their character, their racism toward us, for being immigrants.”

ICYMI: Montgomery County leaders are weighing the potential development of data centers launching a public conversation Tuesday night at a community forum hosted by County Executive Marc Elrich in Rockville. https://bit.ly/3Mnuq0m

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Despite the ongoing death and suffering in Gaza, it's fallen out of the news. So today, @thenation.com is devoting its full website to stories from Gaza, written by reporters who have been there. Very proud of the magazine today. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

This entire answer from Mike Johnson — the speaker of the House and a lawyer — must be seen. It is fundamentally wrong on both points: as to administrative warrants (which need not be signed by immigration judges) and as to judicial warrants (which are not "new" for authorizing home entry).

"It's like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… and, uh, uh, you know… You know, you'll uh, uh—well, you know what I'm trying to say…" www.unpopularfront.news/p/magas-peop...

Ross, the guy who killed Good, is currently ICE but came from CBP. The killers of Pretti have been identified now as CBP. The guys who got a pass a few years back from SCOTUS when they shot a Mexican kid on ... the Mexican side of the border? CBP. And on and on.

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

In my dreams of a functioning representative republic, there are enough republicans who aren't cowed, captured, or corrupt who will actually follow the evidence and do the thing they swore on something they claimed to believe was holy that they would do. It's nice to dream.

A ridiculously long thread! But the songs are 🤘🔥 1. No Kings 2. Streets Of Minneapolis 3. City of Heroes 4. All You Fascists 5. The Revolution Starts Now 6. Freedom Highway 7. Freedom 8. No Es Mi Presidente 9. March March 10. Sigo Aqui 11. Jackboot Jump 12. I Give You Power 13. Killing in the Name

Remember this day. When Trump admin arrested journalists. arolsen-archives.org/en/news/nazi...

Go to his YouTube channel and click “Join” to subscribe. youtube.com/@thedonlemon...

If you missed it, be sure to check out my in-depth discussion with Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty — who talks about Trump, Operation Metro Surge, Walz, local police, local prosecutors starting FAFO (Fight Against Federal Overreach) to push back, and more.

THIS is the last straw!!!

I wrote about how murders of people seen as “good” tend to galvanize the public against state violence in helpful ways. But to establish a just system in the long run, it's critical to recognize harm done to those who would never make the cut as saints.

If you’re in the US, please consider adding this to your list of actions.

Official data came in yesterday, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 27% compared to last year!

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

At this rate, he'll have to release the Epstein files to get people to stop talking about Minnesota.

I think every single journalist needs to be demanding to know where Alex Pretti’s phone is. Make them say that the agents took it.

to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”

“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...