this is america

Ayo can we bring the DJ from this game back to MSG? #Knicks

Deuce looks like he's out to prove something this season. Love this!!! #Knicks

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Democrats are in DC working to lower costs, cancel the cuts, and save health care. Where are congressional Republicans? It’s the day before a government shutdown... and they’re on vacation.

Black ppl in 2015: *warns of impending doom* White ppl in 2015: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 White ppl today: “😳Who could’ve see this coming?!🤷🏼‍♂️”

📣 OK, with ~3 hours to go before the midnight government shutdown, I'm going to go through ALL 50 STATES +DC ONE BY ONE to remind everyone of how many Americans healthcare Democrats are fighting to save (and this is just #ACA exchange enrollees; don't forget about Medicaid). Please bear with me.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I can't stress enough the importance of local/state elections that can impact you instantly.. ballot initiatives, Senate/House Reps, judges, MAYORS, sheriffs, schoolboards, county executives/councils, etc. Do your research, know who/what you're voting for. #LRP

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Fellow parents of kids with cognitive disabilities: now is the time to be loud and proud about how awesome our kids are, and to emphasize neurodiversity. And to support adult disability activists.

The Trump administration is not denying the existence of far-right violence; they are telling us it is useful to them. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

I wrote about the backdrop for DOJ removing a report on far-right violence from its website days after Kirk was killed—that it is part of Trump’s efforts to create political space in which far-right violence can flourish. newrepublic.com/article/2006...

Dad with the save

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

“The State Department indicated it would review the legal status of immigrants ‘praising, rationalizing, or making light’ of Charlie Kirk's fatal shooting.”

What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)

At least 3 students are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen HS in Colorado. This is the 47th shooting that took place at a school in the US so far this year: 24 on college campuses, 23 on K-12 school grounds. This happened less than an hour after Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah.

Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?

At least three teenagers were in critical condition after being shot Wednesday afternoon on the grounds of Evergreen High School. The suspected shooter was among the three. coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/e...

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People be like “with everything going on” When there is literally One thing going on… Donald Trump He is the singular cataclysmic event of this moment

So encouraging. Also shout to Ben-Ghiat for calling Jim Crow "Regional Authoritarianism". Black people been knew!! open.substack.com/pub/ourmoral...

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

So I imagine that folks who insisted it wasn’t ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced removal are lined up to apologize for insisting that this was just about defeating Hamas fighters and the return of the hostages.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.

The irony of the white supremacists who dedicated their lives to removing newly freed Black people from political power through domestic terrorism (after 1877) calling themselves "Redeemers" is wild...

New statement from TX House Dems: "After deliberation among our caucus, we have reached a consensus: Texas House Democrats refuse to give him a quorum to pass his racist maps" mailchi.mp/texashousede...

DC Statehood should be a non-negotiable for every Democratic federal candidate in ‘26 and ‘28. What this fascist and his minions are doing to our nation’s capital is gut-wrenching — and we can’t stand by while they trample democracy at its front door.

Not to be confused with "free jazz": hellgatenyc.com/melanie-char...

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

@vss365hq.bsky.social #vss365 #Together. Two, gathered. A holy matrimony, Ordained at the rhema, 'It is not good for man to be alone.' Shut doors, DND, 3 AM pillow sessions, A hard head makes A soft behind. You don't get A rose from concrete Without the dirt beneath. Life is ONLY A 'we'.

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

In Hattiesburg, streetlights are getting fixed, debris is being cleared and neighbors who felt ignored are sitting at the table with city leaders. That’s the impact of the Community Action Team, where a group of residents is reshaping how neighborhoods engage with City Hall.

Whoops Don't ya just love live TV?

Jesus

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

IMMIGRATION: Donald Trump campaigned on easing inflation and deporting criminal immigrants. Too many naturalized citizens fell for it. Now, ICE enforces hateful policies echoing Haiti’s Tonton Macoutes. https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2025/07/10/the-true-cost-of-donald-trumps-immigration-policies/

Same sis same

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

"Nationalism is not, in essence, a political phenomenon; it is a religious one... if you can cause people to worship the Beast, you have created a public immune to truth." Walter Wink

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Well, I guess they just declared war on us, but it was either that or having a Black character in Star Wars