There’s no telling how many similar stories are not being told for fear of retaliation. By now, everyone should realize Trump is not going after violent criminals or the worst of the worst—he is terrorizing everyone, including U.S. citizens, and their loved ones.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

An Israeli attack on her shelter caused the amputation of both of Nebal's hands, forcing her to lose the thing she held most dear: the ability to hold her young daughter. Her story is one of hundreds of amputee women in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-... #Palestine #Israel

Also, the articles in this issue are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 11/10s the whole lot

Again, I don’t want to get too personal but the most tepidly political, structurally vulnerable people in my life were protesting ICE all week. The juxtaposition here is just wild.

We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️‍⚧️ Share to support the #TransgenderDayofRemembrance! #NOH8 #TDOR

Pope Leo in new book: “We must look at our world, directly: we can no longer tolerate structural injustices in which those who have more always have more, and, conversely, those who have less become increasingly poor.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

NEW: @warren.senate.gov and I just introduced our EXPERTS Act — legislation to ensure that bills passed into law actually work for Americans and don’t get warped by corporations working for their own bottom lines. We’re taking the fight to Trump’s corruption. jayapal.house.gov/2025/11/19/j...

Thousands of indigenous leaders in education have gathered in Auckland for the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education, the event returning to New Zealand for the first time in 20 years. #nzpol

Happy #caturday! May your evenings be lazy, full of naps and warmth.

I'm thinking today of all my fellow veterans but especially the more than 5,000 trans service members and their families who were kicked out of the military this year despite being highly qualified and serving honorably. This injustice will be a stain on our nation's history.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Lost your ballot? Never received it? Don’t worry, you can go to kingcounty.gov and print out a new one or vote in person at Lumen Field or the UW Hub by 8pm. Let’s win this, this is your city! #thisisyourcity #seattle #vote #wilsonforseattle #ballot #missingballot #katiewilson

Is this bad? 🫠

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

My semi-annual reminder to all teachers that even when the system does fuck all to support you, your students will still be in their therapy sessions years after they’ve graduated telling their therapist (me) how much you changed their lives. Y’all are amazing, and you don’t hear it enough.

Rachel Maddow and I discuss a shocking new move by the Trump administration: sending Department of Justice “poll monitors” — handpicked by Pam Bondi — to California and New Jersey just days before the November elections and why this poses a grave threat to free and fair elections.

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Three men — Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos — now own more wealth than 165 million Americans combined. They own the media. They own the algorithms. They own politicians in both parties. The system is rigged — but We the People can take it back.

Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"

So at what point do states realize that the federal government is failing the basic tenets of federalization and begin to withhold their federal taxes to care for their own states’ needs? This is a genuine question.

Major disasters caused $101 billion in damages in the first half of 2025 — the costliest six month period on record. How do we know? A nonprofit had to take over NOAA’s work tracking disasters, which Trump gutted. What else doesn’t he want us to know?

One of the last truly wild places on Earth, sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife, wilderness and cultural values. Now, the entire coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 1.5 million acres, has been opened up for oil and gas leasing. vimeo.com/247917667?fl...

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Proud of you, Seattle. @jayapal.house.gov says this is our “if you can keep it” moment. We showed up all across this country to show up for democracy, for our liberty, our rights, and our neighbors—all our neighbors. We stand together, or we won’t stand at all.

Today is a good day to stand for democracy, march for solidarity and liberation, and nap for everything else! Happy #Caturday!

This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇 Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it. Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

I’m starting to think those folks who are against antifa are just…fa

Sad to lose such a powerful voice. May we all follow her example of fighting for the safety and rights of ourselves and our community.

This is a point that I don’t hear enough. Maybe some jobs benefit from genAI, but I have yet to experience a single benefit. It has, however, made my work much more laborious and annoying. Cool.

What’s more perfect than a Golden Spiral? Double Kitten Spirals! Happy #Caturday from two fuzzy weirdos

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street. He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company. It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers. While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

This is a leader

Pritzker: “The Trump administration is following a playbook: Cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem that peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them. Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act.”

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

"We have entered a period in which it is becoming important to ask: What happens when our leaders and the people who work for them see immigrants not as human beings but as scum?" www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

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"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Trump just called American citizens “the enemy within,” encouraging the men and women of the armed forces to use OUR cities as military training grounds. It’s time to wake up, put aside our differences, and create a united front to oppose Trump’s unconstitutional and illegal abuse of power.

Pritzker: “ICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it