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

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

Thought I gift linked to it. Here you go. READ it. Your welcome. GIFT. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

In light of reports that the Trump Admin has asked SCOTUS to decide the merits of its effort to end birthright citizenship, I’m re-upping my assessment - reluctantly arrived at - of the majority’s likely response to Trump’s unconstitutional demand. I pray I’m wrong. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Another example of the pettiness and threat of the Trump administration's censorship and deletion of science: USEPA used to have tools and training for #water utilities to build system resilience in the face of extreme weather, including #climatechange. That website is gone. Poof. www.epa.gov/crwu

Anti-trans extremists are destroying the planet. ‘They kept noticing how Republicans were using transgender people as “hate-bait to build support for their party, because their policy platform is otherwise unpopular’” Worth noting they also fund Tufton St & the Heritage Foundation.

Happy #caturday from these weirdos. I try always to emulate what they teach me: Life is short, so be weird, be yourself, and if possible, be extremely cute.

“Portland is a peaceful, vibrant city with no need for federal agents on our streets,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote on Bluesky. “I urge Oregonians not to fall into Trump’s attempt to incite violence.”

I’m starting to notice a trend in the polling data… —Top Public Worry: Corruption —Biggest problem in Fed Gov: Corruption —Top fear: Corruption —What one word would you use to describe American government?: “Corrupt” It’s almost like voters are trying to tell us something.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

Trump promised to lower costs “on day one.” He failed. So now he wants to hide the data from you.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

“The commitment to free speech extends, it seems, to conservative speech only – and conservatives are gunning to use the power of the state to squash speech they don’t like, ruin the lives of the speakers, and impose a kind of right-wing omni-thought” magazine.newstatesman.com/2025/09/16/t...

I just don’t know how it’s complicated to say that every person of conscience should do whatever is in their part, even if it is just to bear witness and not forget, to end this atrocity and not rest until Palestinians are free and secure in their own land.

This book is essential reading!

If you ever had any doubt that rightwing media is just official state propaganda at this point, consider that Charlie Kirk was replaced on his show by the sitting Republican vice president who ‘interviewed’ White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Independent media!

"We're going to go after the NGO Networks" JD Vance and Stephen Miller openly outline how they are going to crackdown on civil society and use the government to crush political opposition.

Somehow we got a good new Poet Laureate despite everything! Ada Limón has been a gracious, meaningful, expansive champion of poetry, and I’m looking forward to her having some down time. Thank you for your service, Ada. Our new U.S. poet laureate is Arthur Sze! www.npr.org/2025/09/15/n...

I recommend reading this whole thread, and taking it seriously

Happy #caturday! The horrors persist, but so does their fuzziness

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Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds in climate, health care, and education instead of lining the pockets of the military industrial complex?

It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.

We are undone by each other—Judith Butler

This afternoon, in addition to Charlie Kirk, there was a school shooting. Bullets don't know and don't care if you are a Republican or Democrat. It is time for Republicans and Democrats to find a way to work together to reduce gun violence. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

RFK JR: We're not going to recommend a product for which there's no clinical data for that indication—is that what I should be doing? Warren: What you should be doing is honoring your promise that you made when you were looking to get confirmed in this job.

"I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater." anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

This has been the wildest realization of my adult life. American billionaires and wealthy elites aren’t cool or fun, they’re boring, evil, and rich and our laws aren’t enforced on them. Our country and our planet are being destroyed by lame versions of bad Batman plots.