Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

Happy Pride, Atlanta! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 [1 of many 🧵]

We’ve covered eight tips so far in #OptOutOctober but there’s still plenty of time to catch up and take back some of your privacy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th” 👉👉 nokings.org

It will be a love of America, our country and the Constitution march/rally. Peaceful good trouble like the late greats John Lewis and MLK taught us. Mark your calendars and get your inflatable costumes now!

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Good to see this. Be like Bogie and Bacall. And Lucille Ball. And Gene Kelly. Be a legend. Like John Legend.

I talked this week with Chris Hayes and Anand Giradahadras, highlight was Chris mentioning No Kings protests on October 18th. Free speech is action not spectacle. Please join in. www.nokings.org

Love this thread. I also wrote on my Substack this week about fearlessness, quoting @timothysnyder.bsky.social’s interview earlier this week on @allinwithchris.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

TO BE FAIR: My pediatrician is constantly giving recommendations on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war and fix the economy.

Remember all those voters who turned out in droves to end the era of reasonably-priced bathroom mirrors.

Cherokee and North Fulton, you know what to do north metro Atlanta, Georgians! VOTE! Polls are open. Get in line before 7p!

DEUTSCHE: NVIDIA "is currently carrying the weight of US economic growth. The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely.” @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Asha is 100% right that in USA 2025 using law — as one form of action among others — is far better than giving up on it. Havel’s point was that even if you have no rule of law you still honor the idea and generate tactics by citing law.

Havel’s insight must never be forgotten. Tim Snyder kept it alive. Asha Rangappa has reinvigorated it

Vaclav Havel wrote about the importance of pointing out the law in a totalitarian society - it may not help in a situation where the government makes and enacts laws willy-nilly, but calling it out keeps the insanity of it all in the open for all to see.

The Süddeutsche: "Trump plans journalistic coup." Once again, German journalism cover America's fall into fascism better than America's journalism.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

JAYAPAL: Have you met with the Epstein survivors? I'll give you one more chance PATEL: My job as the FBi directo-- JAYAPAL: Is the answer yes or no to whether or not you met with these women who were sexually abused and raped!

Illinois State Senator Karina Villa sprang into action to protect her community from ICE raids, alerting neighbors to their rights and chasing off masked agents. This is how you stand up to authoritarianism. We should all be inspired by Sen. Villa's courage.

"Yes, Yes, to Ta-Nehisi Coates, you listen."

As Americans struggle to make ends meet… www.forbes.com/sites/martin...

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

NEW: The law is supposed to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being summarily whisked out of the country by ICE in the dead of night. But that didn't seem to matter on Labor Day weekend, when the Trump administration tried to do just that. My latest: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Sharing this post on #Nepal by Cornell Anthropology Professor Kath March. Best explanation I’ve read on what is unfolding in Kathmandu. www.facebook.com/share/p/1C3E...

What Epstein records have not been made public?

This entire book is a nightmare

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

Don’t say “Dems aren’t doing anything.” There’s just little attention to the courage of these Missouri Dems resisting the extreme gerrymandering of Republicans desigmed to increase Republican numbers in the House. www.kfvs12.com/2025/09/05/m...

This is great

The national security apparatus of the United States appears to be suffering an existential disaster, but the entire class of natsec oriented journalists and pundits who tanked Biden for a messy Afghanistan withdrawal are too scared to discuss the catastrophe or the cause

There is a global information war, and America is unilaterally disarming: The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to help autocratic governments manipulate and suppress information. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Somehow not The Onion. 🤯

Thank you to my Senator! Thank you @warnock.senate.gov !

Well that's just dangerously wholesome and wonderful

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

September 3rd 10:30 am Join with @rokhanna.bsky.social Congressman Ro Khanna and Congressman Massie Release the #EPSTEINFILES IT IS FOR THE VICTIMS !!

Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.

Someone please kill me right now.