Pinning your hopes on police orgs breaking with ICE is not sound thinking. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/whether-it...

Biden couldn’t forgive some federal student loans but Trump can set credit card rates? Ok.

If you account for our ethnic cleansing and the fact that we want civil servants out of work, the job numbers look pretty good

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

Looking forward to reading this. Please, please don’t abandon us. Deal with your COVID trauma so that you’re capable of talking for real about COVID and supporting those most harmed by and most vulnerable to COVID still.

Renee Nicole Good was not the first person to be murdered by ICE under Trump. Keith Porter was a Black man killed by ICE on New Years Eve. Silverio Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant killed in Franklin Park. Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago & survived. No one is safe.

These fucking politicians need to STOP CONSTANTLY admonishing protestors to be "peaceful" while they are being brutalized regularly by the gatekeepers of the state. You should be up there telling ICE and Border Patrol to be fucking peaceful.

We don’t know who needs to hear this, but the flu is getting out of hand. And we needed to make a post about it. Here are our pretty direct thoughts, because sometimes our social media manager/infographic designer is tired & can’t think of a way to put it more gently. Please make good choices. (1/2)

Ok Heated Rivlary evangelizers. You got me. I do like gay hockey romance better than real life, and fine, I will watch this on repeat.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

I guess I’m gonna go to work and sit through meetings and try to write an article about child care while thinking about ICE shooting people in the face and our govt kidnapping foreign leaders. I guess that’s what I’m doing today.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

Can’t afford healthcare, food, or child care programs. Can afford a military that kidnaps foreign leaders, a domestic kidnapping squad emboldened to shoot people in the face on the streets, and for rich people to not pay taxes.

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

Can you accept - even w/o agreeing with all our positions - that Black people know profound truths about this country that are not on Schoolhouse Rock? Now that the tactics they’ve used in our communities are becoming national policy, are you ready to concede that you need our “expertise” as well?

They shot an unarmed white woman in broad daylight. Imagine what they’re doing to undocumented people trapped in ICE camps. There’s sexual assault. There’s denial of medical care. There’s forced labour. There’s torture. More than 30 people have died. Abolish ICE.

You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.

Your reminder that what happened to Renee Nicole Good is something that happens regularly in America. This is not new, but it is an expanded version of militarized people targeting Black people in particular. From ICE detention to murder with impunity, we've been doing it. Now it's broadened.

Be enraged. Mourn Renee. Demand justice. But don’t be mistaken that a new line has been crossed- this is the 5th ICE caused death in the last year, which doesn’t even account for in-custody deaths. They’ve been killing and will do it until they are defunded + abolished apnews.com/article/immi...

Worth the read

I’m not interested in these people having training. I’m interested in them not having weapons or the power of the state behind them.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

This secret police force is brutal, indifferent to humanity, and acting with impunity. And the owner is on each, and every one of us to protest every single thing they do every single day, and whatever ways we can.

You can walk from where the feds murdered Renee Good to where George Floyd called for his mother in about 15 minutes.

Uh ok if I ever need to sue someone, here’s to hoping they hire a lawyer from TX who went to a sham of a law school, I guess

I cannot fathom having to pick my child up from school to tell her Your other parent was murdered since you saw them a few hours ago.

It’s wasn’t okay for the left to critique Charlie Kirk because he got murdered but it is okay for the right to be pro-murdering people

I have been sitting with all day, this could be me. This could be my child without a parent, because a regime hell bent on ethnic cleansing hired a bunch of white supremacists and emboldened them with hate, lawlessness, and weapons. All on top of nearly a year of escalated terrorizing and…

tapping the sign www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The only reasonable position on ICE is abolish ICE

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

They're doing this so they can call any government program that isn't ICE or the military "rife with fraud" and thus illegitimate. They are trying to manufacture consent to say any entitlement — from Medicare to social security — must be canceled because of extreme edge cases. Don't fall for it.

Explains why I saw white people in “Pardoned J 6er” sweatshirts proudly walking down the street when I left work today. Did not care for this.

As someone who struggled to get back into reading outside of work and parenting (mental load, emotional exhaustion, etc) - I’ll add - start anywhere. Read anything! Read something easy and pleasurable Read for 5 minutes today and 6 minutes tomorrow Make it fun and easy until you want more

My partner: why don’t you signal to let people know you’re trying to get over Me: the car will beep me into a nervous system panic, I will just stay in this lane forever

Exactly which countries in the arctic region does this regime think constitute our adversaries?

Being at all involved in proposing genital inspections (of children) should get you on a list

This

BYE.

News flash, voting to confirm RFK means your top priority actually is treating children as disposable in exchange for favor with your political party and corrupt leader

Lyft drivers who randomly chat with me about how concerned they are when loved ones outsource their thinking to AI get extra tips.

We don't have the disability education infrastructure to support a growing number of kids who are going to be disabled because their parents didn't get them vaccines against illnesses that can lead to the development of disabilities.

Once again friends, Harvard is not and will never be the resistance.

I have feedback for whoever decided all Baltimore area summer camp registration should occur at 9am after a 2 week holiday break in which we all had our kids home, and spent all our money, and my feedback is what the hell why?

Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

This. As a left leaning child in a conservative family, all I was fed growing up was that “the adult position” was war, knowing we can’t afford to feed and house everyone, and incarcerating people. Violence and neglect are not adult positions.

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'" - WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

We can hold compassion for the range of emotions Venezuelans may be experiencing — including positive emotions — and also be clear that regime change by a fascist superpower is dangerous, destabilizing, and sets precedents that will not stop at Venezuela. Those aren’t contradictory positions.