According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

I dislike the whole “and you’re SURPRISED?!” bullshit whenever anyone expresses alarm at a news event because the people posting it act like they’re wise sages for democracy but are basically doing the work of evil people because there’s nothing evil people want more than for evil to become routine

Cuomo could never.

“The University of California will survive federal funding cuts if it must... It will not survive the sacrifice of our institutional autonomy, academic freedom, or civil rights on the altar of a specious claim to be ‘combatting antisemitism.’” jweekly.com/2025/09/24/j...

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

this is a super key point. you (largely) don't need any traditional environmentalist eat-your-vegetables austerity or degrowth. we're talking about a future of nearly free, clean energy bsky.app/profile/suew...

we're arguing with each other about which leftism is better when the bloc with the most political power cannot distinguish joe biden from karl marx ideologically

In Little Village, residents are blowing actual whistles to warn neighbors about ICE. blockclubchi.co/46mVKSq

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The thing is, Ezra is right AND Jessica is right. She’s right that people on the receiving end of Kirk’s politics legitimately seen him as a threat, and Ezra’s right that seeing adversaries only as threats leads to very, very bad places.

For these people, the operative word in "Don't Tread on Me" is "me." They are enthusiastic about government treading on the people they don't like.

you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If you're talking about opposing Zionism in the context of changing the state structure of Israel-Palestine, that is a valid political debate. But calls to "hunt down Zionists" made in European cities will inevitably be interpreted as calls to target Jews, even though most Zionists are Christians.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

I genuinely think they are perfectly happy to *not* catch the shooter, because it allows them to invent the shooter in their imagination and fill this imaginary person with all the characteristics they hate and wish to punish.

So do you still think that the @nytimes.com doesn't know how to push the narrative it wants to promote? The main page is absolutely COVERED in Charlie Kirk coverage. Remember when they did this for the dead MN legislators or Mr. Pelosi? Neither do I.

The Falling Man -- www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Wth man. Did you consider just, like, NOT writing this column?

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Ezra, man. What happened.

And that's why I refuse even a moment of sympathy for him He called for my family and I to be publicly stoned to death I am obligated by moral and civic duty to oppose his murder. I have no obligation to mourn him.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

I love that 90s nostalgia brought us back wise-legged jeans

I've been a pretty consistent proponent of a progressive abundance agenda, so it's pretty dismaying to see the Abundance Conference bending over backwards to try and bring outright racists and fascists into the tent.

Really want to emphasize the fact that even if that boat was loaded down with the finest of 70s era cocaine that doesn’t justify killing 11 people.

NEW: Politicians of both parties are pushing to expand forced hospitalization. In many cases, cops w/ minimal training fill out forms attesting that people are a danger to themselves or others. In Chicago, police forcibly hospitalize 6 people a day. It's how over 20% of CPD mental health calls end.

they want to kill your kids

The ad campaign criticizing the use of masks by federal agents working in Washington, D.C. has expanded to 115 bus stops, per organizers

But I was told that reflexive derision of Democrats was the low cost of participation on Bluesky and not liking it was a sign of weakness and/or being a Nazi

Again I cannot stress enough how “party seeks to recruit wildly popular governor with history of blowout wins for key swing state ahead of random political novice who the internet likes” is the most dog bites man story imaginable regardless of the ages involved

Ok so he’s not necessarily wrong and stupid, he’s just being pedantic. If you want to be technical, electricity can be considered an energy CARRIER because it transports energy.

Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted

Solar is no longer “alternative energy.” It is the energy of the future. America risks remaining a petro-state, clinging to the past, instead of becoming an electro-state, embracing the future.

i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this

"Chicago is the murder capital of the world." Motherfucker, Chicago isn't even the murder capital of the Midwest!

I don't think "bet it all on the midterms" is a better strategy now than "bet it all on 24" was in 21, but if we're doing it anyway, I'd like to see the authors of that strategy at least working right now on the question of "how do we protect and encourage minority voting if ICE is at the polls?"

If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.

But there's no denying that at this very moment we're experiencing life under authoritarianism: people having to measure what they say and in front of whom, secret police snatching people into vans, president completely unconstrained by Congress -- this is the real deal...

The highlighted quote is a good example of why trying to hash out disagreements in good faith with left-NIMBY orgs is exhausting and ultimately fruitless. The lead author on this report *knows* this isn't true, and he knows it because we had a whole exchange about this in the pages of Dissent!

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

The other thing is that if you have the morally, logically correct position in a conflict - or are simply standing up for a popular institution or a stable status quo - you should WANT to fight, as long as possible, in as large a public forum as possible, because that's how you persuade people.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

I've lived through two epidemics (HIV in the US in the 80s/90s and in South Africa in the 2000s) and through COVID with the rest of us. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing has been as terrible as what is happening now. 8/