Whole lotta love for America and democracy in little North Kingstown #rhodeisland #NoKings

my latest is expanding on the observation that your view of the politics of opposition to the administration depend largely on your view of the election (gift link)

On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...

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.

"At home and abroad, the U.S. government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy. It’s more than policy, though. It’s woven into the fabric of this country since its inception." Read our latest op-ed from @thetattooedjew.com ⤵️

NEW: More than ‎20,500 workers have left or been pushed out of federal health agencies, a ProPublica analysis found. Staffers say the cuts will leave their agencies less equipped to conduct studies, perform inspections and combat deadly outbreaks.

Dems should fight on every front. If Texas steals 5 seats, Dem states should redistrict 30 GOP members out of their districts. We should insist DOJ release the entire Epstein File. Not only shouldn't we bring knives to a gun fight, if they bring pistols, we should bring machine guns.

Motherfucking wind farms…

I should be working. Instead, Republicans sent me home to protect pedophiles.

People are getting killed trying to get food. 877 people have died and 5666 were injured in #Gaza trying to get food in recent weeks.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

“When an ethnic group has nowhere to go and is constantly displaced from one so-called safe zone to another, relentlessly bombed and starved, ethnic cleansing can morph into genocide.”

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Republicans are putting 17 million lives at risk in their “Big Beautiful Bill.” These are more than just numbers. These are real people who deserve to live a life without worrying they will go broke if they need health care.

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

That ought to do it

By the way, one of the reasons it’s terrible all of these people lie all of the time about meaningless things is it makes it impossible to believe them when they’re talking about incredibly consequential things.

In recent weeks the Trump regime arrested, handcuffed/decked: • Judge • Member of Congress • US Senator • Mayor • Mayoral Candidate/city official of NYC. Schumer's Sen. Dems have returned the favor by voting with Republicans to gift Trump a massive shady crypto bill to sign making him richer.

We feed you. They hunt us.

Someone was up late in Senate Approps minority staff going through detailed Trump Friday night news dump. Here's a rundown of cuts proposed his FY26 budget. Like all presidential budgets-it is DOA. Congress will revise. But still, what Trum proposed www.appropriations.senate.gov/news/minorit...

Frost: Tonight the people stealing are not folks with tattoos and hoodies but people wearing suits and ties and congressional pins sitting in the capitol now, not in some alley wrapped in darkness but the United States congress wrapped in the flag. It is disgusting and we will never forget this.

Dear Americans, Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

We're witnessing the United States' demise as the most powerful force for innovation in science, health, and technology in the 21st century. China will usurp that position.

Breaking News: President Trump plans to accept a luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar that he will use as Air Force One and will keep using after he leaves office. The plan — involving possibly the biggest foreign gift ever received by the U.S. government — raises substantial ethical issues.

We cooked

I remain shocked by the fathomless stupidity and ignorance of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

Calling this the New Jim Crow does not adequately name what this is. Angola, America’s largest maximum-security prison, sits on 18,000 acres in Angola, Louisiana. Incarcerated workers in Louisiana prisons earn between $0.02 and $0.40 an hour for their labor. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Just a reminder that these are the people purporting to be outraged by antisemitism on campus. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Mahmoud's case is a litmus test for the right to free speech in our country. This ruling jeopardizes dissent. Attacks on the First Amendment will not stop with student activists advocating for Palestinian rights. www.cbsnews.com/news/mahmoud...

News: Diana Greene Foster, the MacArthur-winning author of the Turnaway Study, learned her NIH grant — funding a multi-year study on Dobbs' impact — has been pulled. She was told its bc the govt won't study "gender identity." Her work has shaped our understanding of abortion bans' consequences.

Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.” It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay. It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime. No more military aid to Netanyahu.

UCLA abc7.com/post/several... University of Michigan www.freep.com/story/news/l... UMass Amherst, UMass Boston & Harvard University www.boston.com/news/local-n... And many others here: m.economictimes.com/nri/study/fo...

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

#HandsOff Westerly, RI 💪

🧵1/ With rising STI rates across the U.S., the very programs that protect us were slashed. Cuts to CDC’s Division of STD Prevention gut a system built to stop syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, and more. Here’s what we’re losing and why it matters to everyone. #IDSky #PublicHealthSky

A budget is a statement of your values. Here’s the Republican budget proposal: - At least $4.6T more for tax cuts for the ultra rich - $175B more for ICE - $150B more for military - Increase the deficit by trillions - Cuts to programs benefiting the working-class

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Just today, three next-gen leaders jumped into big races - Mallory McMorrow for Senate in MI, & Jake Rakov and Deja Foxx for US House in CA & AZ. The Democratic Party *will* be changing, whether the leadership & establishment likes it or not.

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

Reminder: Only 5 states provide AC in all prison units, and Texas is not one of them. theappeal.org/prison-heat-...

"The Trump approach is dumb power. Instead of a strong America using all our strengths to lead the world and confront our adversaries, Mr. Trump’s America will be increasingly blind and blundering, feeble and friendless."

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

We posted a list of all the officials on the text chain who suggested criminal charges in the past for Clinton and Biden. Pete Hegseth in 2016: “People have gone to jail for 1/100th of what – even 1/1,000th of what Hillary Clinton did... It's all criminal." www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/p...