“Regional leaders have responded to the bravery and steadfastness that Gaza’s Palestinians have shown with fear, cowardice and self-interest. […] Betrayal is another word that comes to mind.” David Hearst, editor-in-chief of #MiddleEastEye, @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social youtu.be/qqTiV94SGWk

The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money. https://to.pbs.org/3IDyV5d

We left Austin (and UT) for personal reasons, not political ones. That said, this story makes me relieved that we got out when we did—and despondent for the future of an amazing institution that played a really important role in my life; and whose students, staff, faculty, and alumni deserve better:

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status. It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown @natashakorecki.bsky.social + @aterkel.bsky.social + Monica Alba + Matt Dixon: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

#Vought and his boss #Thiel continue to desecrate #OMB, Office of Management and Budget, withholding funds from the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, or #CIGIE, removing public data that implicates their rampant criminality

Republicans are simply lying about this, again. They are lying for a reason: 15 million people are going to lose health care because of the Republican tax law signed by Trump. Many millions more are going to see huge health care cost increases very soon thanks to Republicans.

Journalists and congressional staff have asked me what MPD officers think of the federalization shenanigans in DC. If you are reading this, you are an outlier in terms of civic attentiveness. 1/3rd of Americans didn't vote last election. Most officers don't care. Apathy is the slow death of the US.

The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

Im not really loving how they changed the name to the Department of War, and then told senior military leadership that the enemy is “within.”

My favorite stat on his issue: After the Hopwood Decision in the mid 90s banning affirmative action at Texas universities, the percentage of UT Law students that were African American was smaller than when Heman Sweatt won his suit to desegregate UT law in 1950. SCOTUS supercharged this divide

“we demand the immediate release of all members of the flotilla, that Israel allow them to break the siege and deliver aid, and the safe return of each and every person to their home countries.” www.leftvoice.org/israel-inter...

The White House is out there saying with a straight face that conducting mass firings is “similar to conducting foreign policy”

There are four exceptions where you can incur obligations during a shutdown despite having no funding. One is if the action is necessary to discharge the President’s constitutional duties and powers. OMB is asserting that conducting mass firings falls under that. Be fucking for real right now

#USA civil service & federal workers “are not the villains but the heroes. And they’re handing the trauma back to those who have been almost gleefully traumatizing them.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

introducing vibes (derogatory)

NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

As I was saying… futurism.com/billionaires...

In the Network State ideology, social order will be imposed via total surveillance. Curtis Yarvin’s “patchwork” (2008) envisions citizens who must scan into cities and be tracked 24/7. Ellison, along with Yarvin cultists Andreeseen Horowitz, will soon control TikTok. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

I keep thinking about this full on Shakespearean level shit from the campaign. (via the TV Congress memo) Absolutely astonishing that, given this, people with real power are proposing "Dems move right" as a solution. Voters just. wanted. change. chartingthewayforward.substack.com/p/tv-congres...

I'll be addressing this directly with the oversight board chair and the director of the city's office of community police oversight on Monday.

The next Dallas Police Oversight Board meeting is at 5:30 PM on October 14 at City Hall. It would be helpful for residents to attend and offer public comment on this.

I miss the days when the president wasn’t declaring war on our own people.

Yes, but not the beginning. This is Act 2. We only have a few moments to salvage the #ThirdAct. Two radically different visions to choose from. Environmentalists like @billmckibben.bsky.social or The #LeagueOfDictators

💕 @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

Steve Held was released. Please support and follow @unraveledpress.com @thetriibe.com @chicagoreader.com and other local, independent news media bsky.app/profile/thet...

I wrote about Anne Frank and those living in hiding right now in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs in my RESHAPE newsletter. I hope you all will subscribe and read and share. thetriibe.com/reshape/how-...

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

The bills are: 🏳️‍⚧️SB 418 (Menjivar) – Ensure Equal Access to Care for All 🏳️‍⚧️AB 82 (Ward) – Health Data Privacy and Safety 🏳️‍⚧️SB 59 (Wiener) – Transgender Privacy Act 🏳️‍⚧️SB 497 (Wiener) – Transgender State of Refuge 🏳️‍⚧️AB 1084 (Zbur) – The Transgender Records Act #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Here’s a free version. It’s well worth reading. Klein has an outsized opinion of himself if he thinks that he needed to write nonsense whitewashing Kirk’s legacy in order to sit in grief with people who mourned his loss. It’s absurd. Coates makes Klein look feckless and uninformed.

“new details suggest that the recent deal to permit chip sales to the #UAE were tied up in a variety of major #cryptocurrency deals that enriched both the Trump Organization and others in the #Trump administration.” #GCC #MBS #Lawfare #RatSec shows.acast.com/rational-sec...

“The conservative supermajority’s lawless shadow docket decision let the president unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid.” 🙈⚖️👺👹 #Repugnant #SCOTUS

So I don’t know what the “shutdown” fuss is all about. I think they think Trump has the inherent power to spend money, too. Not just impound what he doesn’t like. Next week, he’ll have Stephen Miller write his own appropriations bills. And he’ll leave the courts’ funding out.

falò delle vanità en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire...

Bonfire of the Vanities www.theguardian.com/business/202...

For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here. www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

It is hard to put into words how this past week basically erased a decade’s worth of work to promote of acceptance of #ActuallyAutistic people and accommodate autism. But somehow Trump did more to promote fear and lies around autism than any other president. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley. And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!

Arizona has a long history of voting rights battles and now, a system glitch is putting over 218,000 eligible voters at risk. One Arizona is meeting this moment head-on. Find out how, by reading the full story: bit.ly/46l1VGG

Why is Trump so worked up about Antifa, an organization which does not exist (though it was used during World War II to describe the Allies who opposed fascism)?

#ICE and #DHS demonize and debase themselves, then try to blame others for misfortune and mistrust of their own design.

Everything #Trump does is political violence. Even his speech is precisely crafted to use the most violent language possible.

US AG Pam #Bondi, while constantly promoting and defending most violent and bigoted men: “There's free speech and then there's hate speech [...] We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Nice app ya got there. Be a shame if I threw it out the window because you won’t hand it over to #LarryEllison.” rdela.com/defenestrati...

Our illegitimate mafioso on his fourth hand-wavy delay: “We have a group of very big companies that want to buy [ #TikTok ],” #Trump said, adding that he would “hate to see value like that thrown out the window.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

punks not brain dead @dropkickmurphys.com @billybragg.bsky.social @brucespringsteen.net www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...