This sucks

Great to hear a crowd of tens of thousands cheering for independent media, including @unraveledpress.com, @thetriibe.com and @blockclubchi.bsky.social. Well deserved, they’ve been doing incredible work.

It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return

Normie protests are good. Mobilize the normies. Radicalize the normies

Amazing how all the serious and professional organizers I follow are overjoyed and energized by today, and the armchair edgy revolution types are demanding to know what if even accomplished to mobilize 7 million people and produce hours of morale-boosting footage of NORMIES saying "fuck you, man"

Do you think I’d explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I made the NYPD woke 35 minutes ago.

I think they know deep down that having a rich Nazi buy the website and give them their victory condition is the most hollow victory possible

I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule. All hands on deck.

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet people are very mad

⚠️ HEADS UP MAGA trolls will be incoming. The White House and DHS both just announced on X that they’ve joined Bluesky. These are their accounts:

They are arriving because of the mass mobilizations and they have figured out that Twitter isn't going to be the main space to monitor activity.

Collecting the best examples (pejorative) of this genre to pull back out in a few years when the bubble has burst

Know these people for what they are. Their info in the alt-text of each photo. #TheAlliedForces

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Why aren’t more women using the deepfake site? 🤔

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Yeah, SCOTUS has kind of made their bed here. There's no reason for the democrats to give up anything while SCOTUS allows impoundments and recissions.

Also: it makes zero sense to do a "deal" on any spending when Trump has already proven he will impound appropriated money at any time for any reason and SCOTUS has said repeatedly that him doing so is fine

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

ADL, long drifting right, then galloping, still couldn’t keep up. This right after they’d betrayed all Jews (says this Jew) by whitewashing Turning Point’s antisemitism to appease Trump admin. You know, the govt that claims it’s fighting antisemitism.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS, is closing after a $1.1B federal cut. PBS cut 15% of staff, over 100 jobs lost. NPR plans $8M in cuts to support stations but no major layoffs. Many local public stations face closures amid funding loss edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/m...

I continue to maintain that if you’re going to start with show trials against your political enemies you should have picked one where you aren’t going to be roundly humiliated in court to great publicity

Andy McCarthy: "The indictment almost fails as an indictment in that it doesn't give you notice of what Comey has actually done. But factually there's nothing there. So this smacks of wanting to put Comey through the process, which is what lawfare is."

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

NEW: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steve Bannon are all named in Epstein docs released today by Democrats

Now pushing no Tylenol for kids. My two small kids recently spiked three fevers in two weeks (Covid, virus, virus). You want me to make them stay up all night sweating and keening rather than give them one safe chewable, drop their temp, and let them go to sleep? You are an actual monster.

ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

It’s looking more and more like this will be the term that the SCOTUS effectively coronates Trump.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

This is panic. The Bondi hate speech stuff is panic. They realize people are really, really angry. And that sometimes angry people get angry enough to wage violence against elites. So they are trying to make being angry at them illegal, now

We should all be worried, because cornered animals are dangerous. At the same time, they are throwing spaghetti at the wall here. I don't think this is a premeditated plan we're watching unfurl across the federal government. This is panic.

Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America? Why not acknowledge and confront it? Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files? Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer? These problems won't go away.

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

Russia designated the 'LGBT Movement' as a terrorist organisation. They know there is no such group; that's the point. It means they can choose to arrest ANYONE with any association with LGBT issues and treat them as a terrorist. The fact that 'antifa' is not a group should not be a comfort here.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt: “For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

Been kicking around a theory that meme culture is raising a whole gen of fascists who don't know they are fascists. They swim in a tank where memes irony and racism is the water in they swim. So if you ask them they will just say LOL. But their actions all point in one direction 75% of the time.

oh god it's worse than bad it's bad and REALLY DUMB bsky.app/profile/laur...

For those who are part of the backlash - please point me to a concrete example of Donald Trump (or JD Vance or Stephen Miller) doing something to calm the country’s nerves. Be specific. Living in a post-truth era is a choice for some folks right now - we choose not to live there.

JD Vance did such a good job guest hosting this, I think there should be a groundswell of support for him to give up his day job and become a permanent podcast host, which he is so much better suited for.

kind of unreal watching JD Vance host the charlie kirk show. there’s long been complete unity between the right and their media propaganda apparatus, of which kirk was a massive player in, but then ending the show by telling that audience to thought police fellow americans is psychotic