By the way Platner mobilized his supporters to beat that voter ID ballot measure.

But people who care about one aspect of an issue need not perform ritual allyship as to other aspects of that issue. I've seen people flood your mentions demanding you condemn every Israeli massacre in the Gaza Strip. Those people are wrong;

Your words may be kind but your actions betray you, Labour. Streeting's war on trans youth, Starmer's cruelty to trans adults, and your u-turning on your manifesto promise to "remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance" is shameful.

our profession is lost. And I have to be honest, watching the Discourse yesterday, I could absolutely see a lot of the people categorically saying any participation in facilitating fundraisers is a per se crime saying the same things about abortion or gender affirming care, with the same attitude.

nailed it. 👇

"We need a Joe Rogan of the left so that people (not me) will listen to him and then we can convert them to political donors and reliable Democratic voters." That's not how this works. There's no demand. You want viewers? Take CEO's and drop them in the tundra and film them being chased by wolves.

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

lol

Hey Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social, do you use fake accounts to boost yourself and TPM?

canada geese are so goddamn loud. they're very pretty, especially when they fly in a V like that, but can they cut out the noise before 8:00 am? John Marshall is being a weird little coward today. If anyone asks this post is entirely about geese.

If anyone is still interested in how this protest got such wide coverage—I spoke to the first person who found it on the organizer’s Instagram (RellyRebel), Rabbi Binyamin Freundlich. Because he’s a Betar member Betar amplified it and from there it picked up the traction everyone saw.

I have not, and as it so happens the same website where this image appears to have originated just published this definitely true thing

lmao let's see what sources we can find...

An image search shows this on a whole bunch of pro-Israel news sites & social media accounts, & on zero pro-Palestine activist or organization accounts. None of the news stories cite where it came from, just that "Pro-Hamas protestors plan to raid Crown Heights"

None of this tech bro garbage would matter if we didn’t allow obscene detrimental wealth to undeserved few and if capitalism actually worked like they say and didn’t allow rigged monopolies from the dumbest and most aggressive

The fact that the research team is responding to this controversy with additional bullshit is a huge red flag regarding the integrity of their work. If they won't admit they broke rules that they clearly broke, what reason is there to believe a higher standard will be applied to a published paper?

i think about this photo from outside last year’s white house correspondents dinner a lot

We've got a great feature for you today at @theprospect.bsky.social from Moe Tkacik. It's about how Tren de Aragua—an arcane obsession of organized crime buffs—became the latest villain that threatens our way of life. It started as an alibi for a Denver-area apartment developer with code violations.

This is being done at the behest of Democratic AG Dana Nessel. She's collaborating with fascists to target college students. www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

I guess @dananessel.bsky.social wanted in on the fascism, too?

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

this video broke my brain

DHS said in a Michigan court that the agency can’t terminate students’ immigration statuses by terminating records in Sevis. This will be news to hundreds of students told by their schools or the govt that they’ve lost their status & must leave @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/17/i...

buddy your mouth is writing cheques that your ass is bouncing. the cheques. are. I don't care what your ass is doing pal, wasn't even looking. I gotta go

Yes. Primaries are GOOD and required if we want our nominees (and elected officials) to be responsive to the people they represent!

Why are you all arguing with a cherubic, intransigent dude in chinos named Will about politics. Did you not go to liberal arts school? Did you not get your fill of this behavior in the common room late at night?

o fato do New York times ser tão ridiculamente enviesado por Israel mesmo enquanto finge fazer jornalismo sério de algum jeito dá mais raiva do que os jornais que só fazem viés sem nem fingir jornalismo

Lmao wholly unsurprised when I realized who Ken was fighting with

This is the op-ed Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote in 2024 criticizing the Tufts administration’s response to student demands for action regarding Gaza and Israel. It is unquestionably speech protected by the First Amendment. /1 www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

It’s impossible to express how radicalized I’ve become against the Democrats in the past two months. Just an absolutely worthless political party that’s sold us out to literal fucking fascism.

yes.

UPDATE: In a response to Drop Site’s request for comment, DHS stated, “You need to reach out to the White House.”

The Democrats are the opposition to the Trump administration. After Trump's vile address to Congress, Elissa Slotkin was the only person who had a guaranteed right to reply. She was speaking for everyone who opposed Trump. And she used her time to praise Ronald fucking Reagan.

Because the Dems quite literally chose to risk, and ultimately did. lose to this exact Republican administration rather than stand up for trans people or stop obliterating Palestinians, which they calculated they could lose voters that cared for either and win, by chasing "moderate republicans"

Why did you bail on the last question of your town hall @michaelbennet.bsky.social ?

UPDATE: The Coeur d’Alene Press spoke with the woman who was dragged out of a town hall for heckling legislators, confirmed which security firm worked the event and spoke with Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris and Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White about the events.

BREAKING: 1000+ people shut down the streets of New York City demanding that Governor Kathy Hochul stand up to Trump and remove Eric Adams. “No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here!” #RemoveAdams video @nychange.bsky.social #StopTheCoup #Resist

NYU Langone and other wealthy hospitals are capitulating to Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ and immigrant New Yorkers — while enjoying hundreds of millions of dollars in local tax breaks every year. I wrote about their publicly-subsidized cowardice at @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

You know what's good practice for acquiescing to fascism, tho? Acquiescing to your government's active support for genocide.

Re: Mr. Sullivan’s involvement in the 2008 constitutional violations, the DOJ investigation found that he "deferred to the judgment of his superiors and made no independent decisions”. 🧐

It is slightly maddening to write 99 posts denouncing Republicans, and then when the 100th is “Dems should be doing a better job of fighting this,” get a mob of Leave-Brittney-Spears-Alone shriekers demading to know why I never say anything bad about Republicans.

I am willing to learn more, but I am deeply skeptical of the proposition that there is anything heroic about doing the wrong thing to preserve the ability of other people to stay in a corrupted department.

absolutely not. Whoever signs this goes right to bin with the other corrupt losers. You don't get to sell out your oath to the country to protect your colleagues' jobs. And I hope his colleagues quit and say as much.

goddamn people really need to not fall for this! Acting corruptly for the sake of your coworkers is NOT at all mitigating. It's just regular old corruption.