Everybody ready for the Good Trouble Lives On day of action tomorrow Thursday July 17, in honor of civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis? goodtroubleliveson.org Every city will have a different take on it. In NYC, we'll be surrounding Federal Plaza at 5:30pm. See you there if you're in NYC!

Looks like an interesting strategy for putting pressure on Senators Murkowski, Collins and Johnson to vote NO on the Budget Bill is to contact their donors. Info for doing that at the bottom of this post: chopwoodcarrywaterdailyactions.substack.com/p/chop-wood-...

A little about how the Big Lie Bill affects my family, and how it's still possible to stop it! harringtonr.substack.com/p/stop-the-b...

This post is for New Yorkers who haven't yet voted in the NYC primary and who are suspicious of Zohran Mamdani or outright dislike him but think Andrew Cuomo would be worse: This is between the 2 of them now! To have a chance of blocking Cuomo, you have to vote for Mamdani. Anywhere on the ballot.

Brad Lander, shortly after being released from detention yesterday, giving a speech to the crowd outside the detention center. Here he talks about how Andrew Cuomo was able to stiff immigrants he'd relied on to clean the subways during the pandemic, calling them "illegal." Don't rank Andrew Cuomo!

If anyone in NYC is able to take the afternoon off, there is an impromptu event happening in Foley Square, right now, to protest mayoral candidate Brad Lander's arrest for asking ICE if they had a warrant.

Proud to have put Lander and Mamdani first and second on my ballot in early voting yesterday. Fascism will not prevail. One day everyone who supports ICE now will pretend they always opposed it, and saw it for the Gestapo it has become.

Anyone trying to watch the #nokings wrapup zoom call tonight that started at at 8pm EDT and can't get in, there's a YouTube livestream at www.youtube.com/live/ECEbs-z... (which will also be a recording if you miss it). It's very inspiring!

@ashdashlee.bsky.social On the #NoKings wrapup call, that's our Tesla dealership in Gowanus in Brooklyn! I held up signs there every Saturday for three months!

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

Some #NoKings shots from the march down 5th Ave yesterday. My personal favorite is the one of Stephen Miller as a demon that says, "LOSER," and "THIS GUY SUCKS." Come to think of it, I didn't actually see any signs with him on it that DIDN'T portray him as a demon.

A conventional wisdom took hold after the shock of the election and the inauguration, that protests this year were muted compared to 2017. That was never true, and it's DEFINITELY not true now. wagingnonviolence.org/.../american... See you in the streets today for NO KINGS!

Wow! Thanks to ranked choice voting for NYC mayor, it's quite possible one of these two guys will save us from Andrew Cuomo! (Knocking on wood...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vdei...

Here's one of the top comments from a YouTube video about Senator Alex Padilla getting thrown to the ground and handcuffed for questioning Kristi Noem's speech. I'm thinking the NO KINGS protest tomorrow (Saturday 6/14) is shaping up to be pretty big! www.nokings.org

NYC Dem primary voters: Don't rank Cuomo! Sexual harasser, lied about nursing home deaths during Covid, decimated NYC schools. All scenarios where he wins have him winning in like the 10th round, so putting him 4th or 5th on your ballots is exactly what would put him over the top. Don't do it!

This Saturday, let's strongly exercise our right to peacefully protest! Now is the time to do that! In NYC, it's at 2pm in Bryant Park. And there's one wherever you are in the country: nokings.org

Anyone in NYC that wants to go see a great movie, check out "Sunlight", at the Quad in Manhattan, before Thursday. It's by and starring the ventriloquist @ninaconti.bsky.social and my old friend from the Canadian fringe circuit @shenoahallen.bsky.social . quadcinema.com/film/sunlight/

Reconciliation is a long process, but today is a particularly good day to call your rep & tell them to vote NO on the horrible reconciliation bill! (Or thank them if they're a Dem -- gives them energy!) Progressive groups are pushing for a national call-in day today: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you're looking for something to do tonight in Brooklyn at 7:30, it's the last night to see my old friend Dr. Brown in from L.A perform his now show, Dr. Brown Beturns! I saw it a couple days ago and it's some amazing, subtle, hilarious clowning. Highly recommended. unionhallny.com/calendar

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka arrested by ICE yesterday. Going to a rally in Foley Square in Manhattan to express how I feel about this: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

This is amazing! To everyone who's been protesting outside Tesla dealerships, you did this! And if you want to make your local government cut ties with Musk too, go here: www.teslatakedown.com/divest

Excited to attend the next really big protest in NYC on Saturday, June 14th! Already thinking about what I'm going to wear for a hat that will top my May Day Cybertruck... mobilize.us/s/ilK8XB

I am a father of an autistic child with profound developmental delays. This clip nails it. Also did you know that RFK Jr's aunt founded the Special Olympics? That guy's really working out some family issues. www.youtube.com/embed/zMndfv...

May 1 protest tomorrow in Foley Square in NYC, 5-7 pm! More than 1,000, all over the country: maydaystrong.org Lots are at the end of the day, so you don't have to take the whole day off. I will so I can get some stuff together (like a cardboard Cybertruck hat in flames), but that's another story.

Mohsen Mandawi is out on bail! Now he can work on his habeas petition from a position of freedom. This analyst says they don't usually let people out in these kinds of circumstances unless they have a strong chance of winning their case: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

The Canadian election result shows that the 2024 US election might have gone very differently if American voters could somehow have known in advance what it would be like to have Donald Trump as president

The mail transfer box in front of the school across the street from our apartment

Bake sale against fascism today in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, 11-3! (With amazing cookies by my wife K. — I had one already.) All proceeds go to the ACLU, the New York Immigrant Coalition, and to the local neighborhood immigrant support organization People in Need Inc.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are

Just re-reading my favorite book, Piranesi, out loud to myself this time. It's a mystery about an ocean trapped in a building. It unfolds like clockwork, if clocks had amazing plot twists. app.thestorygraph.com/books/a4f977...

Hello everyone! I'm already getting a good feeling about this place.