Stop lying to people.

NO!!!!! With the loss of journalists Iike Lex and their team from platforms like Teen Vogue, we’re losing our greatest instruments in the fight for democracy.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

This man is an authentic American hero A Black man facing armed federal agents to stand up for his youth baseball team. Brave. www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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12. Trump’s memecoin dinner now confirmed to include mostly non-Americans.Secy of State says it’s not his business what foreigners are on the guest list. His priority is student visa holders who write strong-eds. 13. Trump & Hegseth affirm plan to build anti-ballistic missile “Golden Dome” for $175b

10. House holds critical vote on spending bill (Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill) designed to cut SS and Medicaid, muscle educ institutions, cut taxes for the wealthy AT 1AM, so that most won’t see it. 11. Rep. Senators & Gov’s can’t get Trump to provide FEMA funding for folks devastated by tornadoes.

8. ProPublica report reveals Trump Admin applying “massive pressure” on African nations to compel deals for Elon Musk. 9. DOJ opens investigation into Chicago Mayor’s office based on Mayor’s stated pride in racial diversity of workforce. Threatens investigation of pop stars support for VP Harris.

…in which he appears not to know peace talks are happening. Shows obsequious support for Putin. 6. IRS Director nominee is confronted with evidence of agreement to provide favors to large donors. 7. DOJ opens investigation into Trump rival running for Mayor of NY, raising possible pressure campaign.

…write op-Ed’s the Admin doesn’t like. Threatens “we’ll do even more” with cold glee. 4. HHS Secy admits withholding block funding for child care & development. Yells at sitting Senator in hearing. Tells another he didn’t know funding for ALS had been cut. 5. Trump stuns Europeans on phone call..

2. Charging sitting congressman woman w/felony assault for attempting to observe ICE facility 3. Secy of Homeland Security reveals she has no idea what habeas corpus is; think it’s another presidential deportation power. 4. The Secy of State stands by his decision to revoke visas for students who

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.

There’s more throughout the thread. Wow.

Spits facts & walks away implying anyone choosing nationalism over humanity, got shit for brains. Protect this kid at all costs!

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

We got tariffs, Canadians got dental care

Hey chat is it bad when the gov tells you you’re not allowed to question their decree on who is and is not deserving of human rights and consideration in their ability to participate in society

"The shuttering of USAID, in other words, ranks with the absolute worst atrocities in the history of the world."

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

Please follow independent news outlets that won't horserace report us into an endless night of authoritarian fascism. Follow outlets like the one I work for, @mississippifreepress.org.

Dude you’re transphobic? Like from Harry Potter? Grow up.

"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.

US police departments are using "unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on 'college protesters', 'radicalized' political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers ..." They've automated snitching.

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

An innocent man who committed no crime but is the same race as the person who murdered your daughter should have to spend the rest of his life in a concentration camp is the argument?

Northwestern just announced that the university will meet the funding needs of any research that is being impacted by stop orders. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! #edusky #academicsky wgntv.com/evanston/nor...

I kind of want to go

Good morning bluesky. If you care about defending higher education and diversity and science and Democracy, you might want to sign our letter at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd. We wrote it to capture what we think are consensus values in/about higher ed. Our new website to links to all the others.

This old tweet made the front page of reddit, or so I hear.

A 21-year-old Columbia University student who has lived in the United States since she was a child sued President Trump and other high-ranking administration officials on Monday after immigration officials tried to arrest and deport her. Yunseo Chung participated in a Barnard sit-in this month.

Anyone else unable to share stories on Instagram if they’re critical of Meta (or social media generally)? This has happened to me two or three times - I get an error message saying it’s “working to establish a connection,” and then it times out. Doesn’t do that for other types of stories though.

Americans are in denial about the implications here because they wish it wasn't happening. But this is the behavior of a dictator. It's the sort of thing that warrants secession or revolution. The Republic is over the second federal funding is withheld pending a governor's personal apology.

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

True fact about me: I was named on this group’s hit list. (This was about two years ago, but I just found out about it a few months ago by folks in the FBI.)

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

The Trump Administration’s treatment of Mahmoud Khalil is inhumane and unconstitutional. Today, I was proud to join NYS Assemblymember Valdez, NYC Council Member Avilés, and 27 city, state, and federal officials to call for his immediate release.

It was never about the law

it's working, keep going

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Slate [Mar 3]-- Great interview with ACLU's Chase Strangio: "I'm not someone who’s ever thought that the law was going to be our savior....We need to build a different muscle here...We need to be in the streets..." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]

::screams in trans::

Trans people are fucking amazing. Don’t you forget it.

Next week!

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB." [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬] [HT @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social‬]