screworm outbreak is another good opportunity to remind americans that government is what protects us from things like this and not the magical free market. want safe food? government, bitch.

There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.

❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry

Exactly the correct tactic. Trump is a deeply pathological actor. Narcissistic personality disorder is his puppet strings. You cannot control him (all his sycophants think they can), but you can trigger him.

Honestly? Start calling Vought the president. Trump reliably gets rid of anyone around him who is described as more powerful than him. (see: Musk)

Difficult really, to think of a single, more disgusting act a journalist can commit than lying to the public to justify someone being murdered by their government for activism. But this is who these people always were.

CLOSE DELANEY HALL, CLOSE THEM ALL

super interesting way to look at things and it feels true to me

Worth remembering, as we debate what kind of corrective is needed for the latest Trump era, that Bovino is career CBP, and joined during the Clinton administration.

every remarkable achievement of the state must be undone to prove the state cannot achieve anything. ( if you don't know the screwworm story, see e.g. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... )

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Wild thing is our government(s) behave like abusive partners, keeping its citizens starved and and worried about living outdoors as a constant threat to anyone who even thinks about protesting or overthrowing it.

It shouldn’t be a struggle for anyone to afford food. That shouldn’t be something that we’re okay with as a human species. Everyone should have a decent home to go back to and enough to eat.

Supreme Court does not just deserve to lose your respect & legitimacy; it is critical to protecting democracy that they lose any/all respect & legacy from all of US. They are ultimate partisan hacks in robes with lifetime tenure. Anyone giving them respect & legitimacy is collaborating against US.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

This is as succinct and searing an overview of the conflagration at Delaney I've read.

No state funeral for Trump. He cannot be allowed to lie in state in the Capitol he sacked. Normalize saying it. Say it now and say it often, so nobody gets the vapors when It Happens. #NoStateFuneralForTrump

Another absolute banger history lesson from the one and only Michael Harriot

great thread

Like whose side are you on? This isn't hard or complicated: "As governor, I am asking the federal government to withdraw its immigration enforcement officers from our community in the name of safety so that events don't escalate further." Treat *them* as the problem, not your own residents.

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really great thread that says things men, and society, need to hear

If you’re going to do a moment of silence involving convicted murderer Derek Chauvin - who is alive - doing it for any less than 9 minutes and 30 seconds fails to truly recognize the weight of what he did.

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

The voters of Maine can do what they want but the Dem political machine needs to stop texting me with their hands outstretched to fund a guy who voluntarily went to work for Erik Prince

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

Everything has to change. Everything. Do not settle for politicians who want to go back to "normal." "Normal" was the garbage state of existence that allowed all of this evil to take root and thrive. Everything has to change.

👇 This holds true in many areas we are being decimated in right now. Union, organization, neighborhood group - connect & fight (hard), or die.

interesting how elected officials who say they want to “lower the temperature” only hold the unarmed side of a protest to that standard.

If the first amendment only applies in government protected zones, it doesn't apply at all.

👇 this is so on point and much needed by me today

as a website person this is some scary shit

You, yes YOU, regular person YOU, need to make it clear from minute one that you will not be letting anybody get away with even flirting with transphobia in front of you. We are in emergency mode here.

Excellent thread, accurately captures what I've been feeling since the pandemic*--that understanding your RISK is everything, the risks are everywhere & getting worse, and there's only so much you can hedge against, the rest is resiliency *before actually, since 2019 when I lost 3 parents in 6 mos

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I spent years arguing on the internet and basically the only times I’ve ever learned anything are from other folks on a different part of the left than I am, the right wingers mostly just lie to me while audibly giggling about the fact that they’re lying why subject myself to that

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

1/ They gassed and otherwise wounded the Senator first/best known for picking up the debris left by Jan 6 rioters. www.instagram.com/reel/DYxyJBp... And then issued a disgusting—like truly Noem worthy—statement...

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

This is for like 87% of everything happening now

You don't defeat fascism by choosing tiny slivers of vulnerable populations to sacrifice to it. That's how your coalition shrinks until you die a coward. You defeat fascism by putting the vulnerable populations in the center, and forming a circle around them.

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

We let the Confederates off the hook after the Civil War and that didn't go well either.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”