Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

god willing we will grind Intuit into the fucking ground

This is insane.

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is what happens when elected officials make your transit decisions. (There is a categorization error. The Caltrans rep cannot vote. The other rep is appointed by LA mayor and does her bidding. 100% of LA Metro Board votes belong to elected officials) bsky.app/profile/rsda...

Science does not need to be privatized. Corps can do science whenever they want. Government-funded science is about making sure we do the science that doesn't lead to a big profit, and that the things that need to be known by all are known by all.

There can be rich-people taxes that are about reducing inequality rather than raising revenue, and then for the taxes that fund the welfare state, it's best to do broad based ones like payroll taxes, VAT, etc. Everyone pays, everyone benefits.

This administration is committing Watergate level crimes multiple times per week—and those are the ones we know about. It’s crazy to think about what else will come out after. It’s absolutely essential these criminals are held responsible for their crimes. We must end elite impunity.

Over five million people protested against the regime in June. More than seven million people took to the streets in October. March 28 will be even bigger, with nearly 3,000 events already on the No Kings Day map. Be part of the largest protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration: Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure. Its a horrifying escalation.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

I gave prior notice and secured the necessary privacy release forms to meet with specific detainees. Yet, the Northwest ICE Detention Center still blocked me from conducting oversight. What are they hiding?

This entire decision is worth a read.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

This infant is an American citizen so they just fine murdering American babies. That’s where we’re at now

I don’t agree with this in a pretty major way. The point of the argument online isn’t to win the other guy over, it’s to make your points to bystanders to prevent them from being won over by the other guy and to give them new ways to argue back.

Update Pediatric Flu Deaths; Week 5 of 2026 6 pediatric deaths related to flu were reported to CDC, bringing season total to 66 reported flu-related pediatric deaths. Among children eligible & with known vaccine status, 90% occurred in unvaccinated children. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

This claim is flat-out wrong. Private health care spending in the US is more than $2.2 trillion annually. Even if we got our costs down to French levels, it would still be more than $1.4T. If we cut the defense budget in half, we'd still need at least another $1 trillion just to cover health care.

i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.

Tech companies are helping DHS infringe on your First Amendment rights 🙃

ICE detention growth since late September is concentrated among people with no criminal charges or convictions. The “Other Immigration Violator” category far outpaces increases among convicted individuals. Link: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-delay...

“Living in America” isn’t some special award that we have to dole out carefully. It’s not a prize or a gold medal. It doesn’t hurt me to have neighbors like Liam Ramos. These people are such stupid freaks.

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

You won’t even know they killed you. You’ll just get a cancer medicine doesn’t have an answer for. I’m cancer free thanks to research that began in the 80s in rats & led to a chemo drug approved in 1998 under Clinton. Pre 1998, my cancer had poor survival. Now, if caught early, survival is ~98%. /1

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Jesus Christ you freak, they’re just my neighbors

A Trump-appointed district judge described the conditions of ICE detainees with no criminal history held in a temporary cell in the Central Islip federal courthouse on Long Island for days — putrid, cramped, inhumane and unlawful.

My video responding to their video is up at Instagram, in order to reach the normies www.instagram.com/reels/DT_Wx8...

we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Saw this and it’s just wild

Minnesotans are also fighting for the rest of us and the preservation of representative democracy in America, because it won't end with them. Their fight is our fight. Nothing but admiration and respect and gratitude for their courage.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

My Beacon Hill neighbors are going door to door signing the community up on a group Signal and sharing resources for dealing with ICE. www.greatforallcid.com/neighborhood...

Thinking a lot right now about this crisis of trust. It’s a new world for Americans to not be able to trust what their government tells them. Not to say that the government has never lied or misled the public before. Obviously it has. But this is a new, Soviet-style level of lies and fabrication

It still bothers me that during 2024, Gen. John Kelly (Trump's former CoS) and Gen. Mark A. Milley (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2019-2023) both said that Trump is a fascist and instead this of ending Trump's political viability, it was just another minor blip in the news that soon faded.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

photographer is Jeff Wheeler at the Star Tribune. guy with the flag is Curtis Evans, a Marine veteran.

A shutdown does nothing of substance because DHS already has some frontloaded approps from reconciliation, DHS ops continue in a lapse in appropriations, and in any case DHS employees are gonna be willing to do their "work" for free much longer than civs at DoD/HHS/Labor/Ed/State/HUD/Trans