Imagine building gilded ballrooms while stealing food from the mouths of children. Now imagine first flagrantly defying & then appealing multiple court orders to be able to continue to steal food from the mouths of children. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u... You don’t have to imagine! It’s real life

A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

🎯 Throwing trans people under the bus is wrong most importantly. It’s also emerging as an important litmus test for political acumen. Can’t untie yourself from the GOP’s obsessive ant-trans salience knot? Then you are probably bad at politics more broadly

Draws parallels with what @rebeccaburns.bsky.social uncovered in the illegal, racist raid in Chicago—cheaper for predatory landlords to have people kidnapped than evicted: inthesetimes.com/article/evic...

RFK is a danger to the health of our nation. Join us in DC to deliver 100k petition signatures calling for RFK Jr. to be impeached! 📣 🚨 911 March for Health and Science! ⏰ November 5th, 3:30pm ET 📍From the National Mall to HHS HQ (200 Independence Ave SW) INFO and RSVP 🔗 in bio!

Remember: Vought practiced first on millions who rely on global lifesaving USAID food aid what he does now, here. When Congress chooses not to fight back, it creates permission; if electeds had fought the illegal gutting of USAID, today's fight would be easier--stronger muscles & clearer message

📍𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐎, 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀: A mom of 8 U.S. Citizen children, Silvia Reyna Mendoza, was deported last week, after she accused an ICE contractor of sexual harassment—despite receiving an emergency temporary stay from the court. She lived in the U.S. for 40 years. #AbuseofPowerWatch

Lots of wrong information coming from the Trump administration on SNAP "running out of money November 1" and the SNAP contingency fund. The truth is: 1) It *can* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. 2) It actually *must* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. Let's dig in.

Deadline day is tomorrow. The day 42 million Americans' money for food--will be stolen. Trump is breaking the law. He is refusing to use emergency funding Congress set aside to keep SNAP running (as has happened in all other shutdowns). See: www.cbpp.org/research/foo... Literal hunger games.

📍 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋: More than 20 people have died in 2025 while caught up in enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Department of Homeland Security — marking the deadliest year for the agency in two decades. #AbuseofPowerWatch

The average SNAP payment is $177 per month. That's $2,124 a year. Anyone who thinks you can keep a pantry stocked with that hasn't been in a grocery store since 1977.

Here’s the same thing but as a handbilll you can print and hand out during trick or treating if that’s more your style

This needs to be what everyone says. The Trump administration is choosing to let vulnerable people suffer.

it's the reverse that is true: ICE thugs and their pepper balls and tear gas actually have "no right to get in the face of" clergy (or anyone else)

Concentration camps for homeless people and people who use drugs. That’s the plan.

Characterizing DHS as "muddying the waters" or "misleading" is plain wrong & cowardly. DHS' propaganda deploys blatant, premeditated lies to build support for their aim to target Brown and Black people and violate their rights & freedoms: wapo.st/4nuDGwf WaPo is parsing words while Rome burns

in days, 42 million kids and adults, including sick kids and adults, will see their life saving SNAP (food benefits) stopped because of an illegal refusal by Trump & Vought to release emergency funding FOR THAT PURPOSE during the shutdown: www.statnews.com/2025/10/27/s...

They are so pathetic and desperate and so bad at this. Also where is the campaign’s ’I am an “Aunt” for Zohran’ button? I would like to place an order

Just realized I will die on this hill: all fierce protests need marching bands; all compelling press conferences need babies.

Diphtheria--a vaccine-preventable infection that can kill you by suffocating you to death. Now imagine that happening to your kid: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... Among the causes of resurgence is the terrifying reality RFK Jr, Vought, and Trump are constructing; we must keep fighting back

' “CDC scientists are being held hostage by Robert F Kennedy Jr,” Daskalakis (@drdemetre.bsky.social ) added. '

if Bessent is a humble soybean farmer then Trump is a hard working hotel staffer

Caveat that I don't have actual document reported here, but isn't Brussels just making excuses for a cruel and self-sabotaging political retreat from fair share funding for lifesaving global HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, vaccination and immunization programs they have been aching to make anyway?

NEWS: ~100% protective long-acting HIV prevention injection lenacapavir has been registered in South Africa. ~14% of 1.3 million global HIV infections occur in South Africa: www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2025/10/27/b... 100% protection requires 100% access. Instead >>

Latest strike is now tied for second deadliest since this illegal killing spree started on September 2. 6 more murders, blatant lawlessness, and an impotent Congress while Trump moves rapidly along with his plan for land war in Venezuela: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

$40b to bailout Milei enriches zillionaire hedge fund managers who advise Scott Bessent. Trump admits this: " 'We don’t have to do it,' he said...'It’s not going to make a big difference for our country.' " Compare this w/USAID's FY24 humanitarian aid budget: ~$14.5b, or ~3 dictator bailouts.

Thank you to everyone who is dissecting the vapid and dangerous reporting by the New York Times on Trump’s regime, in this case reporters coddling Trump while he tears down part of the White House. A helpful thread 🧵

Murder spree by the world's most powerful politician, reported today as a 'drug campaign'? In addition to his aims wrt Maduro he is trying to normalize extrajudicial killing so it's a durable tactic. So why does the nytimes continuously do his sickening, lawless work for him w/their reporting?

Education Department layoffs illegally burden students with disabilities, advocates say. Story by Shauneen Miranda of @statesnewsroom.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/educ...

Censoring the sharing of pictures of destruction happening in plain sight? Any employee who is cowed by this, along with all the other weak and lawless threats, needs to look in the mirror and ask why they are choosing complicity

the only effective politicians--the leaders who build and transform worlds that uplift us all--are politicians who understand this. Polls provide context, they are not destiny

Gentle reminder that polls don't gauge what is ethical or just. A poll about how "most Americans" feel about trans healthcare is simply a way to understand how effective media and religious campaigns have been in their transphobia.

Mocking a serial sexual assaulting tyrant? That is free speech. I am with the woman in the penis suit. As is the rest of America.

"Together, these developments show a powerful tide of racism in American life, lifting up white people at the expense of all others."

I wear a mask. I’m immunocompromised w/a chronic cancer. If this an issue for you, that’s who you are. The masked man has a wife at home with cancer. We want PEPFAR funded so immunocompromised people living w/HIV & AIDS get care they need. If you think this is a joke that tells me who you are.

“The activities that are being undertaken here are contrary to the laws." “You can’t do this in a nation of laws.” --U.S. District Judge Susan Yvonne Illston www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Collins has said that PEPFAR funds are not reaching people in need, yet she refuses to use the full power of her position to end the political obstruction and lawlessness while people continue to die. The consequences of her inaction — and of her votes — are measured in body bags around the world.

A betrayal like this by @fenwayhealth.bsky.social is...terrible. Join me & flood Fenway's offices with calls: (617) 267-0900; tell them to reverse their decision. Read more from @erininthemorning.com: www.erininthemorning.com/p/fenway-hea... and take action. We need courage, not compliance

Fenway Health cutting off access to medical treatment for trans youth is shameful and unnecessary. There is no need for this. Cis folks, please use these numbers below to tell Fenway and the AG what you think about abandoning trans youth.

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.

Me in Vox.com on the need for ambitious global roll out of the revolutionary HIV prevention injection lenacapavir--and how Vought's theft of PEPFAR funding & State's Jeremy Lewin's weak approach and ideological bent will sabotage the effort--unless we fight back: www.vox.com/future-perfe... >>

🚨BREAKING:🚨 AIDS activists arrested occupying Senator Collins' DC office, demanding she stop GIVING IN to Russ Vought's illegal & deadly withholding of global HIV funding. See: healthgap.org/press/aids-a... Simultaneously, bodybags delivered to her Portland office by Maine activists 👇

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

“What’s happening in Chicago is not about safety. It’s about a white supremacist project—about eradicating people. As a queer, masculine-presenting Latina, I pose a great threat. These struggles are not separate. When immigrant rights are attacked, so are queer rights.” -Ald. Jesse Fuentes

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor. “He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said. Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Please take a moment to do this NOW--fighting back and demanding Congress actually use their (rapidly eroding) power is in fact helpful in fighting back against these illegal firings that make us all less safe.

Write to your Senators and Representative NOW! Demand **ALL CDC employees to be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government**. actionnetwork.org/letters/writ... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Must read: detailed account of how ICE threatened to shoot emergency medical workers and impeded the transport of a patient: “When armed agents interfere with medical care, they cross a moral line that could put lives at risk. We stand firmly behind our members who work in EMS.” —Union spox

On talk of heaven among evil people: fear among Jesse Helms et al that they would go to hell because of their inaction in the face of preventable HIV deaths in sub Saharan African countries was a major reason they were dragged along in support of PEPFAR. See: www.nytimes.com/2002/03/26/u...

Kidnapping and caging a child who has a right to be in this country--there is no rock bottom when it comes to ICE's depravity.