If AIPAC is invested in strengthening the pro-Israel faction in the Democratic coalition, they would recognize that a Trump-led war on Iran in coordination with Israel would be *catastrophic* for their candidates in Dem primaries.

Rep. Pat Ryan observes that some of the sites DHS is exploring for Trump's immigrant prisons draw a circle around New York City.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

“gives itself?"

Preserving Democracy! Weekly vigil from 1-2 PM, Today! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. Civil Rights lawyer Norman Siegel will review the week's news in legal defenses of our democratic institutions

"Given that the newsroom’s pre-layoff employment was 790 people, this reflects a purge of between [44%] of the Post’s journalists at the low end and nearly HALF...at the higher end. Which is to say, the bloodbath was even bloodier than realized." - @farhip.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/with...

"We're not doing mass surveillance under the aegis of a single corporation. We're finding lost dogs!"

The marketing person that recommended cloaking it under the mission of finding lost dogs should either get a million dollars or be buried head down in a pit.

WATCH — @patryanforcongress : “DHS and ICE are attempting to build a national network of warehouses for mass detention… 80,000 at a time… tens of billions of dollars… Trump’s multi-billionaire donors will benefit…”

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Today’s speaker will be Norman Siegel, Civil Rights lawyer, reviewing the week in legal news

Ron Charles is/was my favorite person in books coverage. He combined natural readerliness with good humor and a human touch. This is an insane decision. WaPo was the best newspaper books coverage in the country. Bezos just keeps finding new ways to harm reading. Immediate subscribe (✍🏼)

I have been wondering (as an alumna) how @yale.edu has escaped the Harvard/Columbia treatment and assumed there was some sort of #capitulationinadvance going on. Here’s the rose on the tomb. Well played #timsnyder

#BoycottDavos: the whole point of it is to give tycoons even more access to government than they already have

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968

What is happening in Minneapolis & other cities calls on us to speak out about the direction our country & city are facing. Special Martin Luther King Day edition of our weekly vigil, Preserving Democracy. Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square, NYC, Mondays, 1-2 PM, with civil rights atty Norman Siegel

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You can’t just talk about how the police should be better. You have to defund the police. You can’t just say that you hope nobody will ever pick up one of the loaded guns you have laying around. You have to get rid of them. Excellent @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

❤️ @nycquakers.org @15thstmeeting.org

Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

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What strikes me about S Wiles is the realization of how much the normal GOP of yore was driven by hatred and a yen for destruction. She seems, ideologically, as like a standard operative of the old school & she’s fine with this because it’s tearing govt down. Banality of evil encore une fois

from a state party director

Sam Altman sees way too much of us already

NEW TIME! The weekly Preserving Democracy Vigil will take place from 1-2 PM on Monday in Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. Civil Rights lawyer Norman Siegel will review the week's news in legal defenses of our democratic institutions

While I’m glad Commissioner Tisch let Ricky Patel (Special Agent in Charge at HSI) know that she’s not happy with their raids, I’m disturbed by footage of NYPD officers clearing the way for ICE vehicles. It’s a violation of our sanctuary city law to facilitate deportations. x.com/emmagf/statu...

The Target boycott that AFT joined on Labor Day is seeing success. This holiday season, we're doubling down to demonstrate organized labor's economic power, as well as the consequences of ignoring the will of workers and the good of working families. www.aft.org/news/we-aint...

Read to the end. It's not a typical Epstein essay.

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Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't. Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Trick-or-treat at Brooklyn's oldest operating bookstore, Community Bookstore on 7th Ave.

I think I'm going to sit down for an interview with Isaac Chotiner. I'm also going to tug on Superman's cape, spit into the wind, pull the mask off the ol' Lone Ranger, and mess around with Jim

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

He also rightly pointed out that when the KY legislature passed the ban there was only one trans athlete in the whole state--a seventh grader kicked off the field hockey team she started www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Andy Beshear to Bill Maher on why he opposed a ban on trans athletes: "I care too much about sports to let government run them"

Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, continues to the model that Democrats pretend doesn’t exist

Where is @thecut.com story or the Tim Alberta @theatlantic.com profile or the @ichotiner.bsky.social interview with Jay Jacobs?

A whole dozen? 🙄

Hundreds of people protesting ICE in downtown manhattan right now. Reads and Broadway. NYPD cops in riot gear on scene.

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Wondering why no one is saying that leaving Gaza without any security infrastructure doomed this to happen and gave Israel a winning hand?

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

Star Wars, Star Trek, et al. Now seems fantastical that we could last long enough to meet the interplanetaries.

America needs a Christian religious revival