old news, but: here's my op-ed from August on the #doubletax Black Philadelphians pay for public programs. framework by @firstblacknerd.bsky.social (Maven Collab) thephiladelphiacitizen.org/septa-cuts-d...

It's hard to overstate how destructive the reflexive "this is a distraction!" stuff that politicians and commentators and people are always peddling. Everything is happening all at once. That's how authoritarianism works. If you can't navigate and synthesize this, you're not meeting the moment.

Israel has forced the Madleen dark

No seriously, what the fuck does this mean.

Brain making rrr-rrr-rrr sounds like an old Cadillac trying to start

this, like the trans panic, show billionaires can sway public opinion significantly by hiring fake experts and inundating the population with their desired messaging. it’s a huge problem and one i’m not sure how to contend with as of yet

“I feel like my son was kidnapped."

Hard to overstate how lawless and also just fundamentally *untrustworthy* this country is, any promise we ever made anyone about anything turns out to have been fake www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

shit sucks. follow along on what this means for Black women through my weekly-ish newsletter. #3 is out now! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...

Gonna repeat: Democrats love to ask how Trump voters can be so stupid. And yet, 50% of New Yorkers are supporting Cuomo who is a serial sexual harasser, got thousand killed during COVID, and orchestrated GOP control of the NY legislature.

Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The fact that tarrifs are on the top of front pages consistently while people getting abducted off the streets for their free speech without due process is relegated far lower should tell us everything about where much of the media establishment sees our priorities as a society.

I've been thinking about this post a lot. Those of us used to mainly acting through speech/speech acts of various kinds are going to need to get comfortable, --quickly-- with rapid *embodied* action of the kinds described below. And to do it collectively whenever possible.

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A slide about the death toll in Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic.”

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

When this presidency ends—and it will end—we need a Rooseveltian plan to not only undo the damage he did, but build bigger than we’ve ever built before. Big universal programs and mandates. Pack the SCOTUS. Kill Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC. New anti-trust laws aimed at Amazon. Etc.

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Not "It could happen here." It IS happening here. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

my weekly-ish newsletter is out! with mutual-aid requests for @theokraproject.bsky.social and the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA! #TeslaTakedown and a cool way to #saveUSPS! the latest convo b/t @mskellymhayes.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social! blackwomenknowbest.substack.com/p/wading-thr...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

The staff at this public elementary school in DC showed far more courage than an Ivy with $15 billion endowment

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

The abductions continue. Now, a doctoral student in child development and Fulbright scholar from Turkey. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...

(Reuters) - Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states. @reuters.com 🇺🇸

Big thanks to @marc-fischer.bsky.social for the postcards!! Putting these in the mail today to go far and wide 💌 #saveUSPS

I'm told that Cohen no longer has access to her firm email account. "If being on this career path demands I accept that my industry—because this is certainly not unique to Skadden—will allow an authoritarian government to ignore the courts, I refuse to take it any further," she wrote on LinkedIn.

If Hamas had killed 7 Israelis inside of Israel this week, it would be one of the biggest stories in the world, & all over the US media. But Israel killed 7 HUNDRED Palestinians this week, including almost 200 children, & yet there's little outrage from our politicians or media.

NEW! Sworn declarations filed last night confirm the Trump admin sent INNOCENT people to rot in prison El Salvador, including a professional soccer player jailed and tortured by the Maduro regime, who entered this country LEGALLY to seek asylum, and who has NO CRIMINAL RECORD in either country.

Someone should probably tell USDOT's Sean Duffy that this is b-roll of Tokyo, not of New York City. What else could he be getting wrong in this video? 👀

Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.

Also…

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

We're taking to the streets *tomorrow* March 20th to say “Hands off our public postal service!”

oh is it bad when you put people out of work for political reasons

The USPS is being threatened with massive layoffs and privatization. I made these postcards which—when mailed—will be seen by mail handlers, scanners, carriers and the recipient. I just printed 3,000 more. Order cheaply from halfletterpress.com or message me your email for the PDF to print them.

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

I think calmly reasoning backward from various scenarios in which Trump asks the military to carry out various orders is necessary right now.

As a friendly reminder, the great Governor Frank Murphy called in the Michigan National Guard to *protect* the GM workers/strikers in Flint whose actions created the modern UAW. Absolutely pivotal moment in so many ways.

This isn't anti-DEI - it's retelling history as a story with only white men in it. The tale of the Navajo Code Talkers is essential to understanding the Allies' victory in WWII. Removing it because the people involved were non-white is segregationism.

If Senate Dems really wanted to replace Schumer they could but I suspect his aversion to confrontation reflects the actual prevailing sentiment in the rest of the caucus, they don't want something different

New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

Mexico Shows How Social Democratic Politics Can Win and Be Popular It turns out that a strong, principled leftist government can gain and retain popular support. So what’s the U.S. Democratic Party’s excuse? www.currentaffairs.org/news/mexico-...