Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

Can’t stop thinking about the level of cursed a moment in time has to be in order to produce a factual sentence like “Portland Frog pepper-balled by ICE agents”

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

I took a screen shot of this post yesterday - have a feeling we’re all gonna need it in the coming days and weeks.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Just clownish evil all the way down. My god …

The type of speech most punished in this society is that which consists of telling the truth about how the powerful have harmed you

The free speech crusaders are at it again. “ … a picture with the words ‘Just a reminder, we're NOT offering sympathy,’ which was reportedly posted shortly after Kirk was shot and killed during a speaking event in Utah. The post quickly drew attention on right-wing social media accounts…”

you don’t have to have a take on everything but i will say for the record that gavin newsom’s “continue his work” post is one of the more disgusting things i have ever seen considering that the dead man in question wanted at least ~2.8 million americans eradicated & believed empathy was a sin.

When New England weather captures the national vibe,

“Sources tell CBS News that Democrat strategist Lis Smith is serving as an advisor to Talarico.” WHYYYYYYYY

For 12 months, America had a limited proof of concept for universal healthcare, and it was so uniformly successful we had no choice but to obliterate our society

My trans community, this is not a time for us to go into a defensive crouch. When they come after us for this, we go on the attack. Demand to know: 95% of all shooters are men, and 84% of them are white. What restrictions are you proposing for the White Male community?

Journalists covering today's EO's on bail, here's a resource with data, research, and experts on several bail reforms implemented across the country.

“Here, have a piece of milk.”

Everything is so fucking bleak.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

I don’t understand a single goddam thing about how the world works but I especially don’t understand the cruel contemporary turn against trans people. Like…don’t you have kids? Friends? A heart? Can’t you imagine that other people are…real?

Who is doing counter-recruitment organizing for ICE? As the economy worsens, those jobs and the loan forgiveness offer will become more attractive to unpoliticized individuals. There needs to be a clear social cost for even considering joining those ranks.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

Many people are much smarter than I am about politics and strategy But morally I think this is exactly the wrong way We don’t need our own sociopaths to go against their sociopaths We need to suppress sociopathy

Not a single mention from NBC about Trump/GOP promises (made and now kept) to prosecute political enemies. The entire article treats this like a normal investigation into a potentially corrupt prosecutor. What a thorough abdication of journalistic responsibility, truly despicable stuff.

No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events. The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

Imagine losing a popularity contest to the pedophiles building concentration camps

Which is why I think it is important to state, early and often, that trans rights are a red line for me (and I hope for many of you). Push Democrats to nominate someone who doesn't sit around doing podcasts where he nods along with anti-trans ghouls.

If there's one thing that getting yelled at all day for saying that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom in a hypothetical 2028 election has made me more sure of... it's that I will not be voting for Gavin Newsom (or any other politician who pushes anti-trans nonsense) in 2028 or any other year.

when you take the enemy’s language and add your own spin to it — “blue tea party” and the like— all i hear is that the enemy has made a home in your imagination and you consult them before every move. language is power, what we act in the name of is the source our strength.

the brutal state repression ramping up in Western states around the world makes clear that police, prisons, and border violence serve and have always served to facilitate racial, gendered, and economic violence. abolition, not reform, is the only way forward.

Very striking how every right-wing conspiracy freakout was just a prophecy of what they planned on eventually doing - whether it was Jade Helm or FEMA camps, the moment they had the opportunity to make these imaginary monstrosities they came up with come to life, they did

All the reactionary centrists attacking Mamdami every day will deny -- to us, even to themselves I think -- that they play a key role in enabling this kind of shit. But that is literally their function in the current US political structure.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

The effort the dems are putting in to block Mamdani and get a sex pest elected instead is truly disgusting. Cuomo was a bad politician who killed people and wasted public funds and enriched his cronies but these people really will go to any length to tear down a brown democratic socialist.

We live in a rogue and dangerous country. Do what you need to do to maintain your internal peace. Hold the core of your spirit. Pray for peace. Commit yourself to justice. And just rest.

Bodily autonomy is a human right. Transness isn't a disease that needs to be cured. We're a normal part of the spectrum that is the human condition. And we deserve to have the final say over our own bodies - not just because of the harm if we don't, but because they belong to us and not the state.

as always solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters now and forever

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

do they still do the doomsday clock or did those people go home to be with their families

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him. #mapoli #Massachusetts

Between Baraka, Iver, and Padilla - you gotta ask why it’s only our legislators of color taking these risks. Disproportionate punishment will reign down on them but they are alone in going directly to places where abuses of power are happening. Meanwhile, white moderates debate “distractions”.

If you're being violent to communities, do you really expect them to sit there and take it? What's happening in Palestine is connected to what's happening in LA.

Right wing folks railing against Sesame Street today made me remember that time in the 90’s when Newt Gingrich and the rest of the GOP absolutely lost their minds about the one Teletubby they just *knew* was gay. Nothing new under the sun for these losers.

A three-year-old brought me a bit of black paper. "Look", she said, "I found a piece of night!" We're all born poets, but slowly we forget.

Not going to quote post but when you see these people saying "no one voted to deport moms" what they're really saying is "I didn't vote to deport this one mom that I know!" It is this enormous failure of empathy, that people like immigrants they know but don't generalize that, while at the same time

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

really full force struck by how dystopian America is now, where the government and corporations can ignore the law at will but if a regular person fails to conform at any juncture the powers of the state are basically authorized to kill you and your kids

“One person is confirmed dead after an explosion rocked the American Reproductive Services building on North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive just before 11 a.m. this morning.” thepalmspringspost.com/one-dead-aft...

Dad's May 13,1972 commencement address to Ithaca College graduates: