Regardless of what happens with the result of this shutdown, the Democrats had better come back with a policy platform that includes universal healthcare when they run again. We should not compromise for less.

If you’re not familiar with “the brown shirts” of 1930’s Germany — just look to #Bovino, who is 💯 aware of the message he is sending

“We celebrate the networked world for the many ways in which it enriches our capabilities and prospects, but it has birthed whole new territories of anxiety, danger, and violence as the sense of a predictable future slips away.” — Shoshana Zuboff The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

I’ll be on @msnbc.com @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social tonight at 8:40 pm ET. Tune in!

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often! bsky.app/profile/did:...

it’s weird how normal it already feels to get emails from congressional candidates about being beaten by the gestapo outside the camps

I’m seriously considering getting an iPod Classic, doing a few small mods, and daily driving an iPod for all my music and completely ditching streaming

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

Say it!

As Trump wages war on DEI, Apple essentially just ratified the MAGA view of law enforcement officers as a protected class. (new @msnbc.com column)

As a reminder:

They're not even trying to hide it. Gone are the days in which these views were couched in doublespeak. The racism is on shameless, full display in the most powerful rooms in the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal. Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

"why do you keep calling us Nazis?" Because you're Nazis. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chat. I’m starting to think we might be cooked.

if this isn't civil war i'm not sure what is

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

This is how it's done. Community resistance.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military. They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

Major victory in Kansas for transgender people. The Kansas Supreme Court declined to block a lower court ruling on gender markers on drivers license. ACLU Kansas says trans people can get their licenses updated starting Tuesday. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Yet another attack on the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. This is authoritarianism.

History has many painful lessons.

The Trump administration's broad restrictions on the public's use of drones in Chicago limit our ability to monitor federal agents' actions and make it harder to hold them accountable for wrongdoing. This puts our communities — and our free speech rights — in danger.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

One time, I interviewed the Secretary of Agriculture. I worked for about a week to make sure that I didn’t ask a question that would violate the Hatch Act. Meanwhile, these MFers exist…

I’m at Foley Square for the Journalism is not a Crime rally. A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)

In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event. 3pm - Foley Square - 10/1 #JournalismIsNotACrime

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it?  I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism.  So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

About to be the family that owns TikTok.

The reads to me like Trump has authorized the United States military to shoot their fellow citizens Remember your oath!

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

Lol.

The war on sex = the war on migration. Everything is connected.

I got to speak with @truthout.org today about the FTC Comments! “The FTC is clearly on a fishing expedition, looking for responses that will justify its predetermined position.” But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t comment! Read more: truthout.org/articles/adv...

Today is a good day to remind folks that the @eff.org has a fantastic guide on protecting yourself from surveillance! ssd.eff.org Read it! Share it! And always use signal with self deleting messages!!

Today is a good day to remind folks that the @eff.org has a fantastic guide on protecting yourself from surveillance! ssd.eff.org Read it! Share it! And always use signal with self deleting messages!!

I got to speak with @truthout.org today about the FTC Comments! “The FTC is clearly on a fishing expedition, looking for responses that will justify its predetermined position.” But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t comment! Read more: truthout.org/articles/adv...

Keep sharing this story until they're found. Every single one.