"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

I wrote about ICE and the various ways they’re carrying out this regime’s eugenicist agenda. Their use of tear gas and pepper bullets. Their aggressive arrest techniques. The lack of adequate medical care or infection control in the camps. The utter disregard for disability accommodations

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years. We hear of a few, but most barely make the news. Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel. He was in perfect health when ICE detained him. He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

It's the last work day of the Senate work week & one vote remains on the docket. At 5pm EST, there will be a vote on a motion to discharge SJ Res 90. This joint resolution is sponsored by Tim Kaine (D-VA) and orders the president to terminate all military efforts against Venezuela.

I am completely unsurprised by @markwarner.bsky.social being ok with the murders of people of color as long as he's kept in the loop, since he also voted for the Laken Riley Act with 11 other Democrats.

Don’t think ppl understand the terror the Feds are unleashing on the streets of LA right now. Roving patrols targeting vulnerable individuals. It’s horrible. There’s no one coming to save us except ourselves.

The 5th most fascist friendly Democrat in the House won't run for re-election. Lol. Lmao.

Article is behind a paywall, but to get the gist of this piece, the opening paragraph is: "A handful of moderate Senate Democrats are considering voting to end what has now become the country’s longest government shutdown, splitting the caucus as some colleagues to their left urge them to hold out."

Establishment Dems: “We just had a sweeping win proving people want us to fight for them and that we can beat the fascists.” Also Establishment Dems: “Quick, back to capitulating!” What an utterly spineless and embarrassing political party.

Since we have the time, people should really inform themselves about Newsom's specifically loathsome policies/statements against three extremely vulnerable and marginalized groups: the disabled, the unhoused, and trans people.

Not even 24 hours after the Democratic Party utterly sweeps Election Day, four Democratic Senators vote to confirm Caleb Orr as an Assistant Secretary of State. Voting yea were Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH). Angus King (I-ME) also voted yea.

Just a reminder that 'vote blue no matter who' is useless when people like Broadview mayor Katrina Thompson lack the courage to stand up to fascism and are personally aggrieved when expected to do so.

I was expecting another party line vote today in the Senate. Instead, Chris Coons (DE), John Fetterman (PA), Maggie Hassan (NH), and Jeanne Shaheen (NH) voted yea for cloture for longtime Rubio staffer Caleb Orr to be an Assistant Secretary of State.

I'd also add that, historically, progressives, socialists, & even full tilt communists used to clean up in places that are currently conservative. Progressives & socialists have thrived and could easily thrive again in conservative areas.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

Girl, bye.

It’s cool that Chuck Schumer, Kiersten Gillibrand, and Hakeem Jeffries just proved to every future dem that establishment approval is irrelevant tbh

Add crash outs here 👇🏼

“We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price.” Whoops sorry Schumer this man is the future of the party, eat shit nerd

"i am young despite my best efforts to grow older i am muslim i am a democratic socialist and most damning of all i refuse to apologize for any of this" lololol amazing

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Don't want to take away from Mamdani and really don't want to have to keep talking about the tattoo but I just need to say Mamdani was polling at what 6%? in Jan? Y'all deciding you "don't have time" to replace Platner so you have to ignore all the redflags is ridiculous

RESULT: Maine voters reject Question 1, a ballot measure that would have implemented a barrage of new voting restrictions, especially for mail voting.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Mikie Sherrill utterly crushes Jack Ciattarelli. Also a huge win for Zogby over Atlas and ResearchCo.

Wonder how many Ezras Klein are quietly worrying that tomorrow they'll have to spin Spanberger winning and Sherrill losing into a clear ideological mandate. Anyway, it's election night! Others are better at posting about it, but I'm the dork that will get jazzed if 3rds and indies overperform.

Mamdani recently delivered a heartfelt speech about how his loved ones faced persecution in America due to islamophobia. Muslim persecution included mosques being spied on and other civil rights violations by the government all made legal by the patriot act, which Dick Cheney was a key architect of.

This is why the “actually, “defund” made us win less than we should have” narrative launched directly after the election, by Spanberger, still sticks in my craw.

... it's still so wild to me that all the states with the largest percentages of black voters are "red" states, and it's so crazy that they DNC has never thought about trying to rectify that and enfranchise those voters. ....so weird to me

The baseline for Dem Senate candidates is publicly vowing to vote against Schumer for any leadership roles

Lots of elections today, but one in particular is every kind of my favorite: the special US House primary in TX-18. This election is to replace Democrat Sylvester Turner, who died back in March. Greg Abbott called for this election as late as he could and the whole thing is perfectly buck wild ->

that AI cop video going viral worries me but not necessarily bc people couldn’t detect it was fake, i’m worried about people knowing and not caring.

Again, and with utmost seriousness, you all really need to prepare for a world in which Nick Fuentes takes the mantle of Charlie Kirk.

“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”

Your favorite journalist is barely subsisting (if at all) on UI, side gigs, a struggling newsletter, SNAP, and/or a horrifying freelance rat race before either crashing out spectacularly or barely rebuilding their career while the worst ppl u know are raking in the dough at the top of CBS News

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Teen Vogue being folded into Vogue is also part of the fascist capture of media

To kick off Week 6 No Government, the Senate live camera is temporarily bonked. But no fear, it seems set to be a boring day. HR 5371 (the GOP CR) is set for its traditional cloture vote and Eric Tung, a crypto friendly misogynist, will get a cloture vote for Circuit Judge of the 9th Circuit.

It's hard to read this and not feel like we're deep into the 'useless eater' phase of fascism.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

It's actually very scary how often I am seeing "even if it's a lie it" then insert some justification for why it's okay. These things don't happen in a vacuum, making truth and lies harder to identify is ALWAYS going to help the liars. You need to be able to spot patterns and future consequences

if you see that AI-generated video going around, of some NYPD officer telling an ICE officer what he’s doing is against the law, one straightforward way to tell it’s AI is this will literally never happen

"..her brother had left home on his bicycle in the morning to get some food when agents picked him..." “They hit him on the face and head, they were almost choking him,” Suane said. Witnesses told her that Aguayo Rodriguez was taken to the hospital after complaining of chest pain."

we all have to get better at spotting ai, and unfortunately i have to do this professionally, so here's some tells: - supposed NYC officer's arm disappears after the first few frames - balconies/fire escapes on the building in the background are nonsensical. No ladders, odd placement

Just want to say that AI videos are bad enough, but huge resist accounts posting AI that shows police standing up to ICE is just an extra level of egregious. It's bad enough out here without having to battle the idea that the cops will save us any minute now.

Really important advice. And if you insist on posting these things or keeping them up after you've been informed they're fake, that's going to be a quick block. "Well, it could be true!" It's not. "Well, you can imagine." Nope. "Well, they do it!" Yeah, no.

Community Alert: A lot of you follow this eugenicist asshole, who again and again I've seen liking the most heinous anti-trans posts while couching his true genocidal beliefs in centrist electoral advice.

I have read this three times and I just keep going WTF at it, so join me in being astonished at the idea that someone would set their license on fire this way. www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...