The GOP health care for immigrants lie is an old one. Here’s me six years ago:

Mehmet Öz is the biggest embarrassment for Turkish and Turkic Americans.

A nice overview if you are not familiar with Wounded Knee. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The most NYC thing I can imagine: walking around the city with my artwork. #Art

🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social

'Twas actually a Scots lassie! Pipe on, Sister!

I love this. I hope it continues non stop.

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

"Should We Engage With Fascists?" Mehdi Hasan on his Viral Jubilee Debate @mehdirhasan.bsky.social reflects on his viral debate with 20 far-right conservatives and fascists, which reveals the dangerous mainstreaming of white supremacist & Nazi talking points. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

This is such a great episode to learn and think outside our communities. I really appreciate Julie & Simon calling out the water crisis and how Flint got attention but what the indigenous communities go through is eye opening and ignored. It’s Episode 1097 on John Fugelsang podcast.

This is a masterclass in how to respond to haters.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Great interview Dean Obeidallah has with author Andrea Pitzer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Ld...

Join us tonight at 10 PM ET for our We're Still Here segment on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social's show on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social. Ch. 127. Simon @simonmoyasmith.bsky.social and I are diving into July 4th, #AlligatorAlcatraz, and what this moment means. Tune in! #IndigenousVoices

🎶 When congress votes to take healthcare away from 17 million people and you’re feeling shitty, then it’s time to post a kitty 🎶 Socks doesn’t have time for all this chaos and is blissfully asleep as I read out loud the SSA email that just went out full of so much propaganda.

I recently started listening and reading the @michaelcohen212.bsky.social substack. It’s unscripted and unfiltered, interesting takes, with the right amount of sarcasm and potty mouth to help you commiserate. His takes on Trump, given his background, are insightful

This 👇🏽is a really good breakdown of what Zohran has actually said, and why the smears calling him antisemitic are so (intentionally) disingenuous — including from his fellow Democrats. Full @qasimrashid.com video: www.instagram.com/reel/DLfhcQW...

Justice Jackson did not come to play today (Birthright citizenship/nationwide injunctions)

BREAKING: if the Supreme Court wants a class action to hold Trump's birthright citizenship unconstitutional nationwide, we will give them one! We @democracydefendersaction.org just filed with our wonderful partners @aclu.org, NAACP LDF, LULAC & more assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

Democrats: We oppose Donald Trump's tax plan because it cuts taxes on the rich. The rich should pay more taxes. Mamdani: I agree! Here's my tax plan to tax the rich. Let's go! Democrats: ....No

Quite a year we’re having today.

"You are both better than this." Citation needed.

Happy Pants Day! On May 28th, 1923, the US Attorney General declared it to be legal for women to wear trousers anywhere. It took nearly seventy more years for women to be able to wear pants in the Minnesota Senate.

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I recently went to a small talk she gave on her job and AI and its challenges for copyright. apnews.com/article/copy...

She’s out!! They have released Ozturk from ICE custody!

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that our client Rümeysa Öztürk must be released on bail immediately. She will return home to New England as her case proceeds.

Senators actually doing stuff. Thank you Senator Markey

To follow Rumeysa Ozturk’s case, you can go here. She’s supposed to be moving. To Vermont but it’s appealed. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69845...

Today we joined members of Congress at the ICE facilities in Louisiana where our clients Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk are being unlawfully detained to demand their immediate releases.

Put aside the lies and the open defiance of the Supreme Court, as well as the cruelty, and ask yourself: who talks like this? This is the *official* account of the *White House* - is it being run by a six year old?

BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.

This is someone doing something. Good on my former senator.

Her lawyers are still fighting. At least we know where she’s at. Onu unutma! Don’t forget about her! www.cbsnews.com/news/rumeysa...

In court filings Thursday, 30-year-old Rümeysa Öztürk for the first time described the circumstances under which she was taken by federal immigration officials — and how she’s been treated during her imprisonment. (via @wgbh.org)

The Lobelia is finally growing. In case you need a timeline cleanse of some flowers. My garden soil turns everything blue to more purple as it grows out.

How is the SAVE act not a modern day poll tax? It places burden on a group of people (primarily women) to either pay for copies of marriage or divorce records, or pay for a passport, in order to vote.

Parents Gently Explain To Child That Their Money In Heaven Now

President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

If people want to call and thank Sen. Cory Booker (I did this morning), call his Wash DC office and leave a message. 202.224.3224 (It takes 45 secs).

It is unbelievably demotivating to look at the political landscape and realize that if you’re older than 40, you’re going to be dead before anything starts getting better again.

Free speech warriors and conservatives who fight for the First Amendment and bla bla bla, please defend this. A student arrested by masked individuals on campus for writing an OP-ED! Federal Government Detains International Student at Tufts www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/u...

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Posting to follow. This is a site with maps and info about protests and resistance efforts for the events in Türkiye. www.ozgurlukharitasi.com

Some of these photos are really great in this gallery too. (Istanbul protests for those of you not following ). Umit Bektas (Ümit Beltaş) and Murad Sezer from Reuters both got amazing shots www.reuters.com/pictures/pic...

Reuters is posting some impressive pictures from the Istanbul protests. The most popular being the Dervish ones. Just wow. www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/F...

The photo of the whirling dervish taken by Reuters photojournalist Ümit Bektaş during the protests in Turkey might be the best protest photograph ever captured. It’s magnificent. #Turkey #Protest