Hi @kenmartin.bsky.social! Here's a free idea I hope you'll consider seriously. Gavin Newsom has had success holding a mirror to Trump's degeneracy, and you can too. 🧵 www.offmessage.net/p/dnc-sue-cb...

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

The threat itself is an impeachable offense. Don’t let it slide.

Donald Trump has done more damage to the United States of America than any foreign enemy accomplished in our nation’s 250-year history.

These two have abandoned their responsibility to the American people in the pursuit of a global authoritarian rampage. Meanwhile, this Congress has been nothing more than a “welcome” doormat for this lawless imperial presidency. Where are the defenders of the Constitution? (2/2)

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

That'll do it.

More than 1 death a week. The American gov't just straight-up murdering folks living in America. Not to mention the multiple thousands of murders the White House is now executing beyond our borders. What a fucking legacy for this once proud nation.

I've gone blue in the face saying this but this is completely illegal and if it's not stopped now it will be a preview of 2027-28, when Trump will just keep the budget going by himself

This is not ok. Invoke the 25th amendment. Impeach. Remove. This unhinged lunatic must be removed from office.

Ever wonder how to get rid of a mattress? Or how to find resources for a neighbor in need? Call 311.    311 is contacted 100,000 times every day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. No call is too small.    So on the anniversary of 311 (3/11), I decided to answer some of those calls myself.

This is awful.

Democratic senators: It's time to draw a line in the sand. A nominee for Attorney General will soon come before you. Make the confirmation process about releasing ALL of the Epstein files (without redactions) and prosecuting the Epstein class. (1/2)

"Under Bondi, in the first six months of Trump’s administration, DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, fraud, and drugs..." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Khan is fabulous and Columbia is beyond fortunate to land her. Glad NYC gets to keep her for a while longer: www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/04...

klan shit

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Deploying ICE at airports is to normalize their transition from being a special operation targeting immigrants to being an entity that polices all. This is the production of the American Gestapo, one institution at a time.

The organization, comprised of 38 of the world’s most advanced economies, said the conflict in the Middle East was testing the "resilience of the global economy."

In these often bleak days, I stop to breathe in the fact that NYCers chose each other and voted in this phenom. That fact replenishes my optimism tank.

Good afternoon. This is your daily reminder that Trump just lifted sanctions on Iran to give them $14 BILLION to hep fund their war against us. In other words, your daily reminder that this is probably the dumbest war of all time.

Elizabeth Banks

The airport security lines we're seeing now have a specific cause, but the larger problems with air travel have been building for years, a combination of a hollowed-out public sector and creeping privatization, as Bob Kuttner explains. prospect.org/2026/03/25/d...

ICE agents should be fired, not deployed to airports.

Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

HUGE: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

This is your criminal government, Americans. A rogue bandit state stealing Venezuela's oil, massacring Iranian schoolgirls and now planning to "take" Cuba because Trump says "I can do anything I want with it." Patriotic Americans must end this madness.

"Instead of endorsing a bipartisan housing affordability bill, Trump insists Congress pass his anti-voting SAVE America Act. Given the choice between real accomplishments that would benefit consumers and might provide an election platform and outright cheating, Trump chooses cheating every time."

It's been my (basic) understanding the US "won" the Cold War by driving the USSR to break it's economy in a headlong rush to spend on weapons systems and occupation. Putin, no doubt, is enjoying the spectacle of the US Ouroboros devouring itself. No gain, all pain. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

This is what ecocide looks like.

move slow and repair things

New York City agencies work for New Yorkers—not for ICE or Trump. Our laws are clear: city government is here to protect the safety, rights, and dignity of all who live here. Data shows sanctuary cities are safer, and sanctuary laws exist for a reason: public safety and trust.

It's about time. But Trump's violent, cruel deportation agenda didn't begin with Kristi Noem & it won't end with her firing. We need to abolish ICE, dismantle DHS, & prosecute everyone responsible for violating our rights, bypassing due process, & killing people in our streets.

Good news that the execrable Kristi Noem has been fired, but Trump should really be firing Stephen Miller, the primary engineer of the vile ethnic reengineering agenda and murderously violent civic tensions that are sucking all of them into a bottomless political sinkhole, Trump included.

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

This Guardian excerpt is horrifying.

Incredible work from @nysfocus.bsky.social and @hellgatenyc.com

The state asked a judge to dismiss a prison sexual abuse lawsuit — lawyers said couldn’t find record of the alleged abuser. We found him. New report in partnership with @nysfocus.bsky.social hellgatenyc.com/prison-sex-a...

There are so many excellent reasons to donate to @propublica.org. Surely the work of the irreplaceable @pamelacolloff.bsky.social is at the top of that list. www.propublica.org/article/okla...

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.