BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

We live in a country where the media is focused more on who a Democratic mayoral candidate defines as his ‘aunt’ than on the DHS Twitter account putting out white nationalist propaganda and replying to Nazis online.

BREAKING: The full Ninth Circuit vacates last week’s 2-1 order granting DOJ a stay of the district court’s TRO in the case over Trump’s National Guard effort in Oregon. The court will rehear DOJ’s stay request w an 11-judge panel. Today’s order means Judge Immergut’s TRO remains in effect for now.

*screams*

The day after the Chinatown raid, New York AG Tish James launches an online portal for the public to submit photos and videos of ICE activity. "We are committed to reviewing these reports and assessing any violations of law," she writes. Portal ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Federal immigration agents have detained an alarming number of U.S. citizens, demonstrating their widespread failure to respect basic protections against wrongful seizures. “Any one of us could be next,” said Cody Wofsy, Deputy Director of our Immigrants' Rights Project.

A new memo signed by President Trump, known as NSPM-7, aims to add nonprofits and activists to an ever-growing list of what he calls the “enemy within.” It’s important to remember that the president cannot rewrite the constitution by memo. Here's what the directive actually does and doesn't do.

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

This is a word: “They may try to take away our 501(c)(3) tax status, which would be devastating. But I would rather be a truth-teller and taxed, than to be silent and untaxed.”

BREAKING: We're asking the Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration's attempt to revive its discriminatory passport policy. Lower courts were right when they stopped the the State Department from denying transgender, non-binary, and intersex people accurate identification.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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.

I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Next Monday's "One First" was going to be about how we should stop covering new #SCOTUS terms through the "big" cases the Court will hear; and instead focus on how the Court is behaving. Fortunately for me (and you), @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social did it first—and *way* better:

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.

Important to note that Congress has never passed any law giving the President authority to designate anything as a “domestic terrorist organization.” As a result, this would appear to have no direct legal effect beyond acting as a statement of policy for the Executive Branch.

In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.

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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

This is utterly ridiculous. Karen wrote multiple threads over the last few days condemning gun violence and political violence. She wrote one post about Kirk directly and that was only quoting him. She’s an opinion writer. She did her job.

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

I absolutely condemn the killing this week. But let’s be clear: Turning Point USA and its allies have been harassing professors across the nation for years. 4/

I abhor violence, even as I was targeted with violent threats. Turning Point USA has a professors watchlist: it has been used to harass hundreds of academics, many women, people of color and LGBTQ people. 3/

The ONLY thing the two have in common is that BOTH were murdered on video by white men.

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

And then print them knowing the harm it will cause….

NYC PEOPLE: You can catch me, @theferocity.bsky.social, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @chasestrangio.bsky.social and Hala Alyan in Brooklyn on Wednesday talking about The People’s Project! Friends, this book is SO GOOD!!

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

AND NOW THE SENIOR CDC LEADERS HAVE JOINED THE WALK OUT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

This scavenger hunt is so charming and smart and actively engaging. It gets New Yorkers out and about, exploring the city, talking to one another, taking advantage of public transportation and working toward a common cause. The levels! It’s just so great.

"Democrats can't stop saying this thing they said exactly once, four years ago."

Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like. To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.

🎉We’re thrilled to introduce the honorees for this year’s Dignity, Community & Power Awards gala: ✨Brad Lander, @nyccomptroller.bsky.social ✨‪ @chasestrangio.bsky.social, Co-Director of the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project ✨ @chirla-org.bsky.social, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights 🧵⤵️

On our latest episode of Rights This Way, we sit down with Chase Strangio, the @aclu.org lawyer who argued against the anti-trans Tennessee law in U.S. v. Skrmetti. He explains the flawed logic behind the conservative majority’s decision, what it means, and what its nationwide implications are.

democrats are going to be dealing with anti-trans hate until they either - nut the fuck up and defend these people from bigoted attacks - concede to every republican attack on the issue, inevitably leading to the total eradication of trans people from all public life literally the only 2 options

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down: •what's left of the Voting Rights Act •all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors •the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform ... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

😬The Supreme Court will consider whether the intentional creation of a majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments. If the answer is yes, SCOTUS will effectively declare that what remains of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This is very, very ominous.

I have a great idea, what if we didn't do this

An extraordinary intrusion. Fighting anti-semitism has nothing to do with demonizing trans people but of course it was always a means to a much bigger end.

Just read the Brown University agreement and this really jumped out. "The University will not perform gender reassignment surgery or prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to any minor child for the purpose of aligning the child's appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex."

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest