Trump's escalating racist policies are tied to the vision of a Make America Great Again movement that fantasizes a return to eras of Jim Crow segregation, even antebellum, policies in a nation more dominated by white, Christian populations - my blog cidelson.medium.com/trumps-crusa...

The SS in Nazi Germany had no boundaries in their repression and attacks on civilians. Their spiritual copycats in Trump's secret police share the same devotion to brutality, inhumanity and indifference to law and the Constitution.

The U.S. cultural revolution under RFK Jr. and Trump - "Let a Thousand Childhood Diseases Bloom"... “Any changes they do make could be devastating to children’s health and public health as a whole,” Sean O’Leary, American Academy of Pediatrics. Indeed, Make America Sick Again

Arguably the most racist immigration policy proposal in U.S. history, even beyond the rabid 1882 Chinese Immigration Act and 1924 Immigration Act. And just a Trump fiat, no Congressional vote? Absolutely insane

Everyone ready for our regime change war on Venezuela? via @washingtonpost - "President Donald Trump said Friday night that he has 'sort of made up my mind' about how he will proceed with the possibility of military action in Venezuela". Chilling. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Hi, Jean. My friend is a Nigerian prince who needs to urgently retrieve $1,000,000 from an abandoned trust from his father. If you can wire $5,000 today, you will be entitled to 35% of the trust. Please reply at your earliest convenience.

Military aggression, covert action, and dreams of regime change in the hemisphere are the “oldest moves in the American foreign policy playbook” - my views

Trump says he’s more popular than ever. Apparently not, even compared with right after Jan. 6. Via @maddow.msnbc.com

As if I needed another reason to root for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Bring it home New York!

Good analysis on Trump's foreign policy linking a lot of things foreign and domestic atrocities together www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/o...

Big San Francisco march to protest the Trump ICE/Gestapo invasion threat is gathering

Only 3 days until #NoKingsSF! We’re honored to have CNA leaders Puneet Maharaj, Cathy Kennedy, RN and Sandy Reding, RN on stage — representing California union nurses fighting for our patients, our democracy, and our future. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. ❌ 👑

What does the future hold? A forewarning could be found in perhaps the world’s most chronicled famine in Ireland... Famines, especially those driven by political or military policy, have often produced persistent calamitous consequences for the survivors. My blog via @commondreads.bsky.social

Ireland's history with famine, and what followed, shows some common experiences with Gaza, and what might lie ahead. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/gaza-and-ire...

Democracy is not for sale @calnurses.bsky.social

Corporate greed has got to go @calnurses.bsky.social

Nurses march in San Francisco @calnurses.bsky.social

My thoughts. Trump's new comments this morning that he "couldn't care less" about ignoring political violence by the right because "the radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime" - only makes this Reichstag moment threat greater

Trump's Reichstag moment appears to have arrived. My blog cidelson.medium.com/with-charlie...

The persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, first sent to a Salvadoran terror prison by a mistake admitted by a DOJ attorney, symbolizes the vile cruelty and inhumanity of the Trump/Miller deportation crusade. Their desperate obsession to punish him with false charges and endless threats is pure Nazism

More from the #WorkersOverBillionaires march in Oakland 2/2

What’s the proper way to celebrate Labor Day? Collective action on a march. Joined one in downtown Oakland today 1/2

The most racist U.S. President since Woodrow Wilson ordered segregation of the federal workforce in 1913 deepening racial income inequality must be proud of this- Black women lost 319,000 jobs in the public and private sectors between February and July of this year- www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

It’s time for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired or resign- @nationalnurses.bsky.social www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

If Trump was serious about "fighting crime" - he's not, it's just a pretext for occupying Democratic-led cities to attack political opposition - he would demand his sycophants in Congress pass a ban on assault weapons and all the enhancements that make them more lethal. As many countries have done

"We encourage people who support the human rights of all people to protest, get involved, and contact their elected representatives to demand an end to U.S. funding of the Israeli military."- @nationalnurses.bsky.social www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses...

Excellent report from @chrislhayes.bsky.social on journalists on one of the last hospitals in Gaza. www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch...

Said every dictator in human history. “I have the right to do anything I want to do.”

It's been only 4 days since the CA bill was enacted - and we've already received two glossy pro-Trump mailers to my household. Who are the billionaires behind the secretive "Right Path California?" Why don't they disclose their donors? Do they also oppose the TX gerrymander (duh, no).

Trump's military invasions of Democratic-led cities are not a "distraction," they are not a "political ploy," they are a designed part of the playbook to consolidate power, the path to fascist dictatorship. My blog www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Trump's occupation of Washington, and new threats to invade Chicago, Baltimore and New York are not a "distraction" from his plummeting polls or a "political ploy," they are a full-throated step toward dictatorship. My view cidelson.medium.com/behind-the-d...

Trump's billionaires, fine with Texas and other red states trying to steal the 2026 mid-terms with mid-decade partisan gerrymandering, will spend hundreds of millions to block California voters from evening the score. This arrived in the mail even before the ink was dry on the CA bill

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The militarism behind both Trump's heavy handed occupation of Washington and the draconian Gestapo raids should alarm everyone on the parallels to how the Nazis also cemented dictatorial power. My thoughts cidelson.medium.com/behind-the-d...

Union nurses at CNA fully support efforts by @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to counterbalance President Trump and the Republican Party’s election-rigging schemes. We are unequivocally committed to blocking the authoritarian overthrow of our democracy!

Why is the major U.S. media not all over this disgrace? A senior Israeli cybersecurity official, arrested during an undercover operation in Nevada targeting "child sex predators" was allowed to leave the U.S. after posting bail. Even many in MAGA world are outraged www.axios.com/2025/08/20/i...

Wait, I thought Trump promised he would reduce the cost of eggs?

In 1975, I visited Barcelona in the final months of the 35 year reign of fascist dictator Francisco Franco. This is what it looked like even then, with armed military still patrolling the streets, decades after his military coup destroyed a Spanish democracy. This is the goal of Trump planners too

This is a slavers defense of slavery

Breaking now: hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers stage a sit in at the Manhattan office building where Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have offices. They’re calling for an arms embargo and for food relief in Gaza. Jewish Voice for Peace organized the protest. “Liberation, not starvation!”

Centrist Democrats are now scrambling to act as if they've always been against Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite several of them recently posing for a photo with Benjamin Netanyahu. Zeteo's Frank Cappello returns as our (fake) centrist Democrat to imagine the deflections they would use.

@nationalnurses.bsky.social praises labor leader Chris Smalls' courageous effort to deliver critically needed humanitarian supplies to Gaza, condemns Israel's brutal force against him and welcomes his release www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nnu-co...

Labor activist Chris Smalls has been released from an Israeli prison, a spokesperson for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition said

As a Jewish American I'm disgusted with the 17 Democrats who failed to support Sen. Sanders resolutions to block offensive arm shipments to Israel in the fact of its mass slaughter and imposed famine. As a California, I'm especially aghast with my two Senators Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla. Shameful

The U.S. must demand that Israel immediately release Chris Smalls, a U.S. citizen it is holding - on top of the racist beatings imposed on him for the "crime" of trying to deliver food for starving children. Call the State Department at 202-647-6575, US Embassy in Israel + (972) (3) 519-7575

Sen. Sanders is forcing a vote TODAY (this morning PST/ afternoon EST) on two Senate Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block specific weapon sales to Israel (S.J.Res 34 and S.J.Res 41). Please call your senators ASAP. Call the general Congress line at 202-224-3121 & ask for your Senator by name.

Impressive discussion from the @thedailyshow.com - thanks to Jon Stewart and ‪@peterbeinart.bsky.social‬ - rarely heard on the corporate media www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kX...

The suspected Manhattan gunman is from Nebraska and he used an M4 assault-style rifle to hunt five people in Midtown Manhattan today. Only one survived. It’s long past time for Congress to ban weapons of war. #HonorWithAction

Amid the mad rush to fascism elsewhere in the Trump administration, it’s easy to lose sight of how extremely dangerous RFK is to the health and safety of every single person in this country. His fanaticism tears at the heart of the social fabric of our nation as well. He must go

The fundamental lie at the core of Trump's immigration policy, not about crime. It's about getting immigrants out. Undocumented, documented, naturalized citizens. It's about trying to change the composition of what America is, to make it less diverse-@danpfeiffer podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...