Went to watch people race bikes on grass yesterday at the Pan-American Cyclocross Championships in DC. As cycling scenes go, CX is probably the weirdest, and, so, the best. First-time winners in both elite races, including a Maryland kid on the men's side, Andrew Strohmeyer.

NEW: Alabama Republicans introduced new legislation that would enable them to redo the state's primaries and potentially eliminate the state’s two Black-majority congressional seats if the Supreme Court weakens protections against racial gerrymandering.

🚨🚨🚨LOS ANGELES- This is a call for ALL HANDS ON DECK! Organize your neighborhood, patrol your block, & defend your neighbors! Feds are targeting LA more aggressively than ever. THREAD with updates from @latenantsunion.bsky.social on feds escalating + changing tactics & how we fight back:

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.

It pains me to see so many anti-Trump folks continue to fantasize about state or local cops protecting their towns from ICE and other federal cops. This will not happen. This is not a plan. Ask DC or Chicago or LA how that's working out. Look at the history and current politics of policing. No.

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

what we saw tonight can help blunt some fear about these tactics: people don’r like them, & the more they see others don’t either, the less effective the tactics will be Authoritarian breakthrough here depends on a glide path over the American people, & the American people are throwing down spikes

Meta annually earns $16 billion (with a "b") on ads built to defraud people. It's so bad that Meta itself admits that its advertising tools and platforms have made it a pillar of the global scam economy. Reporting by Reuters. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Happy to share my latest piece at Foreign Policy w/ @drpowell.bsky.social. Madagascar’s recent coup reflects a wider “coupvolution” trend - civilians help topple leaders, only to be sidelined once the military takes over. Here's what they can do. foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/06/m...

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

It’s been like this for at least 9 years. Making death threats against people you’re mad at is everyday behavior for many “regular” Republicans. These are people who deliberately *encourage* extremists to basically “do their thing” to the enemy du jour that Libs of TikTok or whatever put on blast

“We haven’t stretched our protest/march muscles in a while, and it felt good to do so! It definitely was worth going out and talking to people about alternatives to marches and community organizing.”

"While some organizers worried that fears of deportation would cast a pall on public celebrations, participants turned out in droves in cities big and small, saying the rituals brought a much-needed sense of resilience and community pride. 'We decided we can’t cave.'"

I miss having my kids around for Halloween. Macabre holidays are the best. Here's some of the lawn decorating they did way back in 2013. I'll never top this.

We do need more intellectual diversity in US higher ed. To make that happen, institutions need to try harder to include communist, socialist, and anarchist perspectives, which have been othered in American culture forever. The rest of the spectrum is already pretty well represented.

This is something @aaronwinter.bsky.social and I explored in our report for the @runnymedetrust.bsky.social in the lead up to the 2024 election Once more, the key question is not whether immigration is a popular concern, but why it has been made so www.runnymedetrust.org/publications...

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This tracks with my personal experience: "As casual users disengage and polarized partisans remain vocal, the online public sphere grows smaller, sharper, and more ideologically extreme."

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty. Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

“There is a reason why federal agents know exactly where to do detentions and jumpouts. MPD has surveilled Black and Brown people in DC for years, and their collaboration has given feds a demographic and cultural map of our communities.” @dcmigrantmutualaid.org

“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’” Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I have tried to go after this strategic blur.... "The idea that the working class is white men too readily becomes a justification for politics that pander to white male prejudices and entitlements. Framed that way, it often seems to mean: shut up about rights for women and non-white people."

A great list of orgs to get help from, to donate to, & to get involved with to support and defend our neighbors in DC!

This is not specific to Chicago. This is everywhere that ICE & co. are operating en masse, which is a lot of places, including the DC area. The feds are acting out a long-standing white-nationalist fantasy of terrorizing migrant communities in the quixotic hope of preserving racial dominance.

This is obviously a horrible comment to make, but it illuminates something critical about ICE's tactics in a large metro. They are skimming human beings from the most vulnerable populations and spreading themselves very thin to do it like this on purpose—because it works.

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

An alternative perspective: a coalition of DC-area orgs with direct ties to local affected communities explicitly recommend against this, because it can make it difficult for responders to get information from the person(s) being grabbed that can be used to help them and their families.

An alternative perspective: a coalition of DC-area orgs with direct ties to local affected communities explicitly recommend against this, because it can make it difficult for responders to get information from the person(s) being grabbed that can be used to help them and their families.

One option that is available to people everywhere is looking to Black history for a model of what it is possible for people facing oppression to achieve.

None of this shit is inevitable. I suspect that the intense local pushback against these deployments in other cities—and the broad popularity of that pushback—helped cause this u-turn. So, fuck yeah, and let's turn it up.

If reactionaries in power wanted to build a giant machine that would constantly distract their political opponents and redirect their energy toward less threatening endeavors or just burn them out emotionally, they could do a lot worse than contemporary social media.

I hope no one really thinks we can rely on state and city cops to arrest federal cops and stop fascism. These cops will stick up for each other way before they do anything for you.

Anyone at @51st.news writing something up on how DC residents feel about the White House as an actual local space and Trump's renovations of it? I suspect the answers would be complex, varied, and fascinating (like the city's residents).

You can *care* about many things and you can only take concrete & sustained action on 1 or 2 things.

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

"High-level sources said that they believe Mr. Hegseth is simultaneously doing deep damage to the military, both from a public relations standpoint and structurally behind the scenes, that may not be fully apparent until months or even years from now."

Among the very many things that could be said about No Kings, I think they fit neatly into the wave of "horizontally structured, digitally coordinated, leaderless mass protest" waves that Vincent Bevins describes in his book If We Burn, and that, like the others, they are "fundamentally illegible."

Why are scholars researching the far right still so reluctant to use racism as a defining concept? It was problematic when racism was disguised under a thin veneer of twisted liberal discourses, but now it's pretty much in the open I'm surprised there still appears to be a reluctance

I think this is a version of the left critique of the recent mass mobilizations that makes sense. No Kings mobilizations are not a diversion of energy that would be used more effectively otherwise they are fertile ground for the organizing folks say they want to do.

How is "defending democracy is the only thing that matters for now, so shut up or get out with all that other noise" any less of a so-called purity test than "trans rights are nonnegotiable" or "we will not collaborate with genocide supporters"?

No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C. Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.

"The mission-driven mentality fragments the destruction of a people and place into thousands of isolated acts, each justified on its own terms, none acknowledged as part of a larger campaign of genocide."

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective. Some thoughts from my new piece:

Did you know there's an ICE detention site right here in NYC? In the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC), a federal jail in Sunset Park. I'll be here at the vigil, sharing about how to join the Dignity Not Detention campaign, to get New York State out of the business of caging immigrants!

transwrites.world/who-are-the-... Who are the dolls which must be protected? by @theabigailthorn.bsky.social

ASSIGNED MEDIA'S TEAM WENT TO NO KINGS! Four trans reporters at 5 rallies w/ one purpose: Understand how trans rights fit with the coalition of causes and communities in the largest single day protest in US history. Our original reporting, here: www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Saw a pic from No Kings of a golden retriever wearing a sign that said "All dogs are Democrats." No, dammit, all dogs are anarchists. Abolish borders, defund the dog-catchers, resolve your disputes without written rules, share water bowls, gather and play with your buddies whenever you can.

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

I'm really proud of @sharrows.bsky.social and the work he's doing with CxS. hope to see you at the ride tomorrow #bikeCHI! blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/c...

NEW: From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russ Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that insiders say they feel like “he is the commander in chief.” @andykroll.bsky.social w/ @newyorker.com