He also apparently vetoed a raise for firefighters. In the middle of fire season...

I think the Dem governors and mayors can and should do more, legally and nonviolently. some ideas off the top of my head - order DOT to close roads near ICE facilities - conduct routine power and water maintenance to facilities - mire them in endless legal knots - refuse any support whatsoever

So if you're concerned about the dwindling independence of mainstream journalism, remember that the Associated Press is a nonprofit org that can never be bought by a corporation and is full of people genuinely passionate about doing good reporting: apnews.com I set up a small recurring donation

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Everything about this is infuriating, from the illegal "disappearing" of people without due process to the pathetic effort of Trump judges to pretend Alligator Auschwitz isn't a federal government project www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Reminder that Substack helped launch Bari Weiss into CBS takeover position and the precarious media position in which we find ourselves generally. (And this is only one of multiple Bad Things about them!) The best time to have left there is, like, a couple years ago, but the second best time is now.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

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Celebrate a wedding on Saturday; hunt for ancestors on Sunday. #geneaolgy

This shit is dystopian. Blackhawk helicopters, zip-tied kids, and racial segregation vans. ICE is terrorizing communities.

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

First they came for the immigrants…

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

If the first ever Jewish Democratic nominee for Mayor of NYC was being rejected by leading members of the Dem party we would have no qualms calling out the anti-Semitism at play. But when it's a Muslim in Zohran Mamdani people refuse to call out the anti-Muslim hate right beneath the surface.

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New bench slap just dropped. They are coming at a truly astonishing rate. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Supreme Court will allow Lisa Cook to remain on federal reserve board for now, ruling that the government’s application for a stay is deferred pending oral argument in January 2026

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As someone who was flagging this during the first term, I just want to scream.

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Remember: Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in taxes every year. They pay into government funded healthcare programs, but can't access them except in case of emergency. Emergency Medicaid spending accounted for less than 1% of total Medicaid spending in 2023.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

1) Trump says "I couldn't care less" about right-wing political violence. 2) Daily Caller posts a pro-political violence piece. 3) GOP official calls for execution of Dem member. Shame on anyone excusing this. If you have a GOP rep, shame them until they speak out. newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

Our mainstream media is pathetically feckless.

I just can’t. You know who else fired a top civil rights prosecutor for following the law? This guy took us to the brink and is now trying to troll his way out of blame.

As you watch ICE abuse migrants, recall that during Trump's first term there were ~5000 documented cases of ICE & BP sexually abusing & assaulting migrant children. It led to zero policy changes, negligible prosecutions, & billions more in funding. The system isn't broken, it was built this way.

Christmas is coming. Remember how we pressured ABC to put Kimmel back on with our wallets? Well, many of the fascist oligarchs make a lot of money off of us at Christmas time. Maybe this year, we ignore the big stores and buy local, modest gifts. It's not supposed to be about money anyway.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

Holy wow

I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider. The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok). Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries. And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.

Do you think Comey ever regrets that damn press conference?

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Because they don't have a union. All of the photos we post are not of union workers. Farm workers send us in their pictures and tell us their stories and we post them both union workers and non-union workers

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

Sometimes I think about how the oligarchs (including those within the DNC tent) blocked this woman from being our candidate, and I grieve.

Something I think we’re not talking about enough with all this autism bullshit is how, no matter what, it’s always blamed on the pregnant mother.

Farm workers are "supposed to" get 5 paid sick days a year. Non-union workers have been telling us that's not happening. Donate to help workers win union contracts where their legal rights are respected. act.seiu.org/a/sickpay?ms... #WeFeedYou

I never thought a dystopian nightmare could be this embarrassing.

I’m old enough to remember that “I was just following orders” was no defense. Nor is it now.

WHY ARE WE NOT ALL IN THE STREETS

I know this 4 months old, but bears reposting and reminding. We're dealing with a pro-death, Eugenics movement. I say that without hyperbole. Just trust the evidence of your eyes and ears. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The country is rapidly degrading, so I’m finding joy where I can. Made a new friend at an estate sale on Sunday.

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

"Juan Manuel" tells us that when he sent us this picture around midday from Kern County, it was 94° Some workers were packing grapes under the umbrellas while other workers were in the vineyards harvesting the crop. #WeFeedYou #Calor

Any attorney that considers initiating a prosecution based not on evidence, but on Trump’s insistence Better think long and hard before doing so Because while refusing to indict might cost your job, or your place in MAGA world If you start a frivolous action it might cost your license instead