I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Someday this could be you or someone you love

“We can demand a government that makes our lives better. We can tell billionaires that this city doesn’t just belong to them. We can tell Donald Trump that he cannot buy this election. And we can tell Andrew Cuomo that New York City is not for sale!” Mamdani crushed it tonight.

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s: "I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

👏 Some sing their way out of fascism, others dance. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

Fort Worth, Texas. #WeAreEverywhere

New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Release the Epstein Files.

This piece about Bari Weiss is devastating because it's relentlessly fair. DO NOT MISS. www.thebulwark.com/p/bari-weiss...

"After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings Coalition issued the following statement"

Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump. If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?

No one has been ruthlessly victimized by the aggressive assholes at the Nobel Prize more than Donald John Trump, a man who is the closest thing we’ve seen in 2000 years to the literal return of the Prince of Peace to earth. Those Norwegian fishermen better watch out, that’s all I’m saying.

Trump officials are considering eliminating age as a factor to decide whether someone is capable of working. All these actions to limit who gets disability benefits, but there’s no litmus test for billionaires getting tax cuts larger than what people make in an entire lifetime.

Something I hope the Dems who’d satisfy themselves with a health-care subsidy concession alone will consider. www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

Great time to be an actual criminal of any kind because federal agents are busy hog tying children and grandmas bsky.app/profile/wash...

Those radical left antifa!! 🤣

Were you recently furloughed? Have you gotten notice that your health insurance premiums are going up? Tell me how you’ve been impacted by this Republican shutdown. I want to hear your story, so I can better fight for you! Thank you for sharing.

There are 7,000 union Machinists in Maine. You'll find them at the Bath Iron Works, in our paper mills, our lobstering industry. Middle-class jobs that can support a family: that's what you get when you have a union. I am honored beyond words to receive this endorsement.

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

This crew is harvesting lettuce outside of Watsonville CA. There are 12 workers cutting and bagging the lettuce. Then on top of the machine there's another 12 workers grabbing the bags and packing the lettuce in the boxes that get shipped to your supermarket. #WeFeedYou

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

Oregon Republicans know they can't use an image of the actual (small, tame) protest in Portland to illustrate Trump's fever dream and their fake intel, so they had to make one from stock photos of South American "Policia" leaning on riot shields + what looks like Brazilian football fans with flares

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

We are seeing the risk inherent in dismissing actions as “just theater” all along. This is theater, but there’s no “just” about it. It’s not civil war, but it’s the posturing performance of civil war’s elements (“your troops can’t match our troops”). As such it’s drawing closer to the full deal.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

Oregon has several mainstream outlets that have been doing a good job of covering the protests at the ICE facility--OPB, The Oregonian, Willamette Week, etc. bsky.app/profile/oreg...

19-year-old Leilani Payne who got sprayed directly in the eyes by federal police yesterday is back out at the Ice facility tonight.

"Abel" share this photo from where he was harvesting corn in Oceanside, CA. He shares, "It is a tiring job because all day long we load the big bin with corn. And then we must carry it to the edge of the field so it could be packed in boxes. It gets very heavy." #WeFeedYou

And just in case it needs underlining: if you’re not trans you can celebrate victories for trans human rights as human rights. Not out of altruism but solidarity. Every victory for human rights is a victory for all who know everyone is human.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Fired for displaying a pride flag, followed by a citation of the Constitution.

political violence

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

If you read only one thing today, read this thread. If you share only one thing today, share this thread. Challenge your family & friends: Ever wonder what you would have done in 1930s Germany? You’re doing it right now.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Someone really needs to write a book about that truly strange subculture of "Ivy league conservatives from the 1980s and 90s" who are now the court "philosophers" of MAGA-ism. As someone who went to an Ivy in the late 80s, I remember that subculture (of which I was not a part) well.

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An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...