my boots are hurting my feet and the people close to me lack empathy

Hegseth's repeated moves to purge the military of anyone not judged a Trump loyalist should set off major alarms. But, because Hegseth presents as such a buffoon, his role in Trump's authoritarian project is underrated. wapo.st/3OfHHck

Olivia Rodrigo making an album announcement on the same day Pam Bondi got fired is kind of my personal Dick Cheney/Zohran Mamdani Election Day

I for one cannot believe the Trump administration keeps fucking over its high-profile female appointees, it’s almost like aligning yourself with people who hate you based on your identity will ultimately backfire? Can’t be right

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

NOTE: Two Democrats voted to confirm MarKwayne Mullin: Senators John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

someone in IG comments said this has been called sane washing and that does feel correct

I am not pointing this comment at anyone in particular, but: The TSA line has already been a fraught place for brown and Black travelers for as long as it has been around. The racism might get worse tomorrow, but it isn’t going to start tomorrow. That is all.

all I’ll say is that I hope Adrian Vermuele is right about one thing only (that there is an afterlife and in it evil people get punished forever)

seeing Chavez’s legacy be swiftly and correctly decimated is a powerful reminder that we as a society could, actually, hold people accountable when credible allegations are made that they are child molesters

Today’s GOTV calls for Kat are really going to matter. Training provided: www.mobilize.us/katforillino...

I wrote about the decision to engage in tax resistance for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-im-...

hello to all Feds, I am not paying my federal income tax this year open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

I wrote about Kat.

god I wish the left was as organized as Trump’s DOJ wants to pretend we are

voting to approve Trump appointees is fucking insane

Several people have been cleared of federal charges tied to Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. But they still had a price to pay. For example, the 17 cleared defendants spent a combined 150 days in federal custody, records show. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

the USA was doing violent regime change for the sake of rich people’s bottom line way before the President was implicated in a child sex trafficking ring and that doesn’t make the latter any less important but also let’s be fucking serious please

A federal judge ruled from the bench Friday that ICE arrests of 32 people during Operation Midway Blitz violated a consent decree, and that they should be released. But the @chicago.suntimes.com is told many have already either been released or deported: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

no war with Iran no war ever no WAR

new: highlands reit, a small chicago-based real estate firm, is renting an empty prison it owns in colorado to ice and private prison giant geo group. highlands is part of a network of private contractors hoping to get a cut of the $45 billion allocated to warehouse immigrants through 2029.

for the ‘Trump’s DHS’ clowns

(Sam Altman voice) Sure, the fall of Rome took centuries, but with the power of open source AI—

I don’t really trust anyone on the left who blames Israel for American military aggression. like if you think ISRAELI interests are inside the nesting doll of U.S. violence and not the other way around u either need to read more or are buying into antisemitic tropes and it’s probably both

characteristically good work from Serwer. again saying: we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

found myself considering a legal explainer about why the government can’t lie their way into a residence to kidnap someone and then was like wait why the fuck would I need to explain that

(a carefully crafted psyop to make it harder to focus on the government literally disappearing people out of their beds)

the NYPD snowball discourse is to leftists what punch the monkey is to liberals I think

I have work to do but cannot tear myself away from NYPD snowball fight discourse I cannot believe these comments are being made straight-faced

I know nobody wants think pieces on punch the monkey it just does really feel odd to see so much focus on a sad little monkey and not like, the murder of human beings and the natural world via our tax dollars over and over again

CHICAGO—I’m knocking doors with @katmabu.bsky.social and Demi Palecek on Sunday, 2/22. No experience? NO problem, we’ll train ya and make sure you have a door knocking buddy. you can register to join us here: www.mobilize.us/katforillino...

NYT headline about Trump vowing to ignore the Supreme Court is giving a certain ‘Lives Ended in Gaza’ energy

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

There are already a handful of Council Members who are on record as supporting the 0.5% demand for public libraries. You can find them here: nycplan.org/scorecards/l... Don't see your member on here? Then reach out to ask them to get on board.

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz. Assuming its’s granted, Jacqueline Guataquira would become the 17th of 32 known defendants cleared. None of the 32 has been convicted. Docket entry and original charging doc below:

has anyone checked in on Olivia Nuzzi

I was in Philly this week and sat down with Chris Rabb, grassroots candidate in PA-03 (and @americandemands.bsky.social candidate!), to introduce him to my audience, because I know yall will love him, too. chrisrabb.com, part 2 later!

OMG, @cohen489.bsky.social was on @majorityreport.bsky.social for the fun half. For once a fun half that's actually fun! I'm fanboying. www.youtube.com/live/seLpB7n...

a lot of ppl in the USA would’ve said this exact thing less than a decade ago, and a lot of ppl who live in countries with large far-right political movements rapidly gaining ground (often helped by the same tech billionaire players as here) seem too busy looking askance at the States to notice

oh right the government that claims it’s remedying anti-Christian bias just having to be ordered by a judge to allow Christian prayer and sacraments, just normal stuff

I made this image (ft Brad Karp and Skadden managing partner Jeremy London) for a Substack I’ve been drafting this week… I think I’m going to abandon the draft because it’s not as strong as what I’d like to be publishing right now but I cannot abandon the below

Chicago's U.S. attorney's office has released evidence from the case against Marimar Martinez, pre-empting her press conference later today. It even released text messages it once claimed would "sully" a Border Patrol agents's rep. From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Democrats committing to the “President Trump’s ICE” talking point when they look at funding to ICE under Democratic presidents and/or Kamala Harris’ 2024 campaign messaging

Appreciate that folks lift up the Panthers. Black groups pre-dating the Panthers were also doing community patrols. See one example here: nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah... Joshua Clark Davis's Police Against the Movement offers some other examples too.

I fear I must continue discussing Brad Karp and asking questions like “did the nonsensical decisions of major corporate law firms that directly undermined legal resistance to fascism in this country last year stem from the lemmings following a guy who knew he was in the Epstein files?”

What a useful resource for organizing.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more: