Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict: “I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything…. “That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants… Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

If you would enjoy some extremely justified gloating or triumphalism or we'll find out what, Indivisible's weekly "What's the Plan" starts in a few minutes. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Rachel was great. And now it's a radio show. Listen at the link. www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...

New Mexico's universal free childcare (so Elizabeth Warren!), Colorado's free lunch, Mamdani's free buses: something good is happening. (And don't anyone get riled up but maybe it's happening incrementally?) p.s. Some (but not all) free community colleges in California.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

this morning, ICE went into a Spanish language immersion daycare and took a teacher from the building in front of screaming and crying kids and parents at dropoff and the daycare had to shut down for the day (near Lane Tech, where they were yesterday). Really hoping today's "theme" is not "daycare."

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

I wrote another essay, just out at my newsletter site.

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

The masks are doing their intended work: making ICE agents appear to many to be not just fascist goons but IRL boogeymen, larger-than-life, almost supernatural threats.

Gosh, thanks, Google (whose algorithms have long pushed users toward extremist content, because profit is everything and humanity is nothing, to Google).

What a genius thing to say to a city that speaks 800 languages. (Literally.)

James Baldwin: "It is the innocence that constitutes the crime." By which I believe he meant willful/ convenient/ strategic ignorance.

It's rather unusual for a bishop to personally take part in a protest and suggests that the Vatican has given at least tacit approval.

"Such technofixes for the climate, in fact, lead us down a dangerous road, both because they displace far safer and more reliable options—namely the clean energy transition—and because they provide an excuse for business-as-usual burning of fossil fuels."

I wish JD Vance would become a Christian himself in that love thy neighbor/suffer the children/ throw out the moneylenders way Jesus preached.

Anderson Cooper, normalizing an authoritarian: "Shouldn't voters obey in advance? Isn't not obeying in advance a hassle? Aren't I, as an extremely wealthy scion, the wrong person for this job? But isn't my gotcha question sparkly?"

Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18." p.s. Older people are really showing up.

In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP

here's today's post: "ICE Barbie utterly fails at being a human for Halloween" — what kind of ghoul gleefully terrorizes children? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Organizing for and with solidarity works.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis. Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.

Police state. #ToolOfTyranny The Pentagon has ordered the National Guard to create “quick reaction” forces in every state and territory by January that are trained and equipped to respond to riots and civil unrest within the U.S. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Sometimes I believe that we will get through this for something better because we are yearning to take care of each other.

Will Cuomo change the look of NY because all the women will have to hide or wear anti-groping body armor?

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes: " They know that “working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns."

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Reminder:

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies. Trump just won’t release it. 440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

Chicago kids FTW Flyer: www.threads.com/@emily.gener...

I guess I said that! (Being articulate through my fingers is so much more reliably manageable than through my mouth, and I never really remember what I said.)

Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

@aoc.bsky.social is speaking about how this is a critical moment in history

"Federal agents fired a pepper round that struck the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ. The impact caked his face in orange powder... “I’m in a lot of pain,” the pastor texted from the emergency room, “He clearly was aiming for the face.” www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Budapest is turning out with massive crowds for freedom against Orban's illiberalism today. At last!!

What are some of the forms of resistance to 47 you've seen since January 20th? Making a list (and yes, checking it twice).

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

Not the first time Trump trashed a public building. Total cost of January 6: $2.7 billion.

Three months from now: Why Trump Was Right to Put the New York Times Editors into a Work Camp

It's hard to overstate how fully engaged Chicago and the surrounding suburbs are in this ICE madness. There are neighborhood watch alerts, spontaneous crowds gathering outside schools at pick up & drop off plus madly blowing whistles and honking car horns, this city is fighting back and hard.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

"In settlement and compromise of the Released Claims in this Agreement, UCLA shall pay the United States the sum of One Billion Dollars ($1,000,000,000.00), payable in equal installments."