This is your weekly reminder that there are still National Guard troops occupying DC

See you in Durham tomorrow and every Wednesday for our weekly action of solidarity and love for Palestine! NEW TIME: 5:15-6:15PM! Bring your rage! Bring your love!

What if someone followed Chuck Schumer around everywhere with a video truck playing this clip on repeat at ear-splitting volume until he stops being Senate Dem leader?

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

This is the thing they'll never understand about "wokeness" or "political correctness" - huge organizations didn't implement these policies because of "cancel culture" or secret communists, they did it to stay competitive and viable. It's what people wanted

"This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking-up and has heard the same reasons advanced by ... ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

The moment where Hegseth ends his speech and not a single officer claps is the most hopeful thing I have seen in a long time.

I also have no nostalgia for the road to fascism, which is a trap I think a lot of liberal and progressive folks are falling into—romanticizing the conditions that preceded this moment of acceleration. The path that led to this mess is not the way out.

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Hey why haven’t I seen an all-hands press conference from democratic leadership saying the president must be impeached for threatening to use troops on US citizens? Like why aren’t 25 key Dems in a room right now with every camera in the country? @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ? @schumer.senate.gov ?

I know Dwayne through the zine world, and he's been doing meaningful activist work and educating students for years. Petition to reinstate Dwayne Dixon here: www.change.org/p/reinstate-...

This is what fascism looks like.

This would actually give us something to vote FOR! Which is anathema to Dems for some reason, but hope springs eternal.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

The other reason I always prefer reading over watching is that I'm always listening to music. I don't want to stop my flow for a video, but I will often watch them if there are captions and I can follow it without sound.

all the clips I've seen of Hegseth and Trump have been instructive because they leave 'hold for applause' moments in their remarks that are filled by silence, like watching a standup comic dropping bricks on stage

Dwayne Dixon has been a dedicated antiracist activist for decades. As you can imagine, the right-wingers running UNC would never bother one of their own for law abiding gun ownership, but this is #NCpol mixed with Trumpist/fascist repression of free speech so... www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

During the 1st Trump admin, I kept thinking the only way to reclaim democracy would be by physical takeover, but I worried about who the military would side with. The more I see how this admin treats them, the less I worry that the military would defend Trump if it came to that.

Who could have possibly guessed that the things people have been repeatedly warning you about have come to pass

People. It is important not to dehumanize Nazis because doing so perpetuates the very psychological mechanisms that enable atrocities, creating a false sense of moral distance that can hinder understanding and prevent effective resistance to extremism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ext...

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Saudi state money is often difficult to avoid in a general sense, since it is everywhere in the investment stratum and not always obvious from the outside, nevertheless "don't take money directly from people who murder journalists with bonesaws" is a personal rule that's easy enough to follow

*sigh* Bluesky is Blueskying again. Here's that link again, this time visible to everyone. Trans people's experiences are not adult content, mods. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/communitygal...

“It does not surprise me that the US would threaten to intervene, given that they are Israel’s top collaborator in genocide”… is one of many things I said about the potential ban of Israel by UEFA in this piece, which also quotes the great @julesboykoff.bsky.social. www.aa.com.tr/en/sports/re...

This passage nearly broke me.

"the Democrats are weak, corrupt losers who transparently believe in nothing" is a horrific perception for the public to have of the opposition party under a noxiously unpopular president, and Democratic leaders have thus far evinced zero interest in rebutting any part of it

These people have never negotiated so much as $500 off a used car

This is absolutely horrifying. Every Republican should condemn this immediately. newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

"UNC vice Chancellor for Communications confirmed in a statement to Fox News" #ncpol I thought UNC administrators were pretty racist when I went there over 30 years ago! These right wing tools have no shame.

In a rare move, members of the press have organized a rally in protest against rising repression following the arrest of *yet another* NY-based photojournalist for documenting the aftermath of a protest event. 3pm - Foley Square - 10/1 #JournalismIsNotACrime

It's true. Which is why it's going to get shittier before we have enough people power aligned to seriously change things. But we can still be winning small, meaningful battles all the time if we fight for what we believe in.

“We need to allow candidates to break with Democratic Party orthodoxy on issues.” “So you’re okay with candidates calling what Israel is doing a genocide and supporting basic human rights for Palestinians?” “No, not that issue.” Every time

Broadway employs more people than coal mining and is a bigger economic engine for the region but know that’s for those people

What a difference a day makes 🌱 #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

"...the People’s Patrol, one of many rapid-response networks countering a Trump administration deportation blitz in #Chicago. The idea is to locate immigration enforcement activity, record it, document abuses and, right on the spot, voice community opposition." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Profane. These people are profane. Their actions are abominations to the country in whose name they flaunt impunity and visit horrors on children — all, we’re told, for our protection.

The complete spinelessness of Chuck Schumer attracts wonder from around the world

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

Here are some nice mushrooms

And another one caves. Absolutely craven nonsense.

Why not just ask people for permission? Oh what’s that? You don’t think enough people would consent? So you’re just going to steal their livelihoods to get rich and hope they never notice?

If you’re still wearing a mask… thank you. Thank you for recognizing that disabled people aren’t expendable. Thank you for showing solidarity with us. Thank you for caring about your health & the health of those around you. It’s a powerful act of community care & it’s never too late to start!

Remember the little girl from yesterday? She's Dasha. "[Noemi] Chavez and her two children are now confined to a room at O’Hare International Airport, awaiting transfer to a detention facility in Texas before deportation to Guatemala." Her husband is in the ICE facility in Broadview, IL.

I need to skim at my own speed so it's always words for me. Unless I'm really desperate I skip video results to problems that I search. Give me an article with pictures!

I've said before that Hegseth gives me very strong Coke Guy vibes, so I wouldn't be shocked if that's what is at play here. I don't think speed because speed is a little more... grim? Less bombastic, more gritting teeth and gripping the steering wheel with white knuckles.

Stochastic terrorism . This is also meant to scare non white people

Earlier this month, the state of NC gave MrBeast $15 million to film more of his "games" here: www.witn.com/2025/09/11/g... #ncpol