the number of gigantic marches I have attended this year that barely got mentioned in the NYT if at all, smdh

One of the reasons it’s a problem that Democrats keep ceding ground to transphobes is that it actually just helps conservatives get more votes by not contesting any of the transphobic shit that conservatives are using as a gateway message

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

Let tonight be a lesson to all of us: Make sure you have established your own, and are aware of your loved ones', advance directives. Do you want to be awakened from your slumber when It Happens? Or do you want to find out when you awake naturally and unlock your phone? Let your loved ones know.

“But *that kind* of politics only works in New Yor——“ SHHHHHHHH! Try it first. Let’s see where it works. Particularly anywhere where liberal centrists have recently lost to republicans for being spineless.

One of the big media failures of the past decade is the ongoing search for the deeper side of Trump. There isn't one. His ideology, such as it is, is personalist, transactional, and zero-sum. That's as vain, vulgar, and wrong as you can get. He likes gold shit and applause. There's nothing beneath.

I don't know why we're so resistant to just...copying what other countries have done to successfully resist and reverse democratic backsliding. Mass resistance. Vigorously prosecuting authoritarians. Building cross-ideological coalitions to contain the fascist minority. Funding counterdisinfo. Etc.

Absolute self-inflicted madness, administered by delusional hucksters who think AI is going to make scientists obsolete

Imagine if a loved one were posting and behaving like the president of the United States. You would be in tears, or afraid, but you would be contacting the authorities. I am not being coy, or cute. A real person you knew who behaved like this would be a danger to themselves and others.

I’ve been writing Popular Information for 8 years, and this is one of the most important stories I’ve ever published. This is a humanitarian crisis that has gone unreported.

The extremist lurch of the GOP is in many ways the only political story of the last 30 years and for the most part all media has done is pretend the opposite is true.

We have an entire class of Democratic "leadership" that has been told that it's dangerous and extreme to say this, and that does not understand that what Democrats want is for their leaders to articulate what they believe and why they believe it. That should not be as big an ask as it apparently is.

Looks like the reports about Congressional Dems not putting up much of resistance re ICE funding (insisting on cosmetic restrictions that the Trump regime can easily ignore) turned out to be accurate. Cong Dem leaders are who they are - bunch of cowards.

TOMORROW: We’re connecting voters in key states with their senators ahead of the upcoming vote on the Homeland Security funding bill. If you want to do more than demand ICE Out For Good from your Members of Congress, then this is the phonebank for you. 👇

Look, this is completely unsurprising & totally reflective of the <wildly> different volume & tone of media coverage of inflation, unemployment/jobs, recession, & the economy under Biden vs Trump: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The best of America.

“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”

There's no way the rest of the world is going to trust us if we're going to pivot between being Leader of the Free World and the Russia of the West every 4 years based on how 150,000 people in Bucks County, PA feel about the price of eggs. This is what Americans need to understand most.

Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.

Yes. My theory of the moment is Miller/Vance thought their view that immigrants threaten social solidarity would be widely shared. But ICE raids are driving native-born Americans to show solidarity with immigrants quite courageously. Now Miller is trying to disrupt that alliance with state violence.

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

i do think even a lot of otherwise well-informed Americans really do not understand just how much Trump has already mutilated our global reputation and global trust. it will take a long time and many acts of extreme contrition on our part to rebuild this.

The loss of trust will have far reaching and unforeseen effects.

I'm watching literal Nazis register to run as Democrats because they want to either (a) trick people not paying attention (b) take advantage of the good natured people believing you can change and that's why we're here now.

A message from Bernice King, the daughter of MLK Jr. Let’s not allow people to white wash who he was, because what we learn in school is a sanitized version. What lessons do you take from MLK/the Civil Rights Era, that can help us today?

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

There is reason to believe that, even if Trump is removed via impeachment or the 25th Amendment, JD Vance (Peter Thiel’s long term protege) will continue targeting Greenland. Republicans, what have you done???

Deeply important to understand that Trump never jokes. All of this stuff that started as a joke and then became real was never a joke. He always says what he wants to do and people SAY it's a joke because they're too callow to acknowledge that he's the most ignorant, vicious person alive.

In a country with an actual free press, the photo of that poor old man would be the cover of every single paper with a headline that reads ENOUGH.

Per @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social this Hmong man Trump’s goons humiliated & dragged out in the cold (after trashing his apartment and putting a gun to his daughter-in-law’s head) was a naturalized 🇺🇸 CITIZEN with no criminal record. He was eventually released. More: www.instagram.com/p/DTrblZ2jmT...

Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??

Christ on a cracker

read this shit and if you are in a position to make decisions about punditry, stop platforming pundits who aren’t clear-headed about the fact that this presidency is a 4chan op that took the White House, not the coherent outgrowth of a consistent ideology

Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah. It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Play American Idiot.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

Springsteen, 1/17/26, surprise appearance at NJ benefit. Dedicates “Promised Land” to Renee Good and spits 🔥, again. youtu.be/XGybr8FIi98?...

We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods

How the fuck does ABC run this without mentioning the Posse Comitatus Act? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_C...

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

I’m doing a Mad Men rewatch and am here to say that “The Suitcase” holds up. In my Top 10 greatest drama episodes, ever. Maybe Top 5. Why did I never realize that Peggy is a mother figure for Don? Duh.

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!

Muhammad Ali was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, KY.

These are men who grew up learning to hate mom but be terrified when dad gets mad.

We don't need to play games parsing US law or international treaties to figure out if it's legal for Trump to do this. It's not. It's crystal clear it's all illegal. Everyone's just pretending we're not at the point where the thing to do is to remove him. It's an advanced state of political denial.