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www.regulations.gov/commenton/EA... In 2 days, right-wing election groups have submitted over 200,000 new comments to the Election Assistance Commission to require Americans to show a passport or citizenship document for voter registration. We must drive comments to oppose this before 10/20.

Read all of popehat’s posts to the thread. Lots of the comments are funny/on target as well.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Today's quick note about our complicated world. I called my plumbers yesterday about a small issue. The firm is Jamaican-owned and almost entirely Latino-staffed. The Latino dispatcher told me how excited he was that his son had just started an IT internship with a major big-city law firm.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

Rest in power, Assata Shakur: www.azquotes.com/quote/686900 #assatashakur

Really cannot scream loudly enough that for the next while you will feel an urge to hunker and turn inward and that is the last fucking thing we need everyone to do. Now is the time to have weird casual conversations with neighbors and friends about emergencies and to offer what help you can.

Is it just me, or is....have things gotten stranger in the last two or three weeks?

This story ends well, and speaks to humankindness. Less than two hours ago, three colleagues and I were leaving Berkeley CA's city hall after meeting with the mayor to discuss @ebpublicbank.bsky.social. An angry-sounding Black woman was pacing up and down the sidewalk voicing her complaints.

Just 2 gun rights advocates sitting behind a wall of bulletproof glass while enjoying a memorial for a gun rights advocate who got murdered by a gun.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Student walked in crying - a man swung at her in the subway spewing hate. She wears a hijab. Class gathered around her. A student stepped out, I thought to take a call, but she returned with a gift of boba tea. I am filled with sadness & fear & love for these students. @CUNY proud.

I for sure did not know this.

Charlie Kirk was a hate-monger. Just for the record. I full-throatedly condemn his killing. Hate-mongering is disgusting, but it’s not a death penalty offense. Gun violence is a national disgrace. It does no one any service to hide the facts. Kirk never hid them.

This should be a really powerful experience.

This is incredibly important.

Baby Lenny demonstrating one of nature's most remarkable tools - the elephant trunk! First, he uses his trunk like a straw to suck up water, then carefully transfers it to his mouth. This seemingly simple action requires incredible coordination of over 40,000 muscles working together. #ElephantFacts

Working with so many friends and strangers to build a durable sense of what is happening across—so far—eight zones of American life bc of the administration’s demolition of democratic governance at @unbreaking.org. unbreaking.org

I always take Jeff Sharlet seriously. I hope you will too. Read his thread for his reasons.

It's neat how an environment of total moral hazard results in less and less effort being wasted on trying to cover anything up

I am not much for making calls to my universally blue and varyingly brave elected officials, but THIS is a really good idea which can only be effective if lots of us do it. Please repost if you agree. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/5-phone-ca...

Farewell, Quinn. There was nobody like you.

@cathytuttle.bsky.social @waywardcats.bsky.social This made me think of both of you: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc... Besides, it's just generally cool.

This. Our language and our priors are not the cause.

Democrats must answer for anything a random left leaning person on the internet says. Republicans must be excused for their party leaders using Nazi rhetoric. It is known.

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP. The Trump administration opened an immigrant detention site at a former Japanese internment camp in Texas

"The amount of crime people desire is zero, so 'crime is down' is a bit like saying 'your tumors are smaller.'" The great @anatosaurus.bsky.social never lies.

Some'll ask "Why don't you speak to the anti-trans Dems"? Fuck those Dems. They're *at best* fooling themselves about which side they're on. My point is we can not-vote for Newsom--I won't vote for him--soon as we slow fascism's roll & make it likely that "voting" will be a thing in '28.

freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Right there with you: I don’t believe in a deity to make things right with, I observe Yom Kippur, and my reasons are none of that Randi’s business.

I’m going to remind EVERY FUCKING BODY That while we puts about and go “Oh my gosh is this a concentration camp” Black legislators who actually got the FUCK up and went to look have federal charges And yes the Black speaker of the house said it was a distraction

It has a very real chance of failing—and *even if it passes with changes* it still has to go BACK to the Senate to get voted on AGAIN. And it barely made it through the first time This thing is way more killable than you’d think and the longer we can drag out the process the more killable it gets

Nothing makes the fires “worth it” (note the capitalist framing(, but this is long overdue.

Democrats, now more than ever we are watching your courage—or lack of it.

“Regret, by definition, comes too late.”

Locals: Flood the SF ICE field office [1-415-365-8800] and Mesa Verde ICE detention center [1-888-351-4024]: “I am calling to inquire about a performer who goes by the name Hilary Rivers, who was taken into custody Thursday morning at the San Francisco field office. Can you tell me where he is?'”

We need answers—now. Where is our sister Hilary Rivers? ICE took her the morning after Pride with no warning, no due process, and no communication. This is not justice—this is kidnapping. We demand transparency, accountability, and her immediate release. Read more: 48hills.org/2025/06/drag...

I need people to understand the Supreme Court is not the be-all and end-all of everything, even legal things. Abolitionist lawyers went into court and won freedom suits under the Fugitive Slave Act, after the Court upheld its constitutionality. They helped build a movement that dismantled the FSA.

NOT A SINGLE DEMOCRATIC SENATOR should confirm Emil Bove for the 3d Circuit Court of Appeals.

Dr. Jen is, literally, right on the money here. Empowerment, visibility and ownership of our bodies by definition cannot come from a proprietary trademarked product. (Says Dr. Obvious)

I’m going to make a thread about how the feds have changed their tactics here in Los Angeles because the community has forced them to adapt.

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Never doubt that state violence is far more in evidence than protest violence. And never forget the state murder, renditions, and overreach that goes too often without notice.

prospect.org/politics/202... Schiff and Padilla seem to have dropped off Bluesky, so please call them or your senators about this.

#GVerse via @calltoactivism.bsky.social #Rewind #Exclusive: We dug up a video of the #OrangeBuffoon trashing Qatar in 2017 calling them “funders of terrorism.” I’m sure he would hate if this clip changed their mind to give him a $400 million plane - so definitely don’t repost it.

Donald Trump to NC Republicans: drop dead www.newsweek.com/trump-denies...