“All our lives, we are taught to fear masked men in unmarked vehicles.” #ICE #kidnapping #sexualassault #lakenrileyact #PreventingViolenceAgainstWomenbyIllegalAliensAct
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“All our lives, we are taught to fear masked men in unmarked vehicles.” #ICE #kidnapping #sexualassault #lakenrileyact #PreventingViolenceAgainstWomenbyIllegalAliensAct
“Everybody I’ve talked to has a potential exit strategy. Could I get citizenship here or there?”
I will definitely be sad to miss the season finale. A very good show. #boycottdisney
The Babadook wore it better.
Call 'em "Trump burgers." ("Trump chili" also works.) #hamburgerhelper #inflation
"This will be the new normal, if Silicon Valley has its way: people relating to AIs first, and only secondarily to their friends, partners, and family. This isn’t just a new product, it’s the inauguration of a new era of loneliness and isolation." New from me: buttondown.com/creativegood...
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
“He's been very artful in not making formal decisions that are appealable to the court, but instead having these informal, coercive activities that are not appealable, and so until Congress or the courts say he can't, he'll keep pushing.” #FCC #BrendanCarr #authoritarianism
Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech. Share WIDELY. #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC
These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...
“These results tell a clear story: Democratic socialism is now mainstream.”
"Unlike search warrants, administrative subpoenas like these do not require a judge’s signature or probable cause of a crime, which means they are ripe for abuse." #ICE #surveillance #massdeportation
“I’m here today to say I’m proudly endorsing Zohran to be our next mayor of the city of New York. Zohran’s message has really translated into people’s consciousness that we actually have to have a place that people can afford to live.” - NYS Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
TikTok will officially become a surveillance tool for the Trump regime and its billionaire backers. Larry Ellison helped build the detention and surveillance state in China via his company—Oracle—and now he’ll do it here. Spread the news, tell your friends, and encourage everyone to delete TikTok.
"It is the residents of conservative America — the so-called 'red states' — who are suffering the heaviest toll in daily gun deaths."
“The new law makes it clear that Utahns 18 years or older with a concealed weapon permit may carry a firearm concealed or openly on campus.” University of Utah statement, 21 July 2025 Honestly, what did they expect?
"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights." - Charles James Kirk (1993-2025)
“The incident is deeply disturbing, and the University is working to obtain additional details, including any video evidence to share with local law enforcement.” #ice #massdeportation
Below, an excerpt from my techtonic.fm interview with Cory Doctorow about his upcoming book "Enshittification." Full interview here (click "pop-up player"): wfmu.org/archiveplaye...
On Sept. 6, several thousand protesters took to the streets in Washington, DC, and Chicago, Illinois, over the Trump administration's ICE policies, deployment of the National Guard to the former, and threat of deployment to the latter. See all the photos here: teenvogue.visitlink.me/EzDi__
New Yorker Cartoon of the day, by Adam Douglas Thompson
“The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”
NYC Democratic voters chose Zohran Mamdani as our candidate. Show some respect and get behind his candidacy. I say this as a Democrat who ranked Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Scott Stringer, Michael Blake, and Zellnor Myrie ahead of Mamdani, and who now supports him 100%. It's not hard!
Since January 20, Russian air raids in Ukraine have intensified dramatically
Boo! Boo! Throw the bum out!
The firefighters were interrogated and held at the site for about three hours, while some were ordered to leave. #beargulch #ice #massdeportation #firefighters
🚨🚨HERE IT IS: We got Trump’s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein that the President said doesn’t exist. Trump talks about a “wonderful secret” the two of them shared. What is he hiding? Release the files!
And yet... bsky.app/profile/poli...
He created it.
“In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.” #genocide
“I was careful not to get the red one.”
"mostly boos" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
“Many of the people in the community believe[d] at the bottom of their hearts that their government was out to kill them.” #hurricanekatrina #fema
“It’s the choices that we’re making right now, and this decade and the next, for greenhouse gas emissions that will set in place those commitments to long-term change.” #climateemergency #antarctica #sealevelrise #seaice #iceshelves #penguins
"Secretary Kennedy is putting Americans’ lives in danger, and he must resign." #rfkjr #hhs #cdc #maha #vaccines #pandemics
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, is endangering the health of the American people now and into the future. He must resign,” Senator Bernie Sanders writes in a guest essay.
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
If you’re a current CDC employee and would like to share information anonymously, please reach out via Signal: @slooterman.18
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
Don’t look away
“When I talk about fish on Bluesky, people ask me questions about fish. When I talk about fish on Twitter, people threaten to murder my family because we’re Jewish.” #socialmedia #enshittification
Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski. . . Every Republican senator (except polio survivor Mitch McConnell) voted to confirm RFK Jr., knowing full well he's a crackpot and a menace to public health. About 20 Senate seats currently held by Republicans are up for election in 2026. #HHS #CDC
"If we’re going to put sea turtles on billboards and magazine ads, we need to hold up our end of the bargain.” #lightpollution #Buc-ee’s #conservation #loggerheadturtles
Since Trump took office eight months ago, he has decimated the DOJ and FBI’s teams that investigate public corruption, firing attorneys and stripping its authority to open new cases.
"Mamdani attracted support from a broad swath of New Yorkers by running a campaign relentlessly focused on working-class cost-of-living concerns."
If you don’t live in New York City or the Northeast, you may never have heard of Legionnaire’s disease, but this niche public health threat may not be niche for much longer. #climateemergency #waterpollution
“My main concern is they will be replaced with puppets, which will lead to people not getting the vaccines they need, which will lead to more preventable outbreaks.” #CDC #SusanMonarez #publichealth #DavidWeldon #RFKJr
Back-to-school supplies are costing more for working families. All while #Trump and his admin gut crucial programs. Families are paying on average 7.3% more for school supplies. #backtoschool #schoolsupplies
“Parents are making these incredible decisions between groceries and these basic school supplies." #inflation #trumptariffs #tradewar #schoolsupplies
“What’s at stake in this case is whether, when you’re in the United States, you’re free to voice an opinion critical of the government without fear of retaliation.” #massdeportation #firstamendment #RümeysaÖztürk #mahmoudkhalil #MohsenMahdawi #BadarKhanSuri #YunseoChung
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
Vanity Fair staffers threaten to walk out over a proposed Melania cover: “We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife… if this happens, i’m gone, and so is half my team.” www.thedailybeast.com/i-will-walk-...
Meanwhile, triple murderer Dahud Hanid Ortiz, set loose by the Trump regime last month, is by all accounts still at large on US soil. (A Google search turns up no current updates from the news media.)
Last month, Trump signed the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ into law, including several provisions that will make education more expensive. To find out more about changes to student loans, join our webinar tomorrow, Aug 27, at 12:00 PM. 📍at bit.ly/45qoz1d
"The database contains records of all Social Security numbers issued by the federal government. It includes individuals’ full names, addresses and birth dates, among other details that could be used to steal their identities." #doge #AramMoghaddassi #JohnSolly #EdwardCoristine
A gallery of photos by Mariam Dagga, journalist for the Associated Press, murdered by the Israel Defense Forces at Nasser Hospital on Monday. #gaza #genocide
At the end of July, the average price of one pound of ground roast coffee in the United States was $8.41, up 33% from a year earlier. #inflation #trumptariffs #tradewar www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/b...
And still Microsoft, Alphabet/Google/YouTube, Meta/Facebook/Instagram constantly develop new stratagems to foist AI technology on everybody. Can't create or edit a Word document without Copilot popping up -- even more doggedly than Clippy -- when you're actually trying to write something yourself.
YouTube is using AI to edit people's videos without letting them know or asking permission. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
How many future couples will have met at this scavenger hunt?
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Any military personnel who comply with so unconstitutional a command fully merit getting the middle finger, at the very least.
Game on.
Crackdown on crime?? At least have the journalistic integrity to put the phrase in quotes.
"At home and abroad, the US government is participating in starving people, particularly children, and calling it policy." #gaza #doge #bigbeautifulbill #hunger #famine #snap
"It would be great to have a repeal. A big, beautiful repeal." 2.05 minutes into the clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpX1...
“My goal would be to get more vehicles off the streets of Manhattan, not add more of them. The future is public transit, not private driverless vehicles.” NYS Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal #waymo #alphabet #autonomousvehicles #selfdrivingcars #transportation
"Once we start losing Antarctic sea ice, we set in train this self-perpetuating process." #climateemergency #seaice
Anyone entering the US—from citizens to temporary visa holders—can potentially have their phones or electronics searched by CBP staff.
“Ending door-to-door canvassing and requiring email to register are certainly trends in a disturbing pattern of changes by the Trump administration that abandon the most vulnerable members of communities after a disaster.” #FEMA
The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
“If we wait for things to degrade, we wait for trees to start to die, then the amount that we'll need to invest is going to be a lot greater than if we start working right now.” #climateemergency
“Our business has been directly impacted by tariffs that have increased the cost of essential components unavailable domestically and driven specialty suppliers out of business, making it unsustainable for us to continue our operations.” #trumptariffs #tradewar #inflation
"Children as young as 2 were also subjected to neglect." #ice #dhs #massdeportation
“It’s like they’re saying, ‘I’m the biggest and the strongest, look how long and how loud I can sing.'” #leopardseals
"Electricity bills are on track to rise an average of 8 percent nationwide by 2030 and as much as 25 percent in places like Virginia because of data centers." #AI
While at the same time...
A modest proposal, via Dagens Næringsliv.
The New York City ICE field office arrested 48 children in just June and July of this year. #massdeportation
Oh look— @andrewcuomo’s memes guy, who just bragged about his role in this dumpster fire 🔥 of a campaign (as he called @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social an “idiot”)… also bragged about being ANTI-UNION. What a surprise! That should go over great in NYC. 🙃
“.. Yikes – @EliseStefanik literally got booed off the stage TWICE at an event in her district today. She hasn't hosted a #NY21 town hall in years. Now we know why.” (via Addison Dick)
"Russian propagandists are telling Ukraine that the United States is now Russia’s partner in battle."
"Before a photographer could snap pictures, he pulled a copy of 'Mein Kampf' from a bookshelf and turned it around to hide its spine." #EricOrwoll #ReturntotheLand #PeterCsere #AmericaFirstLegal
"Russia’s goal is to destabilize Europe."
“It changes by the day. Certainly, this kind of disruption is not good for business.” #trumptariffs #tradewar #inflation
🛡️The U.S. Journalist Assistance Network, of which @freedom.press is a member, has compiled a set of immigration resources for journalists in the U.S. Check out the resources in the thread below, bookmark and share:
"Buying Harvard would infuse our economy with extraordinary intellectual capital, fostering sustainable innovation on Norwegian soil. Owning Harvard would also strengthen Norway's voice in global academic, cultural, and political arenas."
Thank you, Peter Baker. Now, @nytimes.com, get a statement from every GOP senator, for the record.
Jeffrey Finn, senior vice president of artistic programming and vice president and executive producer of theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will step down. Learn more.
Big surprise. US Department of Homeland Security ads are employing neo-Nazi tropes. #antisemitism #ICE