Be a Nice Agent, not an Ice Agent.
1,851 followers 466 following 3,541 posts
view profile on Bluesky 
When Trump tries to defend mass deportations, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants come from “mental institutions and insane asylums.” When he insults people, he calls them "mentally disabled.” The blatant stigmatization is harmful. But Trump's mental health policies are even worse.
Tomorrow 930 am Washington DC survivors speak. That is who we should all be listening to.
🤮
Ports across the country were planning to become economic hubs for the growing offshore wind industry. The Trump administration is cancelling grants to build the infrastructure for it.
Half of US voters believe Israel is committing genocide and six in 10 oppose further military aid, polls suggest.
La mutilación genital femenina sigue sucediendo y trasciende muchos aspectos de la vida familiar y social. En 2024, Unicef estimaba que eran 230 millones de niñas y mujeres las que habían sobrevivido a ello; un aumento del 15% con respecto a los datos de hace ocho años
Thank you @nadler.house.gov for passing the torch!
I’m 64, and I agree.
Tuesday, 9/2
He listened to me (and others)! Thank you, Jerry 😘
The lack of ego Rep. Nadler is showing is a perfect example of putting service before self. This deserves so many props and respect. Thank you, @nadler.house.gov.
How do they even sleep at night? 💩
"'I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there and he said he had stolen a pair of shoes. I told him if he had stolen a railroad he would be a United States Senator.'"
🤣🤬💩
OPINION: "The disproportionate suffering in Black communities wasn’t a natural disaster but a predictable result of policies concentrating risk in marginalized neighborhoods," Garcia, David and Peacock write.
Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
We cannot remain silent in the face of expanding authoritarian assaults. Our democracy depends on us speaking out. We must recognize our collective power to drive change. www.americaamerica.news/subscribe
REPUBLICAN @repthomasmassie & DEMOCRAT @rokhanna.bsky.social are holding a bipartisan news conference on Wednesday with 10 victims of Epstein demanding the House vote on the files Speaker Johnson has been avoiding. www.foxnews.com/politics/kha...
Jay Nordlinger: “I love this country and its political system—its constitutional way of life. And our country, its way of life are worth struggling to maintain. Don’t leave the field to our foes. Our illiberal foes. Hang in there. Okay, that’s my lil’ speech.” open.substack.com/pub/jaynordl...
Portland, Maine crowd as Democratic US Senate candidate Graham Platner takes the stage today.
“I believe that a politician that is willing to sell anyone out will eventually sell everyone out.” — Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner at the Fighting Oligarchy rally — with Bernie Sanders — in Portland
The Conservative leader maintains she won a place to study at the prestigious US university despite a former admissions officer refuting her story
It's clear what they’re doing. However there is no moral high ground once you elect a misogynistic,felonious, treasonous, sociopathic, racist, psychotic, rapist, child molester then support everything he says and does. I would love to deport the real problem along with their female counterparts.
Another example of why cross-cultural and racial mixing is so desirable. Born in Trinidad and Tobago to parents descended from Indians brought to the West Indies by the British to work in their plantations, then migrated to the US, became a lawyer, and then a judge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkle...
Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
Happy Birthday Clyde! ❤️ #CorgiCrew @gtconway.bsky.social
VOTE BLUE
US has deployed military forces to the Caribbean with the ostensible goal of combatting drug trafficking.
“The bottom line is, there is a reason why so many people in this field of study agree. It’s very hard to be a genocide scholar and not say it’s a genocide.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Hamas starving captives to pressure Israel into a ceasefire, but Netanyahu doesn’t seem to care. www.jns.org/hamas-starvi...
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
Editorial | "Frente al discurso de unas confusas esencias patrias, el mejor argumento es asentar la convivencia desde el colegio. La escuela de hoy es la España de mañana"
😄
Trump family’s World Liberty Financial token falls in trading debut on.ft.com/46ijDf2
When you fake your own "imminent demise" in a pathetic attempt to outrun the release of the Epstein files and distract from the kidnapping and attempted deportation of orphaned children.😤
Mamajuana!
no pero no quiero escuchar nada de molinos, de Hannibal, de su tio y Unabomber… solo estoy esperando el anuncio para comenzar la rumba y destapar la mamajuana
In a world first, over 250 media black out their front pages and broadcasting programmes to protest the killing of journalists in Gaza Lhttps://rsf.org/en/world-first-over-250-media-black-out-their-front-pages-and-broadcasting-programmes-protest-killing
On behalf of our beloved union rep, Peggy the llama, seen here taking full advantage of her well earned maternity benefits with Charlie (named after my late poetry mentor Charles Simic), we wish all of our friends in the US a happy Labor Day today.
It would be JUST LIKE HIM to be dead or dying & NOT LET US ENJOY IT!
Thank you! 😘
The Legal Aid Society alleges that DOCCS declared an overbroad emergency to keep incarcerated people locked in their cells for upward of 20 hours a day. nysfocus.com/2025/08/20/d...
Authorities in the Baltic states say the interference has significantly escalated in recent months, affecting air and maritime communications, including the Global Positioning System or GPS.
🇱🇹🇪🇪🇱🇻 NATO’s easternmost member states are grappling with a sharp rise in radio and satellite interference, with Baltic governments accusing Russia of positioning equipment for EW close to their borders, - Bloomberg
John Roberts' opinion dishonors Robert Jackson's memory. slate.trib.al/OypJYv2
Hoy entra en vigor la prohibición de dos sustancias que, hasta ahora, se utilizaban para esmaltes y geles para las uñas. Ahora, pasan a considerarse “carcinógenas, mutágenas o tóxicas para la reproducción”
A “delight”.. Ukrainian kids whom this guy killed were a delight.
Nope
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
Russian jamming forces Ursula von der Leyen plane to land without GPS The European Commission president’s aircraft had to use paper maps after ‘blatant’ sabotage by the Kremlin during her tour of eastern EU states
You’re the best Secretary Pete! Radio silence from Duffy on any holiday except to sell cars on Memorial Day. He does not know how to raise morale.
On #LaborDay, we recognize the workers who make so much of our everyday lives possible. And every day, we should have American workers' back by supporting their organized efforts to secure higher wages, good benefits, and safe & dignified workplaces.
The day is coming; On September 3rd; only two days away. While America barbecues, Epstein’s victims prepare to speak, shattering silence and forcing Washington to confront the files they fear most. If you agree, subscribe, repost and share. therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/september-...
*Even Reagan*—who set this country on the course whose nihilistic end point is in sight—respected norms for which Trump has no regard. Donald won’t take yes for an answer. He wants to destroy the Federal Reserve. I doubt even he really understands why. trib.al/EjVzaCB
🇺🇦🧑🏫 Zelensky visited a school in the Kyiv region on Knowledge Day. "This is how we should support our children, help them, and create conditions in which they want to learn, develop, and dream big," the president noted.
Volunteers can make an impact on forests, one pine cone at a time, a northern Colorado coalition says
#otd 1939 the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland. This occupation was the fruit of a long-term strategy and marked the “start of the internecine war”. In the occupied territories the Nazis started their racially motivated program of economic exploitation and mass murder.
This is the stupidest thing ever! Trump just called for the full datasets from the Covid Vaccine manufacturers to be released. Trump's FDA has the full datasets. They required the datasets in order to approve the vaccines. The vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
In short - I refuse to get dumbed down to reporting on truth social posts and tweets. Tweets and X are the main sources of news. You saw yesterday how quickly the misinformation spread about DJT “going to Paris”. We need real sources, we need data. We need to stay curious and smart
🙏
What I did this weekend: Spent hours emailing the foreign affairs offices of all major nations with one simple request - to send me their press releases, data and statistics directly with ability to follow up. First tens of emails came back approving the request. Now we will have actual information
Stephen Miller is REALLY bad at pretending to be Trump. Like this doesn’t even almost sound like a Trump tweet
More than one-third of home test kits sent in by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead. THE CITY analyzed the test kit results from 2014 through 2024 and found that 35% of kits showed some lead present.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
It’s because he’s planning his September 3rd show on Wednesday of the big (distracting) ICE push on Chicago, trying desperately to distract from the Epstein claimants who are coming forward that day. #EPSTEINFILES
Trump hasn’t stood in front of cameras and ranted about a trans shooter in the home state of Tim Walz and then his plans changed and he stayed in DC (which he hates) for a 3-day weekend, but I see no one in the national media asking why.
Leading genocide scholars formally declare that Israel’s war on Gaza meets the UN’s definition of genocide.
Current and former federal workers: We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your confidentiality extremely seriously. To collect tips, we use encrypted forms and apps, so messages cannot be read by anybody other than you and ProPublica. Here's how to get in touch.
The White House posts that the US has now taken in $8 Trillion in tariff revenue so far. Preposterous insane lies on an hourly basis.
Today’s picturesque press pool. Why don’t they ask where DJT is going every morning at the same time, when they’re placed in the same tennis hall to sit there until about 2:30pm, just to return to the WH. I don’t know, I’d be curious.
On Labor Day, we honor all workers, including America's dedicated letter carriers who deliver for every home and business every day, and the union power that drive progress. From the recent backpay to the ongoing prep for our next contract, every gain we make is rooted in the strength of our union.
Trump’s unprecedented weaponization of National Guard troops in recent months raises alarming concerns that the administration might be laying the groundwork to interfere with elections in key cities next year and in 2028.
A friend (okay, the youtube algorithm) just reminded me of this lovely—and very personal—interview I did with Jack Stafford (@podsongs). It's a brilliant conceit: He interviews you about your life and work, then draws it all together into a song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJh3...
I have zero confidence that Dems will win in 2028, or that elections will be held.
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders. The move will stop travel for medical treatment, attending university, visiting relatives, or conducting business. How do the "Harris is too pro-Israel to vote for her" people feel now? Idiots. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
When it happens: red, white & blue smoke should come out of the White House chimney.
After disappearing for several days, Trump was spotted boarding a plane, looking frail and sick. Fingers crossed that RFK Jr. is in charge of Trump's medical treatment. 🤞
No thanks
The shooter did not act alone. He was assisted by one president, 219 House members, 53 senators, and the NRA.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, announced a bid for the seat of incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins. His goal? To “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn
Nearly 250K people have already watched my interview with Cong. Jamie Raskin that posted on Friday. That is a lot for our YouTube channel! Take some time this weekend and watch for yourself. You will hopefully learn and enjoy. youtu.be/YDLIgNzb5FM
Como jugador de fútbol americano no es el mejor de su liga, pero sí el que genera más comentarios, patrocinios y minutos comerciales en pantalla. En sus dos años de relación con la cantante, se ha revalorizado su contrato en la NFL, pero también ha desplegado su carisma dozz.es/it6em15
Grand juries are not delivering the indictments that the Trump administration is asking for—and that may just be the start of a massive legal failure, Quinta Jurecic argues.
Recovering? Oh, that’s too bad.
This federal judge understated the matter when she called “surprising” the government’s attempt “to remove minor children from the country in the wee hours of the morning on a holiday weekend.” She was right to issue a temporary restraining order. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
🤪
“You wanna straighten out the budget? Start taxing corporations and the wealthy like we’ve been telling you. Do you think we’re idiots? Do you think we don’t pay taxes? ... You know nothing about what a working-class citizen does." trib.al/00wInYP
Dammit @netflix.com I’m trying to cut financial corners and you guys are making harder to leave.
The ‘self-inflicted injury’ to US tourism that’s making some Americans angry and disappointed: https://cnn.it/427GSWy
Should have went harder in English class.
He was sentenced to 63 months in prison. One of the longer sentences. www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/t...