Of note, as always, that many federal employees are Black and an attack on them is explicitly an attack on Black workers, in particular, Black white-collar workers.
“The planet won't be saved. It wouldn't be cost effective to do so.” – Kurt Vonnegut Also https://youtu.be/WkZ5e94QnWk?si=wwkC84muHLgSXYUY
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Of note, as always, that many federal employees are Black and an attack on them is explicitly an attack on Black workers, in particular, Black white-collar workers.
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Absolutely. Though I will point out that the action and unity seems to be happening amongst state dems (governors, mayors) in stark contrast to the deafening silence from congressional leadership
Posting this story on Dem Mayors' effort to form a united front against Trump's invasions, bc it's the kind of story people will miss and then claim Dems never attempted to form a united front. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.
Hair and makeup are part of the resistance
Two and a half years and $180,000 later, Aaron Alexis thought he did everything right on his way to opening his own licensed weed dispensary—but an abrupt announcement from the Office of Cannabis Management has left him "hopeless" and stranded in limbo.
I 100% clocked that parking lot too. Queens really is the future
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
This is huge
Wasn’t George W a male cheerleader?
"People rallied with the doctors, calling for medical professionals to be allowed inside..." www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
ICE, America's first interior police, are not being built up, at the cost of billions, just to monitor immigration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
New Zealand woman and six-year-old son detained for three weeks by Ice in US enduring ‘terrifying’ ordeal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
She’s like evil judge Judy
In all fairness to America, we have definitely done this before (looking at you, Thomas Jefferson)
The only thing this is missing is like some DJ Funkmaster Flex style air horn sound effects mixed in at the end.
IMHO this is law enforcement and a violation of Posse Comitatus, full stop, no matter whether they carry out arrests or not.
ah yes that den of crime, the national mall
The New York City mass shooter had been diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses and had been the subject of two "mental health holds" in Las Vegas, but none of that limited his legal right to own firearms.
Noticing a pattern here.
Disgusting. Also what’s with white supremacists and hiding in rental moving trucks?
This morning, Border Patrol agents hiding in Penske rental trucks raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles to grab day laborers standing around, which the Border Patrol's current CA lead Gregory Bovino called "Operation Trojan Horse." Raises very serious questions about violation of the court order.
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one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims
All correct as always. Admirable restraint on not calling out the weird eugenics undertones of this whole “genes” discourse
Queens is the future
This is the only way he gets people to talk to him
It’s regressive taxation- prices go up, sales tax goes up. Majority of working class incomes go to purchased goods. (At the same time rich people /corps play less taxes overall). These GOP weirdos loooooooove this
Maybe one day we could have serious investment in the MTA that reflects its value. Or I guess we will just do tax cuts for the rich until…
how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...
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This story is wild. The FBI violated a warrant & took an innocent woman’s life savings. They never said why—because they don’t have to. She sued to stop that. Her case was thrown out last week. So the feds can keep seizing people’s stuff without charges or explanation. reason.com/2025/07/28/t...
1. To privatize it 2. To be able to deny that the climate crisis is happening
As long as she fingers dems/political enemies only
Thanks to Republicans in Congress and the Big, Ugly Bill, $22 billion in clean energy projects have been cancelled in the first half of 2025. Fewer jobs, less tax base, more pollution. e2.org/releases/jun... @e2org.bsky.social
Ugh I’m too broken to even insert the hotdog guy meme
Secretary of State Rubio paved the way for the US to deport certain lawful permanent residents, saying Washington determined some had supported Haitian gang leaders connected to a U.S.-designated ‘terrorist’ organization.
The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
NYC I love ya but we do *not* have this election in the bag. A lot of people with a lot of money will be doing a lot of things to get Cuomo elected and they will have learned from the primary and we have a *lot* of work ahead so please do not pat yourselves on the back yet 🥳
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Same track as all the state level laws that make sleeping outside illegal and RFKs “wellness farms” or whatever that sick fuck calls them
Which is probably why they are doing immigration raids at construction sites and farms…
She’s a true American hero 🫡
This will be used to intimidate voters in swing states next year, mark my words.
These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
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Bass: I just signed an executive directive that puts all city departments and leadership on notice to protect Angelenos—essentially from the federal government. We’re also filing a FOIA request because we want to know: Who are these masked men, and why are they masked in the first place?
Such a fucking dweeb. Let us never forget his WAP discourse
Domestic terrorists…
This is insane.
DEVELOPING: Mayor Michael Vargas just told Perris, CA residents to shelter in place and ignore door knocks—ICE is sweeping the streets. This country’s war on immigrants is a war on all of us. Don’t look away.
Padilla: MacArthur Park—After they staged this show of force, there were zero people detained. I’m sure they got tons of footage for their next TikTok videos. On the flip side, what’s happening to the community? Before these agents went through the park, it was the site of a summer camp.
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This.
Seriously! We have a really low unemployment rate. Affordability crisis didn’t come from people not working- it came from people be exploited and other policy failures
NY ❤️ Mamdani
Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park. It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone. Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
Shady grandmothers need to be arrested while El Chapo and his family needs to be funded..
Republicans in Congress have structured the most painful benefit cuts in their budget bill to kick in AFTER the 2026 midterms. But the tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy? Those begin immediately. Remember this.
I'm telling you all right now, if you are hispanic, you better carry your birth certificate and passport with you at all times. Once that orange taint signs the “Big Beautiful Bill,” immigration enforcement will have more money than the Marines, the FBI & the CIA combined.
Vogue is really trying to make fetch happen.
Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.
Interesting
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
Lander neeeeeeeds to primary Schumer
BRAD👏🏻 LANDER 👏🏻 PRIMARY 👏🏻 SCHUMER
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid
Partially true - I saw them when I was waiting at the dentist
As opposed to the son of the late governor who’s intentions and financial statements are pure as the driven snow?
Absolutely
Among other things, he really used his light to shine a serious light on immigration. I wish every politician and clergy person was doing that right now.
“Today, we may live in an even more cynical era, when political leaders, instead of acting on their own fears of violence, instrumentalize other people’s fear.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...
I think it’s hilarious that they are pretending like mandani is the reason why gristedes is the absolute worst grocery chain in the city.
Hot take: people should be able to call the police to verify if they think they’re being kidnapped by men in masks who won’t identify themselves in unmarked cars without it being a “resisting” crime
Cuomo will 100% run as an independent- will have to keep up the fight!
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.
It’s hard to care less but I will try
100% and I’d like to add in full denial of indigenous genocide to the list.
Eventually all of us will have all of those things
The mother of Adrian Andrew Martinez is pleading for answers as her son remains unaccounted for nearly 24 hours later. ICE kidnapped Adrian yesterday while he was on break in the Walmart parking lot in Pico Rivera. FREE ADRIAN!
Thank you, sir.
Can you make one of these for literally everything I have to do every day? Your calm encouragement can move mountains (aka get me to actually open up my iPhone settings one time)
Yassss! Go Team 💙
Anyway, something like 83 percent of Americans live in urban areas, if you’re curious
This is flat out illegal. There was no just cause - just racial profiling. www.nbcnewyork.com/long-island/...
Most of Vienna's renters live in affordable, climate resilient social housing, and people love it. This is green economic populism in action, and a model to replicate. This great @juliaradio.bsky.social @npr.org piece ft. our @cplusc.bsky.social work has the deets! www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
In the spirit for calling things exactly as they are: We are seeing the next iteration of modern day slavery. It’s the next logical step in Capitalism’s inevitable slide into Fascism. Industry requires cheaper labor. For-profit prisons are only too happy to supply it, and make a tidy sum doing so.
ICE so proud they actually had a warrant this time
“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx
But we all get to wear that t-shirt instead of it going to them
… and the cops started it (like always)
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