It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
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It’s a little weird to demand people vote for a candidate as a necessary lesser evil three years before you even know if they’re going to be the candidate
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
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.
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My Audition for ICE 😂
God Bless Walter Masterson.
DHS and DC Police detaining a peaceful, unarmed man sitting on a bench at DC's Malcolm X Park.
Service is part of what makes us feds tick. I’m so proud of federal workers at this time. We’re exhausted, demoralized, and overwhelmed, but we stay. I read that letter last week and cried bc I knew what a risk they were taking. Will other Americans step up too? We need you. We need all of you.
FEMA employee on leave describes "culture of fear “ among agency employee
Portrait day was a success! Madison Square Park is full of people who care about others and want to make America a better place. It felt like what I was doing was actually resonating with people not just something I was doing to make myself feel better.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
The Rev took attendance…
Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.
I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i can’t unsee it.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
NEVER FORGET: The GOP Congress lack of interest in the breach of actual science at the CDC has made it CLEAR: they don’t care if we live or die.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Mine is directly to the staffer: “You deserve a better boss.”
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
BREAKING: Fed Governor Lisa Cook just now after Trump tried to fire her: “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign and will continue my work to support the U.S. economy”
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
Local attorney Paul Bryant was the victim of police brutality after being stopped for no apparent reason. Logan Circle Washington, D.C.
I know I'm beating a dead horse but most mental health advice and therapy itself is designed to bring you up to a point of being a productive worker Healing in the service of the system without acknowledging the system is what that makes you sick
Make Sure Everyone Knows 😊💙 HOLY S**T look at this: Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott just quietly disclosed stock trades a year late – worth $26 MILLION – on companies HE LEGISLATED. 😳 This is corrupt to its core, and he's hoping no one will notice. You know what to do.
Only $300?!
I am once again begging you to remember that "illegal" does not mean "impossible." "Illegal" does not mean "you cannot do that." It means that the government can, but is not required, to impose a penalty upon you if you do it anyway. No more, and no less.
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough." — FDR, 1940
URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.
⚠️ 🚨 #KilmarAbregoGarcia, the Maryland resident whose wrongful deportation fueled protests over the Trump administration plan to send migrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison, was again detained by U.S. immigration officials Monday and could be deported again, his lawyer said. #JusticeForKilmar
#KilmarAbregoGarcia #ice #iceprotests #immigration #dhs #trump #noem #Uganda #Maryland #vanhollen #deportation NBC News: www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
À better measure of the US economy would be how the bottom 33% are making do on their income, rather than how the top 10% are making do in the stock market.
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
I hope one thing leftists all take away from Mamdani’s campaign though is that it doesn’t matter how chill and wholesome you are, the dinguses are going to smear and trash you in increasingly unhinged ways anyway, so you might as well shoot for the moon and campaign on what makes your heart sing
Jesus that’s such a creepy post. Like your unhinged uncle who gets his news from fb repost memes only.
What #ZcavengerHunt proved: people don’t just want to hang out—they want to build a fun public sphere and they want their political leaders to help organize it. When are we going to stop treating community as a volunteer project and take it seriously as public works?
This makes my heart so happy. So many of us New Yorkers LOVE our city and this was a perfect way to showcase it.
Thank you New York City for making the #ZcavengerHunt a reality 🙏
I think this is really going to hinge on whether he can transition the volunteer/engagement apparatus he has built for campaigning toward governance. Imagine Hot Girls for Zohran -> Hot Girls go to their community board meetings, nag their city council reps. Make governance part of the movement.
It's so good to see a campaign that isn't in a defensive crouch and is enjoying the actual campaigning.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Chaebol families are a huge problem in Korea. The industrial policy of the 50s and 60s put most of the country’s GDP and wealth in the hands of just a few families. Your success is more dependent on your family’s financial status than any other factor in Korea.
A man who was just getting names and badges for officers was wrongfully detained in D.C. He then yelled, “AFTER THE TRIALS ARE HELD, YOU WILL ALL BE IN JAIL.” 🔥 #FreeDC
The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.
The game is afoot. Or atrain. Or abus. Post along the way with #ZcavengerHunt
🚨 WTF‼️ A video is going viral showing a citizen arrested in #Washington #D.C. after filming federal agents on public property and asking them to identify themselves. When Americans are put in cuffs for questioning their own government, democracy is in grave danger⁉️
we see very clearly in public polling that people in california and D.C. hate the deployments and that americans broadly disapprove of them, but here we have an assertion that the smart strategy is to avoid any discussion of the situation in favor of a pivot to, you guessed it, kitchen table issues.
What is find most interesting is that Cuomo, Adams, or Silwa couldn't do anything like this. All three campaigns are based on how dangerous and terrible NY is, so i cant imagine any of them suggesting NYers run around and enjoy their city.
The Mamdani campaign scavenger hunt is today and the line is already insane and it's getting even bigger!
Mamdani's fun idea for a scavenger hunt throughout NYC, using the subway or public transit, has succeeded beyond measure. They've run out of cards! And look how many young people are here. Follow the #ZcavengerHunt hashtag for more live updates as the hunt progresses. Everyone's happy & having fun.
DC is beautiful. #FreeDC
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Y’all this is probably giving him too much credit but this sounds like Cuomo isn’t actually serious about winning, but he wants to be in the media so when he loses, he can uses the media machine to join the fascists bc all his friends are over there & that’s his only hope for power after this race.
Game on.
The most impressive thing about this campaign is how *creative* they are. They’re trying new stuff! Multiple times during the last few months I’ve thought “wow, I’ve never seen a campaign do that.” Much more of that needed everywhere.
🚨BREAKING: Hours after Texas passed its new map, my law firm has challenged it in federal court. In addition to violating the VRA, HB 4 violates the 14th Amendment because it unjustifiably considers race and partisanship as part of a voluntary, mid-cycle redistricting. @redistrictfdn.bsky.social
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Democratic governors and leaders, fight while you can, as hard as you can. Trump and MAGA are going full fascist. They're coming after all of us, including you. You can't make "deals" with fascists. You have to FIGHT them. FIGHT, finally, please.
are you telling me Netflix LIED!? 😩 do you have info on it? You seem well-versed.
the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government
That’s not a real link, just a typo. 🫠
In his presser today, he said he’d end no-bid contracts at the city level to fight corruption. I work with these types of contracts daily- there are too many of the same names on the invoices, esp. construction. This practice makes gov costs much higher. This man knows govt, that’s all I’ll say.
This is ballsy. It’s not a treaty, which states aren’t allowed to enter with foreign governments alone, but the performance of it all is definitely a signal that CA ~could~ manage it just fine. This is a power move, a good one.
Proud to join Denmark Foreign Affairs Minister @lars-loekke.bsky.social and Ambassador Sørensen to sign a new partnership between California and Denmark. Our message to the rest of the world is clear: California is a stable, reliable partner — no matter who's in the White House.
It’s not a treaty, which states aren’t allowed to go into with foreign governments on their own, but it’s an agreement that signals that they could do exactly that. Ooof beautiful.
Upon impact everything within ~1000km of the epicenter was incinerated. I forget how many nuclear bombs it was equivalent to. visible from space. The ash and dust got trapped in the atmosphere, trapping the heat of the impact, making the air an oven 400F. It cooked *most* of them alive. 24hrs.
The first thing everyone in this country who is anti-fascist can do now is to join something where people are already gathering to address any issue. Can't find anything you want to join, then make your own thing and invite people to join you. This is not a time for Lone Rangers.
Related: And the dinosaurs died in a day. I find it incredible that an evolutionary dynasty was able to live millions of years on the plant before being wiped out in 24 hours. We haven’t even made our first million and we’re already out here failing this hard.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Watch @kendallyb.bsky.socialtalk show was how Kristi Noem is living rent free in military housing that is reserved for coast guard leadership in order to better hide her affair with Corey Lewandowski. This is causing a ripple effect to active duty service members not getting base housing
ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.
🇺🇸 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ALL MY RESPECT 👏👏👏 Teachers in the #U.S. are finding themselves fostering children whose parents got deported by #ICE #immigrant #deported #raids #latinos
BOYCOTT THE WORLD CUP AND THE 2028 SUMMER OLYMPICS! Yes, I said it.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
I’m a fed and I reminded our director of this yesterday. There is nowhere we can hide and by trying to minimize exposure, you are complicit and incorrect. We are responsible for our actions even within the machine of bureaucracy. It didn’t go well. But it needed to be said.
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
BREAKING: The California Assembly has passed the first of three bills to redraw congressional maps
*Looks at everything going on* well, DUH.
You are correct. I am not comparing Gavin Newsom to the founder of Libération. I’m comparing his staff’s mockery strategy to some of the content in those publications. I’d even compare the strategy to the film To Be or Not To Be.
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
Everyone’s a journalist these days, huh. Schultz and Taylor are at best political influencers. 🙄 you are correct that they are shills.
BREAKING — Dept. of Defense civilian employees all received an email a short while ago offering them the opportunity to support ICE and CBP “as they fulfill the President's intent to ensure a safe and orderly immigration system.” Full text of email and attached memo from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:
I wouldn’t say that America is dying, but it is fundamentally changing. Our 20th century empire is ending, and the deep systemic issues that were always there are exposed and sore. We are a generation that must redefine freedom, liberty, and our great experiment for ourselves. Let’s get to work.
Rarely perfect and some not even decent.*
Not queer people to my knowledge, but they acted savagely to Jewish people and communists, especially in Poland. I think this reinforces my first point that resistance movements and leaders are rarely perfect. Our main goal should be to pressure leaders with our expectations to do what is right.
Please educate yourself on what resistance movements in France and Poland did with Nazi iconography in the clandestine newspapers during WWII and then politely go fly a kite.
Yeah, I know. Which is why I wouldn’t vote for him if he was running for election right now. I can say that I enjoy the troll tweets, AND I can say that him platforming fascists, using fascist tactics on the homeless, and throwing trans people under the bus is wrong.
I think we can enjoy the humor his staff is giving us rn without saying he’s our 2028 pick. Mockery is an important tool in the anti-authoritarian playbook. We should be making it clear to our electeds what is expected of them to win our votes. One good thing isn’t enough. He needs to keep going.
If one Democratic governor doing good social media causes this much turmoil on the right, imagine where we’d be if the entire party was doing it.
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.