This resonates so deeply, but know we know you deliver again and again and again.
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This resonates so deeply, but know we know you deliver again and again and again.
If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.
Republicans are in charge of everything. If the government shuts down, it's on them. I'm transparent about how you get my vote. And it's not hard. I just need a budget that doesn't destroy our health care system, and funds democracy, not totalitarianism and corruption.
By militarizing DC and threatening others, Trump is targeting Black-led cities, harassing immigrants, and ignoring an economy that is failing working people. We march to say: not on our watch. #weareDC
Before Republicans passed the Trump billionaire tax cuts, unions warned it would be “the biggest job-killing bill in history.” They voted for it anyway. Now here we are.
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
Mayor Bowser, "shared priorities" with this administration means having masked agents disappear our neighbors in the middle of the night. It means soldiers with assault rifles in our neighborhoods. It means arresting children. These are the priorities of a dictator. DC does not share them.
Internet, please show me comeuppance (with a side of schadenfreude, if possible) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
This is a plan for ethnic cleansing. It’s morally horrific and absolutely insane
DC Alert 🚨: from 10:45a Saturday: Ice and mpd checkpoint on Georgia ave between elder and dahlia.
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Excellent question.
I describe what fascists do. You can make your own decisions. www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Here's comes the Trumpflation
A compromised president who serves his master Putin. MAGA www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Well-behaved sandwiches rarely make history
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
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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:
Sen Patty Murray (D-WA): “If there are any adults left in the White House, it’s well past time they face reality… We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired.”
Jan 30
"My entire career, I have been a squish. But I also strongly believe in telling the truth, and the truth of where we are is we are in the middle of an authoritarian takeover of the United States of America." @saletan.bsky.social joins @monacharen.bsky.social on Just Between Us, for Bulwark+ members
As Donald Trump throws around the word dictator, it’s a good reminder that the founding fathers warned about kings and dictators. In fact, they believed that public education was essential to a functioning democracy. I write about it in my new book. www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com
I’m so sorry - please stay safe.
I no longer leave my house when I have yard crews working. If I see ICE wheeling through my quiet suburban neighborhood, they're going in my back bedroom, I'm locking my doors and I'm calling 911. Also, I have a guard dog.
Ben Wittes: "The search of Bolton’s house was designed to send a message. I know because I was there. For a while, I was the only one there. And even as I was there apparently alone, the New York Post was reporting that the raid was happening." www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolto...
Just casually laying the groundwork for violent repression of the opposition
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
🚨BREAKING: A leading election conspiracy theorist has been named to a new “election integrity” post at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
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Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
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If this administration really cared about the people, it would do something about the rat and mosquito problem here. It wouldn’t put nervous armed kids in the National Guard at the escalators and entrances to the metro at Union Station. (Also-just got mosquito bite on tip of elbow on 14th St)
I would say that I did not have “standing on this busy intersection corner, keeping an eye out for ICE & HSI Gestapo harassing families who are dropping kids off for the first day of school” on my 2025 bingo card, but I did. This has to stop. All of us need to fight back now. #backtoschool
i love this journey for her
Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."
"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:
"The developers behind the project had said it was on track to produce enough electricity for more than 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut by next spring."
Trump: I think Chicago will be next, and then we will help with New York.
A thread on petty resistance: Being petty can be unproductive, can keep you frozen in a never-ending loop of doom, hate & pain. It can lead us to let go of our compassion towards others, to stop seeing the humanity of entire groups of people. .../1 #MomsRising #PINKS #ProudBlue
Sick and shameful.
Cruel www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
At just over 2 troops per 1000 inhabitants, the deployment to DC is larger per capita than the US deployment in Afghanistan except during the Obama surge 2009-13.
You don’t have to put the military at every polling site to suppress votes. You don’t even have to put the military at any polling sites to suppress votes. All you have to do is roll a bunch of tanks into Atlanta or Detroit or wherever a few days before an election and see what happens
That's because it is.
In other words: They lied.
Do you know about how Norway's teachers stood up to Nazis? I talk about it in my new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers. You can preorder here: www.WhyFascistsFearTeachers.com
Why do we say Fuck ICE? Maybe this is why. Claiming publicly in uniform on camera that liberals ruined the country. That is not a professional agent. That is clear evidence of hiring specific people who think a certain way that aligns with those who were pardoned for January 6th
NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)
Wow: this decision in favor of Media Matters includes all sorts of key details concerning the Trump admin’s coordinated assault on the First Amendment. For example: Steven Miller “seemingly” ordered Attorneys General in Missouri and Texas to go after MM. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#freeDC #StopFascism
#FreeDC
🚨ESCALATION ALERT🚨 Trigger warning: police violence. Masked agents (including ICE) brutalized & kidnapped a community member at 14th & R St NW this morning. Agents tackled the man, tased him, pinned him down, hit him in the head repeatedly, and then other agents dragged him away. 1/
SIFUABS, but can someone tell me who is profiting off the Trump Admin’s “Department of For Hire Vehicles Enforcement”?
Russian Lures Confused Old Man to Alaska in Elder Scam open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...
Alaska. Our days
Think about all the tech bros who caved immediately
Terry Cole, head of the DEA and named by Attorney General Pam Bondi as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner,” is a member of a right-wing MAGA group on LinkedIn — the group's 17,000+ members regularly post conspiracy theories and call for the arrest of Donald Trump's political opponents.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
Dear White People - it is so much better to be this guy than sitting on the couch.
This year, I’ve been working closely with @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org to ensure their 2 million + members have access to accurate, trusted health information We want to share our lessons learned at @sxsw.com next year Please support us! participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sx...
Proud to be in Boston with Texas Senate Democrats and legislators from across the country who are fighting for our democracy and against the racist rigged maps Trump and Abbott are trying to jam through. #FairMapsNow #StopTheTakeover
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
Reminder: Trump did yesterday exactly what Erdoğan did in Jan 2022.
💰 One study found that Florida pensions would have earned a billion dollars more between 1988 and 2011 if they had not invested in private equity. .
Not to mention what they are doing to our retirement security. NEW REPORT: “From Public Pensions to Private Fortunes: How Working People’s Retirements Line Billionaire Pockets” ourfinancialsecurity.org/reports-publ...
JOANN Fabrics, Party City, Toys R Us, Red Lobster — private equity drove all of them to the ground. Now, Donald Trump is giving private equity the green light to keep running their destructive playbook. I'm fighting back.
Today's jobs report shows 24,000 factory jobs lost in the past three months. Trump’s first term brought a manufacturing recession. Now his reckless tariffs are making Americans worse off, again.
Fiduciaries & policymakers must demand full transparency, reject private equity access to 401(k)s, close tax loopholes, & invest in alternatives that serve working people. Teachers’ pensions should build futures, not fortunes for a few. www.aft.org/press-releas...
“‘the US will not score as a democracy when we release [next year's] data….If it continues like this, democracy [in the US] will not last another six months.’ With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia.”
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know. wrd.cm/4fqM8dC
UPDATE: @SenatorHagerty and the Republicans just voted to let Trump take the Qatari jet with him when he leaves office. Insane corruption. There is no bottom.
Massie on Mike Johnson saying he just wants to inflict political pain: "Is the pain he talking about that somebody in our party will be embarrassed by those files? Then that's not a good excuse ... why is it painful for Mike Johnson to call a vote on this?"
Putting this on my I F’ing Told You So list, @dawnlaguens.bsky.social futurism.com/ai-models-su...
As I reported earlier this year at @motherjones.com, Russell Vought's daughter has benefited immensely from NIH research, and her condition (cystic fibrosis) has received more research funding than most rare diseases. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
If you read only one thing today please make it this, by the great Vanita Gupta You May Not Be Trump’s Target This Time. But You Could Be Next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...
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this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...
When students face deportation, educators rise. Communities are rallying to protect immigrant youth—because every child deserves to feel safe at school. Read the latest from @aft.org: sharemylesson.com/blog/student... @aftteach.bsky.social @aftpa.bsky.social @aftwa.bsky.social @texasaft.org
@chicagotribune.com laid of 10% of its newsroom today, which was already down to 80 people. Yet another victim of Alden Capital. This is how it is destroying local news: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
the JD stands for Jeffrey Defender
Trump’s trip to Scotland is mostly to visit his golf courses. Where’s the backlash? | Mohamad Bazzi
What the AF. I don’t ever want to hear again that there’s no money for hungry kids.
Same.
With Medicaid under attack & millions of hardworking Americans losing the health care services they depend on, @rweingarten.bsky.social, @aft.org & @uftnyc.bsky.social are standing up & speaking out on the National Mall tonight, part of a 60 hour vigil to save Medicaid, organized by Families First.
It’s been less than a month since deadly floods swept through central Texas. Naturally, Texas state Republicans are laser-focused on…carrying out Trump’s demand to gerrymander the state’s congressional map so he won't lose the House next year. Priorities.
It’s Abu Ghraib all over again. But inside our borders.
You didn't need a video of a cute little baby #elephant chasing a bird. But, here you go #bluesky ... 😊
ONE MORE DAY TO GO! JOIN US as we rally and march to respond to attacks on our communities’ civil and human rights. No right is safe. Now is the time to stand together and show that #GoodTroubleLivesOn! @publiccitizen.bsky.social @dfadcoalition.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so. #mythofantiwartrump
