genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump
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genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump
The Pentagon must review and approve any article by journalists covering it in order to access the building. This is what authoritarian regimes do. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Pure evil As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained could not be determined It’s possible some who couldn’t be located were still at Alligator Alcatraz. Alligator Alcatraz is state-run & detainees often do not appear in the database run by the fed gvt
Good job folks.
In light of the increasing prevalence of pepper balls and tear gas at the Broadview site, I just want to reshare this toolkit from Vision Change Win, which includes best practices for treating tear gas and pepper spray exposure. You can also find this info in the appendix of Let This Radicalize You.
State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.
Get ready for this across the country, as workers essential in fields like agriculture and home repairs are rounded up at work sites and put concentration camps. This country has chosen to sacrifice our economy on the altar of genocide
A gross miscarriage of justice.
The Trump administration has finally released Ayman Soliman, a beloved former children’s hospital chaplain in the Cincinnati area
I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.
RIP U.S. innovation. Between gutting the H-1B program, purging US scientists from civil service, slashing research grants, and disappearing international students off the streets, our government has made a conscious decision to kill America's roll as a global leader in science and innovation.
I'm not asking people to stop talking about Kimmel or the coming repression tied to their latest martyr project—all of this is important. I am just saying, can we work in more discussion of our neighbors being hunted and protesters being gassed, beaten, and shot with pepper balls in Chicagoland?
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them
Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."
Corporations are, at best, amoral. If they think they can find business stability under authoritarianism, they will pay the "tax" & move on. Boycotts change all that & will force business to recalculate. They are probably the most powerful tool at our disposal at this juncture.
This National Library Card Sign-Up Month, I remind you that the most subversive thing you can do right now is get a library card for yourself and every member of your family and use it—many of the subscriptions you’re cancelling can be replaced with library services 1/2
I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.
I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x
This is a critical piece of fascist consolidation that we simply cannot allow to happen. And while journalists could draw a hard line & refuse to comply, we hecklers should help advance a free press with phrases like “decaying shit-witted limpsicle“ & the like.
And Nexstar has the same thing. www.nexstar.tv/stations/
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc
Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.
this is the way. labor actions are crucial under fascism. talent is very well positioned to fight this. good for Lindelof.
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
Awful and dangerous to hear the Mayor echo the transphobic bigotry coming from the Trump administration. It's completely at odds with the values of our city and another reason why his single, disgraced term in office cannot end soon enough.
Really interesting new paper on the rising health effects of our warming world with some great data visualizations. Full paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
...damn
A lot of people aren’t going to want to hear this but letting a tiny group of people hoard all the wealth - because of the delusion that you could somehow ever get into that group through hard work or merit - is actually the cause of most of the problems in this country
It's ironic that the people most responsible for getting us to this moment are now like "oh this is too far for me." very strange.
Pritzker: What's at stake here is free speech. It's our constitution and our way of life. Do we really want the president intimidating people, organizations to get others fired? People ought to be standing up and speaking out.
It's important to realize what precipitated this was Nexstar announcing they pulled showing Kimmel on their affiliates. They're currently waiting for the FCC to loosen restrictions to enable their massive merger. This was as much pay to play by a corporation as it was censorship.
God knows I hate saying the Mastodon crowd had it right, but those of us who are serious about living life in the reality lane are going to have to think long and hard about the resiliency of our information pipelines, at every stage.
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No
Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.
One unintended consequence of the capitulation of corporate America to this far-right Regime is that the left is *also* taking note of how corporations behave in the face of real threats from state power. Maybe single-payer healthcare won't be as hard to win as all that, after all.
the problem with media corporations negotiating with fascists is that the negotiation is never over.
The fact that all of these media figures are having their platforms pulled makes me want to blog even more. Like, no, i may not be Walter Cronkite, but somebody has to speak truth to power.
now is the time for every media personality to stand up and speak out, because what this shows is that nothing will save you they’re coming for all of you, unless you’re a true believer your days are numbered and your bosses are eager to comply do something you can be proud of on your way out
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.
Ds in congress should say that they will investigate these firings as first amendment violations, and that they see consolidation as a free speech and antitrust danger and will act accordingly when they're in power.
BREAKING: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case continues. This ruling requires ICE to provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.
They are rounding up immigrants. They are rounding up critics of the genocide in Gaza. Now they are talking about rounding up trans people. Where does this stop? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...
Let me say this very loudly: There is a VERY CLEAR COUNTER-NARRATIVE STILL that we can use to push back against far right weaponization of the Kirk story. That narrative is, MAGA armed & indoctrinated this guy into believing that gun violence was the answer to perceived sociopolitical injustice.
This is how it’s done, kids.
The people who are inciting violence are the same ones accusing others of inciting violence
We broke up the banks. We broke up the railroads. We broke up the steel companies. We can break up the media conglomerates. We can break up the tech conglomerates. We've done it before. We can do it again.
They used tear gas on him, and wouldn't let him shower. For three days. That stuff gets in every pore. Your skin burns for days, even after a shower. This is torture.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
A impressive team of nonprofit law experts (+me), have banded together to comment on the new proposed rules from the Education Dept. on public service loan forgiveness. The rule purports to give ED authority to strip PSLF eligibility from any employer that acts with an "illegal purpose." 🧵 1/13
ICE is snatching people across Chicagoland again today.
So right-wing oligarchs now control X, Facebook, TikTok, WaPo, Fox News, CBS...and others not controlled by them are capitulating. Do I have that right?
Bribery by any other name. bsky.app/profile/greg...
They're trying to rig the election and get rid of Ossoff. Get rid of absentee and early voting and then whoops Fulton County doesn't have enough machines on election day and the lines are 7 hours long. Old playbook but it works
Just removing c3 status for major progressive foundations and orgs will be incredibly disastrous. It might not be gulags for everyone that ever signed a MoveOn petition, but this is a plan they've been trying to move for a while now. And it is really, really bad.
From Chicago, @emmarjanssen.bsky.social reports that while National Guard troops may not be coming to the Second City for now, ICE raids are growing, a shooting death occurred last Friday, and peaceful protesters are getting manhandled and shot at with pepper balls. prospect.org/justice/2025...
Yet again reminding everyone that the feds did not “back off” of Chicago
A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.
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Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”
It's a test balloon and we need to pop that test balloon NOW
i know it is all intentional but boy howdy is it crazy-making to have ICE killing people in the street and watching the once “mainstream” media still carrying water for the idea that the left has a violence problem
Quoting white conservatives on their own stances is grounds for termination. As chance would have it, that's exactly the outcome Kirk demanded for critics, thinkers, & dissidents. He regularly championed those who enacted violence on his opponents. Use your brain parts, "centrists," I beg of you.
If you work in this space, you need to be prepared for this. You should already be talking to counsel. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...
Genuinely feels like a tipping point for American democracy, if we can keep it.
the US has been here before. the blacklist, red scares. it's not the sort of thing you want to live through though.
This is why being independent is SO powerful. Can't fire someone with no boss!
The only difference between people using drugs outside because they don’t have homes & people using drugs inside because they have homes… is the homes. Everyone uses drugs y’all, the difference is money.
CBP got their raid sweeps down to less than 7 minutes here in LA. By the time reporters receive tips, the raids are done and the feds are gone and with them, people. Trying to document and find patterns for these raids as a reporter has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing. It really sucks
The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
On holding multiple truths: Miller says the administration will use Kirk's death to dismantle leftist orgs, and people are being targeted professionally. The people who said this would be used against folks were right. AND there were also already plans to dismantle leftist orgs (see Project Esther).
This is what the subway crime panic was always about and why they lionized Daniel Perry. It’s exactly what the Manhattan Institute and all those goons who used to troll us on Twitter fantasize about every day. Kilmeade finally feels comfortable to say it out loud. bsky.app/profile/atru...
I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.
What this says to me is: 1) PROTEST WORKS. Pritzker and everyday Chicagoans effectively repelled the threat, at least for now. 2) They are weakened. Afaik it's the first time he's seriously threatened to do this in a GOP governor state. Which tells me they're feeling less confident facing off
this is a form of political violence too
In the meantime, investigators into the school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado have already said that there’s some evidence that he was radicalized by extremist networks.
The more white wing media at the Times and the Post try to gaslight people about what Kirk stood for, the more social media accounts, and new media journalists will continue posting receipts.
Please hear me when I say that this man was a Nazi propagandist and fascist organizer, and must be loudly remembered as such in the coming days
Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.
The Texas A&M firing reveals the core power dynamic at play. The reactionary centrist outrage was reserved for challenges coming from below, criticism from the public, marginalized voices, and activists. They are now silent when the threat comes from above, through the power of the state.
Don't just read the headline. Take a moment to watch the video. It's short.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
Increasingly appears Congress no longer existed as part of the co equal branches as we see the Supreme Court stepping in and allowing trumps ability to curtail the dispersement of already established aid money.
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The Supreme Court gave Trump an early win Tuesday in his quest to take Congress' spending power for himself. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Allowing federal agents to target people simply because of how they look and speak is a direct assault on our constitutional rights. This Supreme Court ruling only supports the president’s agenda to disappear our neighbors and separate families. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
So, I found this summary yesterday. I was trying to lookup my article to see if it had been cited at all recently and got this weird summary of my research. I did not write about mountain apples and yeah all of this is not right.
If cities won’t stop evicting unhoused people they minimally HAVE to stop using heavy equipment at them. A man died in Atlanta from heavy equipment at a clearing. Four years ago we had to try and free a man who was trapped in a tent in the bucket of a bobcat.
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I know I probably sound like a deranged crank at this point, but it has seemed so obvious that we’re going to see infinitely more of this & related threats to funding over *this academic year* if we don’t collectively start rejecting these fascist tactics out of hand.
I think if they could actually get their names off the ballot it would be more worrisome, but the window to withdraw has actually already passed. So, even if they do drop (and like does Adam's actually believe he gets through a Senate Confirmation remains a live question), their names stay.
That all depends on what model we are using. If the idea is forced mass hospitalization and forced treatment like our Mayor and Pres are promoting then no. But if we mean give people housing, food, and access to free healthcare, ie actually address poverty than sure.
Absolutely ludicrous to think you can call the cops on ICE. Cops = ICE - citylimits.org/local-police...