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This is the energy we need!
The next Democratic president should declare that the National Emergencies Act and Article II of the Constitution allow him to: •admit D.C. and Puerto Rico as states •abolish ICE •grant citizenship to any immigrant •disband the 5th Circuit •expand the Supreme Court Seriously: Why the hell not?
Amen
NOW: Another grand jury refusal — this time a woman accused of threatening President Donald Trump. Judge Boasberg said last week the threats appeared to be the "rantings" of a woman with no ability to carry them out. A D.C. grand jury apparently agrees. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
YES! Who know if anything will come of this, but I’m glad that someone is paying attention to Posse Comitatus
I talked to Wired for A LONG time about how The Onion works now and also alluded to some very stupid, very fun things coming very soon. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
[guy-who-constantly-frames-things-through-the-lens-of-age-and-generation voice] the growth of pickleball is in part about the growth of the senior population in the u.s.
People seem to like this headline, but I don't see why -- red or blue state, National Guard shouldn't be used for "policing." We already know how to reduce crime and it's not through more police. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
RFK is a singularly horrible & bizarre person, but he is able to exploit the culture's ableism for his eugenicist plans, the revival of ableist language that had once been banished is part of it, because this language is used to justify real life brutality against us & that's its historical root.
The indictment was handed down 2 days after career prosecutor Richard Barker, the acting US atty for eastern Washington state, resigned. In a social post, Barker wrote “I am grateful that I never had to sign an indictment or file a brief that I didn’t believe in.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
NEW: ProPublica is committed to increasing the diversity of our workplace as well as the journalism community more broadly, while ensuring equal opportunities for all. Each year we publish a report on those efforts. This is the report for 2025.
I keep saying this, but if there is a sharp rise in skepticism or negativity towards the military among liberals because of these occupations, it will be treated as a problem that Democratic leaders need to answer and apologize for, not a crisis that the military or US government needs to address.
180 shots fired, 150 broken windows. Tumultuous firings and resignations at the CDC. The installation of a techno-optimist with a history of pushing unproven medical treatments. The month of August 2025 may go down as the worst in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department.
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
Oh no! This is a huge loss. What an icon among Indigenous/Native American actors. Rest in Power.
“The International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared Israel is committing both genocide and crimes against humanity in Gaza.” More and more groups are joining the chorus to call Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. No more words are needed. States must take all steps to end this horror.
Honest to God thought this was a critique of Hamilton’s casting
Notably in their own ruling they passed this back to Congress and said that Congress can disqualify him on January 6th. Not a single member of Congress raised this objection when they were fully within their legal rights to do so.
a society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
“centric Democrats and left leaning Republicans”
BREAKING: Belgium will recognise the State of Palestine at the UNGA later this month, FM Maxime Prevot announced, adding the country will also impose 12 “firm sanctions” on Israel aje.io/jw30im
Your power bill is going up, your water is being poisoned, your air is polluted, and if you live near a data center you just get used to the non-stop humming of the place. But look on the bright side: AI is making a tiny handful of billionaires even richer so Google can get basic math wrong.
🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
This is the energy we need Jeffries must go
Like no one actually believes Schumer would actually allow a shutdown. Literally zero people. Everyone knows the Senate will do something symbolic at *best* — maybe Cory Booker will make a scene! — and then fold and go home. For substance, Democrats already have their preferred leaders elsewhere.
I get the sense nobody really even cares anymore. Rank and file Democrats have already given up on Schumer and Jeffries and don't consider them leaders of the party. They expect abject surrender. For fighting spirit and leadership, Dems now follow Zohran Mamdani, JB Pritzker, AOC, Walz, Wu, etc.
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Workers need an economy that works for us, not billionaires and greedy corporations. That’s what America’s unions are fighting for on Workers’ Labor Day and every day. It’s time that working people got treated with the dignity and respect we deserve.
This is one those things you see and you think "how much longer can @schumer.senate.gov let this guy go on?" but I actually think it's too late to stop him.
Getting yelled at on the internet is not what turns people into fascists.
For lynch mobs in the "redeemed" south, lynching was a means of securing (white) freedom from Black domination and enforcing a (white supremacist) constitution. That is what they believed.
I will say this though--every actual general strike in this nation's history--not the fantasy ones of the left but the real ones--have come out of established unions. The 1946 Oakland General Strike started with department store workers and became about fighting Republican domination of the city.
ICYMI. Nominated for the Locus Awards (along with 2 of the stories in it, 'Encore' by @wtalabi.bsky.social & 'Autumn's Red Bird' by @aliettedebodard.com) & the Ignyte Awards
Absolutely spot on. Have asked this for many years. Anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia are stupendously rife given state-sponsored discourse and policies, yet no one assures these communities.
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Since all the “COVID wasn’t so bad” takes are now even coming from elected Dems, I’m tapping the sign:
Everyone looking back now says, “Well, we should’ve kept schools open because Covid didn’t really affect kids.” As if there were no teachers, janitors, librarians, administrators, bus, drivers, or vulnerable family members to worry about.
NEW: The world’s largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide just voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution declaring that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. apnews.com/article/geno...
President Trump’s massive tax and spending plan cuts Medicaid by almost $1 trillion over the next decade, risking service cuts and closures that could force rural women to travel farther to safely have a baby.
Hey all! The book tour for The Right of the People comes to New York and Boston/Cambridge this week. Be there if you can! Also, stay tuned for more stops to be announced very soon. You can grab the book here: www.randomhousebooks.com/books/704686/
Any chance of a stop in Memphis? 🤞🏽
So, when a Democrat makes their only statement on trans issues about trans women in sports, they are saying that this is their priority on trans issues - not restoring our equality under the law but joining Republicans in eroding it.
What Du Bois says of the Emancipation Proclamation is that it recognized an accomplished fact, and he was right
W.E.B. DuBois described the American Civil War as a “General Strike” because of the 100s of thousands of enslaved people who stopped their work, many of whom also joined the Union Army. Slavery offers a powerful example of what it looks like when the law prioritizes "property" over human beings.
"This bill screws rural America in every which way you can possibly imagine. And yet, it becomes easier for Republican representatives to get away with this precisely because Democrats aren’t in these areas ... telling their constituents what these lawmakers are doing to them." trib.al/Tht3GI7
Someone please kill me right now.
JUST IN: Drew Ensign, on behalf of DOJ, reports that all of the migrant children have been returned to ORR custody.
Schatz will be out here supporting this and saying the prosecutions went too far in 3…2…
The Tea Party was covered in the press like it was a spontaneous eruption of populist anger, but those protests drew far fewer people than the recent protests against Trump's administration. The "Tea Party" was just a well-funded organized, right wing movement promoted by friendly media outlets.
Historian Jefferson Cowie's book, Freedom's Dominion, is an extended meditation on the deeply rooted American anti-democratic tradition he's called "racialized anti-statism." White people have long decried "federal tyranny" while promoting racist systems of state power. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The George Floyd protests radicalized a lot of white people AGAINST structural racism. In response, the right tapped into frustration over Covid restrictions (imposed by Red AND Blue states almost equally) and white resentments to organize an old fashioned, racialized backlash against the gubmint.
This is "the one big trick" that the right has mastered. They present their movement as just "the authentic voice of the volk outraged by Democratic overreach," when really what they're doing is just old fashioned political mobilization. Organize a passle of pissed off people & call it a movement.
There's something really funny about how Gen Z has realised that all you have to do is film yourself making shocked faces and mouthing WOOOOW to hit songs from the 70s and 80s and put it on YT and it's basically a free money transfer service from boomers
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Dem electeds have been ceding premises to Republicans since Ronald Reagan. Government is too big. Taxes are too high. Etc., etc.
Dem electeds just ceding the premise to Trump and MAGA on issue after issue…. “well yes crime is a huge problem but…” “well yes immigration is a huge problem but….” “well of course COVID mitigation was a disaster but….” total loser shit.
The average person and pundit (and apparently US Senator) being totally unable to correctly answer “who was POTUS in 2020?” explains a disturbingly large amount of our current situation.
Schatz seems to forget that Trump was in office when COVID lockdowns began and that the mismanagement was entirely due to the GOP catering to horse dewormer-peddling anti-vaxers
Dem electeds stop trying to show bipartisan understanding by lending credibility to reactionary fever dreams. The infection & mortality gaps between red states & blue states are undeniable (minus the initial surge in blue cities), and those gaps got significantly worse once vaccines were available.
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
He’s up for re-election in 2028. This demands a primary challenge. Surrendering on this bullshit narrative that COVID mitigation went too far is utterly disqualifying.
From the U.S., Kier Starmer really does come across as a perfect example of you cannot successfully try to ape reactionary conservative politics in the long term. Labour got a single win and Starmer proceeded to drive the party into its worst polling in generations by courting the right.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping called on the leaders of countries including Russia, Iran and India to integrate their economies and build an “orderly multipolar world,” as he tried to unite them in their shared grievances with the policies of President Trump.
The paralegal should put on her CV that Pam Bondi personally fired her.
so hey uhhhhhhh bars stayed open because the government wanted to keep them in business and not piss off conservatives. Schools *also* stayed open in that *they were functioning* and switched to online. At no point did schools just stop teaching, to be clear.
Abducted Gaza doctor suffering from 'scabies and boils' in Israeli detention - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/abducted-gaza-doctor-suffering-scabies-and-boils-israeli-detention
Why is it so hard to remember the early pandemic? Had literally anyone else been president, backlash to public health policies would have likely been different, at least not as severe, imo. Instead, Trump lied about Covid and whipped the right into a frenzy before it even hit the US.
Ordinarily, these children are in HHS/ORR’ care (not, say, ICE detention), but their immigration matter remains with DHS. www.hhs.gov/programs/soc...
Increasingly Undeniable: An overwhelming majority of global genocide scholars see Gaza genocide - and now 50% of Americans, including 77% of Democrats also see it, despite complicit leaders and corporate media that continues to pretend otherwise.
I have no words
Today, Global Voices joins with @rsf.org Avaaz and other media outlets to condemn the killing of journalists in #Gaza. Together, we call on the Israeli authorities to allow independent access for international press into Gaza immediately. #ProtectJournalistsInGaza #LetReportersIntoGaza
Kidnapped, cut their hair, changed their names, forbade their native indigenous languages, forced them to attend religious schools where they were beaten sometimes to death. The ones who were fair skinned enough to be white-passing were sold/adopted. The ones who perished are still being found.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
A visual illustration of how billionaires live compared to the people who need to live in the houses surrounding this super yacht. Why do we even allow this grotesque destruction of our habitat just for this ridiculous luxury for a small group of death cultists?
This year’s “Path to Freedom” lecture by Amy Murrell Taylor at Fort Negley Park will explore a lesser-known aspect of the Civil War: the courageous journeys of African Americans who escaped slavery and sought safety and freedom behind Union lines. hoodline.com/2025/08/note...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
"Calls upon all states to actively pursue policies to ensure respect for their obligations under international law, including under the Genocide Convention, the Arms Trade Treaty and international humanitarian law, with regards to Israel and Palestine;"
The International Association of Genocide Scholars "Declares that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide..." They have passed this resolution August 31st, 2025. PDF here: genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
i could play mad libs for like a year and never come up with half the headlines i see in any random week www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
Watch our full @therealnews.com documentary here: Clergy members witness ‘horrific’ ICE abductions at immigration courts www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5l1...
Yes
Always unite in unequivocal support for trans people's human rights, now more than ever. Dehumanizing and scapegoating are fundamental fascist strategies to label any targeted group as an 'enemy.' The only response and solution is unbreakable anti-fascist solidarity.
This was incredible, important lawyering from National Immigration Law Center (@nilc.org) over the past 24 hours. Here's their case page: www.nilc.org/litigation/l... Here was the statement from Efrén Olivares, NILC VP of litigation, from earlier today regarding the TRO:
“By shutting down the Foreign Malign Influence Center, Gabbard stripped away America’s shield against foreign meddling. Moscow and Beijing couldn’t ask for a bigger gift.” Robert Morton #NationalSecurity #ForeignInterference #counterespionage
Lots of exciting new books for those who work on ancient slavery and writing arriving in the next few months! First up @chancebonar.bsky.social’s God, Slavery, and Early Christianity from @universitypress.cambridge.org
Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.