AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.
Congrats to every liberal who helped make Hillbilly Elegy a bestseller because “we need to understand why people voted for him.”
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president
bsky.app/profile/kyle...A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account:
truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
Democracy dies in tax cuts
To suburban drivers used to having 100% of road space in their suburb, having to slow down a bit in the city because a pedestrian is crossing feels like oppression. I believe this helps explain some of the state laws preventing blue cities from doing traffic calming or road diets
If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office
AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.
Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades
always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
Imaging having it so good in life that you’re bored of the benefits of modern science.
continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition
we need every grain of sand in the gears. every single one.
I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore.
bsky.app/profile/benm...New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
How in God's name will NYC ever survive, without the aid we get from Tulsa?
I enjoy drawing connections between the 2020 George Floyd Uprisings, the proliferation of mutual aid groups in NYC in the following years (including the 15 groups fiscally hosted by Pact of which I'm the Board Chair), and then having a democratic socialist as our mayor 6 years later.
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
Yes, Peter decided that the continued existence of our democracies isn't compatible with his desired level of personal freedom.
An absolute enemy of humanity.
Abolish ICE.
There’s no reforming it.
There’s no compromise.
There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.
we are 11 years into the cycle of
- trump makes loud unambiguous announcement
- media regurgitates announcement
- turns out none of it is true
- media, trump have already moved on to restart the cycle
Turns out their vision of what a “monster” was fit exactly along the lines laid out by D.W. Griffith in “Birth of a Nation,” and they share similar ideas about the solution as well.
For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
This hasn’t received nearly enough attention:
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE.
Let's spare a word for
@vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.
I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.
the protests are feeling more spontaneous and organic and abundant which, to me, seems like a strong sign of sea change
BREAKING:
A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional.
Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."
They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices
btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash
bsky.app/profile/hann...Jeffrey Epstein sent a link to the white nationalist podcast The Right Stuff, whose core hosts played an active role in the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally. He did so in February 2016. Before TRS made national news, really.
Genuinely bizarre.
Trans folks need cis allies more than ever right now. Don’t bend the knee and ignore your own morals and values. Challenge views that lack critical thinking and empathy.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/im-f...
"I'm f**king tired": A trans man begs cis allies to step up & fight - LGBTQ Nation
"We need help and hope."
"they're only going after the criminals" headass.
Anyone who repeated, or believed, those lies is complicit. And the only way to atone is to spend the rest of their lives organizing, and voting, against fascists in the future. And even then, they shouldn't be forgiven for their hate.
[This post could not be retrieved]
my wokeness, such that it is, ends when it comes to insulting bad people
Again, a central reason why we are here in 2026 is that the people involved with Iran-Contra, the Clinton impeachment, stealing the 2000 election, the entire GWB presidency, & Trump I not only weren't punished & shunned from polite society but were rewarded with special membership in the Big Club.
It's really hard to appreciate the Epstein emails as elite Mad Libs until you start searching. This is Epstein, Ken Starr, and Henry Rosovsky.
[This post could not be retrieved]
I talked with Applebaum before the new year, and even before the current raids on election administration offices in Georgia. Even then, it was clear that 2026 was the year Trump would go after election administration, which makes the midterms incredibly important.
It’s free, but subscribe to
@wired.com.
It hasn’t gone unnoticed that all four people arrested today, including two journalists, were Black.
And now we find out the charge is “conspiracy to violate civil rights,” a statute rooted in the Ku Klux Klan Act.
Sit with that.
A very significant vote. The $75 billion can be taken away; this marks a clear vote by the Democratic caucus to do so.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
White Gen-X'ers are the biggest disappointments in the room.
Hell, yeah.
“I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”
BIG news from
@bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
as an american born to non-citizen parents i am looking forward to the right-wing scotus ruling that im not a real american by birthright. can't wait.
There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.
noting that
@sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is collecting donations for on the ground mutual aid orgs here:
www.sudansolidarity.com
Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective
Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
Chuck is the George B. McClellan of the senate
This is also why “woke” became a pejorative and people reduced Black theories and concepts like CRT and intersectionality down to Nancy Pelosi wearing kente cloth.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois deputy has been sentenced to 20 years for fatally shooting Sonya Massey, who called 911 for help.
I am introducing the Cut It Out And This Time I Really Mean It bill. It provides an additional $57 billion to the murder goons but they will agree to wear business casual Monday through Thursday and if they do any murders they have to put a dollar in this jar.
If you don’t want to be identified while enforcing the law pick another fucking job
Tillis says he opposes ICE being barred from wearing masks: "I've seen people dox me. I've seen people take pictures and identify law enforcement officers and then put their families at risk. So, I think that's a step too far."
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
Send this to every veteran you know.
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter
@julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.
“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach':
—L. Krasner in Philly
—J. Creuzot in Dallas
—M. Moriarty in Minneapolis
—L. Conover in Tucson
—S. Descano in Fairfax (VA)
—R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA)
—S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA)
—P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)
Congresswoman
@ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career.
What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?
There's no ICE accountability without ending qualified immunity.
They're murdering people. There won't be justice for the lives they've stolen, but there must be accountability.
My bill with
@markey.senate.gov would ensure families can sue the agents murdering their loved ones.
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
[This post could not be retrieved]
