Nasima Ali

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".

it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.

today's subway reading:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

We now know Kirk shooter Tyler Robinson followed Laura Loomer on X. Is this the tweet that pushed him over the edge?

EPSTEIN

Epstein
Epstein
Epstein

Government buying stake in private companies: socialism

Epstein
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President having stakes in those companies: corruption

Epstein
Epstein
Epstein

Worrying about Cracker Barrel logo instead of governing

Epstein
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EPSTEIN

open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.

What can the White House press corps learn from three teen boys? @kaitlancollins.bsky.social stops by for an all-new The Weekly Show tomorrow.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Two people compete in a spelling bee; one contestant is in a beekeeper’s uniform. The moderator says, “I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. Release the bees.”

Congratulations, Faizan Zaki! #NewYorkerCartoons

A cartoon by Jimmy Craig, from 2021. See more from New Yorker Humor: glmr.co/ZvkxGj3

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

NEW—Docs shared with me show State Department reorg calls to cut:

–69% of jobs in human rights/aid
–Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights office
–Majority of Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor offices (remaining focus on things like criticizing "free speech backsliding in Europe")

We must evacuate our wartime Afghan allies President Biden must evacuate our Afghan wartime allies to Guam while they await visas, says the author of this commentary.

A couple of years ago I put out a series of warning messages about what I felt was the inevitable & relatively soon collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban:

www.armytimes.com/opinion/comm...

time.com/5955477/afgh...

www.militarytimes.com/opinion/comm...

jasonstanford.substack.com/p/guam-or-bust

Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk released from ICE facility after 6 weeks Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral candidate at Tufts University, has been released from immigration custody. WBZ-TV's Brandon Truitt reports.

www.yahoo.com/news/tufts-s...

AI generated ad by a company called Travello showing the 10 most visited cities in Europe, except the cities are hilariously poorly placed. London is in Wales, Paris is in Ireland, Rome is in France, Rom (yes like Rome but without an E) is in Spain, Barcelona is in Morocco, Prague is in Germany, Vienna is in Italy, Istanbul is in Austria, Milan is in Libya, and Antalya is correctly shown as in Turkey but is in the wrong place. Also a few of the borders like Switzerland and Austria or Hungary and Slovenia are missing.

Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

Once again begging media reports to get the math right. For example, cutting a $5M five-year grant in year 4 isn't saving $1M, but it is wasting the $4M already spent. Stop letting this administration get away with so many lies.

“Mohsen’s freeing reminds us of a different vision for America. People of all kinds of backgrounds standing up for someone who the people in power want you to see as an outsider.”

Watch @premthakker.bsky.social discuss Mohsen Mahdawi's release from ICE detention and what it means for America.

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

Justice for Rümeysa Öztürk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Our union sister, Rümeysa Öztürk, has been detained by ICE for exercising her right to free speech. Please consider contributing to or sharing this fundraiser organized by Rümeysa's immigration court legal team:

Today's post by Closer To The Edge highlights the false flag setting up that MTG performed yesterday

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Democratic Party Leaders and “Free Speech” Warriors Shrug as Trump Deports Dissidents While the Trump administration targets hundreds over their constitutionally protected right to political speech, Democratic leadership and influential media pundits have largely stayed quiet.

A review of the signatories of the now-infamous 2020 Harper’s Letter shows that only 24% who put their name on the letter defending ​“Open Debate” have come out in opposition to Trump’s war on campus free speech. By me and @ahjohnson.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side Noor Abdalla, the Pregnant Wife of Illegally-Arrested Columbia U Protest Leader, Mahmoud Khalil, is from Flint. Naturally.

Please read and spread widely. I know Noor to be the typical American child of hard-working immigrant parents. Please advocate for her husband's release.

www.michaelmoore.com/p/noor-and-m...

Donald Trump reveals he's had more recent calls with Vladimir Putin Trump told the Washington Examiner that the two leaders have engaged in multiple phone discussions over the past weeks.

Trump “reveals” what everyone already suspected, he’s been having regular phone calls with Putin.

Both Trump and Musk have been in frequent contact with the Kremlin long before the US election.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

a screenshot of an unhoused woman being arrested by police in DC

Bowing to Trump's demand for homeless sweeps in DC, the city is forcibly clearing an encampment near the State Department.

One woman was dragged from her tent and placed in handcuffs.

via @nbcwashington.com: www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/n...