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A reminder that in-person protests are not always accessible for folks with disabilities (including mental health conditions) or limited bandwidth, so don’t judge folks who aren’t going tomorrow. And if you can’t, there are tons of other ways to take a stand!

You can also seek out a smaller suburban protest with a less dense crowd of a few hundred people instead of attending the massive city marches if that size of crowd is less anxiety-inducing.

Even small suburban gatherings can be very effective because they show locals they have real allies.

knowing you're not immune from disinformation is a necessary thing! it helps keep you alert to lies coming from purported allies.

Honestly it's genuinely impressive the extent to which the republicans are bitching the shutdown fight, largely because they don't uh actually have a strategy

Marc Benioff's call for troops in SF leads tech investor Ron Conway to leave Salesforce Foundation board Prominent startup investor Ron Conway has left the board of the Salesforce Foundation following comments Marc Benioff made in support of President Trump.

Thank you, Ron Conway
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Maga is painting Saturday’s protests as violent treason. Prove them wrong | Judith Levine Trump allies would love an excuse to step up their crackdown. Nonviolence, both disciplined and open-hearted, must define the day

“Nonviolence is not the same as passivity; it’s the antithesis of surrender. It is not mild, not even friendly. Contradictory as it sounds, steadfast nonviolent resistance against a violent state is the most righteous expression of rage.”

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if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

NYT: Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company's C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump. [under a photo of the disgraced asshole] Marc Benioff, Salesforce's chief executive, surprised many San Franciscans when he said he "fully supports" President Trump and invited the National Guard to San Francisco. Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

once upon a time we actually liked this guy in san francisco

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday that the first state-made insulin would be available at the start of 2026.

California’s CalRx® Insulin Glargine in 3mL pen form will be $55 per five-pack. That's $11 per injection pen.

$40 billion dollars is the size of the entire NIH budget.

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Bernie Sanders 200000 Number of Donations 150000 100000 50000 Elizabeth Warren 60000 40000 20000 01 25 50 Donor Age 75

Hakeem Jeffries 40000 30000 20000 10000 Nancy Pelosi 100000 Number of Donations 75000 50000 25000 Suzan DelBene 2000 1500 1000 500 25 50 75 Donor Age

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

In retrospect, perhaps trusting all of the government's systems and data to Elon Musk and his band of 20-year-old cybercriminals was not the smartest move.

North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers From DMV Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina’s top elections official is pressing the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles for unprecedented access to voters’ full Social Security numbers — a move that could erode voter privacy protections and lay the groundwork for mass voter purges

Wow. New Economist poll finds only 34% of Americans say ICE's use of force has been justified, vs 51% who say it's been excessive. And they oppose agents wearing masks by 52-35.

Yep, ICE is becoming a pariah agency, and that's gaining deep penetration in the culture:

Palestine is everywhere

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

this is a prime opportunity for democrats to explicitly tell their voters "they say you're a terrorist, but youre just a patriotic american who is trying to get by in this world."

This One Matters: A "No Kings" Protest Guide For Oct 18 and beyond ...

The crown is baiting blood. This Saturday, No Kings will face provocateurs, dirty tricks, and staged chaos. Some of ours may take the bait—handing Krasnov the headline he wants. We need to spread this—on Bluesky and beyond. De-escalation tips included.
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NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

Obeying in advance? "NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its layoffs of about 150 staffers" www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

"they called the 75 million of you who voted for kamala terrorists? was it terrorism when you supported health care? terrorism when you supported abortion rights? terrorism when you opposed racism and sexism and the right of every kid to food and education?"

shit writes itself.

This is the obvious end point for any and all smart home security devices

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

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