Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom

David Moore @ppolitics Just out: Rep. Valerie Foushee said she would decline AIPAC's financial support in the #NC04 primary, but a pop-up super PAC with ties to a reclusive billionaire AIPAC donor has dropped $600k for her... so far.

This is a huge scandal. Under pressure, a Dem rep said she would refuse AIPAC money. So instead Hakeem Jeffries is secretly funneling AIPAC money into her race through a shadow super PAC.

Party leaders don’t even consider the notion of sticking to her promise.

"They want me to hide or leave or disappear" Republicans invalidated Avery Rowland’s drivers license, along with hundreds of other transgender Kansans. Here’s how she’s fighting back.

“They want me to hide or leave or disappear, not to be visible and active in public society."

Republicans invalidated Avery Rowland’s drivers license, along with hundreds of other transgender Kansans. Here’s how she’s fighting back.

We live under the rule of the Epstein Class, which either rapes little girls or bombs little girls in its infinite quest for world domination. Miserable timeline.

No War with Iran. Let Iran Live. End the Forever Wars. War is the Opposite of “Women, Life, Freedom”!

How Brothel Workers in Nevada Just Made Labor History The courtesans at Sheri’s Ranch were staring down a horrifying new contract. So they did what workers everywhere do: They got organized.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.

They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Jury Finds CPD Officers Used Excessive Force During Botched 2018 Raid, Awards $5.7M to Family The jury found that nine CPD officers acted improperly and used excessive force against Ebony Tate, her mother and four children on Aug. 9, 2018, when a CPD SWAT team set off flash-bang grenades outsi...

9 CPD officers acted improperly and used excessive force against Ebony Tate, her mother, Cynthia Eason, and four children on Aug. 9, 2018, when they broke down the door of their apartment and pointed assault rifles directly at the children, the federal jury decided. @wttw.bsky.social

Contact your congresspeople re: HR 7661 aka The “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act”.

DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE!

Unite & Win: Bonus Discussion: Labor for Palestine with Abdullah Farooq and Will

“Unite & Win” with @haymarketbooks.org this week finds @kimkelly.bsky.social in conversation with Abdullah Farooq and Will on how labor can fight for justice aboard, including pro-Palestine actions and supply chain disruption. 🔗👇

Anthropic, which presents itself as the most safety-forward of the leading AI companies, has been mired in weeks of disagreement with the Pentagon over how the military is allowed to use its large language model, Claude. US defense officials have pushed for unfettered access to Claude's capabilities, while Anthropic has reportedly resisted allowing ts product to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input. The Department of Defense (DoD) has integrated Claude into its operations, but has threatened to sever the relationship over what its top brass perceives as roadblocks erected by Anthropic. At stake in the negotiations is whether the AI industry will push back against government demand for the military use of their

“autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input” sounds really bad to begin with. But put it together with the report about the AIs preferring nuclear war and it seems to cross that line to into existentially bad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“He acknowledged to the dispatcher that he was planning to get out of his vehicle. The dispatcher interjected.

‘Why? You can drive away. We have officers en route to you,’ the dispatcher said. ‘I don’t want you guys getting into any more of a dispute.’”

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz Slams Trump’s Myths About Tariffs, Affordability Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz responds to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, when the president repeatedly touted his tariffs as saving the country money and boostin...

During his State of the Union, Trump bragged about lowering inflation, putting tariff money into Americans' pockets and creating manufacturing jobs.

Economist Joseph Stiglitz says none of those claims are true.

Thank you!

ICE deportation flight leaves NH after 31 hours, exposes chronic problems Local officials, activists and a former Omni flight attendant slammed the airline and ICE's decision not to cancel the scheduled deportation.

NEW FROM ME: The deportation plane stuck in the blizzard took off this morning after 31 hours, but not before exposing a much bigger problem with exceedingly long delays on ICE flights.

With exclusive interviews and photos taken by local ICE flight watchers. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/ice-deportat...

“…she opened her wallet to find that her work permit and state ID were missing. Also missing were two checks that she hadn’t yet cashed, worth more than $700, and her daughter’s US passport, which she’d brought to the immigration check-in.“

This is a really great piece that explains how Jeffrey Epstein and the people he sought out are united by the ideology that underpins the global fascist project.

This really sums it up.

An alert, in English, letting people know federal immigration agents took one person near the intersection of Armitage and Kedvale, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, around 7 a.m. on 2/24/2026.

An alert, in Spanish, letting people know federal immigration agents took one person near the intersection of Armitage and Kedvale, in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood, around 7 a.m. on 2/24/2026.

An alert, in English and Spanish, letting people know federal immigration agents were seen at a gas station near 16th and Ridgeland in the Chicago suburb of Berwyn around 8 a.m. on 2/24/2026.

Getting word of federal immigration agents operating in multiple areas around Chicagoland this morning. Rapid responders report agents took at least one person around 7 a.m. from Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood; agents were also seen in the suburb of Berwyn, though it's not clear if anyone was taken.

Appreciate the work that went into putting this together. Did a quick look and curious if translations to Spanish and other languages will be made available?

Love this!

I know people will be lining up to try and capture photos of this plow in action. Hope it's assigned to the Little Village area.

With New Policy, DHS Sets Its Sights on Incarcerating Up to 100,000 Refugees “This is probably one of the most unprecedented memos — introduced to impose trauma on refugees,” an organizer said.

On February 18, DHS sent a memo sent to field agents, stating that refugees who have been in the country for more than a year and still don’t have their green cards will now be subject to arrest and indefinite detention while their cases are reviewed, approved, and processed.

If ICE is sending it's agents "secretive orders" to violate the constitution, then it's leaders need to be impeached and the organization abolished.

Again I ask, what did we expect from the "move fast and break things" crowd?

It's always a good day to thank a farm worker.

“The Prairieland case is a protest case involving people expressing solidarity with detained immigrants. The federal government is trying to reframe protest activity as terrorism, and we’re seeing this attempted across the country, in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and now here in DFW.”

Trans community has been warning us this was coming for so long. This is the same technique that they always use. They love to use the ruse of "protecting the kids" to then ease everyone into banning the same care for adults.
We saw it with abortion and now with adult transition care bans.

Another fantastic essay from @dansinker.com perfectly encapsulating this moment and what we need to move forward.

In the words of Alysa Liu:
"That's what I'm fucking talking about!"

I’m a Journalist on SNAP. Here’s What I Saw During the Latest Food Crisis As for virtually all SNAP recipients, my benefits have never been enough to cover monthly food expenses. Meanwhile, Trump calls any food aid at all “un-American.”

"I had lost count of the spots I had been bouncing between in the last several months—up to two dozen—yo-yoing between housing insecurity and outright homelessness." The journalist Gabb Schivone writes about being on SNAP during the latest food crisis. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Heads up, folks. You have calls to make!

SUNCOR ENERGY, INC., ET AL. V. COMM'RS BOULDER CTY., ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. In addition to the question presented by the petition, the parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: Whether this Court has statutory and Article III jurisdiction to hear this case.

New: The Supreme Court takes up a MAJOR climate case that asks whether federal law preempts (that is, forbids) state-level claims against fossil fuel companies for damages related to climate change.

Climate advocates urged SCOTUS not to take this up... www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...