Moira Birss

House Democrats try to shut down disruptions at Trump's State of the Union Jeffries told his members to either show "silent defiance" or boycott the speech.

Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times, he is shredding the first amendment, he is brazenly corrupt, he is opening concentration camps in their districts, and he is starting an unprovoked war with Iran. WHY WOULD YOU NOT DISRUPT THE STATE OF THE UNION.

The whole D leadership needs to go.

How dreamy to have financial regulators that actually account for, and regulate on, environmental & climate risks to the financial system.

Photojournalists play critical role documenting ICE Photographers covering ICE raids share tips for getting the shot, staying safe, and defending a free press

My latest piece, out in @prismreports.org today, details the increasing state violence against photojournalists documenting ICE. In the story, journalists who’ve covered the ICE raids in LA, Oakland, Chicago, and MN share their advice on staying safe, getting the shot, and defending a free press.

There's enough of this in one newspaper in one state in one day for a thread, so let's do it. Impunity for the wealthy has become such a background condition that it generally goes unremarked. Come find your issue and start agitating!

Restore The Rule of Law in California: A Thread

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The Insurance Crisis Is About to Get Even Worse The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation. Insurance co...

The EPA's decision to quit regulating emissions might be symbolic, but what it symbolizes if scary: a government that puts antiquated ideology and corporate profits over the health and welfare of its people

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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Congrats on launching such an important and well-designed tool!

We need to stop referring to these people as centrist Democrats. They are advancing a right-wing agenda and should be referred to as such.

Where is the halftime show posted so I can rewatch it 10 more times?!?

The video for El Apagón includes a great documentary on the climate crisis in Puerto Rico, including the energy injustice issues referenced in the halftime show.

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Bad Bunny receiving the Grammy

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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This story repeatedly mentions insurance cost increases as a problem, yet there's no exploration whatsoever of that issue.

Instead, the mayor's pro-tenant policies, not insurance companies, are framed as the primary villain.

A Day for Gaza Today, The Nation is turning over its website exclusively to stories from Gaza and its people. This is why.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza.

We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The Trump Administration Arrested Don Lemon Like He Was a Fugitive Slave Lemon’s arrest is not only a clear violation of the First Amendment but a blatant throwback to the Constitution’s long-discarded Fugitive Slave Clause.

Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.

Now THIS is more like it!

Senator Schumer's DC office, in case you want to let him know what you think about this: 202-224-6542.

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

“Liam is getting sick because the food they receive is not of good quality ... He has stomach pain, he’s vomiting, he has a fever and he no longer wants to eat.”

Body cameras on ICE/CBP agents are not going to fix this.

Something you won't hear about on national news. Two people killed by Border Patrol in a vehicle chase. Just one example of the everyday violence of the border. maxgranger.substack.com/p/breaking-b...

This COULD be the way @governor.ca.gov approached conversations in CA about wealth taxes. Instead, he's putting the billionaires first, again.

love this book!

That is sad! Any idea what those unforeseen circumstances were?

Disaster Insurance for All: Our Proposal for Reforming Property Insurance Insurance industry profit motives conflict with our need for protection. Public insurance, coupled with proactive risk reduction, can help.

I have a new piece out today describing how the insurance industry's profit motives conflict with our need for protection & outlining the Disaster Insurance for All proposal from @cplusc.bsky.social in #TheRooftop, @futurelandhousing.bsky.social's housing blog.
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Perry: Abolish ICE? How about DHS altogether. "We have models for how to structure federal immigration oversight that doesn't rely on an unaccountable masked secret police force running rampant in our streets," David M. Perry writes.

The whole damn system is guilty as hell, from @lollardfish.bsky.social in today’s print edition of the Strib (and on the facing page, letter after letter excoriating ICE and the businesses that prop it up)

Don't give up on the pressure!

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

“It’s only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. It’s called state terror.”

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

YouTube video by Jane Kim Jane Kim for California Insurance Commissioner

Hard to believe one could be excited for an insurance commissioner race, but with a candidate like Jane Kim -- a proven champion for working people -- I'm pretty darn excited.
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