the government is trying to disappear a man who can testify to torture committed at the direction and payment of the government

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong.

Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

Fuck this.

Ed Note | State Law Compels BlueSky to Block Mississippi IPs Ashton Pittman writes about how Mississippi’s social media age-verification law prompted BlueSky to block access to Mississippi IP addresses.

Mississippi's new social media age-verification law has now forced BlueSky to block Mississippi IP addresses.

Our Mississippi Free Press team is now urgently having to grapple with what that means for our audience—and for press freedom.

My new editorial:

Ketanji Brown Jackson Stops Just Short of Saying the Supreme Court Is Breathtakingly Full of Shit “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire

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The case for staying on Twitter by JERUSALEM DEMSAS

Maybe We Do Need DOGE / Should Democrats work with Elon Musk? by JERUSALEM DEMSAS

The Case for Finding Common Ground With RFK by JERUSALEM DEMSAS

sensing a pattern

Video of a scary scene in Adams Morgan last night is making the rounds on DC listservs.

The feds (presumably ICE) seemed to be making immigration/traffic stops. When protesters started shouting, one pointed his Taser at them until other protesters tried to deescalate things...

Untoasted buns try to keep a sloppy, burnt burger, wilted lettuce, and pickles wedged between them

This is a $14 Tesla Burger.

Trump literally doing the @mtsw.bsky.social "they like me and want me to rule over you" shit on camera

Trump Partner in Crypto Venture Faces SEC Allegations The Trump family has partnered with a father-son duo with a history of run-ins with financial regulators for a deal to sell $1.5 billion of its crypto tokens. A biotech turned crypto company called Al...

Alt5 Sigma is run by a father-son duo whose companies have faced SEC allegations in recent years. Eric Trump will join the company's board as part of the deal.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/4lTGJgR

still wild to me that UBI isn’t like the default left of center position

Today is a day of national and international shame.

This famine could have been prevented, if only our government treated Palestinians as human beings whose lives were worth saving.

How can food be blocked yet arms still flow?

The Shifting Language of Racial Constructs These words signal that talking about race is even more of a minefield. You will be called out as racist if you do not use the latest and correct terminology. Latinx BIPOC Allyship Intersectionality Minoritized communities As we fight racism and discrimination, we should reflect upon whether the words we are using are part of the reason Democrats are losing support from all non-White voter groups. We must know when to take a step back and listen, instead of peppering our websites, fundraising asks, and newsletters with sociology buzzwords.

Can we reflect on how elected Democrats haven't said "latinx" since 2021 and yet I still see two articles a week telling them to stop?

The evidence doesn't indicate that Dems using SJW jargon is a real problem — it's something the far right says to justify their actions.

story is hidden as “sensitive content”

“we use technology or a review team to identify content that should be covered … it may contain images that some people might find upsetting”

the post is some completely benign pro-immigrant post

things are going great in meta algorithm land (IG)

The Center Gets A New Publication Dedicated to Scolding Leftists

Elon Musk has successfully convinced Jerusalem Demsas that it's normal to encounter "a few N-words" in the mainstream American public square, a proposition that would have been ridiculously false three years ago

I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'?

The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not doing!

Bernie 2006 changed the game, getting 70-80% of donations from <$200 donors.

Democrats took the lesson and proceeded to completely pollute the well with insane barrages of text spam ever since.

Everybody knows that an ActBlue donation is like putting a Spam Text Me Forever! sign on your back.

someone alert these americans that third way said you shouldn't speak like thi

How Moderate Senate Democrats Enabled Trump’s D.C. Takeover Many have warned that allowing D.C. to remain a disenfranchised colony would lead to disaster. They were right.

We could have, you know, made D.C. a state when we had the chance, @ryanlcooper.com inconveniently points out.
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Five municipal grocery stores in a city of 8 million people is unrealistic and a harbinger of our descent into communism, but mailing every single American household healthy food? Very Serious People want you to know it’s totally doable.

the argument that kids need phones in school in case of a school shooting just seems to involve magical thinking. you're not going to be able to do anything about the shooting once it starts, and the school is able to alert the police on their own.

I spent 5 years following Atlanta families working multiple jobs but still unable to afford a place to live. Now they fear losing food stamps and Medicaid — but JD Vance has no interest in them.

That's the real story: demonizing homeless people is cover for policies pouring gasoline on this crisis.

If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.

ICE Arrests US Army Veteran, Husband of Former Congressional Candidate During Citizenship Interview A Pakistan-born US army veteran, and husband of a former Washington congressional candidate, was taken into ICE detention during a citizenship interview on Thursday at the United States Citizen and Im...

BREAKING: Pakistan-born US army veteran Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry, husband of a former Washington congressional candidate Melissa Chaudhry, was taken into ICE detention during a citizenship interview on Thursday in Tukwila.

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Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel.

Now she's a member of HTC.

Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.

You're living through a major technological revolution right now and it has nothing to do with AI.

The United States is in danger of missing it and getting left behind because our corrupt President wants us to be buyers-of-last-resort for fossil fuels owned by his paymasters in KSA and Russia.

Doggett won’t seek reelection to Congress if new district is upheld by courts, paving way for Casar Doggett has represented his hometown of Austin for over 50 years, in both the Legislature and Congress, surviving numerous Republican redistricting efforts to target his seat.

78-year-old Democrat steps aside for 36-year-old to avoid messy primary. It can happen: www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/l...

Trump Officials Demanded Confidential Data About Transgender Children Seeking Care

A stunning violation of the privacy of children and their parents by a confessed serial sexual predator, adjudicated rapist and convicted criminal.

Truly disgusting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

People are being kidnapped into unmarked vans by masked police. There is a genocide happening in Palestine. Literal billionaires have taken over our government. And all Democratic leadership can do is send us another fundraising text?