Sara Fitz-Gerald

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

ICE unleashed tear gas on the street in Chicago’s Logan Square today and I tried to find meaning among the fog and my own anger about, well, everything. dansinker.com/posts/202…

‘They never told me where I was going’: a family falls into Louisiana’s ‘black hole’ of deportation Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras

Exclusive: A mother and her two US citizen children – including one with stage 4 cancer – disappeared and were deported to Honduras.
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Thank you for your email. There is a temporary shutdown of the U.S. government due to a lapse in appropriations. I will respond to your message as soon as possible after the temporary shutdown ends. Please visit ED.gov for the latest information on the Department's operational status. Thank you.

Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of H.R. 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.

Version of original on left, updated on right:

I say this without reservation: This is the most important piece of writing you will read this year.

It contextualizes what the conservative movement really is and why this moment is so utterly dangerous.

Its conclusion that we will have to unmake the conservative power structure is absolute truth

Trump just said the shutdown will cause disruptions to Social Security services - but Social Security funding isn't impacted by a shutdown, and the staff who run it are "necessarily implied" & continue to work.

If Social Security stops, it's because Trump illegally stopped it - to try to blame Dems

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

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My bottom line up front: I see no evidence of an effort to ban gender affirming care in the continuing resolution.

We will face threats in the appropriations bills.

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The government funding deadline is tomorrow, but Trump remains focused on holding the government hostage to lock in his healthcare cuts and claim more unchecked power.

Your Democratic senators need to hear from you. Urge them to keep holding the line against any deals that hand Trump a blank check.

We really need commentators to actually start talking about WHAT WORKS in terms of pushing back and creating social change, instead of just telling us how bad/awful/terrible it all is with the occasional sprinkling of OH LOOK AT HOW TRUMP GOT BOOED AT THIS SPORTING EVENT.

I am just really over it.

THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION was released 31 years ago today. One of the most popular films ever made, and among the greatest Stephen King adaptations, the making of story has as many secrets as a Rita Hayworth poster…

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This is amazing.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

TAKE ACTION AGAINST DISNEY-ABC STOP BENDING TO THE ADMIN DISNEY-ABC STOP BENDING TO AUTHORITARIAN PRESSURE. ACTION RESOURCE LIST WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE On September 17th, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after the FCC Chair Bre...

Here’s all the ways you can take action against Disney, ABC, Sinclair, and Nexstar for silencing Jimmy Kimmel and attacking free speech.

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TEN SENATE DEMOCRATS HELPED REPUBLICANS PASS THEIR MAGA FUNDING BILL BACK IN MARCH Chuck Schumer (NY) Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Brian Schatz (HI) Dick Durbin (IL) Angus King (ME) Gary Peters (MI) Maggie Hassan (NH) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (NV) John Fetterman (PA)

We can’t afford another “Schumer Surrender,” so we’re calling on Senate Democrats to stay strong and united in the government funding fight. We’re also making sure the GOP knows it’s on them to avoid a costly shutdown. Your Members of Congress need to hear from you: indivisible.org/campaign/car...

I wasn’t there. I didn’t know anyone who was killed, and I didn’t know anyone who knew anyone who was killed. I was 14 and a high school freshman in Central Texas and over 1,700 miles away when it happened.

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Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around!

1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video"
2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Great collab between @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social for the @latimes.com! Share widely

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REAR WINDOW was released 71 years ago today. One of the most enduring Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, and among the most popular films of James Stewart and Grace Kelly, the story of how it was made might give you the feeling you’re being watched…

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Stop the Trump Administration's Election Interference (UPDATED 8/18) ⭑ 5 Calls Updates August 18, 2025: In an unhinged social media post, Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to ban all mail-in voting across the …

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