Rebecca Bailey

My expert political opinion is that killing the job market, raising grocery prices, kicking people off their health care, stealing taxpayer money, and trying to starve 40 million Americans is pretty damn unpopular.

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.

Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Reminder: In his first term, President Trump ordered his then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protestors.

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🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence.

Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.

Terry Moran told the truth about the hateful Stephen Miller. ABC News hid behind the worn-out claim that their journalist failed to show sufficient neutrality—& fired him. “Neutrality” rather than truth-telling has helped deliver a fascist regime—and legacy media capitulating to a despot’s demands.

This is a shockingly mistaken understanding of due process by Stephen Miller. It is likely this misunderstanding that is informing the President’s misunderstanding.

Trump's full answer transcribed: Well, I guess I was supposed to be a movie maker. We're talking—we started with the movie making and will end. I mean, it—it represents something very strong, very powerful in terms of law and order. Our country needs law and order. 1/

Axios Atlanta screenshot Zoom in: Respondents of the poll by and large opposed the Trump administration's policies. Tariffs: 52.3% said they somewhat or strongly oppose tariffs being placed on foreign goods. Immigration: 51.9% somewhat or strongly oppose the Trump administration's actions related to immigration policy. Elon Musk: 56.1% somewhat or strongly disapprove of Elon Musk playing a prominent role in the Trump administration. DOGE: 51.5% somewhat or strongly disapprove of the efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency to shrink the size of the federal government. DEI: 56.9% somewhat or strongly disapprove of the Trump administration's effort to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs from institutions that receive federal funding.

Axios Atlanta screenshot: NATO: 55.7% somewhat or strongly disapprove of Trump's efforts to distance the United States from the NATO security alliance. Stunning stat: An overwhelming majority of respondents — 80.8% — said that they believe Trump should obey federal court orders, even if he disagrees with them or believes they are illegal. Context: After losing the state to Joe Biden in 2020, Trump won Georgia in 2024 with a 50.7% to 48.5% victory over Democratic candidate Harris.

👀 Stunning poll data coming out of - checks notes - Georgia:

- 51.9% disapprove of Trump on immigration
- 56.9% disapprove of Trump’s attacks on DEI
- 80.9% want Trump to follow court’s orders

This ought to make every Republican bootlickers in GA & all over nervous www.axios.com/local/atlant...

I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:

Trump on cutting government-funded research into cancer and Alzheimer’s: “Well maybe we didn't think they were right.”

U.S. citizen wrongly detained by Border Patrol says government account is false Jose Hermosillo was held in a detention facility for undocumented immigrants for 10 days. In his first media interview, he tells his story.

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days

The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally.

I interviewed Hermosillo.

He says the government is lying.

Someone should ask Homan if it would be ok to send him to a gulag if a completely different white guy he has nothing to do with commits murder bsky.app/profile/atru...

Really need journalists to push back on this bullshit. When they say this, just ask them point blank: "Are you saying that because one Latino man committed a murder, another Latino man deserves a life sentence? Do you think all Latino men interchangeable?"

Tweet from Ben Gvir: I had the honor and privilege of meeting with senior Republican Party officials at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely.

Remeber, the real villains are graduate students who say this is morally wrong.

SDNY resignation letter from Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach, and Derek Wikstrom

"There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign."

Profiles in courage. The federal prosecutors in NY who resigned rather than obey political orders to falsely confess to wrongdoing in the Eric Adams case.

The Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History at Northwestern University. There will be many more and we will all be poorer and worse off because of it.

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Think Resistance Is Futile. It Is Not. (Gift Article) Every time we make ourselves into obstacles, we also make it a little less likely that the administration’s authoritarian fantasy becomes our reality.

wrote about the importance of ambition and political leadership

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

Stay loud
stay visible
stay brave

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

Disgusting

We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease

And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more

Because we need to funnel resources into AI

Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease

Do I have that right?

I filmed this yesterday on my way to Lousiana where my constituent Rümeysa Öztürk is being wrongfully held by ICE. I’m there now demanding her release. More to come.

They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed. (Gift Article) Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.

The free speech website where the owner (who believes in free speech) will throttle your access if you criticize him - even if you support all the far-right conspiracy theories and bigotry he supports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

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