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Anti-Shariah conspiracy theories, a staple of 9/11-era rhetoric, resurge around Mamdani (RNS) — As critics revive anti-Shariah talk, Muslim advocates fear consequences for communities across the country.

Important story to understand how the right-wing, and some Democrats, are recycling the old Islamophobia to undermine Mamdani and other Muslim candidates.

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I don’t understand how anyone can feel confident that any particular set of rights will necessarily survive this administration and whatever follows it.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

We’ve already been over this. I’ve got the degrees, the credentials, and the receipts. If you’re looking for “low IQ,” try looking in the mirror—or at your own Cabinet. (2/2)

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

A transgender Brown University student told me they now feel unsafe at the school that is “functionally inaccessible" for trans people after the administration bent the knee to the Trump administration.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement “Everyone I talked to thought it only applied to sports. But it applies to everything," one transgender student told The Advocate.

This is truly fucking horrible: Brown University is ‘functionally inaccessible’ to transgender students after Trump settlement

www.advocate.com/news/transge...

They need to be made to STOP

Florida’s Atrocity by Design How DeSantis and Republicans Engineered a Humanitarian Disaster in Broad Daylight

Florida’s immigrant detention crisis isn’t a failure—it’s the blueprint. Engineered cruelty. State-sanctioned abuse.

DeSantis turned Florida into a test lab for authoritarianism—and they’re scaling it nationwide.

You won’t believe what they’ve gotten away with:
📖 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

Seeing Kamala Harris openly say that the system is broken was so powerful.

Just having someone in her position say it so candidly without qualification was beyond powerful.

Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit—we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit and—most importantly—the Supreme Court is complicit.

Powerful message from Jasmine Crockett:

📢 “You may win this battle but you are not going to win this war.”

Every blue state needs to wake up. It’s time to fight back.

@repjasmine.bsky.social

Don’t cater to bigots. It’s very simple.

Trans kids deserve respect and most importantly a childhood!

Leave ‘em the fuck alone and let ‘em be kids.

The answer is: Hell yes, trans kids should be able to participate in sports according to how they identify.

The emotional damage done by rejecting a kid’s identity is the real concern here. Not the bigotry of a busybody parent trying to bully that one kid.

Oh, they know

This one by a lot! www.lonelyplanet.com/mexico/north...

‘Shameful’: Students, alumni say Brown deal with Trump administration disrespects trans students - The Boston Globe Students were pleased that Brown will not be paying the federal government, but took issue with the university adopting Trump’s policies on gender identity.

Glad to have been quoted in this @alexagagosz.bsky.social article by on Brown's disgusting capitulation to the Trump administration.

I remain in solidarity with all the students, staff and faculty impacted by this horrendous decision.

Unpaywalled in next skeet.

I’m so sorry!!

The Real Reason for Zohran’s Success Should Rattle National Democrats Exclusive internal campaign data on the reach of Mamdani’s viral videos illustrates that he gets modern messaging in ways other Democrats just don’t.

Remarkable: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million views on Instagram, 56% among non-followers, per data given to me.

He is forging a new answer to Dems' digital woes. I talked to his advisers in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/

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If you’re looking for a place to do it, join @israelispeaceny on Sundays at 5pm in Union Sq – where we cry out for a ceasefire & the return of the hostages, hold up pictures of those killed in Gaza, read the words of hostage families, and pray for an end to starvation & war.

Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...

"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."

National AAUP Statement on Columbia

www.aaup.org/news/columbi...

Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

“I was threatened with being referred to the FBI... They also threatened to stain my record so I would never get a job again. They also threatened with an extended detention if I didn’t give them the passwords to the student information or to my district files."

They're trying to get into school district data?

🧵I keep seeing/hearing mention of QAnon's "Satanic sex-trafficking pedophiles" conspiracy & hand to God it makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills that NO ONE MENTIONS THE ANTISEMITISM.

They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.
They are talking about Jews.

HERE LET ME HELP:

It is.

Trump's effort to distance from Epstein complicated by his deep ties to Epstein Wriggling out of this jam is failing so far.

This cover-up has @atrupar.com and the Public Notice gang out here sounding like @theonion.com

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

A must read: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.