Julie Greenberg

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … As you’ve probably already heard, Donald Trump went on Truth Social late...

Trump Wants to Abolish the Filibuster? Please Proceed, Degenerate … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

It's 2025 and my law firm is still beating Trump's voter suppression in court.

We fight hard and we usually win.

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

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Influential news outlets like NYT/ WSJ continue trivialize coverage of the pro-democracy movement & demonstrations like #NoKings. Editors of local outlets did better.
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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections A new 60-page report insists the party is too radical. But the problem isn’t the party platform. The problem is the broader environment.

Rather than pushing for investment in bigger megaphones, centrists torpedo Dems by touting public perceptions that are the product of right-wing propaganda.

Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections newrepublic.com/article/2023... via @newrepublic.com

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Excited for 2028 when some state SoS kicks Trump off the ballot, Federal district and appellate judges uphold it and then SCOTUS issues an unsigned 6-3 shadow docket rulling staying the lower court ruling, allowing Trump to stay on the ballot and schedules arguments for the case for February 2029.

Left-wing ideas have wrecked Democrats’ brand, new report warns The center-left group Welcome relied on polling of hundreds of thousands of voters over six months for its findings, shared first with Semafor.

U.S. journalism and punditry completely ignores the fact that the U.S. electorate belief system --including their belief of what Democrats stand for -- is shaped predominately by a massive right wing propaganda network across AM radio, broadcast TV, cable news, and the internet.

YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Investigated Hundreds of Trump Donors: What We Found Will Shock You

Essential work from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

At long fucking last, a group of Democratic strategy eggheads has grasped some fundamental truths about what has to change.

This gets at a basic problem with the idea that you can fix everything by reorienting around "kitchen table" issues. To the extent voters imagine Democrats are obsessed with pronouns and defunding the police, it is not because these are things elected/campaigning Dems actually talk about much.

Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer. A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.

Common thread here is FEAR - of ruffling feathers, of antagonizing donors, of calling out corporations, of taking bold actions. Could be applied to any host of issues not even mentioned in the report.

so mike johhnson lied when he said earlier today that there was no legal way to access the contingency funds

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

if any democrats in congress need an example to follow… because if you don’t lead on this, right wing churches and orgs will — and maybe your primary opponent, too

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

ABCs Jonathan Karl prioritized book sales over informing the public but his buddies in the media club will never say so as they help him get on the bestseller list again (it is his FOURTH Trump book. FOURTH.)

It’s no surprise that Trump would lie about Reagan adamantly opposing tariffs.

He lies about everything.

It is however surprising that the @RonaldReagan foundation would help him do it.

What a disgrace.

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows Executives at world’s biggest datacenter owner grappled with disclosing information about water used to help power facilities

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

“.. Crypto was supposed to free us from the chains of government control, but now it is finally revealing what that freedom really means: removing all checks on the power of the wealthy to do what they want, discharged at last from law .. and civic obligation ..”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

One of the stupidest things the Harris campaign did was to shut this guy up after he won his way onto the ticket by being himself and saying stuff people longed to hear.