The SAVE Act would require Americans to show a passport or birth certificate in person just to register to vote.
Millions of Americans don’t have access to these documents. This is voter suppression, plain and simple.
Call your senators to urge them to vote no: (202) 224-3121
I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic
Dem governors in blue states and cities better start planning right now to activate and ultimately deploy the National Guard around polling sites in Nov as soon as early-voting begins to protect the midterms from the President and the government. Just let that sink in… www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
$1.5T for the military budget
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$470M to send National Guard into cities
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$100M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
Any one of us could be detained for hours by ICE despite being a U.S. citizen.
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be the next to be brutalized by ICE for speaking out.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.
"White House 'National Security Strategy' announced that the Trump regime will treat the democratically elected governments of most Western European nations as adversaries of the United States, and unveiled a plan to join longtime adversaries in seeking to undermine NATO and the European Union."
I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
detail from a work in progress
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I’m having a show with the great Jane Lombard Gallery in Tribeca, NYC, which opens on November 7th 6-8pm
www.janelombardgallery.com/exhibitions/...
*the image is a new painting that will be in the show:
Convergence, 64 x 72 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
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As I was saying…
It is! Thanks 😊
I started writing again after 25 years. Music first, because I missed it. First I'm reviewing 20 records I loved in the first half of 2025. Turns out once you start, it’s hard to stop. Coming up: photo breakdowns, conversation, critiques, ethics of the gaze. All free: nikolatamindzic.substack.com
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal — and we as a nation are directly implicated in the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
In response, the United States must stop all military assistance to Israel.
There's no moral clarity in wreaking vengeance on innocent people.
detail from a work in progress
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#innerworlds #samanthakeelysmith #dumbobrooklyn #resilience
If Trump ends the contempt power of judges with his “big, beautiful bill,” no one will be able to stop him.
A future Congress would need the power of the courts to enforce their investigations, subpoenas, and laws.
It would be the end of American democracy.
Swell, 30 x 30 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
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Slipstream, 64 x 72 inches, oil on canvas, 2025
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Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.
detail from a small-ish work in progress
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detail from a smallish work in progress
Here I Lay Me Down
60 in x 68 in, oil on canvas, 2023
( in the studio )
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#lightinthedarkness #resilience #hope #riseup
This is horrifyingly correct.
