Matt Cowley

Powerful writing by Rümeysa Öztürk, a PhD student at Tufts who was detained by the US authorities because she called a genocide a genocide in a student newspaper

Good Trouble Lives On On July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, v...

TODAY is our national day of action.

Around the nation, we’re hitting the streets to protest the Trump regime’s brazen attacks on our civil and human rights. It’s time to remind them who holds the power—the people.

Find a protest near you at the link below, and let’s go make #GoodTrouble together.

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...

This sums up nicely what I ‘ve been thinking for <checks watch> 6 months : that all the things that make America, well, great are being systematically broken, as if that’s the plan. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout...

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

We’re training a million Americans to lead a local resistance movement. This is how we dramatically ramp up defiance and non-cooperation tactics society-wide, whether it be at corporations, education, the media or neighborhoods. One Million Rising launches in three days and we hope you will join us.

ICE raids are leaving some L.A. cats and dogs homeless Chuco, a pit bull, was dropped at a shelter after his owner was deported last month. Many other dogs and cats in L.A. are facing similar circumstances as their caretakers vanish or flee.

No hell hot enough.

"79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country."

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

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This has a really wide range of ideas for useful actions against the horror

It's making me feel less overwhelmed & more like, 'Hang on, I can't do x, y or z... but I could do letter q, and I hadn't thought of that before'

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

The time is NOW to show up.

How this will work is if it's all of us, together.

Solidarity is the only way home.

We can do this. But only if we all do.

That means you, too.

The 14 Early Warning Signs of Fascism The US economic system is deeply fascistic. The antidote is obvious: capitalism.

jjmilt.substack.com/p/the-14-ear...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward.

I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: July 17 Day of Action St. Pete · John Lewis Actions Good Trouble Lives On is a national day of nonviolent action to respond to the attacks posed on our civil and human rights by the Trump administration and to remind them that in America, the power lie...

www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

Are we Christian yet?

I know it's a movie cliché, but sometimes it really is therapeutic to go down to the cemetery and talk about your feelings in front of the grave of Congress.

I saw a bunch of American flags yesterday at the No Kings protest in St Pete. It was the first time in a long while I saw someone waving a flag and didn’t wince. As someone there said, “we’re taking the flag back.”

"Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope." - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social from "Hope in the Dark"

“Well, we’re all going to die.”

“Well, we’re all going to die”

Lesson 13 of "On Tyranny": Practice corporeal politics.
Find your No Kings protest, June 14th.

This is the lede. There is a woman on camera in charge of a lot of people with guns. She says they are going to liberate a domestic population center from democratically elected officials and violate too many laws to count in the process. I have zero time for anything else.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

How You Can Protect Democracy 29 concrete actions you can take right now to protect democracy.

protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...

“According to LinkedIn, the bulk of Fugate’s leadership experience comes from having served as secretary general of a Model United Nations club.”

A headline by Military.com reads: "Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship"

Erasing Harvey Milk’s name is disgusting, blatant discrimination—and during Pride Month to boot.

He served the U.S. Navy and his country honorably, and he was assassinated while serving the public and fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

Hegseth should be ashamed of himself and reverse this immediately.

No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy.”