2/ I think a lot about @alixabeth.bsky.social's brilliant _The Political Value of Time_. The ultimate political power may be the ability to warp timelines to conform with favored narratives. "Real" time & deadlines retain their realness for those without much power, like hose seeking citizenship.

1/ This admin's decision-making is more frequently based on a timeline divorced from "real time" reality. Trump sending troops into Portland seems based on his mental images generated in the 2020 George Floyd protests (or pehaps fake AI-generated ones he is being fed)....

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Team America: World Police soundtrack?

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

And for the City Council races we need to get the word out that Bergman and Colorio were the only two voting against the bill stopping any partnerships between ICE and WPD last night.

I think this is new informationn and if confirmed to be true … deeply disturbing!

This person is not well. For real.

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Those sets are stunning!

Granted, not a high bar!

Evidence from the exercises we did yesterday indicates that ALL of my AP Gov students have a much deeper and subtler understanding of the US Constitution after one month of this course than the current POTUS.

NYC-area folks! Please come out to this "New Yorkers Against ICE" rally tomorrow at 6:00PM in Foley Square. My union helped organize this action, and we're hoping for a big turnout. Foley Square is just a couple of blocks away from the immigration courthouses where ICE is kidnapping our neighbors.

The snippets of the UN speech I heard were terrifying. A mentally ill, petty, and spiteful person who has little grasp on on how the world functions just spewed vitriolic non sequitors for 56 minutes. The whole world held hostage by a moron.

As the parent of an autistic child, having to listen to the dumbest and willfully ignorant people spout off on something about which they know absolutely nothing is utterly infuriating. These are deeply unserious people who can go fuck themselves.

I feel like “simultaneously completely ridiculous and deadly serious” is everything right now.

The moronic secdef doesn't want reporters to be able to report on him being a moron. We need to defend the First Amendment relentlessly and have absolute clarity on what the idiot in charge of the world's most powerful military is doing: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

So much nonsense is generated by the incapacity of folks to understand that two (or a million) contradictory things can be true at the same time! Simple binaries are the enemy of the people!

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...