Tom “T.M.” Wolf
@tomtmwolf.bsky.social
Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Brennan Center for Justice. Founder of the Historians Council on the Constitution. By night, I write. My novel SOUND (FSG/Faber) and more: tomtmwolf.com. Views my own.
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Tom “T.M.” Wolf
@tomtmwolf.bsky.social
· Nov 25
I had a blast talking about Sound, novelizing, and balancing the writing life with the non-profit life with @penamerica.bsky.social.
A short thread with some of the tidbits I mentioned while chatting with @baldereg.bsky.social about my novel written like a musical score 🧵🔽 @faberbooks.bsky.social
A short thread with some of the tidbits I mentioned while chatting with @baldereg.bsky.social about my novel written like a musical score 🧵🔽 @faberbooks.bsky.social
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The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
Getty photographer was tackled by about 50 agents while covering Whipple.
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
He threw his camera at another photographer to prevent it from being confiscated.
📸: Pierre Lavie
January 17, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.
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When I consider the bandwidth needed to pushback against the revisionist birthright citizenship history, I think a lot about Toni Morrison’s idea of racism being a power of distraction. Every new argument, every new twist, every new publication, costs time, energy. It takes away from something else.
January 17, 2026 at 1:44 PM
When I consider the bandwidth needed to pushback against the revisionist birthright citizenship history, I think a lot about Toni Morrison’s idea of racism being a power of distraction. Every new argument, every new twist, every new publication, costs time, energy. It takes away from something else.
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I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries
January 17, 2026 at 6:41 AM
I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries
We win when we fight. Keep fighting!
BREAKING: Judge enters TRO blocking feds from interfering with or arresting peaceful protesters in Minnesota. Judge Kate Menendez, Biden appointee. Order: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
January 17, 2026 at 1:33 AM
We win when we fight. Keep fighting!
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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"If the court were to side with the Trump administration, there is no way for it to do so without overturning its own previous unanimous precedents."
In its coming decision, the Supreme Court cannot ignore that from 1955 to 1967, a unanimous court decided that being born in the United States made people American. slate.trib.al/ZxAW3Rb
The Key to the Birthright Citizenship Case Could Be These Long-Forgotten Supreme Court Precedents
Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality just 60 years ago.
slate.trib.al
January 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"If the court were to side with the Trump administration, there is no way for it to do so without overturning its own previous unanimous precedents."
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We put together a Know Your Rights post with clear, practical guidance on what to do if you are approached by ICE. The slides break down your rights and steps you can take to protect yourself and your loved ones: because access to information is a form of safety: buff.ly/wyH57GY
January 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
We put together a Know Your Rights post with clear, practical guidance on what to do if you are approached by ICE. The slides break down your rights and steps you can take to protect yourself and your loved ones: because access to information is a form of safety: buff.ly/wyH57GY
"If the court were to side with the Trump administration, there is no way for it to do so without overturning its own previous unanimous precedents."
In its coming decision, the Supreme Court cannot ignore that from 1955 to 1967, a unanimous court decided that being born in the United States made people American. slate.trib.al/ZxAW3Rb
The Key to the Birthright Citizenship Case Could Be These Long-Forgotten Supreme Court Precedents
Whether or not the Trump administration has found a loophole in Wong Kim Ark, the court decided this issue with some finality just 60 years ago.
slate.trib.al
January 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
"If the court were to side with the Trump administration, there is no way for it to do so without overturning its own previous unanimous precedents."
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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Still staggered by how much of what @errollouis.bsky.social and I talked about after SCOTUS’s presidential immunity opinion dropped in July ‘24 is now a reality… @brennancenter.org
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Brennan Center director discusses the latest in Trump's case
The trial wrapped up in May when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment.
ny1.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Still staggered by how much of what @errollouis.bsky.social and I talked about after SCOTUS’s presidential immunity opinion dropped in July ‘24 is now a reality… @brennancenter.org
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
January 16, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Still staggered by how much of what @errollouis.bsky.social and I talked about after SCOTUS’s presidential immunity opinion dropped in July ‘24 is now a reality… @brennancenter.org
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Brennan Center director discusses the latest in Trump's case
The trial wrapped up in May when a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment.
ny1.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Still staggered by how much of what @errollouis.bsky.social and I talked about after SCOTUS’s presidential immunity opinion dropped in July ‘24 is now a reality… @brennancenter.org
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
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President Trump is once again threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, this time in Minneapolis. That would be a flagrant and particularly dangerous abuse of the Act—one that would threaten the rule of law and public safety alike. 1/13
January 16, 2026 at 12:18 AM
President Trump is once again threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act, this time in Minneapolis. That would be a flagrant and particularly dangerous abuse of the Act—one that would threaten the rule of law and public safety alike. 1/13
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“The masks only make them easier to see.” - @davidjroth.bsky.social 👇🏻
I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 PM
“The masks only make them easier to see.” - @davidjroth.bsky.social 👇🏻
“The masks only make them easier to see.” - @davidjroth.bsky.social 👇🏻
I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
defector.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:01 PM
“The masks only make them easier to see.” - @davidjroth.bsky.social 👇🏻
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21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
21-year-old activist injured by ICE:
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
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On December 24, 2025, NARF filed an amicus brief backing an injunction that stopped a sweeping federal funding freeze from taking effect. The freeze would disrupt essential services and undermine the United States’ trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations and Native people: buff.ly/2Kg025p
U.S. must fulfill obligations by protecting programs - Native American Rights Fund
On December 24, 2025, NARF filed an amicus brief supporting an injunction that has blocked the destructive, broad-based freeze of federal funding that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)…
narf.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:52 PM
On December 24, 2025, NARF filed an amicus brief backing an injunction that stopped a sweeping federal funding freeze from taking effect. The freeze would disrupt essential services and undermine the United States’ trust and treaty obligations to Tribal Nations and Native people: buff.ly/2Kg025p
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Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
"You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.
Annnnnddddd St Paul schools are closing next week for 2 days to prepare for virtual learning options.
January 15, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Bro, they are closing schools because teachers need time to make virtual options for non-white students because lawless federal paramilitaries are terrorizing them.