This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

The majority of mass shooters have a history of violence against women. Learning this about the Manchester attacker was not surprising to me.

Sexual violence should garner much more outrage. Because victims deserve that and public safety depends on it.
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

The best way to depress democratic hope and enthusiasm and get progressive voters to stay home is to give the appearance that both parties are the same

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

That is, unless their speech is about Palestine, because Barnard will expel students in a heartbeat for that grievous offense.

“I was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions…What happened to me is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media — a historical pattern as dangerous as it is shameful — and tragic.”

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

“...ordinary voters who merely wonder why they should be made to feel like unwelcome outsiders in parts of their own country..."

This rhetorical tic kills me as a Black person living in the United States.

The term antisemitism is not a “diversionary tactic”—but this kind of gotcha reply is! Term was popularized in 1880s w the founding of the League of Antisemites. It specifically means opposition to Jews as a people. We can oppose genocide w/o erasing this history or denying reality of antisemitism

Newsom is an alternate Trump not an alternative to Trump.

The thing is, the situation was never “a minority is right by virtue of their identity”

It has always been and still is that you are responsible for being attentive to how power dynamics shape what you notice and don’t notice, how you interpret tone, what you weight as important or devalue, etc

ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are it’s a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Here’s how to expose the lie.

I try to be understanding, but jesus christ, the whole story is about how infiltration (which I’ve also covered for years) is not necessary when agencies are openly recruiting them, and they’ve volunteering, and their missions are now the same

Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL said on TV today that Zohran Mamdani did not visit a single synagogue in NYC during the campaign. That is, to put it bluntly, a lie. forward.com/news/763210/...

Great week for people who are like once I saw a black person, therefore it’s time for martial law

But yeah, this is why spending the last five years embracing policing as a common-sense bipartisan institution, with critics being attributed to the result of some mass hysteria, was always going to end poorly. Because the police weren’t changing, and the violence never stopped.

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.