Phil Simpson

Yasssss! Celebrating freedom of Speech while we still have it with #lemonpoundcake in honor of #afroman’s recent victory for free speech!!! 🍋🍰 #noKings

We need mass no kings demos every month as well as work stoppages

Spread this dear ones: "Bernie Sanders is suggesting the Epstein files be read during the filibuster on the SAVE Act this week. Let's get this to TREND! Answered that for you

Senator Markwayne Mullin, who Trump has tapped to become DHS secretary, is one of the biggest stock traders in Congress. On December 29th alone, he traded 31 stocks worth up to $2.8 million. He's gotten a whole lot wealthier during his time in Congress.

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Tuberville’s reprehensible slurs against our mayor having an iftar meal have no place in America. It’s bigotry. And what’s as bad is the Senator thinks it gets him votes in Alabama. It’s repugnant .

“Section 14 of the Press Law ordered editors ‘to keep out of the newspapers anything which…tends to weaken the strength of the German Reich, outwardly or inwardly.’” - William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 405

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

I’m old enough to remember when W was the worst president and Dan Quayle was stupid…

Reminder No Kings protest on March 28.

I do not think that organized maritime labor will at all happy with this: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

🧵A niche thing I study that shouldn’t be niche-y is that anhydrous ammonia to fertilize US row crops (eg corn) is made from natural gas via a dumb chemical process invented in WW1. And now that fertilizer stuck in the Straight of Hormuz and planting season is nigh. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/b...

Remember - it's not if AI can replace you, it's if your boss thinks AI can replace you.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Today’s ruling was a victory for free speech, but don’t expect Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to give up. We have to keep standing up to this Administration when they undermine Americans’ rights.

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

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Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Another popular MAGA snuff video . . . Thanks @badiucao.bsky.social.

“God damn them all.”

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

I Really Think More People Need To Understand This….

How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ www.popsci.com/science/edmu...

Zohran Mamdani’s values are… ✨Jewish values ✨ We talk to our members on why they’re canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and not falling for Cuomo’s bigoted attempts to divert us away from winning the safe, affordable and fun city we all deserve.

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I knew the lady in the polka dot dress was gonna become a meme as soon as I saw the video, but this is fantastic.

No words

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

OMG The frogs & other characters are giving me LIFE! Been feeling down about alllll of the 💩, but getting recharged for NO KINGS 2.0 on Oct 18!

We cannot normalize militarizing American cities and suburbs. Make sure you know your rights and stay alert.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

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Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

D.C. TODAY…

Outside Dupont north metro

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“He is at this time transporting large Armies of … Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.”

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Occasional Mayor Adams corruption reminder: www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...