Dan Berger

That RFK clip is ghastly, but it's totally consistent with the Islamophobia that has been coming out of this administration, including Trump's rhetoric about Abdul El-Sayed. They are all in on the hatred of Muslims because it's a formula that has worked before.

the idea that empathy is dangerous has been permeating right-wing spaces for a while, but it's not an actual element of their ideology as much as it's a defense mechanism against confronting the reality of their cruelty

An interview with Champagne Song in Johnson County Jail, having received a 100 year sentence in the #Prairieland Antifa case, about their political development and assessment of the situation with the USA today. thefinalstrawradio.mayfirst.info/2026/10/18/c...

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I built this based on @austinkocher.com 's ICE detention mortality data.

I wrote for @thenation.com about why people need to stop acting as though the dramatically escalating bigotry on display in US politics is just an unserious sideshow.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

We're not giving up the fight. Today Mahmoud Khalil asked SCOTUS to review the case challenging his detention after the appeals court in January overturned a lower court’s order that released him. More: bit.ly/mahmoud-petitions-SCOTUS

New: Mahmoud Khalil is asking the Supreme Court to review his case. He's challenging a court ruling that essentially deprived immigrants like him of the right to habeas corpus, forcing them to possibly remain in detention for years — even if the point of their detention was to punish their speech.

📣 BOOK TOUR 📣 —> Ithaca —> Chicago —> L.A. —> NYC —> “Troop Movements: Labor, Race, and Global Freedom Struggles in America’s World War II” — by Tejasvi Nagaraja Spread the word — stay tuned — get in touch! 📕🏟️

I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

I expanded one of yesterday’s threads into a piece about the attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, fascist desperation, and fighting our way out of this mess.

"And when they died there they didn’t just die for me, but they died for you because your freedom is shackled in chains to mine. And until I am free, you are not free either." Fannie Lou Hamer, 1971

October 20, 7pm at Estelitas Library in Beacon Hill, Ashanti Alston in conversation with @dnbrgr.bsky.social about Ashanti’s new book from @akpress.org, Anarchist Panther. 2901 17th Ave S, Seattle. Wear a mask! Grateful to Masc Block Seattle for providing masks.

If you want to focus on the harm ICE is causing in our communities, and how you can interrupt it, you can find some great resources here:

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

Seattle—come here Ashanti Alston and me chop it up about his new book and incredible history next Tues, Oct 20, at Estelita’s in Beacon Hill

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I admit I was wrong here. ICE allows chains on kids as young as 12 👀 "If it is necessary to restrain a minor, always consider size, age, gender, and cognitive ability when considering the type of approved restraints to apply. Minors under 12 years of age will never be placed in full restraints."

My man ended USAID, condemning millions to death

Rhetoric like this is going to do more to ensure that young generations do not take the Holocaust seriously than any actual denier ever could.

The power, and the weight, of “both/and” ( vs. either/or)

This has been a load bearing statement for me these last three years. It's important to contextualize it inside the efforts people were making, and have continued to make, to stop the genocide in Gaza. The tension is still overwhelming in a lot of ways, I think.

Berger, the historian, said that what makes the project exciting is that it centers on being a defendant. “But it’s also a tragic commentary on where we’re at, with a large swath of people and politics under attack right now,” he said. “We’re all defendants.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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For the new issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @brianhochman.bsky.social and I spoke to the great @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social about our new 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report and what it teaches us about the past, present, and future of how the US government disrupts movements.

One of the reasons that it’s vital blue cities unfuck their housing supply is that sanctuary cities probably aren’t viable long term politically otherwise. Need housing to be cheap/abundant if you don’t want there to be blowback from ICE/shithead county sheriffs funneling precarious people to you

In a stunning announcement Tuesday afternoon, Christa Pike’s attorneys said she is “conscious and speaking” almost a week after surviving Tennessee’s attempt to execute her. ✍️ @iamstevenhale.bsky.social

Tennessee is planning new youth prisons, bucking a nationwide trend, ProPublica reports:

It was a pleasure to chat with Greg on this week’s episode. Check it out if you haven’t already

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

Becca Good spoke publicly: ”I'm devastated by how many other lives have been destroyed, in this the darkest of times. From so many families dealing with the loss of their owned loved ones, to everyone who has to witness it, the pain of this moment extends so far beyond our family." (cont)

Here’s a grueling thread about the Supreme Court and Tennessee’s barbaric collaboration to murder someone

I couldn’t help myself! 😆

Gavin Newsom: I have to do some transphobia to win over Republicans The Democratic governor of a “red” state:

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."