Jami Reed

58 Democrats stood up for an important fact today: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.

Live your life in such a way that if you go silent for a few days people don’t start hopefully thinking maybe you’re dead or dying.

Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Dear God, look at the jobs report revisions for May and June! This is not at all the rosy picture it looked like to economists over the past few months.

If they can be destroyed by the truth, they deserve to be destroyed by the truth.

That will tamp down the conspiracy theories

The latest ICE statistics show that as of June 29, there were 57,861 people detained by ICE, 41,495, or 72% of whom had no criminal convictions. So much for the “worst of the worst.”

It’s no longer hyperbole to say we now know who would have turned in their Jewish neighbors to the gestapo.

Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…

Am I the only one totally disinterested in wedding of the 1%?

Which means a baby born in New York to undocumented parents will be a citizen. But a baby born to undocumented parents in Kentucky will not be a citizen. This is madness.

The reason that some will use the Bible to justify the bombing of Iran is because they used it to justify chattel slavery, just as it’s being used to fight for the lives of queer people. The Bible is not a book. It is a mirror. Whatever you’re looking for, you will find. What are you looking for?

NYTimes has a long history of holding conservatives—including its paid columnists, like Stephens here—to absolutely no standards whatsoever, but still worth noting the complete lack of ethics required to not mention how 99.99% of Iran's uranium stockpile was due to Trump withdrawing from JCPOA.

If you thought the tough guys hiding behind masks abducting students, farm workers and people showing up for immigration court are bad now, wait until Iran retaliates.

Schumer's gonna tweet about egg prices, isn't he.

Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

Must be weird, kidnapping __________ people for ICE when, at any moment, your patriotic terrorism might be sabotaged by an unexpected Trump declaration that __________ people are wonderful and an asset to America.

New Yorkers scream out each officer’s lawsuits against them for excessive force and more upon their city, right to their faces while protesting.

The idea that protesters in LA shouldn’t give him a pretext for violence presupposes that he needs or cares about a pretext. If you protesters stay home, then he’s going to keep kidnapping people and use the lack of protests as proof that everyone agrees with him.

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

The minimum acceptable contrition from a Trump voter is to lobby their Republican legislators to stand up against Trump. If you regret voting for this shit, start doing something about it.

Ignorance is a choice

There is never a good reason to starve children. There is never a good reason to shoot children in the head. And it’s fucking bleak that I have to spell this out. If you wouldn’t allow it for your kids, why would you work so hard to justify it happening to Palestinians?

for the people in the driver's seat of the right wing cultural movement, an end to "DEI" always meant doing things like sending free money to a white lady who called a child the n word. sorry if you thought it was about a slightly annoying HR webinar you once had to watch or whatever.

Prices will go up. There will be shortages. National parks will be a mess. Air travel, based on what we're seeing in Newark, could go sideways. Measles will spread and fall COVID shots could get delayed. And the president might throw himself a big birthday parade! Widespread anger is coming.

Amazon: Tariffs are making things more expensive. White House: No they aren’t. Amazon: *shows prices with tariffs* White House: This is a hostile and political act!

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

I care about Personal Liberties so much I'm gonna ban anyone who disagrees with me from my op-ed section.

The Pope is not dead yet.

Trump: Fire hundreds of thousands of career civil servants trying to keep America safe and running. Also, Trump: Give DHS a budget of up to $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads that repeatedly thank Trump for leading an immigration crackdown. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

The air of insanity about all of this is starting to get to me.

I want people to understand this. For many of them, democracy ended when Obama was elected twice and Black Lives Matter rose to prominence. This is them “fixing” a system that felt broken and newly unsafe to them.

First they came for the brown people, and I did not speak out—because I was not brown. Then they came for the trans people, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trans person…