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just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

"What’s 'wrong' for Trump is the idea that a Black and Muslim woman he deems inferior could come to the United States and be granted rights as his equal."

As a former teacher, I never scrubbed in for a gender reassignment surgery, but I did instruct the kids on how to get the window screens off in case of an active shooter…

It really shouldn't require people to debunk this sort of absolute gutter racism but Somalis are strikingly hard-working people and this was noticeable basically as soon as they started arriving. They came legally, they're hard working, they learn English, they make their kids do their homework.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

A woman in Arkansas was seeking care for a life-threatening miscarriage. Under the state’s strict abortion ban, no doctor would treat her. “Our hands are tied behind our backs,” one doctor told her. “Tell your friends to vote differently.” (Published May)

TBH, all the focus on the armed dad who stopped the shooter is also unsettling. Yes, heroic. However: The killer was 16 YEARS OLD. Three child victims and a teacher are dead, others wounded, another community shattered. Why isn't the focus, 'How do we stop this from happening in the first place?'

Well, look at that. California is seeing a big increase in multifamily housing permits. We passed historic CEQA reforms w/AB 130 to make it easier to build housing & now we’re seeing momentum. There’s still lots of work to do, but this is an encouraging sign. www.ocregister.com/2026/10/08/c...

Pop quiz: who can remove the chief justice of the United States? A) The president B) Nobody, it’s for life C) Congress Most people say B. It’s C. And John Roberts is counting on you never finding out.

My heart is completely broken for the children, families, teachers, and entire Silver Rail Elementary community in Bend, Oregon today. Elementary school should be about jungle gyms, math class, and making new friends—not learning where to hide from a shooter.

Only in America are mass shootings in schools a regular occurrence. Kids endure active shooter drills. They never get to enjoy a sense of safety. Yet America refuses to deal with the guns. They value the second amendment over the lives of their own children:

School shootings happen this often because Republican politicians think gun worship is good for their careers.

strategic political capture of the court has, for 40 years, been a one-way ratchet. among other things, this has inculcated a sense among conservatives that they can act with virtual impunity. showing them that their opponents will play hardball is a necessary first step toward a better status quo.

not to be a one-trick pony but Biden was, in fact, trying very hard to fix this shit by building up US chip fab capabilities and we decided to reward him for that by reëlecting Trump who immediately took the axe to American chip manufacturing mid-buildout

I’m outraged by this attack on Representative Omar. Trump and his DOJ have a bizarre obsession with tearing down Minnesota, our leaders and our communities. This latest action, even as voting has already started in Minnesota, is a transparent attempt to interfere in our elections.

when you vote for your racism, when you vote for your fear, this is the inevitable outcome. Because the fearmongers you vote for don't care about you. They hate you as well.

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Yes. Homelessness is a choice that we make, as a society, every day. If it gets treated as part of the architecture of civilization, that’s only because powerful forces want you to think that way. Finally, it would cost less to house every unhoused person than it costs us to leave them homeless.

In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...

Please do not listen when the author of the opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade tells you that a landmark Supreme Court precedent is safe

“Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.” ~Pete Buttigieg

If Lauren Boebert's district here in Colorado can vote for a reproductive health amendment that permits abortion without it being tied to fetal viability, then any red district can—and you will never change my mind. We don't have to settle for crumbs. I wrote about it here.

"If the Court will not treat capital cases with the care they deserve, the American people should ensure that it can no longer stop other courts from doing so."

Do it. Whoever is keeping The LIst of all the things we have to do, put it on there.

Would have been nice, I think, if Jan Greenberg had responded, as virtually any of us would have, that "For your information, virtually every woman I know made crucial life decisions--in the workplace, the bedroom, the doctor's office, deciding where to live, etc.--in reliance on Roe. ... [4]

"Countless women will now make different decisions about careers, education, relationships, and whether to try to become pregnant than they would have when Roe served as a backstop....For millions of women, Roe and Casey have been critical in giving them control of their bodies and their lives." [3]

Just to be clear, this isn't much different from what he wrote in Dobbs. To which Justices Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan aptly responded: "This is to ignore as judges what we know as men and women. The interests women have in Roe and Casey are perfectly, viscerally concrete." [2]

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

it's such a perfect example of what is actually alito's hallmark as a justice, shoddy, sub-undergraduate thinking dressed up with five dollar words.

the other thing is that this is a totally incoherent and arbitrary standard for deciding who has rights and who doesn't. you could say the same, for instance, of alito's vision of inviolate "religious liberty" or expansive gun rights.

what an asshole

ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...

Anyway, happy First Monday everybody, this Supreme Court term is going to be an absolute nightmare, just like they will continue to be until we decide enough is enough and get serious about court reform.

This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.

Kristi Noem characterized Renee Good as a “domestic terrorist” — and and Lisa Demuth thanked her

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.

The timing on this ruling, as we are all learning more about the assault perpetrated by young men at Cornell, is just impeccable

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

TODAY: I'm introducing the Youth Voting Rights Act. Donald Trump is trying to limit young people from voting and going after campus polling places. If your vote didn’t matter, Trump wouldn't be doing this. We need to fight back.

I’ll just add to this thread, I guess

Is anyone keeping a tally of how many Republicans have hired Nazis for their congressional offices or campaigns?

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.