Loudmouth & cheerleader for abortion justice, LGBTQ & racial justice. Queer. Mom. Love art, sports, my wife, daughter, & dog. Pronouns she/they. Never thought I’d have to defend democracy but here we are.
Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
If you’re shopping in Hainesport NJ be aware of the flock cameras outside Wawa, Shop Rite and Lowe’s.
Surveillance cameras are the red/white icons.
And thank you @mapquest.bsky.social
for helping level the playing field. They’ve added surveillance to the map layers. 🤭
NEW FROM PP
The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it
500+ Americans detained
70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied
60+ held after filming
36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer
~12 deported (yes, deported)
projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot by ICE 10 days ago.
The bullet is still lodged in his back. He’s been forced to sleep on the floor and hasn’t been given medication, according to his attorney.
Now DHS is claiming he assaulted an agent.
Can we trust anything DHS says given its track record?
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff.
Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years.
Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today
Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists!
Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
I wish this were happening in every community in America that is under assault by ICE. But I’m proud of Danbury. Thousands came out tonight to protest ICE’s brutality - including this horrific new tactic of disappearing parents at school bus stops.
I think Gianni Infantino maybe toast at last.
UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF have begun preliminary discussions about the possibility of organising competitions among themselves to ensure that players can continue to compete.
FIFA delegates who backed him must be getting concerned now?
So if I properly understood Trump‘s speech tonight, under his Presidency he failed to stop hackers from committing the worst election fraud in US history & let them steal the 2020 election—& in response—he wants us to reward his incompetence with even More power & authority🤔
Yeah no thanks, fascist
Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act.
But as the surprise wears off, a sense of isolation has begun to set in among some.
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This feels like a good time to note that, indeed, USWNT is the winningest team in international sports history (win percentage: 84)
the18.com/en/soccer-en...
BIG RESULT: New York state Senator Jessica Ramos, who gave Andrew Cuomo a surprise endorsement near the end of the mayoral primary last year, has lost her seat.
She is ousted in today's Dem primary by Jessica González-Rojas, an assemblymember endorsed by many left figures like AOC.
I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do.
If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.
Fun fact! Even when the government dismisses a charge (or all charges), your lawyer still did a bunch of work to get that to happen!
And when you have two people who have been under indictment for 6+ months, it costs a shit ton of money — it’s part of why the government does this. Hope that helps.
It's only a misdemeanor. A private attorney wouldn't charge her more than $10k. She doesn't need $250k.
They'll probably offer her a deal beforehand anyway. I don't know who she thinks she is but she's nobody. A failed candidate without a job and apparently unwilling to get one.
When the CEO of one of the world’s largest mining companies calls out fossil fuel subsidies while backing renewables and storage as the future, you don’t ignore it. This isn’t activism, it’s economics. A fading model vs cheaper, faster, scalable energy. The system is flipping. Momentum is shifting.
We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass.
That’s the problem.
Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵:
These protests are important b/c:
1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.
The NY Times saves its harshest skepticism for progressives. Instead of being impressed by 3,000+ coordinated protests, NYT dismisses the value of “hitting a number” and asks if No Kings will be “a primal scream that fades into a whimper.”
F off, NY Times. We'll defeat fascism w/o you. (Gift link)
This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.
Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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.
The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.