Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

I did not know this previously, but apparently a U.S. President can unilaterally dismantle a law passed by congress and freeze already awarded funding for essential services and face absolutely no repercussions for it whatsoever

hell, the press will barely even remember he did it 6 months later

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

Well golly it sounds like you should let long-standing precedents stand until you rule on the merits, then. That is not what you’re doing!

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

I assume that was also your point. I think it’d be helpful if finance folks were less indirect in discussing inequality, since it’s driving our economic policies and politics.

Doesn’t your chart answer and contradict the basis of your question? 90% of Americans have far less of the wealth pie than ever. Wealth is relative, not just to inflation.

Reaganism - market liberalism without restraint or populism and incitement of race prejudice - is surely what helped get us to this moment. It is an unappealing dream to believe that the democratic future is fundamentally “unpopulist”. Abundance must be populist to work as a re-democratizing force.

What Wood ignores of the past is that the consensus was forged on New Deal style social welfare principles that *restrained* market liberalism’s most egregious effects - econ populism. What Wood ignores now is that the billionaire class aligns with the antiliberal Republicans. Reaganism is no answer

“With Trump provocatively sending troops into blue cities, and using recision and the shutdown to claw back congressionally appropriated funds from blue states, it’s time to turn the tables on him.” By @clarajeffery.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Interesting convo following Coates’ incisive piece. Coates effectively decentered the lens through which Ezra views the relevant history. While I disagree with his tentative musings on the how of it, I also appreciate Ezra’s central point that we (the left, broadly construed) need to win.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch

🧢 @trumpfile.org

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Civil lawsuits please

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

The fact that Never Trumpers are better defenders of liberalism and democratic protest than these “centrist” Dems says a lot about why/how our party has failed. Please have the humility to exit the stage and let others lead the resistance and the rebuilding.

Made in El Salvador BOYCOTT:

Who wants to own a piece of that? Jeez

Mr Lander, what are you doing to get more name recognition and support in the outer boroughs? Please re-double your efforts. Cuomo must not win the primary.

Any plans to talk to *small* business/landlords in Queens/Bklyn about your plans for property tax reform?

Delusional

Lots of people are standing up for him, just not Dem leadership. Need to change that fast.