Natalie

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

A standing reminder: a small handful of Republicans in Congress could stop this chaos tomorrow. They simply choose not to.

See, it's easy to denounce this straight up instead of politely asking the administration to pretty please give the American people an explanation when they have a sec

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

The cool kids are saying…

@lataco.bsky.social has stepped up to keep us connected in so many ways

@shoton35mm.bsky.social & @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social have been OTG, on the front lines & reliably chasing stories Angelenos need to hear

Help make this or their other campaigns happen

SAVE Act is dead

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Gutting state capacity is bad

Nobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein ties Richard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his long ties to Jeffrey Epstein

Richard Axel resigned from his post co-leading Columbia University’s Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute over his long ties to Jeffrey Epstein

This is state violence.

The implications for black voters receiving their mail-in ballots is horrifying.

Finally!

What a burn! Just deconstructed their nonsense for all to see.

Again, this is why we need to fight!

This is why our institutions need to fight instead of complying in advance. Because sometimes we win.

Looking at you, universities! 👀 👀

Adults at ICE concentration camps also get punished for talking with people on the outside who can publicize their stories.

Based on what I've heard at the Otay Mesa camp in San Diego, they're punished with additional work duties, aren't allowed outside in the yard, and denied phone access.

One of the funniest things about all of this is that CBS lawyers thought the public would believe their version of what happened over Stephen Colbert’s. Boy they picked the wrong guy to compare credibility with. Especially since, as Colbert points out, CBS lawyers actually approve every show script!

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.

Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

It’s hard to describe to normal people the years and years of work that was scrapped over all of this.

I just can’t stop thinking abt federal agents raiding the cells of incarcerated children to confiscate their drawings & letters. This is Nazi shit.

this is why we don’t comply in advance.

relatedly, this is why i am irate at every children’s hospital that cancelled their gender affirming care programs without a fight. when you have the law and the facts on your side you especially have to fight back.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

Yeah, this went quickly from happening to me seeing it to “I should write about this” to me being unable to do anything else until I got this out.

Here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/tom-homan-...

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

This is LITERALLY just taking Mike Johnson’s lie and presenting it as fact.

For those unfamiliar, the Claremont Institute is a think tank that tries to give intellectual legitimacy to the racist underpinnings of policy on the American Right. They promote fringe theories in law and political theory and reject longstanding norms, like that all citizens are equal under US law.

I once told a group of philosophers that a lot of American politics stems from the debate on whether the US should actually follow through on the 14th amendment (equal protection).

They were shocked to hear that American law hadn't accepted the version of the constitution passed in 1868.