Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialnubluesnick.bsky.social @nubluesnick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026I have read the statements by both Davidson and Mcnally of Tourettes Action. They do not seem to understand the enunciation of the word has a material impact that exceeds the frame of intention. A lack of intention cannot shield one’s body from the effect of language. 2266
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims. 13974284922597
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialmediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now 2336781515
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Breathless reports on Twitter from Project Veritas & fellow creeps of infiltrating ICE watch signals. I thought, Oh, no, they found a couple of jackasses & are going to blow them up. But no, the "conspiracy" is that many people volunteer, take turns on shifts, and train at nonviolence. 314335571
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Lot of replies saying MAGA’s nothing but astroturf. There is astroturf—O’Keefe’s part of it—but no, it’s not limited to that. I’ve been reporting on it 10 years. Let’s not respond to MAGA’s delusions w/ our own. The fascist threat is real & big; the truth is everyday people democracy can be bigger. 14102475
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/01/2026i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices 311150652944
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialElisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources." 2262752194
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialIda B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/01/2026If yall think this is "crazy" or "outlandish," you should read what those folks in Savannah said to General Sherman in January 1865 after he asked them "what they wanted." We talk alot about the "40 acres & a mule" part, but that wasn't the whole thing 094
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026“Preschooler’s detention marks fourth for district.” Total abolition of ICE and the entirety of the War on Terror apparatus that led to this point. Or there will be many, many more. 8426133
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/01/2026The kidnappings of Black, Latine, Indigenous, and Asian US citizens are not an accident. They are the leading edge of a wide-scale ethnic cleansing campaign with centuries-old roots that is intentionally targeting not just non-citizens but all people of color. All. People. Of. Color. 6834335
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"In the next ten to twenty years, automation will grind jobs to dust as it grinds out unbelievable volumes of production . . . labor will have to intervene in the political life of the nation to chart a course which distributes the abundance to all instead of concentrating it among a few." #MLKDay 314260
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026@samthielman.com writes an absolute heater about a zombified American empire that nevertheless retains its relentless appetite for brains and flesh.forever-wars.comEmpire Building at Home and AbroadThe American empire is collapsing as it expands. How could it do anything else? 04415
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." Hats off to @niallstanage.bsky.social: 1122819628
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The anti-DEI bullshit has always been simple racism barely even repackaged. Erasing Dr. Kings legacy was always one of the goals. We pretend that the segregationists lost. But any defeat was temporary and they currently control all three branches of government. 221267459
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 15/01/2026Slow clap for all the “economic anxiety” pundits, from 2009 to today. You’ve always been clowns. 012827
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/01/2026This is a critical point. What we're really witnessing is the *collapse* of law and order, brought about by Trump's lawless thugs. I think a lot of ordinary people intuitively understand that this is what's happening. 432759750
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026Part of what's great about Eric Foner's scholarship on this, for our purposes, is that it's about responding to kidnappings in an urban environment! 1475144
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/01/2026FWIW I do think it's still important to show up to vote in overwhelming numbers & to clog up the courts as much as possible, but y'all, it's the state that's doing all this stuff. The state will not willingly provide a remedy for its own lawlessness. That's not a legitimate exit strategy. 1375
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026The president has been encouraged to express himself with 15 to 18 "pieces of flair" 73112298
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialjohnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 09/01/2026A thread for those who've been following the scheming between the University of Virginia's far-right board, Trump's Department of Justice, & various MAGA politicians. 👇🏽 093
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialAdarAyiraViews @adarayiraviews.bsky.social · 06/01/2026“..the goal for MAGA is to swap out democratic liberal ideologies w/ a Christian nationalism.. preventing..legislatively & socially, nonwhite groups from being part of the..American experience..we see the..to the removal or forced resignation of nonwhites in key roles.” My Jan. 6th Morning Read:arkrepublic.comThought Piece: The rise of MAGA is the rise of American PopulismThe question asked by many is how do we get here? It is a question asked in our daily news of a Donald Trump presidency operating like an autocratic regime. Intentionally, we are bombarded with an ong... 032
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 05/01/2026Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comDunster House Resident Dean Gregory Davis Removed After Resurfaced Social Media Posts | News | The Harvard CrimsonGregory K. Davis was removed from his post as Dunster House resident dean effective immediately, according to a message circulated to House affiliates Monday morning. 201107642
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 05/01/2026And like I get it, people want a return to "normal" but if your normal is a police state that doesn't target white people and leaves everything else the same? You aren't actually interested in progress or liberation 011925
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialBoston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”bostonreview.netThe Moral Stupefaction of the American PublicTrump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure. 018589
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026…because the U.S. kidnapped him. This makes it sound like Maduro is saying something deceitful and self-serving when he is describing what unfolded before our eyes. 191389255
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 04/01/2026What a perfect analogy and response to resistlibs who whinge about "why are you protesting democrats and not republicans." Well done. 🧵 15539100
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026What is the liberal position on Israel? Crime? Immigration? Regime change? Oil extraction? On all of these highly relevant issues that motivate people, they have some vague answer that tries to play both sides. Meanwhile, conservatives can give you a confident straightforward answer on all of them. 0274
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Right wing parties are winning around the world, and a major contributor is that liberals can’t give a straight answer on fucking anything for fear their answer might offend someone. 2417
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 04/01/2026This is excellent and worth reading now--even though it was written about the boat strikes, and not the invasion and proposed occupation. 19524
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...nytimes.comMamdani Called Trump to Criticize Venezuela Strikes 13180241334
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.forever-wars.comA Criminal EmpireThe United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream 7948031425
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialJorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Wow today is going to be weeks long 141789167
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026White people solemnly intoning that WE must be ashamed of what America has become and that this war in Venezuela is the most indefensible thing WE have ever done. Sit down, Peter. This country was founded on kidnapping, rape, and genocide. This is who ✌🏾WE✌🏾 have been since this country’s inception. 16851167
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2025Wrote a little thing on Facebook for my non-online friends and relatives about caution around Charlie Kirk’s killing. It’s public so feel free to share it with your non-online friends and relatives too. www.facebook.com/share/p/1DS2... 131060
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I wonder why it is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency? 991592337
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialPolling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 23/06/2025"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?" No: 85% Yes: 5% YouGov / June 22, 2025 796218885489
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialMelanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...politico.comFormer critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing himA POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021. 14438281039
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2025according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return 24886102889
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialCapital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...capitalbnews.orgFrom Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 YearsAmerica’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. 10399221
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Anybody watching this Trump program knows that it’s all fiction & performance. His “instincts;” his “deal-making;” his status as “the ultimate CEO.” It’s utter fiction. It’s awful that media figures w/a reasonable level of sophistication pretend that the silly stories from Trump camp are credible. 1133067692
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialChris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 23/06/2025A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone. 678198844954
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialDave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Has a Dem introduced a "no law enforcement with masks, no I.D.s and a right to hold you indefinitely" bill? Or put more simply, "defund ICE"? 14011
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025some people confuse the "ruthless pursuit of power *in order to win advance one's political projects, principles, and values*" Realism with "ruthless pursuit of power that betrays the absence of political projects, principles, and values" Realism. there's nothing serious or adult about the latter 827257
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialslop enjoyer @slop.guru · 29/05/2025i’m here you fuckaas bitch 688321654451
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025They will tell the courts to get fucked but they can only tell your union to get fucked if you let them! www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...hamiltonnolan.comThey Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop ThemThe government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now. 012121
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/05/2025To the #BrokenPost, shredding the Constitution in a fascist, authoritarian coup is a "power move." Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comSupreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power movesThe justices appear to be trying to avoid a direct conflict with the Trump administration while also blocking certain presidential actions. 68130
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 29/05/2025Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it. 5454001201
Reposted by @danapolson.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/05/202522 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.npr.orgTrump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccineThe Department of Health and Human Services is ending a $766 million contract with the vaccine company Moderna to develop an mRNA vaccine for flu strains with pandemic potential, including bird flu. 10737201555