Miscellaneous

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents. (March 13, 2025)

 

 

Here’s why anti-authoritarianism rally crowd size matters (March 22, 2025)

 

 

At the Mike Lawler empty chair town hall in Peekskill, 102 year old Dee in danger of losing her Medicaid, heard FDR on the radio in 1935 when he created Social Security. (March 23, 2025)

 

 

Through the "Voices of Gaza" series I attempt to center the lives of people who have become a political symbol, but who themselves are increasingly abandoned as they put together the pieces of worlds destroyed by genocide & occupation. (February 24, 2025)

 

 

Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. (March 4, 2025)

 

 

You cannot crowdsource your ethics without condemning marginalized people. (March 30, 2025)

 

 

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to Oklahoma City two weeks ago. (April 29, 2025)

Friendly reminder that school administrators tend to take complaints from parents much more seriously than the same complaints from teachers. So if your kids’ school district is using PragerU stuff, please speak up. (August 8, 2025)

Katelyn Burns: Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure. (September 13, 2025)

Fascism has arrived in America: The seven tactics of an authoritarian. (September 18, 2025)

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh (September 24, 2025)

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor. (September 26, 2025)

ICE has threatened a “sh*t show” in Broadview today, per a village statement. (September 27, 2025)

Multiple organizers I trust who have been a regular presence at Broadview are advising folks not to protest there tonight. For a number of reasons, they are worried that fatal force could be used against protesters tonight. They are calling for folks to regroup and return Friday morning. (September 27, 2025)

Border Patrol agent talks about how he knows that the people he's arresting at this nutrition bar factory in NY are "literal street rats" who would "eat our kids" (September 27, 2025)

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” *busts in the door with babies crying* (September 28, 2025)

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. (September 30, 2025)

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. (October 11, 2025)

I think progressivism -- moving toward greater equality under law -- is moral & good, & conservatism -- preserving existing social & power hierarchies -- is bad & wrong, & furthermore, I think everyone *knows* this on some level. (October 18, 2025)

Absolute debasement of academic standards *student submits opinion in psych class *gets bad grade *instructor says she can make whatever arguments she wants but must draw on empirical sources *student & Turning Point says her religious freedom & first amendment rights violated *professor suspended (November 30, 2025)

This was supposed to be her first semester of college. (December 5, 2025)

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high. This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it. (December 6, 2025)

Jacqueline Sweet: When Nick Shirley arrived to "test" if he could enroll his son "Joey" in Minneapolis day cares, his viral video omitted that he showed up with an entourage of masked men acting like security, multiple vehicles including vans, cameras, and men who wouldn't identify themselves. (December 31, 2025)

My take is that calling it fascism matters for three reasons (January 8, 2026)

So the Epstein files dump 1. Protected a lot of predictors 2. Created another partisan food fight. 3. Failed to create any obvious pathway for these women to get accountability. 4. Included a number of clearly unverified claims that can be used to undermine the very legit emails. (February 1, 2026)

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship (February 13, 2026)

The US and Israel hit the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, the hospital is reported to have exterior damage. Iran’s state broadcaster across the street was also hit. (March 1, 2026)