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One thing about masked plain clothed dudes is nobody knows what’s really happening (including me). Guess that’s part of the point

A friend just texted me from LA that this was happening at the park she was at

Where to even begin

Protests are helpful for making people feel less isolated and nihilistic. Boomers libs seem to understand that in a way many young people don’t. (I say this as a guy who complains about gerontocracy all the time)

Ok but incredible that it was a Chris hedges byline

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Happening now, come through!

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

Quite the image and caption

"This is an all-time low for the Israelis and an all-time high for the Palestinians since the Quinnipiac University Poll began asking this question." The figure is surely flipped for Dem electeds. No issue has a greater disconnect between the base and party in government in either party

“Harsh crackdowns may generate sympathy for protesters, said Omar Wasow, a political scientist at UC Berkeley who studies protest movements. The “spectacle of violence and repression,” he said, can frame states as ‘bullies’ unjustly squashing expression.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

Honestly shocking to see this

According to their immigration attorney, 5 of the 6 had their paperwork and work permits in order, nowhere close to expired. No criminal records. They got rounded up anyway.

RIP Brian Wilson For an instrumental and vocal performance that matches Wilson's writing genius, peep this rare Betty Everett cover of "God Only Knows" www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Qa...

Tomorrow! Lisa L. Miller @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @ericblanc.bsky.social and Alex Gourevitch discuss how to respond to the crises we face, from constitutional reform to student protests and labor organizing. Moderated by @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Register now: secure.givelively.org/event/boston...

Alright that's pretty good, I chuckled

"The normalization of routine and open-ended deployment of the military at home requires that the public become accustomed to this departure from historic practice." Today Trump went further down the path of nomralizing the politicization of the military. Awful. www.thebulwark.com/p/its-always...

The Democratic Party is actually pretty effective under strict institutional norms and rules. They whip votes and submit to leaders despite a big tent and diverse base When the norms and rules don’t apply (like now), the Democratic Party is a deer in the headlights

Add “zombie fires” to the list of things that sound like they should be concepts for late-night horror movies, but are in fact real-world consequences of climate change. on.ft.com/3FPpCO4

They hate the First Amendment so bad

extremely common 2020s bill kristol W

I'm moderating this panel on implications for the US Constitution. June 12 at 3pm PT/6pm ET, come through!

I posted that Miller and Trump were "invoking" (actually legally calling upon) the Insurrection Act but I messed up and the right word is "evoking" ("calling forth something, typically a feeling")

In the modern era, even “riots” generate support, not backlash www.cambridge.org/core/service...

The best scientific evidence is that the 2020 BLM protests helped defeat Trump in the election. These protests are likely doing the same. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ICE crossed a line in LA

Governor Newsom: "I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops ... and return them to my command. ... This is a serious breach of state sovereignty — inflaming tensions while pulling resources from where they’re actually needed." The letter:

I love opposing my political enemy by advancing his own argument that he’s being provoked by violent agitators.

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

sorry Jonah this is competitive authoritarianism, not a democracy www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

If you’re unable to deal with intraparty competition really stressed out by social media on your deathbed you may not be cut out for leading the minority party through an authoritarian period www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

On Twitter you can find that 99.9% of people tweeting TREAD ON ME NOW PLEASE have all these tweets from a few years ago about Obama militarily forcing them into fema camps Anyway shoutout to the two (2) principled civil libertarians out there

Sorry I tried to tell you guys

Insurrection Act being called over LA, masked agents kidnapping, Palantir creating mass minority report database on all Americans, tanks rolling into DC for authoritarian military parade… Be for real. The transition has happened. Time to stand up for our country.

I love my country

Reposting today for no particular reason.