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Community organizer and campaigner. Into socialism and bicycles. Battling the billionaires for housing, healthcare, and climate guarantees - sometimes I win, too. Silver Spring ⛲
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They might as well just put a bucket on the White House lawn that says "drop checks here"

We live right outside DC. Flew out of BWI this morning. Not getting near DCA until we have a properly funded and regulated airline industry

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Damn. Yes.

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

Which federal crime did the President commit with this statement? Was it 26 usc 7217, which prohibits the President or his aides from directing any tax enforcement action? Or was it 26 usc 6103, which prohibits any government official from disclosing an ongoing tax proceeding? Maybe both!

Unironically, Draft Gisele

Gevalt!

Center for Jewish History takes its turn profaning its mission by convening this symposium keynoted by: entitled brat hellbent on destroying higher ed, antisemitism expert who’s ok w/Trump deporting students, once-important critic disgraced by a long trail of sexual harassment. cjh.org/end_of_an_era

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

This dude is also being strongly primaried by Justice Dems. "A lot going on here" as they say

Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Just because Bezos won't build it doesn't mean it can't be built.... Browser plugin dropping shortly....

The correct messaging, morally and strategically, for Democrats on immigration. More parochially, it is also far more aligned with what most Jewish Americans think about these issues and their own family experiences than the stuff being peddled by the Greenblatts and Lipstadts

Arguments that the vanguard of the settlement movement are "fringe" and whatnot are a bit weird. More than 12% of the Israeli Jewish population lives beyond the 1967 line as settlers, settler extremists are in the cabinet, are on the Supreme Court, are supported by almost all Israeli parties.

This dude is an antisemitic grifter who got suspended from Twitter for posting CSAM. Now he's in the White House press briefing room. We've fallen far beneath any bottom we might have once had.

The economy SHRANK in the first quarter. Down from 2.4% growth in q4 to -0.3 in q1. Trump has officially cratered the strongest economy in the world in just a few months.

NEW: Judge Xinis DENIES an additional request by the government to further stay discovery in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case.

BREAKING: A judge has ordered the immediate release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student detained amid Trump administration crackdown on pro-Palestinian activists. @liz_crampton was in the Vermont courthouse where the decision just camedown. Details TK

everyone involved in this thread would greatly benefit from just reading Marx

The Trump Administration admitted in court that it NEVER should've abducted Kilmar, yet it continues to defy a court order to facilitate his return. Trump claims there's nothing he can do. But as I wrote to him today, the VP of El Salvador told me explicitly — the ball is in Trump's court:

legacy Jewish organizations played for fools. no one will face any accountability of course, they'll just keep failing up

the entire democratic party needs to bury every clinton consultant at sea and just go pritzker mode. how much bigger a softball can they give you than a suit saying “we want your entire lineage in factories forever”

notable how different this is from both classical liberal and neoliberal capitalist rhetoric, which typically emphasizes dynamism and opportunity - the ability to have a better life than your parents had, to change your station, to achieve anything. here by contrast the vision is neo-feudal, static.

Dear god let this man cook.

Even the weakest and most symbolic forms of democracy can't be expected to survive in these conditions.

Nobody does savage, determined leaking quite like the military industrial complex. That said, they might have finally met their match in Trump's fully tuned out and senile brain

I was excited to use this to find some businesses in Moco to boycott but it's just a handful of auto shops and chiropractors lol

This administration and their foot soldiers at ICE are the criminals who need to face justice. The bigots and anti-DEI crusaders are the degenerates who need to be stopped. Don't let them turn logic upside down. They're a vulnerable minority, fight back.