@danapolson.bsky.social
Anti-racism/anti-oppression facilitator and consultant. Baltimore Green Party. Cats chickens violin gardening baking knitting.
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Wrote 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...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Wrote 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...
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DS2...
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I wonder why it is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
Kristi Noem: "We as a federal government don't manage these disasters. The state does."
July 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I wonder why it is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency?
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"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 AM
"Do you want America to be at war with Iran?"
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
No: 85%
Yes: 5%
YouGov / June 22, 2025
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This 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...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him
A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.
www.politico.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This 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...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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according 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
NEW: The Supreme Court's conservatives halt a preliminary injunction that had restricted the Trump administration's ability to rapidly deport migrants to "third countries" where they have never lived and where allegedly face torture. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
![DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v.
D.V.D., ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[June 23, 2025]
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE JACKSON
and by her referred to the Court is granted. The April 18,
2025, preliminary injunction of the United States District
Court for the District of Massachusetts, case No. 25–cv–
10676, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is
timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall
terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted,
the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala,
even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to
face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order,
it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical
personnel. An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreietxy2onxpw2fhgui4rl6cuor52zfdsq5dirhspuslk7tqxfq4rty@jpeg)
June 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
according 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
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America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
capitalbnews.org/black-displa...
capitalbnews.org/black-displa...
From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
capitalbnews.org
June 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
capitalbnews.org/black-displa...
capitalbnews.org/black-displa...
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Anybody 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.
WATCH: New reporting from the New York Times suggests President Trump's decision to strike Iran was not based on intelligence, but rather on the wall-to-wall coverage he saw on Fox News.
'His intel was the TV': How Fox News influenced Trump's decision to strike Iran
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Anybody 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.
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A 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.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons: "If you look before January 20, and even after January 20, the men & women of ICE did not have to have masks on their face. Me personally, I don't want those officers having to wear masks bc it's hot, it's dangerous. But ICE agents are being doxxed at a horrible rate"
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A 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.
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Please say this AGAIN for the people in the back. ALSO let's please discuss the racial and gender and class differences within Gen X.
I think we forget that the cool Gen X people were literally the “alternative” to the conservative douchebag frat boy types that always have existed. When we think of what was cool about Gen X, we are thinking of the counterculture. Not the mainstream.
Crazy how cool Gen X was growing up for so many of them to become Trumper douchebags...
June 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Please say this AGAIN for the people in the back. ALSO let's please discuss the racial and gender and class differences within Gen X.
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Has 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"?
Narciso Barranco is a father of three Marines and longtime Orange County resident who was punched repeatedly in the head by ICE agents.
Mr. Barranco is represented in Congress by Republican Young Kim, who is introducing a resolution this week commending ICE "for keeping our communities safe."
Mr. Barranco is represented in Congress by Republican Young Kim, who is introducing a resolution this week commending ICE "for keeping our communities safe."
"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.
June 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Has 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"?
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some 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
It would be hard, short of wearing pajama pants with that little flap in the back, to show your ass more than by saying "Our party shares a lot of values with the white supremacist who thinks AfD is a centrist party and wants personal power to dismantle the federal government."
June 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
some 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
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i’m here you fuckaas bitch
May 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
i’m here you fuckaas bitch
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They 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...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:31 AM
They 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...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-g...
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To 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...
Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves
The justices appear to be trying to avoid a direct conflict with the Trump administration while also blocking certain presidential actions.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
To 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...
Supreme Court walks a tightrope as it confronts Trump’s power moves www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Editors, 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.
May 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Editors, 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.
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22 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.
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We were so goddamn close.
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.
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We were so goddamn close.
Trump administration cancels plans to develop a bird flu vaccine
The 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.
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
22 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.
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.
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We were so goddamn close.
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The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.
May 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The only stories I want to read about Elon Musk are investigative pieces about why the hell he hasn't yet been arrested for illegally demolishing the federal government in order to line his pockets and steal data.
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"But even as the Trump administration has carried out a series of controversial deportation flights to other nations, deportation totals are roughly the same as they were during President Biden's last year in office."
If you’re basing your argument around the idea Dems didn’t do this you’re wrong.
If you’re basing your argument around the idea Dems didn’t do this you’re wrong.
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"But even as the Trump administration has carried out a series of controversial deportation flights to other nations, deportation totals are roughly the same as they were during President Biden's last year in office."
If you’re basing your argument around the idea Dems didn’t do this you’re wrong.
If you’re basing your argument around the idea Dems didn’t do this you’re wrong.
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As someone who very much thinks that the Biden story matters a lot, it's so awesome that the press is completely uninterested in the 5+ times (off the top of my head) that Trump just openly has no idea what his administration is doing.
REPORTER: When could the administration resume interviews for foreign students visa?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
TRUMP: On what?
REPORTER: Foreign student visas
TRUMP: For the French?
REPORTER: All the foreign students
TRUMP: What are you referring-- foreign visas for what?
May 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As someone who very much thinks that the Biden story matters a lot, it's so awesome that the press is completely uninterested in the 5+ times (off the top of my head) that Trump just openly has no idea what his administration is doing.
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Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)
I see soooooooo many great writers putting so much of their time, effort, skill and money squarely in the lap of a really evil and untrustworthy company.
Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!
Morality questions aside: is it worth planting seeds in THIS soil, in this moment? Does it seem likely to pay off? So many alternatives!
Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis | TechPolicy.Press
Helping Nazis grow subscription newsletter businesses is ultimately best for the world, reasons Hamish McKenzie.
www.techpolicy.press
May 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reminder that I’m happy to help you move your Substack newsletter to a self-hosted Ghost newsletter that you fully own and control (and that scales more cheaply than Substack if you’re monetized.)
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Substack paid Matt Yglesias 250,000 tp start a newsletter so he can spread his smart takes like “DEI is bad.”
Am I saying that fool is a Nazi?
No. But I’m saying it is different than other platforms that simply allow Nazis.
They pay the people they want to launch newsletters. A LOT OF MONEY.
Am I saying that fool is a Nazi?
No. But I’m saying it is different than other platforms that simply allow Nazis.
They pay the people they want to launch newsletters. A LOT OF MONEY.
May 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Substack paid Matt Yglesias 250,000 tp start a newsletter so he can spread his smart takes like “DEI is bad.”
Am I saying that fool is a Nazi?
No. But I’m saying it is different than other platforms that simply allow Nazis.
They pay the people they want to launch newsletters. A LOT OF MONEY.
Am I saying that fool is a Nazi?
No. But I’m saying it is different than other platforms that simply allow Nazis.
They pay the people they want to launch newsletters. A LOT OF MONEY.
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In some ways Newsom's trans athlete ban feels like just another day for Dems, but in others it feels like a watershed. The biggest state in the country just caved to Trump immediately to attack trans people. I've been hoping Dems wouldn't go the way of UK Labor, but it's looking that way.
May 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
In some ways Newsom's trans athlete ban feels like just another day for Dems, but in others it feels like a watershed. The biggest state in the country just caved to Trump immediately to attack trans people. I've been hoping Dems wouldn't go the way of UK Labor, but it's looking that way.
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I can't stop watching this: youtu.be/TrTZjp6kPoY
May 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I can't stop watching this: youtu.be/TrTZjp6kPoY
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The reason all of this matters & why I’m writing this right now is not to say that a “mature” fascist state is inevitable, but that the best way out at this point lies in organizing, mass protests, & widespread disruption of systems & processes. In short, we must become unruly & ungovernable.
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The reason all of this matters & why I’m writing this right now is not to say that a “mature” fascist state is inevitable, but that the best way out at this point lies in organizing, mass protests, & widespread disruption of systems & processes. In short, we must become unruly & ungovernable.