Jeremy Pressman
@djpressman.bsky.social
politics, US and Arab-Israel-Palestine, protests.
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Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just learned that the memo I wrote for this can be shared, so voila: quick overview of my research on INGO responses to NGO restrictions stats.andrewheiss.com/2025-11_carn...
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On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
On top of refusing to fully fund SNAP during the shutdown, the Trump regime has:
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
-Cut $1 billion from USDA programs supporting food banks
-Enacted tariffs that have caused food prices to rise
-Made the largest cut to SNAP in history
-Canceled the annual food security survey
Shameful.
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Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Protests are spreading to counties Trump won handily in 2024.
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
Here's the data.
@chenoweth.bsky.social @djpressman.bsky.social
wagingnonviolence.org/2025/10/resi...
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Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
November 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com immediately revert to tired framing of Democrats as just progressives vs moderates about to fight each other. That's not yesterday's election story.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
@nytimes.com and @washingtonpost.com immediately revert to tired framing of Democrats as just progressives vs moderates about to fight each other. That's not yesterday's election story.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Hot take: Democratic landslide
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hot take: Democratic landslide
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
Thread.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
1. Look, Zohran Mamdani is not the future of the Democratic Party.
I know this is true, because the same was said of Eric Adams. New York City’s outgoing mayor did not live up to his billing. Its incoming mayor (presumably) is almost certainly not going to live up to his.
I know this is true, because the same was said of Eric Adams. New York City’s outgoing mayor did not live up to his billing. Its incoming mayor (presumably) is almost certainly not going to live up to his.
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
Mamdani's policy content or Mamdani's campaigning and communication skills? The latter are very powerful.
“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Mr. Cheney said. (NYT)
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
“We have a duty to put country above partisanship to defend our Constitution,” Mr. Cheney said. (NYT)
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YASSSS 👇
It's possible we might not need billionaire opinions on absolutely everything all the time
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
billmckibben.substack.com/p/climate-ga...
Climate Gates
Maybe we don't need billionaire opinions on everything
billmckibben.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
YASSSS 👇
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This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor — possibly igniting mass exodus: poll
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday's mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, a new poll warns.
nypost.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.
What is this unknown "solution"?
Question: [Saudi Crown Prince] MbS has said they won't join the Abraham Accords without a two state solution. Do you believe that?
Trump: No. I think he is going to join. I think we are going to have a solution but I don't know if it's going to be two states.
Trump: No. I think he is going to join. I think we are going to have a solution but I don't know if it's going to be two states.
November 3, 2025 at 1:17 AM
What is this unknown "solution"?
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
October 31, 2025 at 10:04 PM
15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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In honor of Halloween, my favorite essay in the philosophy of candy:
200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-...
200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In honor of Halloween, my favorite essay in the philosophy of candy:
200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-...
200proofliberals.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-...
"Trump has gone to war with federal government’s independent watchdogs, firing 17 presidentially appointed inspectors general, a breach of historic norms. The [IG's] are watchdogs of [DC's] vast federal bureaucracy, tasked with identifying and stopping waste, fraud & abuse and saving taxpayers" (WP)
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Trump has gone to war with federal government’s independent watchdogs, firing 17 presidentially appointed inspectors general, a breach of historic norms. The [IG's] are watchdogs of [DC's] vast federal bureaucracy, tasked with identifying and stopping waste, fraud & abuse and saving taxpayers" (WP)
Could lead to a total re-making of the tax systems in the US.
Democratic politicians need to rapidly reorient themselves to the idea that states likely *will* need to fund services like these going forward
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Could lead to a total re-making of the tax systems in the US.
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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yes!
We’re conditioned to believe our smallest contributions wont make a difference. That our $5 wont help. That a couple cans of veggies wont help. That one coat & a pair of shoes aren’t worth donating. It all counts. This is a reminder to myself as well.
October 29, 2025 at 12:12 AM
yes!
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—Joan Wallach Scott on Red Scares, then and now
—Lily Hu on the data wars over Democratic strategy
—Joseph Margulies on the Trump administration’s murders in the Caribbean
—And a 50th anniversary feature with @wajali.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, Becca Rothfeld, Greg Grandin
—Lily Hu on the data wars over Democratic strategy
—Joseph Margulies on the Trump administration’s murders in the Caribbean
—And a 50th anniversary feature with @wajali.bsky.social @samuelmoyn.bsky.social, Becca Rothfeld, Greg Grandin
October 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
"But despite the USDA’s claim of insufficient funds, the agency has access to billions of dollars in contingency funding appropriated by Congress specifically to sustain SNAP benefits during a government shutdown."
(Boston Globe)
(Boston Globe)
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"But despite the USDA’s claim of insufficient funds, the agency has access to billions of dollars in contingency funding appropriated by Congress specifically to sustain SNAP benefits during a government shutdown."
(Boston Globe)
(Boston Globe)
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FREE ALI!
Ali Faqirzada, 31, a women's & human rights champion & U.S. ally fled Afghanistan in 2021 & has been waiting for his asylum case to be decided for yrs. On Oct 14, ICE detained Ali just after he had been found to have a viable claim for asylum
humanrightsfirst.quorum.us/campaign/Fre...
Ali Faqirzada, 31, a women's & human rights champion & U.S. ally fled Afghanistan in 2021 & has been waiting for his asylum case to be decided for yrs. On Oct 14, ICE detained Ali just after he had been found to have a viable claim for asylum
humanrightsfirst.quorum.us/campaign/Fre...
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
FREE ALI!
Ali Faqirzada, 31, a women's & human rights champion & U.S. ally fled Afghanistan in 2021 & has been waiting for his asylum case to be decided for yrs. On Oct 14, ICE detained Ali just after he had been found to have a viable claim for asylum
humanrightsfirst.quorum.us/campaign/Fre...
Ali Faqirzada, 31, a women's & human rights champion & U.S. ally fled Afghanistan in 2021 & has been waiting for his asylum case to be decided for yrs. On Oct 14, ICE detained Ali just after he had been found to have a viable claim for asylum
humanrightsfirst.quorum.us/campaign/Fre...
I did not have
"The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel"
on my bingo card.
"The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel"
on my bingo card.
Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism
Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism
Israel's Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the occupied West Bank.
www.democracynow.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I did not have
"The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel"
on my bingo card.
"The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel"
on my bingo card.
thread.
Over the past week, the president said the DOJ should pay him a quarter billion dollars, bulldozed half the White House to build himself a gaudy ballroom, bragged about murdering civilians in international waters, pardoned some more criminals, directed federal prosecutors to indict his opponents ...
October 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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