Shahid Buttar
@shahbbles.bsky.social
Lawyer, DJ, MC, poet, grassroots organizer, won 81k votes in 2020 to serve San Francisco in Congress. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com
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Another proud day for America.
January 21, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Another proud day for America.
MLK raised crucial questions that America never even bothered trying to answer.
The fascist dystopia and accelerating global climate crisis to which many Americans are finally opening their eyes are the tragic results.
It didn’t have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
The fascist dystopia and accelerating global climate crisis to which many Americans are finally opening their eyes are the tragic results.
It didn’t have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
When will America finally heed MLK?
A 20th century prophet venerated as a “civil rights hero” tried to warn this country generations ago of the crises our leaders have chosen to invite, rather than avert
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January 20, 2026 at 2:50 AM
MLK raised crucial questions that America never even bothered trying to answer.
The fascist dystopia and accelerating global climate crisis to which many Americans are finally opening their eyes are the tragic results.
It didn’t have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
The fascist dystopia and accelerating global climate crisis to which many Americans are finally opening their eyes are the tragic results.
It didn’t have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
We are living under what amounts to martial law. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
Taking off the mask
Extrajudicial assassinations of peaceful activists reveal the reality of martial law, and the consolidation of authoritarianism
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January 17, 2026 at 3:31 PM
We are living under what amounts to martial law. open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
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Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next?
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant.
That matters….
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"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:54 AM
"The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first attack on a 'drug boat,' killing 11 ... the laws of armed conflict prohibit combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then killing them. That is a war crime."
Remember: chemical weapons are internationally banned in war, with good reason.
Why are governments allowed to use them against their own people?
Why are governments allowed to use them against their own people?
BREAKING: ICE agents pepper-spray peaceful demonstrators and journalists and deploy chemical irritants in Minneapolis.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
Our partners @statuscoupnews.bsky.social captured the moment live on the ground as it happened.
January 12, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Remember: chemical weapons are internationally banned in war, with good reason.
Why are governments allowed to use them against their own people?
Why are governments allowed to use them against their own people?
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That awkward moment when your past foreign policy faceplants in real time.
January 11, 2026 at 4:32 PM
That awkward moment when your past foreign policy faceplants in real time.
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Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
January 11, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Froze my ass off at the Iowa City anti-ICE rally, but it was worth it
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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The fact that right-wingers always think that left-wing protesters are being paid should make you start wondering how much of that is simply projection.
January 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM
The fact that right-wingers always think that left-wing protesters are being paid should make you start wondering how much of that is simply projection.
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"Obama’s drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan a decade ago paved the path of Trump’s arbitrary drone strikes in the Caribbean this year.
"Clinton’s congressionally unauthorized airstrikes on Serbia set a precedent abused by subsequent presidents, including Democrats."
"Clinton’s congressionally unauthorized airstrikes on Serbia set a precedent abused by subsequent presidents, including Democrats."
Washington’s war on Venezuela is an international crime.
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
Yet another war with bipartisan roots
Bombing Venezuela would be bad enough without the revolting complicity of the liberal establishment
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January 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
"Obama’s drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan a decade ago paved the path of Trump’s arbitrary drone strikes in the Caribbean this year.
"Clinton’s congressionally unauthorized airstrikes on Serbia set a precedent abused by subsequent presidents, including Democrats."
"Clinton’s congressionally unauthorized airstrikes on Serbia set a precedent abused by subsequent presidents, including Democrats."
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THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
January 4, 2026 at 5:14 PM
THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
But put that aside for a second…
What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil.
This is going to end up a dumpster fire…
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The people who most loudly complain "Why can't these immigrants just stay in their country???" are the same ones who most loudly celebrate American military and CIA interventionism in these countries to overthrow their governments.
And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.
And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.
January 4, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The people who most loudly complain "Why can't these immigrants just stay in their country???" are the same ones who most loudly celebrate American military and CIA interventionism in these countries to overthrow their governments.
And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.
And they lack the self awareness to understand their own hypocrisy.
Invading Venezuela would be bad enough without the revolting complicity of the liberal establishment.
Yet another war with bipartisan roots
Bombing Venezuela would be bad enough without the revolting complicity of the liberal establishment
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Invading Venezuela would be bad enough without the revolting complicity of the liberal establishment.
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Nothing about this is okay.
The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people.
So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?
The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people.
So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?
January 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Nothing about this is okay.
The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people.
So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?
The President of the United States is on Fox News right now gabbing about the U.S. attack on Venezuela before addressing the American people.
So the new order of information is: Truth Social → Fox News → the public → Congress, maybe?
Washington’s war on Venezuela is an international crime.
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
Yet another war with bipartisan roots
Bombing Venezuela would be bad enough without the revolting complicity of the liberal establishment
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Washington’s war on Venezuela is an international crime.
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
But don’t blame it on Trump. Both parties are up to their necks in military industrial corruption and have been for decades.
open.substack.com/pub/shahidbu...
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
projects.propublica.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
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watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
December 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan
The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Requiring foreign visitors to hand over 5 years of social media isn’t “security,” it’s unchecked government control.
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
All-seeing surveillance systems don’t make us safer. They are in direct opposition to our civil liberties.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Only a few more days left to apply for @librariesftp.bsky.social's 2026 cohort for potential Library Board candidates/members. Applications due on 12/18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Only a few more days left to apply for @librariesftp.bsky.social's 2026 cohort for potential Library Board candidates/members. Applications due on 12/18. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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“The government acted unlawfully when it demanded Apple remove ICEBlock,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. “While this case is rightfully only against the government, Apple should also take a hard look at its own capitulation.”
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ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings.
arstechnica.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
“The government acted unlawfully when it demanded Apple remove ICEBlock,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @ArsTechnica.com. “While this case is rightfully only against the government, Apple should also take a hard look at its own capitulation.”
arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
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