Seven years ago today, the Saudi Crown Prince directed the murder of VA resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi. As we honor Jamal's memory, we are reminded that we must protect reporters around the world as they uncover the truth, inform the public, and promote accountability.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours. 'I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up. I asked if they had a warrant and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.'"

The replies to this are making me physically ill.

/5 This is not merely about indifference to the brutality against the least of us that is characteristic of our system; that happens under every administration. This is about brutality being the goal, because it makes evil people happy to see others brutalized.

@ohhleary.bsky.social Not sure if it alerts you if I tag you there but thought you might be interested in this, on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/JFKAirport...

Maybe do this BEFORE you remove MetroCard machines from almost every station. Fucking idiots.

Arkansas police pulled over an Indian GrubHub driver wh ois married to a U.S. citizen. They found a bottle of Opium-brand perfume, arrested him for narcotics possession, and turned him over to ICE, where he was held for 30 days. He has now been stripped of his immigration status.

Hey I know! Let’s give the mob free rein to sell drugs!

Tim Walz: "My god, we've got the White House threatening investigations and jail time because an escalator stopped? Walk up the damn stairs!"

"Kavanaugh Stop" is good slate.com/news-and-pol...

if you respect the law and the constitution, the trump administration has no use for you

all presidential administrations are partisan, but trump and the people in his white house are partisans bordering on sectarians, and one result is that they see nothing of actions that strain and weaken the union itself

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR POPE

Scoop: @ashleyallison.bsky.social is acquiring The Root and returning it to Black ownership. She plans to invest in video content, strike new partnerships with experts, and launch in-person experiences. "This isn't about making more content but rather about making meaning of this moment," she says

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

1954. "Henri--you begin to comprehend the train of British life." Right ho, what what!

Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target: - 39% of the country lives in those states. - They contribute 44% of GDP. - They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them. www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

Opinion | Yes, Trump is unfit to serve. That's ok.

Only real power Congress has left is impeachment, and of course they lack the will to use it. Appropriations, lawmaking, oversight, even physical control over the Capitol. He's shown he'll nullify it all when he wants. There's no negotiating over powers you don't really have so long as he's there.

This should be the whole point. It is an outright lie to vote for appropriations or legislation, of any kind, in a situation where the acts of Congress aren't really binding. It makes any possible "deal" worthless. The whole exercise is a sham. Dem votes would do nothing but legitimize the pretense.

Under my direction, the Department of Transportation will be withholding previously allocated funding for New York’s 2nd Avenue subway. The money should be spent on something far less scary. by Sean Duffy

Senate Democrats say they want to restore American healthcare subsidies. A right wing podcaster says what they really want is to fund sex change operations in Peru. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

Oct. 2, 1925: Eddie Rickenbacker (left), the leading American air ace of WWI, welcomes Canadian aviator Billy Bishop, the top British Empire air ace of that war, to New York on the liner Berengaria. Bishop will be flying in this month’s Pulitzer Trophy air races on Long Island.

How it started. How it's going.

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

This is why all Trump supporters (individuals and organizations alike) should be governmentally disarmed/disempowered at the next opportunity & if they wonder why, you can ask them why they supported governance like this unconditionally and uncritically

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Oh nothing just the president reposting “Qanon76”

FFS bsky.app/profile/wapp...

Ted Cruz just posted a video montage with photos of every Democratic senator altered to make them wear sombreros and mustaches. It’s set to the song Macarena. What the fuck are we doing here?

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

After the Trump administration sought to privately email some crucial spreadsheets instead of filing them on the public docket, a judge scolds: "We have no secrets here. The government needs to file everything publicly and needs to do so now." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

White House fires many members of the National Council on the Humanities reut.rs/48LoxCX

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

Shocker. The judge knows he'll be fired if he rules in favor of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The system is rigged.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

But also we’re terrified of the subway

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.

RIP

in fairness to the ADL, "a man reaps what he sows" is in the new testament

Anti-Defamation League seems to be fine with defamation actually