This whole BBC controversy is silly, manufactured outrage. Clip aired in Oct 2024. Attracted little attention then. Only became a thing a year later after a conservative board member Robbie Gibb flagged the year-old edit. But we all know what Trump did. We watched it happen live on Jan 6.

A thought-provoking, sobering, realist take on what needs to happen in our current predicament to confront the challenge of the moment & chart the path away from autocracy — as it pertains to keeping true to American democracy with fidelity to the U.S. Constitution from @joshtpm.bsky.social

as expected, Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package -- with over 75% voting in favor

Let it be known that my proposed hed for this was "Elon Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Plan Makes Perfect Sense If You’re High On Ketamine"

And we’re still waiting for grocery prices to go down

Imagine having a kid in this daycare who watches as their teacher is bodily dragged away by masked goons.

This is awesome 😆🤣 Sounds almost like Lin-Manuel in Hamilton lol. I’m waiting for the Mamdani musical on Broadway!

Tells you all you need to know

“Turn the volume up.”

For those wondering what flags are flanking Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, from left to right that’s the U.S. flag followed by the flags of Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn (Side note, the colors of of Brooklyn are not black and white, they’re blue and yellow)

It should be embarrassing to us all that the richest person in the world who is worth almost half a trillion dollars can’t understand a simple New York State election law gothamist.com/news/in-ny-i...

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Early vote numbers in NYC paint a picture of an electorate I don’t think anyone could have predicted.

Actually, by percentage of population, Johnson’s own state of Louisiana is tied for # 2 highest with 18% of the state’s population of residents receiving SNAP assistance Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

An example of corporate priorities all mixed up and out of wack Maybe if people were able to keep their jobs, they wouldn’t be so angry with Bari Weiss

Hurricane Melissa looks like it is beginning to make landfall or will in the next 15 mins about 5-10 miles just west of Black River, near the border of St Elizabeth parish and Westmoreland parish in SW Jamaica. This is the Fonthill Beach area, includes Crawford, Sandy Ground, White House & New Hope

And this is about 7-10 miles down the coast from where Hurricane Melissa is making landfall this hour

Praying for all in its path 🙏🏼🇯🇲

Hurricane Melissa looks like it is beginning to make landfall or will in the next 15 mins about 5-10 miles just west of Black River, near the border of St Elizabeth parish and Westmoreland parish in SW Jamaica. This is the Fonthill Beach area, includes Crawford, Sandy Ground, White House & New Hope

The eyewall of #Melissa is now moving over western Jamaica near Black River with winds of 185 mph.

Good lord.

I really hope for Jamaica that this will not come to be. But man… it looks really bad. www.commondreams.org/news/jamaica...

Prayers up for Jamaica 🇯🇲 Hurricane Melissa looks likely to make a direct hit this evening in St. Elizabeth as a Cat 5 (or stronger) storm with 160+ mph winds, devastating storm surge, and insane amounts of rainfall. Really could be catastrophic for the island. 🙁

Not sure why more major outlets are not talking about this. If it was Joe Biden saying things like this it would be a NYT front page story Trump and his supporters consistently act like Donald Trump’s presidency ended in 2019, when in fact he was president for the entirety of calendar year 2020

Not sure the people of Argentina voted for Javier Milei and his party La Libertad Avanza… but rather for the $20+ billion (of U.S. taxpayer money) Trump promised Argentina if they did

From Tropical Storm to potentially Cat 5 in under 36 hours would be crazy 4 of 5 hurricanes this year have undergone this kind of ‘rapid intensification’ — it’s hard to argue that’s not attributable to climate change

Sending good thoughts to Jamaica, eastern Cuba and Haiti 🇯🇲🇨🇺🇭🇹 Hurricane Melissa looks like it could be the worst direct hit to Jamaica since 1988

I had to check myself, cause I didn’t believe this was real at first. It’s real. And worse than I thought. The official White House website About page has been turned into a smear-filled tabloid Like somebody on the government dime we pay a salary to actually approved this

Just to be clear about a couple things yesterday: 1) President Trump is mulling over cutting himself a check for a quarter billion dollars of taxpayer money 2) President Trump has bulldozed & razed a big chunk of the White House complex

Finally got a chance to read this in full, and holy s**t

As masked federal agents target street vendors on Canal Street, THE CITY watched one street vendor being detained. As the operation carried on, agents were confronted with a spontaneous crowd of protesters. MORE HERE: www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/21/i...

Just heard that Trump wants the Department of Justice to repay him $230 million for the cases charged against him And his own senior officials at DOJ would be the ones to sign off on such a payment, and by no accident they happen to also be his defense attorneys Taxpayers would be on the hook

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

I worked with Erez Reuveni at the Dept. of Justice. He is a man of consummate integrity. His warning must catalyze action by us, the people of the United States.

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The president, on his Truth Social account, posts an AI video portraying him as 'King Trump' piloting a fighter jet which drops shit on 'No Kings' demonstrators. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

RIP Michael Archer bka D’Angelo One of the greatest musicians of our generation

Disgusted we live in an era when the most unqualified folks get the most prestigious jobs across government, media & many other industries & somehow companies like Paramount have money ($150M) to buy publications like The Free Press while claiming there’s no money to fairly pay actual journalists

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Now that it’s official, re-upping and standing by this post from a few days ago

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Way besides the point, but I am chuckling over how he says “Madam Secretary.”

I have talked to CBS staffers who are worried about what will happen when they have a major story

I think most Americans would look at this and say, No I don’t want this kind of thing happening every day in the United States

I think most reasonable people can agree that the level of force used here is overly aggressive and generally unhinged.

Trump last year vs. Trump in the middle of a government shutdown:

There is no way that The Free Press is worth $150 million Even if you take their paid subscribers numbers as accurate, that’s not more than $15 million in subscriber revenue Paramount is willing to pay 10x for it? 🤔

Among President Trump's canceled food aid: * 2,300 gallons of 2% milk to the Heart Of Alabama Food Bank * 19,000 pounds of pork chops to the Palm Beach County Food Bank in Florida And so much more.

For everyone stuck writing about today’s cancellations, here’s the metadata from the “rule” that Vought claims both New York and Chicago are somehow in violation of. The PDF to post it wasn’t even created until 5:47pm, was last modified at 5:55pm. And the government shut down six hours later at 12am