NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

Shame the nyt into ending its bigoted, pro-fascist positions. Sulzberger, who has led the way in elevating extremist, finds it distasteful to be explicitly associated with racism. He’s a callow nepo baby who’s been handed everything. Shame him

The nyt is a cancer on human rights, led by bigots who have also enabled the rise of anti democratic forces. This is the legacy of Sulzberger and Kahn.

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Right-wing media and MAHA figures celebrate Trump's promotion of an unproven connection between the use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism:

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

With the Tylenol bullshit I’m reminded that women have always been the scapegoat. Remember, they didn’t burn witches. They burned women. And I have no doubt that some would like to bring that practice back.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others. Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here. Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

The nyt relentlessly pushed trans bigotry, wrapping ignorance and hatred in legitimacy. The public is waking up to the truth

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

1. A new The 19th/SurveyMonkey Poll finds that a majority of Americans are against trans youth care bans. This includes a majority of Independent voters, casting doubt on the narrative that Democrats need to pull back on transgender people. Subscribe to support our journalism.

State-sanctioned child abuse

the state of texas pulled a 13-year-old trans boy out of class and subjected him to the same questioning that kids get when they're molested because his parents accepted him. it's what's happening, and it shouldn't be considered activism to say it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/...

This

He also gets to decide who goes to school and what they teach there, what the museum can show, and what kind of programming is available on television. While sending federal troops and agents to kidnap your neighbors.

To those asking, the NHS has misused gender care waiting lists to target families with social services referrals - and even police action - for doing something lawful, and in much of the world entirely orthodox, out of love for their child. It's ideologically driven targeting by the State and evil.

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Kavanaugh thinks this is a minor inconvenience, not something of concern under the 4th amendment

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

The nyt has platformed Yarvin, treating a purveyor of hatred w kid gloves. The US teeters on the brink of destruction bc of the disgraceful abandonment of principle by its leaders AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn and Carolyn Ryan. They have supported bigotry and fascism at every turn.

🚨 Leading autism and disability organizations, led by ASAN, have issued a united call for decision-making grounded in quality science and compassion. We are proud to be signatories to this statement. 🧵 autisticadvocacy.org/2025/09/lead...

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Karl Rove … is … Antifa?

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

Here’s what Jimmy Kimmel said that prompted the threats made by the FCC chair: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”

And not that it's relevant to the free speech issue, but Kimmel said literally nothing negative about Kirk per se at all. This is just a pure pretext to getting another critic of Trump off the air, and Disney is a willing regime collaborator

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr thanks Nexstar Media for their decision on Jimmy Kimmel. (Important to note, ABC has pulled the show indefinitely nationwide.)

“‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ will be preempted indefinitely,” an ABC spokeswoman said Wednesday, as Disney leans into an authoritarian future.  www.wsj.com/business/med...

NEW: State + national news orgs have filed to unseal the records in Ken Paxton's divorce case. The intervenors: @wsj.com @washingtonpost.com @houstonchronicle.com @expressnews.com @austinstatesman.bsky.social @texastribune.org @propublica.org + Texas Newsroom. www.kut.org/politics/202... #txlege

Peak consultant culture envisions turning every election into a "vote the team jersey" proposition rather than an actual competition of ideas and directions for the country. Reframing Democrats as Republican Lite will never win elections. It's not fresh and bold, it's just cowardly and stupid.

Important: Gavin Newsom just announced that California, Oregon, Hawaii and Washington State released unified west coast vaccine recommendations expressly designed to counterprogram Trump/RFK's destruction of our public health system. This will gain momentum in blue states (see thread below).

One of the underperforming Texas charter districts has paid teachers about $10,000 less than the statewide average while paying its superintendent more than $426,000 in 2023, according to tax records. With @texastribune.org

No one had to fall for “free speech for me but not for thee.” It wasn’t especially subtle, and some called it out at the time. But a bunch of people really wanted to fall for it.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Klein earnestly believes we all have to learn to live together even if we "believe different things." For him, it's ONLY about belief and opinion. He is not in a category in which his reproductive rights would be abridged, his marriage would be nullified, his accomplishments dismissed as "DEI." >

He is free to argue that because he is not a stakeholder in ANY of it. If the GOP has its way, what will be taken from Ezra Klein personally is nothing more serious than a good night's sleep. I sincerely await the essay in which he acknowledges that, and the limitation of vision it causes him. x

For the people who say there’s no money out there

lol new clown car just rolled up

“Trans people are over four times more likely than cis people to be victims of violent assault. Conversely, over the past decade, according to the Gun Violence Project, less than a tenth of one percent of shootings were committed by someone who identified as trans or nonbinary.”

“It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric.”

I've seen trans ppl promoting this piece several times today, but I haven't seen a single cis person linking or praising it. It's the same old thing, an article is written FOR cis ppl but ABOUT trans ppl and yet for some reason the cis folks to whom it's addressed seem to not notice the piece.

@leximcmenamin.com nails it — deftly explaining how we got to this rampant misinformation pipeline and where it's leading us

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

perhaps she can host some of the students Barnard expelled for protesting genocide since they are no longer on campus

To the extent that one side of the political divide has stoked violent political extremism, it is the right. That doesn't mean a lone kook on the left is never going to do something bad.