You can see how their cameramen document their violence. This is about content creation. For the last one, I had to search my files for a photo of this moment that didn't include the face of a pained or screaming protester, but for clarity: those are tackled human beings on the ground.

What songs are you listening to on endless loop? #FridayHappyHour

"Bright Line Watch, a group of political scientists who monitor the functioning of democracy in many countries, now rate the US as an “illiberal democracy”. That means that the ruling party can still lose elections, so we aren’t a full autocracy just yet. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/declining-...

"THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot." betternews.org/newsroom-cre... interesting case study

I can only read the top of this, but yeah, he's not wrong. "Democrats are negotiating about policy when they should be negotiating about power." www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

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...

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed. The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

Fellow Penn alumni, please consider signing this. Any last vestige of academic freedom is at stake actionnetwork.org/petitions/ju...

Kristi Noem up on the Broadview roof this morning while @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police are down on the ground arresting protestors.

Trust in Media at New Low of 28% in U.S. news.gallup.com/poll/695762/... Guess this old - we are going to really double down harder on what we have always done and somehow be MORE OBJECTIVE (?) isn't working so well, lol

Coverage of Mario's case needs to give the context of *where* he's being deported to. At least 40 journos have fled El Salvador in 2025. There were 789 attacks against the press in 2024. @elfaro.net moved its offices to Costa Rica in 2023. We don't know what will happen to Mario in ES.

Pinched for Pet Food: Hunger Pains Extend to New Yorkers’ Furry Friends www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/02/p...

Texas Tech: Allowed: teaching “textbook-based content,” as long as professors don’t promote a specific viewpoint. Also allowed: “real-world survey practices” and historical perspectives. Discouraged: syllabi statements supporting students, which could potentially draw “unwanted attention.”WTF

Checking out First Amendment Academy quizzes for my students www.freedomforum.org/first-amendm...

"Traditionally, courthouses are safe places, or places where you would go and would expect due process. But more and more it seems like this is changing, and it’s not a place of safety anymore."

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.

Honestly the perfect coda to the cancel culture panic is one of its biggest promoters being actually so thoroughly uncanceled/unsilenced that she assumes the helm of a major news network

Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School has seen the Trump Administration’s “compact” for universities to receive preferable consideration for federal funding and says it amounts to First Amendment violations in blistering op-ed — www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

"there are a lot of Neils in America — white guys in a near-constant state of fear about their personal safety. And rather than being merely pitiful, guys like Neil are actually dangerous." My friend wrote this in 2021. Still resonates. www.salon.com/2021/09/19/c...

This is why you shouldn’t be chickenshit. You’re not saving anything. You’re dooming everything you claim to love. bsky.app/profile/thef...

"Silas’s future seemed bright except for at least one detail. He didn’t have a car." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... So many promising young people in this situation. For shame.

uhhh "requiring universities to have policies prohibiting “all university employees, in their capacity as university representatives,” to abstain from “actions or speech relating to societal and political events except in cases in which external events have a direct impact upon the university.”

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"Arrested while covering a protest. Shot in the face with a pepper ball. Shoved to the ground and taken away on a stretcher. Journalists have repeatedly been injured & impeded while reporting on action by masked ICE officials" view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175... by @brianstelter.bsky.social

"this is bigger than me, or a job— this fight is about America’s democracy and the First Amendment. It is about global journalistic freedom. It is about the human right to speak the truth about power, even when it is uncomfortable or difficult." karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

Mass resignations at two Alaska newspapers after out-of-state owners bow to political pressure, reports James Brooks for the @alaskabeacon.com

"David Brooks’ shameful display of false equivalence in his column titled The Era of Dark Passions, in which he seems to equate cops beating someone senseless on the street to political correctness on college campuses, and claims that progressives are just as aggressive and hateful as the right wing

My god. “Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

"Without them, premiums will increase for more than 20 million people next year, and an estimated two million people are expected to lose coverage."

Absolutely. You simply cannot sign this. Enough is enough

Back when I did this kind of thing, the pitch for why more NYC newsrooms should have dedicated MTA reporters—not even "transportation" generally, just MTA—was that the MTA's annual budget was larger than that of 10 states.

As I tell my students, free speech doesn't mean no consequences for saying vile shit. People are also free to speak back. (Dude burst into a classroom screaming Heil Hitler etc.)

⭐️UT Austin alumni: This would be a good time to tell the university that a University that sells out their faculty and students for federal funding dollars has lost you as a donor. @texasexes.org

And among other reasons, a deal is never a deal with these people. Look at how he has treated trade partners. There will always be new asks. The time to say no is now, and in solidarity, before you rewire your institution to something unrecognizable such that saying yes to new demands is a given.

"I saw in Uganda a line of women who had walked miles to bring their babies to a clinic for vaccinations...they had witnessed children dying for lack of vaccinations, so they were determined to do everything they could to keep their children alive." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

“It felt like we were under siege,” said one bystander, Darrell Ballard, 63, showing videos on his cellphone of officers entering the apartment building in the dark. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

“The Trump administration has undermined the rule of law, protection of human rights and international justice, which all lie at the heart of a rules-based global order,” write the leaders of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Well, props to this neighbor. I thought this whole handmaids thing was a bit played out, but at this point, let’s go.

This is cool.

This. Free speech on campus was never as endangered by so-called "cancel culture" as critics claimed - and this is why you'll notice how rarely they cite a specific EXAMPLE. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Some of these track coaches, man. Gross behavior.

"Keep up with your people. Celebrate their wins. Be there for them when life happens. Make an effort to see them when you’re in their town, or they’re in yours. Ask for help when you need it, and offer help when you can give it." Meena knows what is up.

From Empty Storefront to Inclusive Haven: Academy St. Thrift in Glen Ridge, NJ montclairlocal.news/2025/10/from... New byline for one of my students!

Good to see @spsullivan.bsky.social 's social media work for NJ Advance Media honored! We need more of this in this state www.poynter.org/podcasts/202...

Aw sad Sam Sanders is leaving Vibe Check

Update is that two hours at the Apple Store and they can't figure out why my new-ish phone will no longer charge with a cord, I can apparently get it repaired in another two hours big didn't have time with that today, and then it took another hour to get the phone rejiggered to actually use. 🤡

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Important to remember that Chris Rufo spearheaded this overhaul and serves on the colleges’s board of trustees. Yet he is worshipped in various quarters as an educational innovator