This is what is happening when the cameras are running

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

L, and might I add, MAO. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.” @time.com time.com/7319963/bruc...

A few years ago Isaac asked me for an interview to talk Netchoice, Gonzalez cases & copyright & DSA. I told him I could do it but @daphnek.bsky.social would be better. She *killed* it. Chotiner’s questions only expose fools & charlatans. Daphne is neither. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"Tech companies are not going to apply stringent age checks themselves for a simple reason: They won’t make as much money." wapo.st/46jmdl5

even for an unhinged presidency this week has been pretty fuckin unhinged tbh

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes "People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

“To state the obvious: Fox would be covering this story if it implicated a Democratic official and administration. But as of posting time (noon ET), the network has not mentioned it.” www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

New: The federal probe of Charlie Kirk’s killing has yet to find a link between Tyler Robinson & LW groups, per 3 sources familiar “Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

The thing is everyone knows this is true but we have to have completely fake debates simply because Republicans insist on lying and the MSM insists on not calling them liars

Hint: It is not the Democrats.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

This is what we need from elected officials -- a commitment to stand up for their constituents and, just as important, a willingness to tell right-wing trolls to get bent.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

LE BATARD, on Kimmel: “.. you can’t look at what’s happening here and NOT say that this is a kind of threat that you have not seen before in the United States ..”

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

I made a little video www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

What does Jimmy Kimmel really think about Charlie Kirk? His own words: "Senseless murder." "A lot of extraordinarily vile responses." "Some people are cheering this, which is something I won't ever understand." Why is the FCC is really targeting him? He went on to make fun of Trump for 10 mins.

After Trump’s FCC chair, demanded ABC take action against against Kimmel for his comments on Kirk, Nexstar, the largest operator of ABC affiliates announced it would pull Kimmel from its stations Then ABC said it was taking Kimmel off the air Nexstar is seeking FCC approval for a $6.2B merger

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Love this from @captmarkkelly.bsky.social - make Big Tech companies contribute to a job displacement fund for the workers who'll lose their jobs to AI! Makes companies like OpenAI put their money where their mouth is www.axios.com/2025/09/17/m...

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Bravo to @jonesjay.bsky.social, running for AG of VA, for launching his kids' online safety plan this morning -- to hold Big Tech companies accountable for exploiting Virginia kids: www.jayjones.com/wp-content/u...

3 more lawsuits filed this morning regarding chatbots, also naming Google as a defendant, on behalf of children. Big Tech cannot hide from the fact that its products are lethal for kids. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

just so we're clear about what happened today the vice president of the united states of america is encouraging all the right wing nutjobs out there to go on doxxing rampages against american citizens

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

Pretty amazing that Meta, one of the world’s biggest publicly traded companies, let a hacker post nearly 70 times from an iconic actor's verified page over 3 days before stepping in This includes posts naming the wrong suspect and fake quotes from Mick Jagger lamenting Charlie Kirk's death

Every reporter needs to ask Ted Cruz why he’s holding the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) hostage in his committee & refuses to bring it for a vote, despite it passing the Senate floor 91-3 last year. nbcnews.com/meet-the-press… via @nbcnews.com

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

Everyone needs to tune into the latest Meta whistleblower hearing in the Senate right now. 2 ex-Meta researchers are detailing how executives and lawyers told them to delete research on kids' safety:

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Sorry to make it worse but there's a part of the WSJ article that no one is talking about that I had to share with someone.

Meta has yet another whistleblower: The former head of security at WhatsApp, who says in a suit filed today that the company shrugged off his warnings on privacy risks and could not keep solid track of user data. Free link from the marketing folks: wapo.st/4nr6CWu

Told you so. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/s...

Tomorrow afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee will put Meta on blast and demand answers for their blatant disregard for youth safety. We’ll keep you posted.

New ex-employee whistleblowers continue to come forward because of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s dangerous leadership. Read the full piece here:

When the FTC opened a COPPA probe, Meta scrambled, running “Project Salsa” (tween accounts + parental controls) directly under legal privilege to contain regulatory fallout.

The findings: ➡️ After a teen said adults propositioned his brother, who was under 10, managers ordered the record deleted ➡️ Staff flagged VR rooms with 80–90% underage users ➡️ A $1M age-verification study was canceled ➡️ Internal slides admitted: “We know there are U10s on the platform