Trump once again says the quiet part out loud when it comes to David Ellison and CBS: "I think ABC is very bad. I think NBC is very bad. And CBS has a new owner, so we have hope for CBS. CBS has a great new owner, in my opinion."

… and another, by Jonathan Chait, also in @theatlantic.com. Read and decide.

One view on Bari Weiss’s editorial approach, by Caitlin Flanagan in @theatlantic.com …

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

They’re baaack. 🤣 Repairs and all…

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.

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and George Floyd: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What do gangs and mafia do when you don’t give them what they want? - They go after your family. Gift article, with some very good readers’ comments.

Overnight, Russia launched a massive strike on a Ukrzaliznytsia depot in Odesa, injuring a train driver with shrapnel. Railway infrastructure in northern border areas, including Konotop, was also hit. Trains were stopped at safe distances and later resumed movement with some still delayed.

@ericswalwell.bsky.social Nailed it 🎯 Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPQJIMd...

“In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous.”

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief? www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

🙏 In Dnipro, there are reports of injuries. Several fires have occurred, — OVA.

🤬 There is horror in Dnipro right now

Now comes the part where everyone tells me I missed the Sekrit Signals about how today was the beginning of something something something Look, we have plenty of trouble. But this meeting was Hegseth trying to bully the senior officers into respecting him. I don't think it worked.

A fine analysis of characteristics of modern authoritarianism by George Packer in @theatlantic.com. We may not even notice.

By @radiofreetom.bsky.social

4/5 Europe’s future depends on Ukraine. America’s does less—at least not in the same way. So why wait for a man who wants Ukraine to lose? Appeasement will not work. Trump only respects strength, not submission

Don’t look away

What’s Next, Comrade Trump?

They were: Mariam Dagga, Hassan Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Ahmed Abu Aziz, and Moaz Abu Tala - five brave journalists working for or contributing to AP, Reuters, and Al Jazeera, among other outlets. Five young, courageous, committed lives lost. And their voices silenced.

⚠️ Israel performed a “double tap” attack on the only functioning hospital remaining in southern Gaza. After the initial strike on the hospital, journalists and first responders rushed in, and then Israel struck again. Israel killed twenty people, including five journalists, in the strikes.

UPDATE: A fifth journalist has been killed: Ahmed Abu Aziz has succumbed to his injuries.

BREAKING: Al Jazeera's photojournalist Mohammad Salama was just killed in the horrific Israeli attack on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

@annielowrey.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com: “The rich, including Trump, will keep getting richer. The poor will pay for it.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social, at The Atlantic.

He’s insane

⚡️Drop Site Daily | August 25, 2025 Five journalists killed in a double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital, 11 die of Gaza’s famine in the past day, Kilmar Abrego Garcia detained again by ICE www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Everyone I know is saying he's a dictator and they Aren't saying he's a smart person.

Trump: "A lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator."

A silent vigil in Tel Aviv to remember the children in Gaza who have lost their lives. Yes, they are real.

Less than £500 to go to have Boudica’s surgery funded! Almost there!

India’s oil lobby is funding Putin’s war machine — that has to stop on.ft.com/4fK276A | opinion

“It’s not hard to understand the resentment of a working-class person who sees Democrats as careful to use the right pronouns and acknowledge that we live on stolen Indigenous land while happily mocking people for worrying about putting food on the table.” Very true.

75% there, a bit still to go!

Laura Loomer successfully stops little Gazan kids seriously injured by the IDF from getting medical care in the US. Secretary of State Marco Rubio helped her do it.🤮🤮🤮 www.timesofisrael.com/us-state-dep...

It looks like Fox News cut President Trump off as he was complaining about inheriting a war. It's clear in the audio there's a cut and then editors switched to a clip of Putin to cover the cut in the footage. Trump sued CBS over small edits in interview with Kamala Harris.

On Tuesday, White House officials laid out detailed plans to eliminate Smithsonian exhibits that they determined represented “improper ideology." This heavy-handed revision of U.S. history has elicited comparisons among staffers to 1930s Germany. trib.al/rRPOSM1

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Remember, tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

Chief Bovino, aka Short Stack, is a criminal, a liar and a fascist. All these agents should never be allowed to enforce any laws bc they are demonstrating they do not know the Constitution or US law.

Absolutely disgraceful. In a sane country this man would be fired immediately and would never work in law enforcement again.

When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…

Throwing a sandwich at a cop: REQUIRES 10-PERSON TACTICAL TEAM TO AREEST IN FULL RAID GEAR (even tho subject wanted to turn himself in) Beating a cop unconscious with a flag pole: “Go home. We love you.”

Good old investigative journalism in @nytimes.com the kind you won’t find on TikTok.