"the state is a gun and we all take turns pointing it at each other. not you, though, you don't get a turn."

NYT just ran a bizarrely credulous piece about New College, the school that DeSantis and Rufo have turned upside down. There is one good outcome of the article: This @donmoyn.bsky.social post, which is one of the best pieces of media criticism I've read all year. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Connect the dots. MAGA is pulling out all the stops to intimidate Judge Boasberg for looking into Bove contempt of court, which should disqualify him. Two Trump judges delayed the contempt hearing long enough for Bove to get confirmed by obsequious Senate. Just a coincidence, I’m sure.

Trump-favored oligarchs bought Bari Weiss's company for $150 million and put her in charge of a news operation she has no experience running, and now she's spiking accurate stories that are critical of Trump policies

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

this is the unspoken but absolutely clear argument at hand.

Good "meta"-coverage of media on the #ArtificialIntelligence executive order, by @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/t...

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

Should be a front page story in every major news outlet tomorrow but our major news outlets don’t cover Trump like that anymore www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...

They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.

Applications are Open for Summer 2026 Legal Interns! The ACLU of Vermont is seeking dedicated and ambitious law students to join our team for our Summer 2026 Legal Internship.

More than 200 cultural and public figures are calling for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader held by Israel since the early 2000s, after he was not released in the October prisoner exchange under the Gaza ceasefire deal. #Infograph

this really isn’t an exaggeration

Did you need to see how you should handle disgusting racist insults fm one of those trashy MAGA deplorables... b/c here it is. @repilhan.bsky.social displays the poise, grace, class and even empathy - "I hope he gets the help he needs" - that sets her, and most Americans, apart from Donald Trump.

Amid Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, a mass wedding for more than 50 Palestinian couples took place in Khan Younis as hundreds gathered to celebrate.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

A recently discovered album of photographs from 1930-1 shine new light on the Civil Disobedience Movement, demonstrating the scale of female participation and leadership. My article in BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely grim analysis

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.

Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.

the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.

Everyone in politics, everyone in media knows what’s happening here: the White House is controlled by a repellant white supremacist who waits with bated breath for any opportunity to run nonwhite people out of America. They know who it is, what he’s doing. But they won’t SAY it.

FBI agent working as a Population Control Police is caught smashing a small business owner's surveillance camera. Why? Because the PCP does not want their crimes on camera.

Hillary was going to give us taco trucks on every corner. Now, the taco trucks have become one focus of renewed civil society to save neighbors.

I was particularly disappointed in NPRs coverage of this issue. Definitely “Emperor’s New Clothes” style reporting.

They misidentified the intern. The judge told them they had misidentified the intern. But instead of double checking, they took that as an affront to their authority. So they surrounded the judge's car and threatened to smash the windows to get to the intern. They had misidentified the intern.

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

Baristas are locking arms in front of lines of trucks. This distribution center is Starbucks’ largest on the East Coast, which is why we’re showing up to send a message. We're ready to continue escalating our ULP strike until Starbucks does the right thing. #NoContractNoCoffee

“Don’t give up the ship. You can refuse illegal orders. We have your back.” 🇺🇸Veterans offer support to those in active service.🇺🇸

There has never been a clearer signal that America is not a country, it's just a business. And that there are no red lines when there is enough money on the line. End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.

„You don’t have to embarrass our guest“

We call on all people to escalate BDS campaigns to burry the colonial Trump-Netanyahu plan — as many colonial projects have been defeated before.

This guy is a fuckin boss

This is not to pile on the new Ed Board. This is to question their business model. You can get this take almost verbatim from a dozen more established sources: FNC, the WSJ Op-Ed, the NYP ed board, plus even outlets not owned by Murdoch. So why would anyone pay the WP for it?

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

Elon and Marco are genocidaires and I hope they are one day tried in chains at the Hague.

It's really cool that some of the original sit-inners were present for the unveiling of this memorial. www.oklahoman.com/picture-gall...

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez. He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment