Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Tony Blair "should be headed to The Hague, not Gaza." My latest for Zeteo, on the former British prime minister's "blood drenched" record in the Middle East: "one of repeated failures, brazen bias, and mass slaughter". Read/share/subscribe:

Many Americans worry about the rising authoritarianism among MAGA Republicans, @adriennelaf.bsky.social argued in 2024. They should also pay attention to another ascendent force for illiberalism: the immensely powerful kings of tech.

Today Trump and Netanyahu announced a plan for ending the war in Gaza. Here's my piece about the one group that may have more power than any other over US Israel policy: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

you know all of this is to make sure there won't be any elections in 26 or 28, right?

It is an act of bad faith to take known liars at their word. Or: Democrats are really that dumb and naive.

How much money did Republicans pay him to do this?

We've launched a new report at Erin In The Morning: The Lavender Ledger, your strategic LGBTQ+ reader, covering the stories that we passed on because someone else covered it better than us. Here is our first one!

The impact that Assata Shakur has on me as a man is immeasurable. She is one of the most important Black revolutionaries to have ever lived. My daughter Diani recited one of her speeches as an intro for my latest album with Madlib, Liberation 2. Rest in power sister Assata. youtu.be/joD3kNzRphE?...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Heartbreaking to hear of Assata Shakur’s passing — we have lost a force of freedom. Just devastating

People who have seen the way civility is weaponized can tell you, no behavior is meek enough to protect you against a govt bent on using your incivility as the excuse for raining violence upon you for daring to demand dignity. Know this: you can never be civil enough to deserve that which you ask.

An absolute master class — simply incredible gathering of Lisa Barlow

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

Listen, I have quite a few issues w Kamala. But this pearl clutching about her not picking Pete is just bad-faith nonsense and ignorant of the REALITY of America. Of course she couldn’t pick a gay man, no matter how heteronormative he was!

Right now, on MSNBC:

"Hundreds of Jewish Health Professionals Say 'End the Genocide' in Gaza"

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

I feel like this is good for straight women because men wearing Palantir merch are self IDing as fascists and you know to avoid them apple.news/AfZBmxQmXRbC...

This isn't about antifa, this is about the NGO's. The goal here is to eliminate philanthropic support to major liberal groups through intimidation. They're going to starve liberal groups of funding while hitting them with millions in legal fees from investigations. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Haha of course — just like during the RNC! www.pride.com/culture/char...

Very bad things still happening in Sudan with very little attention

Guess I should’ve added Kamala to this article: www.advocate.com/voices/respe...

The #Eagles won, the #Fever won, #TeamItaly beat the billionaires of Team USA for the #BJKCup… maybe I should play the lottery tonight!

lol one of the announcers of the #Eagles-Rams game just asked, in conversation about the #tush-push’s legality, “does the tush-push look good?” Which, through my Gay Lens, meant, “Does it look TOO GAY?” #nfl

there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.

This entire Jimmy Kimmel situation shows, again, white folks can shut all this down whenever they want. But they won’t because they’re not against authoritarianism and hate. They’re just against it when it affects them.

So, will Democrats do anything? Or just complain on social media about it?

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

This is quite the post. 1. He unambiguously directs his AG to go after those who investigated him for his crimes 2. He admits being influenced by online chatter He is mob bossing out in the open, because he knows he has corrupted every federal law enforcement agency into submission.

Absolutely wild (or, perhaps not) to open up the Sunday NYT to this.

The Supreme Court is not a legitimate institution. When a court has corrupted itself, and flaunts its contempt for the law and the judicial system, it ceases to be a court. I don’t know exactly what to do about that, but I do think that as a country, we need to recognize that and act accordingly.

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I can’t help but observe that some folks endorse BOYCOTTING in some instances but criticize it as an effective and necessary strategy against Is***l.

National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

#Caturday Vibes

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

I don’t encourage buying from Amazon, especially books. But times are lean and frugality is a necessity. My book is nearly 50% off at Amazon — my publisher refuses to do a paperback, so if you want my book at a paperback price: a.co/d/3HlhlOg.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

According to the New York Times, "The text exchange between Mr. Robinson and his partner was reproduced by prosecutors in the charging document." Reproduced? So no one has seen the actual messages? No screen shots? No time stamps? Also, weren't they on Discord and not SMS? 1/

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

What in the actual ?!?!!!!!!

I’ve taught young adults for 20 years. They do not text like that.

Jimmy Kimmel told a basic fact and now is on hiatus indefinitely. Looks and sounds like fascism to me.