praise be @rusty.todayintabs.com for reminding us of this ever-so-pertinent 1941 Dorothy Thompson essay (and thank you to my colleague Carly for telling me to run, not walk, to read the today in tabs issue that contained it) harpers.org/archive/1941...

A lot of platforms have stepped back from trust and safety, @medium.com has not. Here's what it looks like behind the scenes at an open platform in 2026 and why we moderate content at Medium like our business depends on it--because it does. medium.com/blog/how-med...

wait a minute, is shame back?

GOOD.

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

more arrests, please. and perhaps on this side of the pond, extra please.

I joined 60+ communicators and 14 PR firms in signing a Communications Leaders Defending Press Freedom letter, written in response to the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort the free exchange of information critical to our profession and an informed public. commsforjournalists.org

LLMs are used professionally by people who are basically getting paid to use it. That’s the opposite relationship readers have with news they value enough to pay for.

Foreign tourism to the U.S. fell 5.4% in 2025 while the rest of the world saw a 4% increase. Canadian visits dropped nearly 30%. buff.ly/MSynHSJ

Millennials are having our mid-life crises in starter apartments, it’s rough out here.

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

This is true, and even if we get rid of Trump, we still have to reckon with the fact that a substantial proportion of US economic and political elites were *eager* to jump on the fascism train. They will still be the same people when Trump is gone.

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Column: At the Milan Cortina Olympics, American athletes are trying to respond to questions about being American thoughtfully and carefully.

I quit booze nearly 11 years ago, no way in hell is some trend piece gonna take away one of the few chemical joys in my life.

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

Also, the Pussy Hats themselves may not have changed, but they were represnetative of a larger shift within politics where suburban white female voters with college degrees became increasingly more Democratic after they had historically been swing voters.

Fellow comms folks... what in the actual fuck are we doing...

We must MOCK them relentlessly writes @annamerlan.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I don’t understand why colleagues stay silent when this happens.

America 2026: Yesterday at the dog park, a lovely gentleman in a "deport the fascists" hat was handing out whistles and making sure everyone knew what to do if ICE showed up in the parking lot (calmly leash your dog, help others gather their dogs, leave through the back exit, record everything)

A new poll finds that 1 in 4 Minnesota voters took part in the Jan 23 shutdown against ICE, or have a loved one who did. Of those, 38% DID NOT WORK, either because they made the choice to stay out, or their workplaces closed. By me, @thomasbirm.bsky.social, @bloomekatz.bsky.social

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Still haven’t gotten used to the fact that we have a president who frequently goes on insane, explicitly rants against vast swaths of people.

WHO THE FUCK COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING YOU ANTIVAX CONCENTRATION CAMP GHOULS did you know that Anne Frank died of typhus maybe don't have people in concentration camps to begin with

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

A new statement from Epstein survivors: "Once again, survivors are having their names and identifying information exposed, while the men who abused us remain hidden and protected. That is outrageous."

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

Endorse. Lord, I have a list if it will help? It's in the shared GDrive.

Super weird how none of this stuff wound up in the Isaacson biography.

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

I recognize that this might make us seem like less “objective” journalists, but we have a responsibility as Americans. I, also, don’t really give a shit anymore. And neither does my team. We're joining the general strike tomorrow. www.garbageday.email/p/we-re-join...

This is what we said inside @medium.com in order to give space for people to participate in tomorrow's national strike.

You're going to tell their employers, their neighbors and their schools that they were out on the streets bravely defending their community from the masked goons who are murdering and terrorizing people? Are you going to send them flowers and candy as well?

This is your regular reminder that the data broker industry must be destroyed.

Federal deployment to Minneapolis "is steady state and expected to continue as planned," per Border Patrol memo leaked to me

lol

We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:

If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Breaking - GOP candidate for Gov of Minnesota drops out. Says he cant support federal “retribution” against Minnesotans… @startribune.com www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

AI expert here: This sounds like a complete nightmare

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

people aren't even saying "this is unamerican" that much but when they do say it I think they usually mean that it's against the american ideals they believe in. but the important thing here is to throw a wet blanket on people risking their lives to disrupt ICE goons in the streets.

Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.