US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month reut.rs/3WohHMk

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for homophobic language and antigay slurs he admitted to writing on Reddit in an interview with me this afternoon, after I confronted him on comments I discovered from as recently as 2021. www.advocate.com/politics/gra...

*screams*

Jewish Insider just sent out an email with an article with more Platner info. And yeah, this guy is DONE done.

new joint by myself, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, @janethebane.meangirls.online, and @alysbrooks.bsky.social the @assignedmedia.org crew headed out across the country and caught up with folks on the street at No Kings rallies from Chicago to Boston take a look

After adding new data to our spreadsheet, our central estimate of turnout for the No Kings Day protests yesterday has risen to 5.5 million, with an upper bound of 8.7 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

The president, on his Truth Social account, posts an AI video portraying him as 'King Trump' piloting a fighter jet which drops shit on 'No Kings' demonstrators. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

The nation's largest news websites homepage on the #NoKing protests. One is curiously different. The No King protest coverage is not at the top of the page like others, but a scroll below.

#NoKings, Madison WI

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Today's official crowd count estimate from #NoKings coalition: 7 million people turned out nationwide That's 2 million more than the #NoKings peaceful protests in June

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Some people are suggesting the U.S. government accounts are for surveillance. Maybe they are, but on a purely technical level, I don’t see what benefit that would convey over less overt techniques, e.g., bots, accessing the firehose or browsing via anonymous accounts.

Greene's concern for Santos was over his prolonged solitary confinement, an unfortunately routine condition for many incarcerated LGBTQ people. I've met with trans people who have spent months at a time in solitary and Trump's own policies have likely trapped many more.

I understand the disdain for paywalls, but the money to pay writers, editors, photographers, illustrators, et al. has to come from somewhere.

LA Times now confirming our earlier reporting: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Capital Times investigated how Wisconsin handles educators accused of sexual misconduct and other violations. They found many gaps in accountability. captimes.com/news/educati...

NBC Out has had some of the best coverage of LGBTQ+ news in the last few years. In a time when the Trump administration takes historic assaults on transgender people's rights, this feels short-sighted. Good journalism is good business. www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Rest in power, Miss Major. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

This appears to be an AI-generated video. Note the reporter has three hands. Additionally the City 9 organization on the van and microphone does not appear to exist.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old. There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time: Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz. (1/x)

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected]. Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

As I recently wrote, "globalist" has long been a term that antisemites have used to attack and demonize Jews. link.motherjones.com/public/41852...

I've brought up the The Free Press' poor handling of transgender topics and the wider ramifications of that at least twice, but it's far from the only topic they've mishandled.

BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says President Donald Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Illinois, Oregon and other states. @wttw.bsky.social

Currently trying to confirm via DoD/Northcom but if so, holy shit.

Clarifying response from a professor of government to Tom Nichols' post saying the U.S. is not a fascist state.

NEW — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker just announced today that “In the coming hours, the Trump Administration intends to federalize 300 members of the Illinois National Guard.” This comes about a week after Pritzker first mentioned plans to deploy 100 troops. We wrote about that in the article below.

I have talked to CBS staffers who are worried about what will happen when they have a major story

As I said when it when the potential purchase was first revealed, the elevation of Bari Weiss to editor in chief of CBS is a bad sign for its future coverage.

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

NEW Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda. DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This is in the Times today

The president of the United States has shared another conspiracy theory. This one's about a nonexistent healing technology: www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/p...

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

I'm not actually sure it's a given that Isaac Chotiner's subjects realize how badly they come off to many readers. Many clearly try to back track, but some don't seem bothered by what they said on the record.

many ppl highlighting flaws in this article. but having fought in the "80% desistance" wars of the mid-2010s, I remember asking anti-trans activists if they'd be ok if 80% of youth were helped by gender-affirming care (flipping their argument). & they *never* answered. b/c they want *zero* trans ppl

Just attended a FOIA-thon for government records related to trans issues with @transjournalists.org and @muckrock.com. They're trying to raise $1000 to support their work - I chipped in $25 and encourage everyone who cares about trans journalism to chip in too! givebutter.com/MPTg3M

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...