David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Trump is forcing the military to our cities, intimidating Americans and distracting troops from their core missions. It's unconstitutional—we can't act like it's business as usual. I'm blocking the NDAA until we secure a hearing to investigate this gross abuse of our military.

Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile debuts tonight on The Onion's YouTube channel at 7 p.m. ET. Finally somebody will release some dang Epstein Files if you know what I'm sayin'!!!

CHICAGO—People are marching in the streets to protest Donald Trump’s federal invasion and the aggressive harassment of citizens.

Goosebumps watching this. Chicagoans fighting for this country. Mass collective action is the only thing that can keep fascism away.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

I continue to be disappointed by how many Americans think this is a reasonable way to get a paycheck

UNDERWORLD turned 1 year old on Saturday 🌹 I am so grateful for the love I received on my first EP, and the incredible experience of working with @wondertruly.bsky.social The love I have for this project has only grown since its' release, and I adore everyone who had a part in it! #Underworld #EP

Hear ye hear ye a message of hope and inspiration from our courageous leader in exile, Link. May all his loyal followers take heart!

i love the domino effect of trans people asking the moderation team to take harassment of trans people seriously and instead decided to perma ban a black guy who was one of the earliest users here

This is the image and the alt text that got Link permabanned from Bluesky servers

Łink's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

Someone at UMN law should invite Jamelle to give a talk. (Reposted without autocorrect typo, sorry about that)

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this. Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

Pritzker has been great. But these reports that IL state police are assisting ICE, harassing and beating people who record ICE, and helping arresting protesters all seem to be supported by some video. If state cops are helping feds suppress rights over governor’s objections, that’s a big problem.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Although I don’t hear anyone in power saying this, it still should be noted that this is an impeachable offense

This is an evergreen, but if Joe Biden had given a speech like this, every reporter in America would’ve had their head exploded. Instead, we get shrugs.

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

The superintendent they just kidnapped is a former Olympic athlete who runs footraces with the kids from his schools while wearing a maroon suit and a bowtie. This is quite simply about the people in power feeling threatened by Black excellence.

Abolish ICE

As a black queer, i would say that “the right considers this violent” is very different from “it is violent” Racists and transphobes constantly position my existence as violent; your logic here implies that by being black and queer i am engaging in violence. That’s simply not true

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood will stop abortions—even though they’re legal. The move is an apparent attempt to avoid Medicaid “defunding” under the GOP’s budget bill—potentially saving healthcare for 50,000 people.

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Update: Twitch's VP of Partnerships, Pontus Eskilsson says "To be clear, this was not a recruitment email. We were setting up a call to discuss twitch policies. We need to revisit the wording we use for these emails."

The Onion made an unreal Jeffrey Epstein Mockumentary - but following Charlie Kirk's death, it's national theatrical release was put on ice. Never fear, though! @theonion.com figured out how to launch it anyways!

Forget everything you already know about America's most notorious dead person. Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile is in select theaters October 2.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

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That's how you write a headline

Fun fact: if the feds use your copyrights or patents without permission, your only remedy is an action for damages (not an injunction) in the Court of Federal Claims. See 28 USC §1498. Trademark suits are possible, with full remedies available. 15 USC §1122. But rare, for good reason.

Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.

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Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

ILLINOIS — Trump’s Gestapo violently throws female congressional candidate @KatAbughazaleh to the ground to the ground

Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"