It's not illegal to criticize the president, even if the president says it is. (Thanks to @democracynow.org for giving me the chance to talk about the free-speech fallout of the Charlie Kirk murder.) www.democracynow.org/2025/9/22/fr...

The Trump administration has taken actions that would eliminate existing protections from about 88 million acres of public lands. Including the removal of wildlife habitat protections, the total impact of the rollbacks stretches across more than 175 million acres of U.S. land.

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

If RFK Jr. does include vaccines as a cause of autism in his report, here are some facts from Defend Public Health’s report. 1. Tiny amounts of thimerosal were used as a preservative in childhood vaccines, but once it was removed (2001 in the U.S.), rates of autism diagnoses kept climbing.

The best autocracy money can buy

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Trump's scam of inventing "mortgage fraud" charges against his foes is failing. So he's set to fire a top prosecutor who is failing to bring charges, ABC reports. Failing to bring corrupt prosecutions is now a firing offense. This is profound misconduct. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

This is wildly illegal and he has no authority to do this

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is an emergency protest tomorrow at 10am at Harper’s Ferry WV against erasing history: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

There aren’t enough jail cells [yet] for the defenders of liberty. I’m wondering if SCOTUS will wake up before Orange Julius Caesar turns on them.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

Our latest forum features responses to Alex Gourevitch’s May essay, “The Right to Be Hostile,” from @pastpunditry.bsky.social, @madar.bsky.social, @lromeranth.bsky.social, Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Diane Klein Kemker, David S. Busch, and Robin Marie Averbeck:

The Walt Disney Company owns ABC..Disney acquired Capital Cities/ABC, the parent company of the American Broadcasting Company in 1996. ABC is a key part of Disney's Entertainment division You know what to do Boycott ABC & Disney Do not capitulate as they did

Love is Love Hate = Hate Racism = Racism Bigotry = Bigotry Censorship = Censorship Fascism = Fascism You are loved♥️💜💙💛💚🖤♥️

The assault on the first amendment has been akin to an old murder mystery in which would-be killers line up to deliver blows to the victim-Trump, his aides, the Congress, the courts, corporate media, university trustees, lawyers, ceos...it's a long list. www.thedailybeast.com/rip-the-firs...

🔴 “Russian troops were also ordered to kill all civilian men aged 18 to 60. Women and children were to be used as human shields if necessary,” says Ukraine’s Operational Command “Dnipro” spox.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

Hook, line and stinker

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

Just days after Fox News host Brian KILLmeade called for euthanizing homeless people, there has been a mass shooting at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis.

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Meet Rob Bonta & other Democratic AGs who have trans youths' backs. @charliejane.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @transgenderreport.com www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

I check new follower profiles to see what we have in common and often follow back. Block award winners have 10x follows vs followers, cleavage in their posts, bio refers to them in third person, or there’s a landscape shot paired with philosophical blabber about “life’s lessons.” Some win 4x🏆

Haven't read much about why the Department of Homeland Security would choose an electric vehicle battery factory for what it claims is its largest-ever immigration raid on a single facility, so I wrote about why that matters tl;dr hard to believe it's a coincidence newrepublic.com/article/2001...

1. At Charlie Kirk's vigil just now, DNI Tulsi Gabbard just invoked MLK Jr.'s line, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that." She insisted Kirk "lived" by that line. Unclear how Kirk would've felt about that comparison, since he decried MLK as “awful” and "not a good person."

“The danger inherent in Palantir’s AI-powered super-database on all Americans is connected to the vast wealth and power of those associated with the corporation, and their apparent disdain for democratic institutions.” By Robert Reich, 6/30/25 … 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lest we forget the quality of rhetoric required to do fascism properly

INSIDE STEPHEN MILLER’S REIGN OF TERROR My first print mag feature with the wonderful @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Get your COVID shots, y'all! A great thing to do TODAY if you have a minute.

On Monday, Peter Thiel begins a secret four-part Antichrist lecture series in San Francisco. What the hell is going on? Why all this bible doom talk? I talked to an Antichrist historian & a theologian about this outbreak of tech apocalypse hype: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

US active duty military banned from having negative opinions or memes about Kirk assassination. Online MAGA are helping hunt down US service members they view as unfavorable. Some are even calling for service members to be punished for posts made by family members. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

There’s no reason to wax nostalgic about Kirk. He was a father, husband, son, AND a font of hate who showered the earth with bigotry, misogyny, and racism. @espiers.bsky.social honors those he hurt & considers his legacy without celebrating violence or ugliness www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”"

When asked about how he’s holding up in the wake of his friend’s murder, the Prez changes the subject to… the new White House ballroom, of course! “It’s gonna be a beauty…” With a friend like him, who needs friends?

I’m pretty sure it’s somewhere in the footnotes of Pulte’s instructions from his boss (the Orange one) to give any excuse other than Ms. Cook’s skin color.

I’m amused by a common element of the bot accounts I blocked today: their feeds are topped by flower shop pics. What’s that about? Is it international flower shop day? If so, here’s one from wikimedia commons user Sergi Larippa: “Les Rambles” in Barcelona commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:05...