new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

"Holds your hand through plastic now 'Doc, I think she's crashing out' And some things you just can't speak about Only 20 minutes to sleep But you dream of some epiphany Just one single glimpse of relief To make some sense of what you've seen"

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

“If you preach hate at the service, those words aren't anointed That holy water that you soak in has been poisoned When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen“ - “Same Love” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

I will say that emulating their tactics cannot be a long-term solution. It’s necessary now to beat them. But ultimately, closing the loopholes that built their machine is what is required. The political spending we see today is a crisis. The system that allows it needs to be overhauled.

I’m old enough to remember when a right wing extremist who was radicalized online by disinformation spent over 500 rounds attacking the CDC and killed a police officer in the process. Yet that was merely a blip on the legacy media radar. No weeks long discourse or perpetual condemnation. Wild.

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

There are fewer than 300 children’s hospitals in the United States. If your child (or most neonates) needs any form of intensive, specialized, or prolonged care, these are all there are. Would you want your child at a hospital that just fired 150 staff and is no longer hiring for unfilled positions?

I’m glad to share a new article published as part of HRJ’s special collection: "Harm Reduction in Europe: Histories, Choices and Hopes." link.springer.com/article/10.1... @gwshorter.bsky.social @dkhumphreys.bsky.social @bchrisinger.bsky.social 1/2

Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

Five years ago I went undercover and met a bunch of guys who love Hitler at Turning Point USA.

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

When do we go back to just calling them weird?

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

$630 billion annually on bombs, tanks and missiles But no money for universal health coverage

I honestly think the ongoing effort to whitewash Kirk and treat MAGAism like normal conservative politics is disrespectful to those principled conservatives who have publicly broken with MAGA.

🧵 Why early warning systems like VAERS matter (despite what anonymous accounts may suggest): Not only did the huge rage-bait account immediately pose a snide meme about arguing with antivaxxers (presumably me, LMAO) on SM & then immediately double down, but the effect of their silliness is that...

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

"A countermovement must counter, not just in rhetoric and ideas, but in our day-to-day actions and within the movements that illustrate our radicalism." Yes, and I think it's really important to highlight the anti-COVID work Black organizers have been holding for 6 years advocating against +

important pre-bunking of the misinformation ACIP is likely to discuss tomorrow. Unfortunately the new ACIP know how weak their evidence is so they (still) haven't posted the meeting materials

When John Yoo says you are doing something that seems like a war crime, my friend, you are doing war crimes.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Queen

New from LCRW x The L.A. Ten Four: @acatwithnews.bsky.social covers the Nazi rally in Huntington Beach that co-opted a Charlie Kirk vigil last night, handing children Nazi recruitment flyers and assaulting one of the people who came to pay respects to Kirk.

As predicted: “Oracle [founded by Trump ally Larry Ellison], Andreessen Horowitz [founded by Trump/Thiel ally Marc Andreessen] consortium will control 80% of TikTok…” 9/16/25 Ellison & Andreessen also funded Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, so this is kind of like capturing Boardwalk & Park Place. 1/

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

Every institution that has rolled over will regret it, they helped sow these seeds. The cowardice has been profound and the eye of Sauron now aimed at the last piers of free society. As was predictable when the first law firm caved.

I feel so honored that my book, Mind the Science, has won the 2024 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award. And I’m grateful to those in the science communication community who, like me, are fighting the same mission against pseudoscience. 😊✌️ sciencewriters.ca/bookawards2024

Former surgeon general Jerome Adams pulls no punches in his assessment of health secretary Kennedy and the risk he poses to vaccine policy. www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/j...

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

It’s absolute bullshit to say you can’t help people until they stop using. We can and do work on safety, housing, health, and dignity while people use.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

The most important solutions to the crises that face emergency medicine today are systems-level changes… Our patients are suffering, our colleagues are suffering, the healthcare system is suffering, and we need to rise to meet this moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcq0...

Please stop using Substack. No, I won’t subscribe. I won’t even click on your links. I’m not supporting a company that allows literal Nazis on their platform. You cannot expect me to hear your complaints about Nazis on the Nazi website. Use other platforms Ghost or Medium or write a newsletter.

Flood of Americans facing firing for mostly inoffensive comments on Charlie Kirk’s death; Right-wing organization appears to be behind effort firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/matthew...

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

If your solution to homelessness doesn’t center on providing housing… you are deeply unserious.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

So, based on the denunciations by the Right of people making bland statements and their subsequent firings, we can all assume that these positions are taken in good faith and then that Brian Kilmeade is going to be fired effective immediately, right? Right!?!

“Calling us Nazis leads to violence, and hurts our feelings. We just want to kill all the homeless people. Don’t use such hurtful language” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

California Passes Bill Allowing Omission of Patients’ Names From Abortion Pill Bottles www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

For example

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"We don't want them in Chicago." "The [DHS] statement, which was immediately quoted by media outlets, places much of the blame on Villegas-Gonzalez for his own death." "Bystander videos and eyewitness accounts, however, tell a different story." #Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

*DennisGreenTheyAreWhoWeThoughtTheyWere.gif* Do not give an inch. Do not fall for their bad faith arguments. This is eugenics. You cannot find middle ground with these people because eugenics does not have a middle ground. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...