In addition to this statement Trump is now giving vaccine advice. “I’m just making these statements from me I’m not making them from these doctors… they talk about different results, different studies. I talk about a lot of common sense.”

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

“The proposed changes to the vaccine schedule also run counter to the hours of data presented by the CDC's own scientists throughout the meeting on the rationale for these recommendations.” www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

word of the week: “Jawboning” www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

I was interviewed by one of the largest newspapers in the country this summer. The reported specifically asked me about my political donation history, noting that the White House was doing this.

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

GSA has created an "ICE surge" team in recent weeks, referring to an effort to lease private offices to allow ICE officers to establish long-term work space in the cities where they are operating. www.npr.org/2025/09/18/g...

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fascinating thread

Yesterday a lot of folks were gobsmacked that Winnie Greco had insisted on handing @katiehonan.bsky.social a red envelope of cash in a potato chip bag at an Adams campaign event. Here's a new story from some of my colleagues that seems to connect some dots.

Come ON www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

The DHS spox told us "This administration is unapologetically proud of American history and American heritage. Get used to it." So, what exactly do they mean by American history and heritage? We took a dive into the admin's social media accounts to see. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

A deep dive into WH & DHS social media feeds, where a blend of nostalgia, aggression & calls to "Save America," "Secure the Golden Age" & "Protect. Serve. Deport." evoke a nationalist, white-centered view of who the American homeland is for. with @jjoffeblock.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

I'm going to publish the entirety of an exchange I just had with the press office of the DOJ. I want you to see how they are talking about truth.

Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.

Senator Bill Cassidy’s vote secured the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy jr. He’s now issued a brief statement faintly calling Kennedy’s destruction of vaccine research “unfortunate”

would buy. hail pazuzu.

A+ reference

The administration is giving medicaid recipients’ personal information to ICE apnews.com/article/immi...

Hello just wanted to say: Public media is a useful public good. It is a source of great local news at a time when local news is being decimated. Also, in my 10 years in public media, I can say people who work here do it because they believe in the mission of informing people. Just noting.

NEW: An Idaho church that wants to establish a Christian government opened a church in DC this weekend – and Pete Hegseth was there. My report: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/christ-...

The United States of America, 2025

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

NEW: ICE's "roving patrols" in Los Angeles have led to unconstitutional arrests of people agents suspect — without probable cause — are in the country illegally, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

Seems possible to me that AI unleashes a torrent of attentional pollution that renders the entire enterprise unworkable.

you have to see to believe the bizarre TikTok phenomenon @bobbyallyn.bsky.social stumbled across this week: AI being used to copy, verbatim, real people's videos -- words, cadence, even the ums and uhs. check out the video below, and our story for more examples: www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

NEW: We've uncovered a new AI tactic being deployed on TikTok: A creator's verbatim words stolen and recited by an AI influencer. Experts told us this kind of trickery has overlap with the methods of state-backed influence operations. W/ @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

These documents contain numerous disturbing details that not only corroborate the whistleblower’s claims but also highlight DOJ’s efforts to mislead a federal court and disregard its orders. READ THE DOCS HERE: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... AND HERE: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

NEW: Newly released documents corroborate whistleblower's allegation that Emil Bove said DOJ might have to say “fuck you” to court orders enjoining the removal of migrants under the Alien Enemies Act The documents show the whistleblower alluding to the "fuck you" comment in texts w/ DOJ colleagues:

A DOGE staffer recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social scoops www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

NEW: Meet DOGE 2.0 Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency is continuing its wholesale assault on federal agencies—even without Musk in government. read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:

Reminder that Elon is still suing Media Matters in like 15 different venues for reporting that Nazi content even appears on Twitter. Now the bot that’s trained on the site’s tweets sounds like Rappin’ Goebbels.

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

The VA is calling off plans for a “large-scale” reduction in force that had planned to cut around 80k jobs. Now the agency says it’s on pace to shed 30k jobs this fiscal year thanks to “the federal hiring freeze, deferred resignations, retirements and normal attrition” news.va.gov/press-room/v...

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the National Weather Service, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk. What’s more, they say it underscores the need to sustain funding to the crucial agency.

I use the VDA Framework to describe democracy as a system with three essential functions: Verification - Can we establish what is true? Deliberation - Can we debate and decide fairly? Accountability - Can we hold power to account? If these fail, democracy becomes a hollow performance.

i know everything is hair on fire at the moment but, in case you missed it, this is bananas and clearly has alarming implications well beyond ignoring the TikTok ban. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

From the Times’ 1992 review of Mississippi Masala www.nytimes.com/1992/02/05/m...

I mean there's literally a line in the movie about this exact situation!

Love this thread. A great lesson in diaspora politics/history and also crucially acknowledges the overall hotness of nomadic peoples.

one of the main things i’ve learned today is that more people need to watch Mississippi Masala

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

a clearer statement of the facts than what is in the story itself

Cremieux’s real name is Jordan Lasker. I put his name in the newspaper. He’s a scientific racist www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...