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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

ICE is doing forced labor and sexual assault of transgender people in their detention centers, reads a new complaint.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

The problem isn’t that the democrats don’t understand this, it’s that they won’t give a nickel to anybody to the left of the pod save guys

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence... Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now. We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

I’m ambivalent to the extent Gamergate had on a macrohistorical level in itself rather than being one of many semi-random reactionary spasms, but imagine being an editor who rubber-stamped a review of some rando indie game cuz w/e and now Africans don’t get AIDS meds and IKEA is illegal. Whoops.

Absolutely beyond parody that Dave Chappelle is headlining a comedy show for Saudi royalty after what, a decade of whining about cancel culture

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Multiple organizers I trust who have been a regular presence at Broadview are advising folks not to protest there tonight. For a number of reasons, they are worried that fatal force could be used against protesters tonight. They are calling for folks to regroup and return Friday morning.

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals." 1/3

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

"When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining."

Just got word that at the Broadview, IL facility I protested at yesterday, ICE fascists arrested Dana Briggs, a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Trump claims he's getting "violent criminals" off our streets with ICE. No, he's going after military Veterans who oppose his fascist policies. Indefensible.

ICE has run a recruiting commercial on almost every break in this NCSU-VT football game Obscene that taxpayer money is being blown on this trash

We have to stop dehumanizing ICE agents while they are doing their important job of dehumanizing us

Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

The rules have changed. Mike Johnson wants to wait until the official results come in October 14th to swear in Grijalva.

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Experts told me Tesla has gotten better at monitoring the behavior of drivers using FSD (S), which can't actually drive by itself But amidst Tesla's Big Pivot to autonomy and robotics, it seems to be pushing drivers to use the feature exactly when they shouldn't www.wired.com/story/story/...

The United States is simply not politically stable enough, nor sufficiently committed to democratic and international principles, to host the UN.

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. With @theassemblync.bsky.social

Angela McArdle comes out as a white nationalist. McArdle is the former chair of the Libertarian National Committee who was forced to resign after evidence of her embezzlement through a shell company created by her domestic partner was revealed. She also sold out the Libertarian Party to MAGA.

“The Government has indelibly prejudiced Mr. Mangione by baselessly linking him to unrelated violent events, and left-wing extremist groups, despite there being no connection or affiliation,” the lawyers wrote.

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

“As the government seems more and more willing to reject and ignore the rule of law, we are seeing that some of the most frontline individuals affected are reporters, and particularly immigrant reporters.” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Kristi Noem still can't confirm who was killed during the shooting at the ICE facility today and can't even confirm that the victim's family has been contacted

The many many women & BIPOC who‘ve been endlessly repeating ourselves (& being erased) since the dawn of computing were not & are not prescient or ahead of their/our time… Eugenics isn’t a bug—it’s a feature! We were & are excluded by design & intention…these predicted outcomes aren’t accidents!

I went to Catholic school, and we even knew the Bible isn’t a history book. Oklahoma just turned indoctrination into state policy: mandating classroom Bibles while pretending amendments 11 - 27 don’t exist. Public schools should teach real history, not change it in order to fit a political agenda.

The raging misogyny was always a tell that SV was never the liberal nirvana people keep proclaiming it was/is. But who listens to women, eh?

This is your must read of the day. "The neurogeneticist Stanley Nelson once said, 'If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.' Researchers increasingly believe the search for a cause of a singular 'autism' is misguided. There are autisms, rather than just autism."

Journalists find another word than firebrand to describe political grifters who want to destroy American institutions for personal wealth and power challenge.

That “teacher group“ is an anti-union group. I guess that job in the Trump Administration he wanted so badly never came his way.

THE DAILY: President Trump and his inner circle are making millions of $$ from agreements that intersect with America’s national security interests, a NYT investigation found. Eric Lipton explains why these conflicts of interest are unlike anything we’ve seen before www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/p...

One of the arguments for Dems caving is that the GOP will use a shutdown as an excuse for cutting spending and... buddy, what are you even talking about? For months now the Trump admin has simply disregarded the law, ripping everything apart and stealing personal data. It's already happening.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

very alarmed that this is getting more relevant by the week www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...