I don't know what's significant about this, they're just trying to keep track of everyone. Hold on, I'm being handed a history book...

Where have we seen this before?

If someone tells you they're all for "immigrants who come to this country the right way and follow the rules," show them this story. It's just one of countless examples of ICE/CBP going after folks who are here legally, doing things "the right way."

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Plz don’t send me classified info but if you want to tell me what’s going on at the Pentagon my Signal username is annabower.24

“In the Pentagon press room, there’s a wall of photographs under metal lettering that reads ‘Pentagon Correspondents’ with the faces of the men and women who cover the Defense Department for major news outlets. “On Friday, all 30 slots for photographs were empty.”

“.. Those who refuse to sign the new policy will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Ah yes the Authorized Pentagon Papers www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it. (Published Dec. 2024)

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

we aren’t “objective” on things like....... free speech so it’s a real slippery slope before all journalists admit they’re not cool with pedophiles either I guess /s

Quick reminder that Cuomo’s most recent endorsement was literally from Woody Allen

This moment we’re in has more parallels to the 1940s than we’d like to admit. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/19/s...

On this day in 1950, the Supreme Court ruled that the University of Texas Law School had to enroll Heman M. Sweatt and other Black students. The case was monumental — like the first domino slammed onto the table of equality. And, our writer found, it was personal. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/19/s...

Republican former TX House Speaker Dade Phelan is telling it like it is. “…he’s gone from buttoned-up politician to that one relative at Thanksgiving who’s too old to care what anyone thinks.” @briangaar.bsky.social @thebarbedwire.com thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/16/d...

This Texas man’s monumental U.S. Supreme Court case killed the doctrine of “separate but equal” 75 years ago today, paving the way for nationwide desegregation. This is a remarkable story. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/19/s...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Feel like this bears repeating— Donald Trump's net worth has increased by $3 billion in the past 12 months, mostly due to crypto. Anyway, how's your day?

Everyday it’s mad libs

Government by internet troll

ABC News: “At least 13 people have been wounded, five critically, in two shootings that erupted over a span of 12 hours at homeless encampments in Minneapolis.”

hey so this is insane

Stewart has not hosted “The Daily Show” since Kirk’s assassination.

I watched every Jimmy Kimmel monologue since Charlie Kirk was killed and all I got was this sinking feeling

still glitching out over Bari Weiss interviewing Woody Allen about who he’s going to vote for mayor of NYC and him saying Cuomo

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

this mad libs news cycle is too much

NEW In her new book, former Vice-President Kamala Harris says she wanted to pick Pete Buttigieg as her running mate but she knew she couldn’t do it because she was already asking America to accept a Black woman married to a Jewish man as their President. Full Story: bit.ly/46HJ21Y

mad I already tried this move last week because tonight I feel like it’s more justified

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

I sort of guessed the answer when I asked which Kirk legacy would be honored — debating your opponent, or using state power to shut down the left. But it happened very quickly. www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

The fact that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was even being interviewed by a serial plagiarist who accidentally made content for Russia makes my blood boil ...but then hours later, he clearly acted on this threat.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

more than a decade ago, one Fraction-Aja Hawkeye panel captured the vibe of this entire era we're living in now

I feel like we all may need to collectively rewatch V for Vendetta?

throws a lot of cold water on the bullshit peddled by the whole austin comedy scene, which has constructed an identity around the idea that the election freed up comics to say whatever they want without fear of cancellation

At least 8 troops punished for social media comments about Charlie Kirk’s death trib.al/u4qMf9U

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One of our reporters has been having a hell of a time getting expert sources to talk about the reactions to Charlie Kirk’s assassination on the record — out of fear of professional retaliation. It’s like every 30 minutes, a new firing or expulsion or arrest is announced.