US intelligence -- of which this wingnut is the titular head -- has no damn business meddling with voting. This madness flows from lunatic conspiracy theories. What Gabbard's doing here (and in Georgia) is an attack on our democracy and our freedom. It has to stop. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

Clare Malone's study of the Bari Weiss hostile takeover of CBS News: solid reporting and analysis of every aspect of the matter. Superlative journalism. Everything that CBS News is not, or is no longer. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Not just the view from Denmark. The view from anywhere in the universe where logic works.

Ok that was a game. Wow. #rams

This is what bending the knee gets you… more abuse.

It's odd, isn't it, how the supposed "woke overreach" that we are told has repulsed all of America & sent Dems into the wilderness coincided, almost perfectly, with final collapse of media gatekeepers & the rise of unrestrained RW media & social media dominance.

It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.

This is the heart of it. Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.

This is what I think of when I recognize that the lies Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Trump all told about Renee Good's killing are INCONSISTENT. They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

The 81-year-old, second-richest man on earth, calls up president directly and demands that he be allowed to use $100 billion including capital from world’s most repressive regimes and Trump’s son-in-law to conquer a massive entertainment and news complex to preserve “competition“

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

Huge News! Turning Point: The Vietnam War was nominated for an IDA award. Thank you to Doan Hoang Curtisis, Bo Kovitz, Keven McAlester, Tommy Nguyen and always Sarah Huisenga, Sabrina Parke and Clare Tucker....and John Dragonetti for the INCREDIBLE score! www.indiewire.com/.../ida-docu...

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

Looks like people showed up in DC

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...

Dodgers!!!!!! Yes!

It looks like Kimmel is blocked on ABC in DC.

This is like watching the 12th round of a fight that should have been stopped in the 10th.

@keriputnam.bsky.social on the incredible legacy of Robert Redford. www.thewrap.com/robert-redfo...

It's crazy that we've spent more time this year talking about the *former* president's health than the current one's, given the numerous warning signs and unanswered questions that are accumulating.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984

Probably not a good idea to ask ChatGPT for health advice.

"There's a critical difference between acknowledging a nation’s history and celebrating its worst moments. In Germany, they don’t erase their shameful Nazi past, but that doesn’t mean they’re erecting hagiographic statues commemorating war criminals."

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

That's exactly it. It's the gap between what we're all seeing and what many govts are even *admitting* that's so disturbing. Recently watched Vietnam doc on Netflix and it spoke about how that war "broke" trust in govt all the way to today. This seems like an acceleration of the same process.

Our Monday documentary spaces have been absolutely fantastic when it comes to recognizing institutional corruption. From Turning Point: The Cold War, Turning Point: Vietnam, and now The Octopus Murders (all available on Netflix), we're watching different chapters of the same book. Fascinating stuff.

An excellent interview we did with @brianknappenberger.bsky.social about Hulk Hogan’s life, legacy and the massive impact of his landmark lawsuit against Gawker Media On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Wrestler Hulk Hogan dies at 71 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

An Interview with me today on CBC Radio about the death of Hulk Hogan and the lasting devastation of the Hogan v Gawker trial. #hulkhogan #hulk #gawker www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

I recently watched the TURNING POINT: THE VIETNAM WAR (netflix), & first of all, another great job from the Turning Point crew; this one was contextual to the present, & kaleidoscopic (many US/ SVA/ NVA vets, activists & Vietnamese survivors & more voices). Utterly essential watch in 2025

Documentary (Single Episode): 2/2 Turning Point: The Vietnam War ("The End of the Road") Brian Knappenberger Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae ("Wounded Knee 1973") Yvonne Russo

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani." That's Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Former public editor of the New York Times, and a shrewd judge of newsroom character. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WSJ ed board warning Paramount not to pay Trump’s bribe! “The better alternative for Paramount: Win the legal case, vindicate its CBS journalists and 1st Amend & trust FCC has enough integrity to operate as something more than the President’s personal protection racket.” www.wsj.com/opinion/para...

Yes, obviously the better path.

This Douthat/Thiel conversation gets so weird. They speculate that the biggest threat to humanity might just be a 22 year old climate change activist leading us to a "totalitarian, one-world state." Imagine seeing the world that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

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“DOGE leaders pressured agency executives to hire a 21 yo former intern at Palantir, a data analysis firm, and grant him access to the personal data of every Social Security cardholder despite the executives’ concerns that he lacked sufficient training to handle such sensitive information.”

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.