Exactly. This is what changed dramatically at the nyt: The imposition of a top-down anti-trans ideology. @esqueer.net’s analysis captured this shift from factual reporting to propagandising I was there. I witnessed it. The nyt has attacked me for speaking out, but I’m not going anywhere.

Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Is Approved by NYC Board Freezing rent for rent-stabilized apartments was central to Mamdani’s campaign. 6 months in, a city panel delivered. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/n... but just yesterday those radical sewer socialists were destroying the dem party & democracy amirite?

Yes. This is very much so. Mainstream media are very dangerous bc so many ppl think they're liberal biased but they're Right Wing biased. So ppl don't ask themselves if they favor Right Wingers, even though they constantly do.

Another excellent example of how corporate funding and influence has distorted science, and how leading universities have been complicit. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

Once upon a time, while studying disinfo about the civil war in Syria, I posted my thoughts on Gabbard as a down-the-rabbit-hole serial repeater of Russian-Iranian-Syrian propaganda. Then Jack Dorsey jumped into my DMs telling me I had it all wrong. Strange times. And yet still not as weird as this.

In every competitive race this week's D.C. Democratic primary election, left-leaning candidates either won outright or are leading by significant margins. We’ll continue reporting results as they’re released. More from earlier this week: 51st.news/election-nig...

FT exclusive Nigel Farage’s 2015-16 Brexit rallies were unlawfully funded from the EU budget. European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during the demagogue’s ‘Say No To The EU’ tour

one thing reactionary centrists like starmer in the uk & the american anti-lib left share is a contempt for the people who actually vote for progressive parties in the modern age

The Kharkiv Art Museum after today's Russian attack. Destroying Ukrainian history, art, language, and cultural identity is a page from an old Russian playbook. Cultural genocide is what they do.

Again and again, Russia kills the people and destroys the cultural sites it says it went to war to protect. These crimes will end when the US supplies missile defense to Ukraine and enforces sanctions on Russian energy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Our research team is ramping up for coming midterms. Looks like we'll be busy. If you're interested, here's an interactive graph (thanks to Stephen Prochaska) showing how X influencers re-ran the "rigged election" narrative during/following the CA primaries. faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Cumu...

"You're a masked agent kidnaping people wearing my f*cking uniform! Bringing shame to it!" -Bobby, a U.S. veteran, yells at militarized ICE agents after they just tear gassed protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. Our @JTCestkowski reports LIVE ⬇️

This is unfortunately nothing new, and particularly not some kind of "weird coincidence." Back in the ancient, halcyon days of 2014:

Most media are Right Wing biased. Even most mainstream media are subtly RWng biased & hire many RWngers to appease the RWngers who've worked the refs at MSM for generations, falsely accusing them of Left bias.

Miami Herald reports that DeSantis spent more money operating Alligator Alcatraz for a year ($824M) than he spent from his emergency for Hurricane Nicole (2022), Hurricane Idalia (2023), and Hurricane Debby (2024) combined.

New disinformation strategy to undermine election integrity: Peddling the logical fallacy that the absence of evidence of fraud confirms its existence. I’m already seeing evidence of coordinated use of this tactic.

While GDP may have grown, wages have stagnated, work has become more precarious and public services are atrophying. At the top, fortunes ballooned; at the bottom, families turned to food banks. An economic model that depends on endless expansion on a finite planet is not just unfair; it's dangerous.

This nyt is using the same playbook against women’s reproductive rights as it used against trans ppl. It also happens to be the same playbook promoted by MAGA-aligned, billionaire-backed groups like the Heritage Foundation

The richest 10% of the world’s population earns more than the remaining 90% combined, and controls 75% of global wealth, compared to just 2% controlled by the poorest half of humanity, reveals @thomaspiketty.bsky.social and @wid.world report. But are World Inequality Lab’s solutions workable?

"If the United States had closed its racial and gender equity gaps in education and workforce participation back in 2000, the country would have added an estimated $15 to $20 trillion to its economy." www.theeduledger.com/demographics...

in early Jan. 2025, the NLRB filed a formal complaint against GEO Group for putting ICE detainees who organized a labor strike in solitary confinement in weeks, Trump fired members of the NLRB, withdrew the complaint, & gave GEO a huge contract for Delaney Hall ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The presidency is now just a content creator job. The president of the United States is nothing more than a right-wing podcaster.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

OPINION: "Families are flooded with disinformation and misinformation suggesting the science on gender-affirming care has changed. It has not. But a growing gap exists between what the law permits and what families believe possible," Susan Radzilowski writes.

One of the most insidious effects of the fascist era of American politics has been the effects on our ability to communicate and understand the world. And it impacts every single one of us, no matter how much we care about truth and work to stay informed. 🧵

In case you have forgotten who Andy Kim is, he’s the rep who came into the Capitol building after Trump’s J6 goons had trashed it, got down in his hands and knees, and cleaned it up. And ICE have gassed him. They have peppersprayed the true patriot who thinks American ideals are worth defending.

That would be quite a trick since Right Wingers own almost all media and social media consumed in the U.S. bsky.app/profile/upin...

This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927. Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars. Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that. Bari Weiss killed it.

This is a very important and excellent essay from @lanalanalana.bsky.social. Social Media in the Scam Age Social Media + Society, 2026 "Social media is entering its scam age. ...Scams are not just peripheral to the digital economy but central to it." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wrote about today's congressional hearing on court expansion Come for my good analysis, stay for this delightful political cartoon I found from like a hundred years ago about previous changes to the size of the Court ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform...

We've had 50 years of the Federalist Society conditioning institutions to belive that conservative criminality and bad faith are merely differences of opinion

Many of the Global Samud Flotilla sailors and activists who were illegally detained in international waters by the IDF have been subjected to extreme violence and sexual humiliation by Israeli forces, with several suffering severe injuries, says Israeli rights group.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

House Democrats secured the necessary signatures to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a package of Russia sanctions and billions of dollars in Ukraine aid. This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used to do an end-run around GOP leadership.

Man, there are some crazy “labor vs. capital” charts, lately. @ianbremmer.com

if you read the NYT piece out today about the Trump admin condemning Black people to live in raw sewage in the name of fighting "illegal DEI," please make sure you also read and share the piece I wrote about this over a year ago! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Anti-democratic propaganda spread by states is often systematically enabled by attacks on speech rights of critics. It is a significant aspect of autocratisation. This podcast discusses the sneaky way free speech claims are used to attack on the credibility of critics, which has a chilling effect.

I'm kinda disappointed that even though I did mountains of the best drugs I was never as high as James Brown was here. This is like the Mt Everest of being high. He had a sherpa for that last 50 feet and went out on top

Louisiana GOP is obviously & severely harming the public by nullifying the election of Calvin Duncan but also my jaw dropped, when researching, seeing how much Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are like 'fuck this one Black man in particular' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

To state the obvious this all has nothing to do with the constitution or judicial review. Roberts is routinely striking down decades old laws that have withstood decades of judicial review. The only thing that's changed is a radical, right wing court committed to legislating from the bench.