"'This is so dumb that I have a hard time believing it is true,' he wrote..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

"Next year, a new subject, 'Spiritual and Moral Culture of Russia,' will be compulsory for students in grades five to seven. The textbooks are being developed with the Russian Orthodox Church..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...

"Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state to construct 'a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza', with a statue of the him and a sign calling him a 'modern civil rights leader'..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The $42 billion initiative, created by Biden's infrastructure bill, aimed to close the digital divide, with a focus on rural communities. Trump’s changes to the program have disqualified hundreds of thousands of locations from receiving internet access..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fewe...

"Key monthly costs for most Americans — shelter, food, health care, electricity — are outpacing inflation. Rents are up 3.8% — the largest increase since 2011..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Coming Friday October 17th on MSNBC... www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Be sure to stay for the part where the head of the Virginia state Republican party calls the closure of multiple rural health clinics "a win for rural communities”... www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/p...

this is… not how it works. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

"During the transition, law enforcement officials notified the incoming administration about the case as Mr. Trump’s team considered whom to appoint to to government positions..." And they still gave him the job! Did he keep the $50k? And what was his Cava order? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month... "The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'... www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...

"Homan indicated he would facilitate securing contracts for them in exchange for money once he was in office... "On Sept. 20, 2024, with hidden cameras recording the scene at a meeting spot in Texas, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

"The Hepatitis B vaccine has nearly eliminated maternal transmission of the disease in the United States, slashing the incidence to fewer than 20 cases a year from about 20,000 a year before 1991..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Military lawyers within the Pentagon have taken issue with the legal justifications for the strikes, warning that the soldiers involved could be held personally liable for the killings.

Protesters gathered outside El Capitan Entertainment Center after ABC announced it would suspend "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely. This is how politicians, comedians and media companies are reacting to the news.

House Democratic Leadership Statement on the Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.

"Economists have done a very poor job updating their assumptions to a novel policy environment where the government is actively trying to raise prices (via tariffs) and reduce job growth (via immigration enforcement)..." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

“.. Virtually all major grocery categories are now more expensive than they were a year ago, some substantially so.” @axios.com #ICYMI www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

With the right folks in charge, it doesn't take long to get from a US economy that is "the envy of the world" to this: "The long-term unemployment number is a post-pandemic high and a level typically only seen during periods of economic turmoil..." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Huh! Imagine that! The world's least surprising news development in this case: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/b...

“Health insurance costs in the United States are on track for their biggest jump in at least five years… “For the 24 million enrollees of Affordable Care Act insurance plans, costs are expected to rise by more than 75 percent next year…” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"Trump administration to cut funding for Oregon program serving deaf-blind students" www.kgw.com/article/news...

This thread and series of thoughts from @gregggonsalves.bsky.social is excellent and worth your time.

Incredible reportage. "Incredible" in sense of phenomenally detailed, extensive, attributed to sources, news-making. And, as with birthday book, even worse than you thought Admiration to @dmehro.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social and colleagues on @bloomberg.com team (Paywalled but worth it.)

The news from Utah is horrifying. Monstrous.

"A convicted New York drug dealer whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump has been found guilty of violating the terms of his release after being arrested and charged in connection with several recent crimes..." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“She’s been in this country 47 years, is married, with five kids and five grandkids, and you’re telling me she’s a flight risk?” he said. www.wowt.com/2025/09/08/g...

How do you even measure the Washington Post cringe factor at being embarrassed like this in coverage of your own city... Same event: Left side - New York Times headline Right side - Washington Post white house press release I mean headline

Turns out... throttling the storied Washington Post opinion section by the neck like this doesn't turn it into something new or exciting! It turns it into print newsmax. Or truth social with better kerning or something. This is dime-a-dozen stuff now -- who's asking for this?

"The group brings together hundreds of grandparents nationwide who lived through diseases such as polio, tuberculosis and measles — illnesses once thought eliminated in the United States..." www.kgw.com/article/news...

"Rev. Hatch urged congregants of a prominent Black church on Chicago’s West Side to carry identification, stay connected to family, and protest... 'You need to start telling people about your whereabouts, so you don’t disappear,' he said during Sunday services... www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...