Christian nationalists have already taken over the "America 250" history narrative with Trump's full approval & taxpayer funding. Now this: Credit to @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social for holding corporations to account. She's a must follow if you don't already. www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Another Republican Governor is refusing to bend to Donald Trump’s demand to rig their elections in his favor. trib.al/XKb97Lu

YouTube has removed one of my videos because I reported that women can still access abortion pills. I shared *factual & medically accurate* information about women's health—yet the platform says I'm "facilitating the sale of illegal drugs"

These used to be highly sought after jobs. Now they are offering ICE bonuses.

The Trump regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not. In corrupting DOJ, changing it from a law enforcement org into a try to hurt people the president personally dislikes org, they've reduced their prosecutorial capacity to the point of desperation.

absolutely thrilled to say I told you so

JCK is the Nellie Bowles of Thomas Chatterton Williamses 🤷🏽‍♀️

Happy National Cartoonist Day! We're celebrating the work of @anntelnaes.bsky.social on the same day DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE is launching in the US on Kinema.com! democracyundersiegedoc.org/watch Featuring: @hcrichardson.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @profmmurray.bsky.social @elienyc.bsky.social

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It's impossible to look at the firing of FOIA officials after the release of a declassified memo in response to FPF's records request "as anything other than inappropriate retaliation for a lawful FOIA release," FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social told @notus.com.

Brazil’s competition watchdog unanimously decided Thursday to open a formal investigation into Google’s use of news content, including in its AI Overviews, without compensation to publishers, reports Laís Martins.

What's funny is that PBS took one look at this collaborationist AP story, decided to publish it and thought, "You know what? We can make that headline even better with a skeet."

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This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

Norah O’Donnell, Jan Crawford, Nancy Cordes, and Weijia Jiang, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. None of them should have a job in journalism, now or ever.

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Peter Thiel’s “meeting with Milei is scheduled for Thursday…It will be one of the Argentine president’s first activities after returning from his official trip to Israel & the 4th meeting he has held with Thiel in 2 years.“ 4/23/26 (Thiel & Milei are likely reeling from Viktor Orban’s defeat.) 1/

Americans should prepare to hide these people in attics and basements, like Jews in World War II. We owe it to them.

It'd sure be nice if Kamala Harris' campaign organization wouldn't constantly promote Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, and whatnot. But oh well.

The Florida Democrat, under indictment on charges of stealing federal funds, resigned just before the House Ethics Committee was set to hold a hearing on whether to recommend she be expelled.

"AI approach the bench, Your Honor?"

Eugenics is your policy. Got it.

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

Reality: verifiably delusional false claims: “ended 9 wars”, deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, + deranged genocidal extortion and threats “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” @nytimes.com editors sanewashing: “coercive diplomacy”

Just 26% of Americans say they approve of how the president is handling prices/inflation, 35% on jobs and the economy. His net rating is way underwater on both www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...

@shahanafrombk.bsky.social is the first elected official here in NYC to propose legislation following to our @wired.com investigation into Madison Square Garden's intrusive surveillance operations.

These are going to come for the left too. They financially motivated — Macedonian teenager type stuff for the AI era. Scammers profiting off of easily enraged people. MAGA may be more susceptible to ragebait but worth understanding what’s going to happen in 2026 and 2028.

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

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8 in 10 AI chatbots would help 'teens' plan violent attacks. This is what our research found. That’s why Parliament must retain Baroness Kidron’s amendments to the Crime & Policing Bill, which require AI developers to assess & mitigate risks on AI platforms. Because unregulated AI can be deadly👇

Taught about the framing example from the AP & AFP photo captions during Hurricane Katrina, captioning the black man as "looting" and the white couple as "finding" food. Students were horrified, & wondered if journalists would do better now. I'd love to think so.. but🤷‍♀️ www.snopes.com/fact-check/h...

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Saying Republicans have a “different interpretation of civil rights” w trans issues is like saying kkk has some disagreement w black people

New in Nature Human Behaviour: How Deceptive Online Networks Reached Millions in the US 2020 Elections www.nature.com/articles/s41... -Reached at least 37M Facebook and 3M Instagram users -3 networks out of 49 responsible for >70% of users reached -Exposed users older, more conservative

The perception that “news finds me” is increasingly central to political comm & democracy work. People who believe that “news will find them” even if they don’t consume it directly are less knowledgeable & less politically interested (Gil de Zuniga 2019) psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-... ALSO…

100% agree and this was the big plan for my next NSF grant until the federal govt decided that studying misinformation was censorship and that all behavioral science is unnecessary and woke 😭 (Still hoping to do the work, just postponed for now)

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

NYT eliminated public editor in 2017. Sulzberger said readers on social media had “come together to collectively serve as a modern watchdog, more vigilant and forceful than one person could ever be.” Baquet said “a whole world of very public critics that we pay attention to.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Did you miss these stories this week? >Reuters powers ICE and Palantir >ICE agents were stationed outside a Marine recruit graduation to conduct “immigration status inquiries” on recruit family members. More in this week’s pro-democracy news summary. open.substack.com/pub/publicen...

Looks like we’re well into the political purges of senior military officers stage of authoritarianism. It’s been going this whole time, but now noticeably accelerated. Even worse, the regime is doing it in the middle of a war, one they launched that is going poorly.

Trump started a pointless and illegal war with Iran, he lost it almost immediately, he crushed America's economy and America's partners while making Iran and our rivals much stronger. He did it for no reason he can articulate. In any decent nation, he'd be forced to resign immediately.

NEW from @julialurie.bsky.social: As media and political scrutiny of the Dilley family detention center has increased—particularly after 5-year-old Liam Ramos arrived in January—so have threats of retribution against those who speak out.

Really unusual. - NYT & BBC: US military struck sports hall/school in Lamerd, Iran with a new weapon never before used in war (the PrSM) - DoD: denies any US strike in Lamerd and claims video "does not show" that weapon - Then great @bellingcat.com's Trevor Ball refutes DoD claim about the video

Yup, this is why Trump & RFK Jr built their health cabinet entirely out of MAGA & MAHA loyalists who had downplayed the pandemic, rejected scientific expertise, told people not to trust public health, cast doubt on the need for COVID vaccines, & pushed hard for mass infection instead of vaccination

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

This press release sure seems like the Marines warning undocumented family members of their latest class of recruits to avoid the graduation ceremony in order to keep themselves safe from immigration enforcement.

As we see images of hundreds of thousands coming together in support of democracy, know that togetherness, connection, and collective meaning-making are signs of a functioning democratic society. This participatory act, rooted in joy, solidarity, and a positive vision of the future IS democracy.

Fawning toady gets seat in press room as North Korea-style White House makeover continues. Pretty soon they’ll be bringing in cases of cognac and DVDs of 80s movies.

A predictable #NoKings take from Jeremy Peters: A small turnout will be ominous, a large one will be meaningless, all protests from the left are merely a "primal scream," and none of them mean much. The NYT has always loved protests as history but hated them as news. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/u...

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