Incredible start here. We all saw Kavanaugh's hearings where *he* played the victim, red-faced and screaming and spitting and promising revenge! And none of this has anything to do with academia. Go talk to some students! None will say their professors are too soft and treating them like victims!

NEW: Share of *all* US adults who regularly get news on each site 2% Bluesky 2% Truth Social 3% Threads 6% Nextdoor 9% Reddit 12% X 20% TikTok 35% YouTube 38% Facebook TikTok supplies news to about 10x more American adults than Bluesky does!

The three stories on the premiere of 60 MINUTES Sunday: --A profile of the very conservative governor of Utah (who fully supports Trump.) --A profile of Dana White, the very conservative friend of Donald Trump (and head of UFC) --Something about Russian shenanigans in the Baltic. Not good, Bob.

I’m at the New Yorkers Against ICE rally in Foley Square with hundreds of others. Earlier today ICE agents threw a grieving wife of a detainee to the ground inside 26 Federal Plaza, just steps from here. Elected officials @bradlander.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social and others are speaking.

🎥 Democracy Docket founder @marcelias.bsky.social breaks down everything you need to know about how Trump and the Republicans plan to interfere with the 2026 and 2028 elections. Watch it now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PXQ...

Shelby County, where Musk’s xAI facility sits, has Tennessee’s highest rate of ER visits for asthma. For the majority-Black residents of the area, emissions from the company’s methane gas turbines exacerbate longstanding public health concerns. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social

The decisions by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices matter, because insurers and federal programs rely on them, but they are not binding. States can follow the recommendations, or not. @celinegounder.com reports ⤵️ kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

As Trump’s trade war rages on into Fall, China still won’t buy American soybeans (assuming farms can even find labor to bring in their crops). But here’s the thing: Farmers aren’t working class. They’re often quite rich, actually. And they knew exactly what they were voting for. trib.al/1ZxkiVL

Delaware bans book bans based on author’s background or partisan, ideological or religious objections | The new law creates a statewide process that school boards and communities must follow when someone wants books taken off library shelves, reports @whyynews.bsky.social's Cris Barrish. .

A Maine ballot measure restricting mail voting could have an outsize effect on older folks. “We’re not even a voting rights advocacy organization, but we’ve had to become one,” says the director of the Maine Council on Aging.

“You can’t fix stuff with fear. Fear is like you take an antibiotic that’s really strong, that kills the bacteria, but it also kills the good bacteria. It kills everything and what they’re doing with their policies is killing everything."

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among private prison companies taking on immigration detention. In cash-strapped cities, like Walsenburg, Colorado, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

MAGA influencer-turned-FBI Director Kash Patel is, once again, live-tweeting an active investigation—publishing a photo of “evidence” and pronouncing it one of many "politically motivated attacks." trib.al/UBXd0gf

"What might have been dismissed as tin-foil imaginings a year ago may now be considered a prophetic warning in Trump’s second-term America."

Lawmakers and activists called on American tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police and for Congress to examine the issue after The Associated Press reported that U.S. technology played a far greater role than previously known in enabling human rights abuses by Beijing.

Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.

How do billionaire team owners not only pay a lower tax rate than some of their superstar players, but also a lower rate than the people who sell concessions at the games? ➡️ Revisit our 2021 story: https://propub.li/47ZbFJ3

Bluesky is pretty excellent at populating TikTok links. When I made the video I was upset that the top half of my head could be seen. Thank god for the image below. /s

10/10 perfect example of MAGA approach to the serious matter of government administration, no notes

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Holy shit

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Eight states and New York City officially announced the Northeast Public Health Collaborative this week, while the West Coast Health Alliance released its first vaccination guidelines. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

One person familiar with the federal investigation told NBC News “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups…Every indication so far is that this was one guy who did one really bad thing because he found Kirk’s ideology personally offensive.”

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.

kimmel has overtaken kirk in google search interest

Wrote a bit about how FCC Chair Brendan Carr won't stop his attacks until someone makes him. At this point, no one's really all that optimistic Congress or the courts will step up. More here: www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Checking in on this

If your news headline/ social post doesn't mention threats from the FCC chair, you are doing it wrong. This is how you do it: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

🎧 In the wake of ABC’s indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, this episode of "More to the Story" (published earlier today) is essential listening: @revealnews.org examines how the tragedy of Charlie Kirk’s murder is accelerating a political crackdown. LISTEN:

MAGA, don’t let the government turn you into Nazis.

Cato research proved Vance wrong.

Boy that was a real whipsaw from "looks like the law may be on the side of the sane Murdoch children trying to break Rupert and Lachlan's hold" to "the Ellison family now controls CBS News and TikTok and is reaching for more"

No notes

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."

The Washington Post notified Karen Attiah—the paper's only full-time Black columnist—she was fired for her remarks about "white men" after posting about Charlie Kirk's killing, according to the termination letter obtained by @status.news www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

I’d like to say it’s shocking, but it’s pretty much what he promised he’d do.

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City

I’m worried about the week ahead. Trump, Vance, Miller and the MAGA machine are seizing every chance they get to compound the division and anger in America, to vilify the left, to misrepresent the life of Kirk, and to push us toward greater conflict.

“AI is the greatest way to aggregate human knowledge.” Also: “When the AI fails to give the answer that a lone racist Afrikaner wants it to, it’ll be retrained to mirror his racist views.”

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW study from the nonpartisan Center for American Progress, by 2027, Trump’s tariffs and policies under his Big, Beautiful Bill will have decreased the incomes of all *but* the top 1% of American households—which will be $5,000 richer. trib.al/8LmxS0X

ICE officers used to have to fill out paperwork before they arrested someone. trib.al/0v1xg16 Now, likely in service of President Trump’s deportation agenda, that requirement has been removed.