Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - Camilo Montoya-Galvez www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Jeff Besos never really struck me as a Sports Guy.

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

This is painful to read.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

VICTORY: After thousands of locals protested, called, and gave public comments, a company halted the sale of a Virginia warehouse to DHS to be used for immigrant detention. DHS wants to buy 23 warehouses nationwide. Resist all of them.

Southwest Airlines expects to quadruple profits this year after making changes including charging for checked bags, adding fees for extra-legroom seats, and eliminating open seating, WSJ reports.

Three delivery apps, including UberEats, will pay NYC delivery workers $4.6 million after they violated the city's minimum pay law. The Mamdani admin will announce the settlement today, which comes after enforcement action taken by the city. nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/30/t...

DHS appears to be bringing decades of violence at the U.S.-Mexico border to cities throughout the United States.

If any disabled/chronically ill people in the South want to share any stories of how they've been impacted by the storms, please reach out at [email protected] or signal juliametraux. 49 This is for a potential @motherjones.com story, thanks!

Why was Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer transferred to a cushy prison?

🚨BREAKING: A federal court Wednesday ruled against a Republican challenge to California’s redistricting plan, rejecting the GOP claim that the state had engaged in illegal racial gerrymandering when drawing up its new congressional map. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Hospitals and doctors are ignoring RFK Jr.’s new vaccine schedule and relying on pediatricians’ guidance instead. Story by @danielpayne.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/01/15/n...

NEW: No, it was never really about drugs. Yes, it was about oil — but it wasn't *only* about oil. And no, it wasn't even close to being legal. In a new explainer out today, IPS scholars clear up the biggest questions about the U.S. attack on Venezuela:

Great news! EITM has been nominated under the category of Outstanding Independent Journalism by the GLAAD awards. We share this nomination with many other deserving publications. We couldn't do it without our readers, who help us break news every day. Thank you all.

If you're a 55-64 year old who is retired due to health issues who is struggling to get SNAP work requirement exemptions, please get in touch for a @motherjones.com piece. My email is [email protected]. I can potentially use first name only.

In a small breath of reprieve, the 9th Circuit Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling from a conservative judge that would have allowed teachers to forcibly out trans students to their parents. This case will eventually have national implications. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what a US Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters, @megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials. My column on the condemnation of good journalism.

A biotech company was called out for concerning science about their artificial blood vessels. Now, instead of restricting the vessels' reach, the company appears to be touting the product beyond the prescribed limits set by the FDA. My latest for @levernews.com www.levernews.com/regulatory-r...

How dare you assume that someone whose entire career has been a bad faith grift to benefit conservatives is acting in bad faith to benefit conservatives.

BREAKING: Instacart is ending all price testing on its platform in the wake of this report.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

John Deere got this video taken off our YouTube for two weeks. It took our lawyers reaching out to YouTube to get it back up. The video lays out how a handful of corporations took control of the agriculture industry, bankrupting farmers and screwing us all over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl02...

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

While Starbucks workers are on strike because they can't get a fair contract, the Bezos-owned Post is saying the CEO deserves the $96 million he got last year.

BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine. This is a tragedy in the making. This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program. Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.

1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men." Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...

someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles

Please come to our next event! It was a great time.

Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.

News to watch: A federal judge in Philadelphia has blocked President Trump’s administration from obtaining the private medical records of youth who sought gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Newly unsealed internal communications from Meta reveal senior staff saying Instagram is a drug and "We’re basically pushers." The new court filing reveals Meta staff allegedly worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children.

two weeks apart

I hate that in local news, sometimes the most common type of disability story will be the very, VERY rare cases of disability fraud. Disabled people live interesting lives and are impacted by so many things, yet the focus is on these rare events.

I got a 6/8....so not even a true LeverMind! Who can beat me??

wrote about this shitbag again defector.com/vaccines-do-...

My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies. In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

If you have stomach issues or diarrhea in the near future blame the senators who slipped these provisions into the funding bill to reopen the government. www.levernews.com/shutdown-dea...

Crazy find by @freddy-brewster.bsky.social @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social. Give it a read!

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Bernie Sanders has said in the Senate after Susan Collins reportedly laughed about the new funding bill: “If this bill passes, certain groups will see their premiums triple. When you remove healthcare from 15 million people, 50,000 Americans will die who didn’t have to. Do you think that’s funny?”

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage rights