#OTD Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing about 3 million enslaved Black people. Slavery’s end was not its disappearance. Oppression took new forms. Today, #TheMarchContinues.

Trump's words were better suited for a campaign rally than a memorial. He took to the stage, promising more political violence and retribution against his enemies, moments after Kirk’s wife promised to forgive them. trib.al/gMT59FF

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Commentary: The only reason Vladimir Putin is expressing an openness to talks is because he wants to reduce international support for Ukraine.

“Women who have greater educational attainment, economic opportunities and decision-making power also have greater autonomy over their reproductive health decisions, and we see this in the lower rates of unintended pregnancy.”

The Department of War said it would forbid reporters from gathering any information that had not been approved for release and would revoke press credentials from any journalists who did not obey. interc.pt/46wyp0J

“A snapshot of Silicon Valley in 2025 is Mark Zuckerberg, now a MAGA-friendly mixed martial arts fan who doesn’t worry much about hate speech on his platforms and complains that corporate America isn’t masculine enough.”

It’s me. I’m my crush. My true OTP.

Three decades after she declared in Beijing that “women’s rights are human rights,” Hillary Clinton says President Trump and autocratic leaders abroad are steadily dismantling decades of progress.

⚡️UN Security Council to meet over Russian fighter jets violating Estonian airspace. This marks the first time in over 30 years that Estonia has requested an emergency meeting of the Security Council.

Tea Dances for the 21st century!

"'I killed a baby,' [Lt. Nick] Goc whispered ... 'You're alright, you're OK,' Lieutenant Investigator Todd Tedrow said. 'We're gonna take care of this.'"

Here are some more companies that Disney owns. This is what a monopoly looks like. This is why they have so much power when you look at this list what don’t they own? Boycott everything Disney and never return to a company that’s willing to subvert US democracy. disney.fandom.com/wiki/List_of...

Step one: Cancel your Disney+ subscription. Step two: Build collective power so we can wield it against the Trump regime. I've got some suggestions and resources for your next steps. www.altrightdelete.news/p/for-real-l...

Hint: It is not the Democrats.

Air force fighter jets from Germany and Sweden have been scrambled to intercept and track a Russian surveillance plane that was flying over the Baltic Sea.

Last year, prominent conservatives accused Charlie Kirk of antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/u...

This is WHY you should use alt txt!!!

In the latest example of the president using the Justice Department to indulge his hurt feelings, Trump instructs Pam Bondi to go after his political enemies "NOW!!!"

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes. That’s what this is.

To recap, conservatives built an entire category of legal theory dedicated to the grammar-derived reading of precise text, only to take power and abandon written law altogether.

How can establishment Ds risk angering an American public that *only* disapproves of your opponents by a mere — checks notes — 49 points? Politics has a gerontocracy problem.

Liberia, Sierra Leone & Ghana are among the stops.

The tactic of coming first for Black women in journalism goes back to Reagan. For me the actual big call was not the big names but the teachers , administrators and others whose names don’t ring bells , but whose jobs where in every report since the 60’s www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Post 9/11 “serious” Rs cited the Fox tv show ‘24’ as proof that torture worked as reliable way to get information.

Kirk gets honored by the NFL for hate speech but Kaepernick gets banned for respectful peaceful protest. Judge a person by their actions.

European airports scramble to get back online after cyberattack on check-in systems

“It should not be overlooked that since Trump’s first term, all significant efforts to collectively prosecute social justice movements have failed.”

This is what happens when the religious right take comprehensive sex education out of schools. “Zinaman told me that many of his patients don’t know that a woman has a brief window each month during which it’s possible to get pregnant.”

The price women whistleblowers pay for speaking out all over the world is higher than it is for men. www.hrlc.org.au/news/women-w...

Former Meta exec who exposed the company’s China ties and treatment of teens is reportedly near bankruptcy after her book’s release, facing $50k fines per violation of a gag order against criticizing Meta. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

⚡️ NATO jets intercept Russian spy plane over Baltic Sea, Germany says. The aircraft, an Il-20M, departed from Russia and entered international airspace without establishing communication, making visual identification the only way to confirm its presence.

After Greg Abbott signed #HB7 (which targets medication abortion) yesterday, Physicians for Reproductive Health @prh.org is out with a statement from Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi:

Fracking’s Broken Promise to Pennsylvania | Fracking was supposed to lower Pennsylvanians’ electric bills. Instead, they’re higher than ever—and they’re about to get worse, reports @insideclimatenews.org. This is the first article in a series about rising electricity prices in Pennsylvania.

Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale. Nor is our government, I fear, equipped to address a financial scandal as enormous as the one. trib.al/84JYI0J

This guy just walked around the Charlie Kirk vigil in Boston, yelling Kirk quotes through a bullhorn

there was a large enough pro-life Dem caucus in the House that it almost sank Obamacare! basically all of them lost their seats in the Tea Party wave, and we’ve only seen congressional races get more nationalized since then shitty policy stances aren’t enough to win over these voters

they’re calling it the biggest self-fucking in history, folks

This is your friendly reminder that hate wrapped in scripture is still hate.

Given that they’re not doing anything effective anyway, I still think house Dems should be filing impeachment articles every single day.

#Antifa runs in our blood.

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

Meanwhile, back in the real world . . . Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. What an idiot.

Used to be taught in MBA programs as to why consumer trust is worth more than anything else in business. Disney WAS an example. Disney spent A LOT of $$$ buying Star Wars. Then puts out the 2nd season of ‘Andor’ & thinks what exactly? That we wouldn’t notice? Trust Thermocline

Over 20 years, Peter Thiel quietly turned his Roth IRA into a gargantuan tax-exempt piggy bank. Using stock deals unavailable to most people, the billionaire took a retirement account worth less than $2,000 in 1999 and spun it into a $5 billion windfall. (Published 2021)

If you're in the Northeast, you have probably seen a spotted lanternfly this summer. The invasive species has now spread to 19 states and chows down on dozens of plants, most notably grapevines. https://to.pbs.org/4lPT997

⚡️US senators introduce bill to send frozen Russian assets to Ukraine. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Sept. 19 introduced a bill that aims to send a portion of frozen Russian assets under Washington's control to Ukraine.

Historian Tal Bruttmann's sharp eye on the Holocaust

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage