"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Every “free” file converter online = your files sent to some random server. So I made my own. Runs locally as an app on Mac, Windows and Linux. Now 1,100 users use it for 3,742 types of conversions.

In case you missed it, this is fucked www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

You've heard of the Iceblock app. But if you're on android. It's unavailable. We've been developing the F.I.R.E. app since Janaury. Its available on Android and soon on IOS as well. Help your neighbors keep an eye on and help track ICE agents. Help us melt the ICE with Fire. fire-app.net #ice

If you support what this administration is doing, you’re not “pro life”, you don’t “support the troops”, you’re not a “patriot” and you’re definitely not a “Christian”. You’re a fascist ghoul in a cult that worships a conman who thinks you’re an idiot. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

the Star Tribune's writeup of the Boelter charges is a lot more provocative than the charging document itself

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

So say we all.

🌈 Happy Pride Month ♥️

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

Today marks five years since Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, igniting nationwide demands for an end to police violence. We're working with local partners across the country to hold police departments accountable for misconduct — including in Minneapolis.

This is what low-rent American authoritarianism looks like. And Trump Jr is a total dickhead.

FEMA will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to disaster survivors, per a memo obtained by WIRED this week. It comes as the agency is shifting responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities. Oh, and it's hurricane preparedness week, btw.

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever." - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

🧵Update: In Worcester, MA, ICE dragged a mother away from her baby & family—without identifying themselves or showing a warrant. She’s now in San Antonio. The community tried to stop them. They were met with force. Read it. Share it. Never forget it tinyurl.com/No-warrant @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Ok I am completely broken by this. The Hague and UN need to see this. #Texas

Y’all don’t understand how large the contiguous United States is Other things in comparison for scale

@thebandcake.bsky.social You've seen this, right?

Maybe we should honor the women who were real astronauts. From left to right are Shannon W. Lucid, Margaret Rhea Seddon, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Judith A. Resnik, Anna L. Fisher, and Sally K. Ride. NASA selected all six women as their first female astronaut candidates in January 1978.

IT'S HERE!!!! So incredibly happy for my old friend Jon Hickey! @jonvhickey.bsky.social

BIG CHIEF is available NOW! Yes, NOW! How lovely it would be to be in your library. I thank everyone who made this possible, and I hope to see you out there on the BIG CHIEF World Tour!

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

They have our business!

Keep it up, don't bend!

I needed to hear this. Maybe you do too. “Fear has a way of being contagious… courage is also contagious.” — Kamala Harris Man, I miss her.

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

🤣😂🤣 This is an amazing and hilarious breakdown of the process used in Signal to add people to a group chat. (I believe credit due to @amandagailey.bsky.social)

Well, well, well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

From France with love 🏳️‍⚧️

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

The #measles vaccine has saved an estimated 5 lives every second since 2000. 👉Prevent measles by getting vaccinated with two doses of the measles vaccine.

“Polestar wants to deliver the final blow. … Polestar is offering anyone who owns or leases a Tesla $5,000 off a lease on a brand new Polestar 3. Combined with their latest $15,000 Polestar Clean Vehicle Incentive, any Tesla driver can buy a Polestar 3 for a whopping $20,000 off.”

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

It’s mind boggling that no one has yet started a political podcast called As The World Burns

Last night I stood up for those who need Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Democrats will never abandon the fight to make sure every American has a safe, healthy, and financially secure life. #ISaidWhatISaid

RESPECT 🇺🇦

Hamilton canceled its shows at the Kennedy Center because of Donald Trump. “Our show simply cannot, in good conscience, participate and be a part of this new culture that is being imposed on the Kennedy Center. Therefore, we have cancelled the third engagement of Hamilton at the Kennedy Center.” 👊

Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers: “I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid” "It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. " #SOTU

Al Green is removed