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RIP to one of the best. Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died apnews.com/article/jane...

The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the BBC and Reuters release a short film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip. bbc.com/news/article...

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Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

Newsom: "People ask, 'Are you being hyperbolic?' Bullshit we're being hyperbolic. If you're Black or brown, it's here in this country. And so I'm deeply proud that I had the privilege of signing the nation's first bill to address masking ... these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian govt"

Pentagon Expands Its Restrictions on Reporter Access—and prior restraint on First Amendment rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Stephen Colbert's opening monologue on 'The Late Show' "After threats from Trump's FCC chair, ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship ... With an autocrat, you can't give an inch ... If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive"

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Canks literally has NO IDEA what’s going on.

Most of the immigrants ICE arrested in California last month have never even been charged with a crime, much less convicted. If Donald Trump says he’s only targeting the “worst of the worst,” why do his own numbers prove otherwise?

“Trump and his minions think they’re right to put America first. What they don’t understand is that, defined in their narrow way, “America First” is America Alone. In an interconnected world, those who are alone, to use a favorite word of the president’s, are losers” www.salon.com/2025/08/16/t...

Starving babies mean nothing to the billionaires. What’s so sad is they themselves could feed these children while still playing golf and sailing their yachts.

We have lost our way as that country that opens its arms to newcomers and closes them to those in need. 💔 Trump Administration Can Withhold Billions in Aid, Appeals Court Rules www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

I was born an underdog. 21 surgeries by the age of 12 for spina bifida. A kid wearing goodwill hand-me-downs. I knew nothing would come easy, but I never doubted my right to the American dream. Now, I'm running for the U.S. Senate to make sure all Iowans have a shot at theirs.

💔 Such a heartbreak, this targeted murder of journalists. These reporters having been risking their lives to get the truth out about the starvation and atrocities of the IDF, particularly since Israel won't let foreign media on the ground. We stand with you.

Incredible project; heartbreaking talent and beauty.

This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost. www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

Kennedy’s rejection of mRNA vaccines thwarts scientific progress — and threatens national security, experts say www.statnews.com/2025/08/07/k... via @statnews.com

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing #ICE deportation. This one really hurts; he did everything by the book and those of you who know Boko Haram will understand his compounding fear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Let me see if I understand this. Jack Smith will be investigated for investigating Trump and others for political corruption, which Senator Cotton claims is a prohibited political act. Which means we can’t investigate political corruption anymore. Did I get that right? wapo.st/4oeBkmR

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/u...

This is not getting enough attention! These women are being disappeared from roles they earned, and for no apparent reasons other than that they are not men.

"Once a symbol of journalistic excellence and cultural leadership, CBS now appears determined to dismantle its own legacy in pursuit of short-term political favor and corporate consolidation."

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

The real conspiracy behind the Texas floods? The oil and gas industry is fueling climate change while denying its very existence. Journalist @davidsirota.com discusses this and more on this week's More To The Story.

Even against all of Trump's cascading attacks over the past seven months, it had seemed that up until now, our culture at large—the literal shows, movies, art, music, literature we consume—seemed somewhat siloed from Trump's fury. But the end of Colbert marks a dark new stage.

1.4M of the nation's poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump's proposed HUD time limit—all while rents climb and corporations buy up the country's housing stock, making the American dream of home ownership further out of reach. Many of these HUD renters will lose their Medicaid to boot.

Breonna Taylor should still be here today. Her life mattered. Trump’s DOJ has asked that an officer charged in her murder spend just one day in jail. One day. This is atrocious—it is what injustice and systemic racism looks like.

I just left the Senate floor where I laid out the top ten ways Donald Trump is wrecking the country. Every American should know the facts about this administration – so here they are: youtu.be/k5q9XYMDfqc?...

here's some help for everyone still fussing over terminology newrepublic.com/article/1975...

RFK Jr.’s intellectually dishonest excuse for defunding Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance www.statnews.com/2025/07/02/r... via @statnews.com

REP. GOLDMAN: “Raise your hand if you don’t think children with cancer who are American citizens should be deported.” *0 Republicans raise their hands*

If massive media companies and Ivy League presidents capitulate, what are we mere mortals to do? Continue to resist, speak out, stay active and remain true blue to democracy and human rights. 💙 We will be on the right side of history. 🇺🇸

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

I don't think you can discount the desire to de-fund journalism as a key driver of the USAID cuts, esp given that it was driven by Musk. This hasn't gotten as much attention in the US because USAID didn't fund journalism there, but it was one of the top funders of journalism on corruption globally.

Paper Patriot Rubio and Death Diplomacy. RIP #USAID. open.substack.com/pub/thelastm...

This one hurts the most. I spent years in Congo, first as a #PeaceCorps Volunteer and then a journalist. #USAID was everywhere, saving lives, educating, training and employing. My Congolese friends ask me why? All I can tell them is “greed, power and cruelty.” And that our government lost its soul.

Trump didn’t just kill USAID—he handed the wreckage to dictators. Putin called it vindication. Orbán called it cleansing. Ortega called it freedom. When the worst people on Earth throw you a parade, you’re not a reformer. You’re the payload. thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com/p/when-the-e...

RIP #USAID, whose work I observed in my years overseas. So successful, many Americans never heard about its work. A former USAID officer writes: "Because they never heard about the lives regularly saved by their tax dollars, Americans don’t realize the generosity that has been stolen from them.

one way to make sense of the position of the republicans on the supreme court is that they do not believe there is such a thing as a legitimate objection to the actions of a republican president, no matter how deranged, depraved, or anti-constitutional www.stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-co...

Some context on the representative who was assassinated this morning:

Peace Corps was never charity. It was solidarity.

Nothing like making kids cry. Good job ICE.