In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

The threat level will increase in the coming days. Please read this article and keep your eyes on the Mediterranean.

huge news. thank you to the workers at Microsoft who fought for this victory and to all those who covered & exposed Microsoft's complicity.

Congratulations to the Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine for meeting Europe's decarbonization goals several decades early

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Grateful to Rep. Dexter for co-sponsoring Block the Bombs, at last. Even more grateful to the many many community members who made this shift happen. 💕

"In March, the authorities in Haiti hired foreign military contractors to operate armed drones to target gangs that terrorize the capital, Port-au-Prince. The contractors work for a company owned by Erik Prince, a prominent supporter of President Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

"shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved."

i do not often use the phrase "comically inept" but if you are the envoy to an arab-majority country you should probably be aware of a little word called "islam"

a humble hot dog sighting at city council is a sure sign that Portland is back baby

Finally free! Alaa Abdel Fattah has been released after nearly a decade of unlawful imprisonment in Egypt. There are many like him still imprisoned in Egypt for simply exercising their right to freedom of speech. Egypt’s government should release all those wrongfully detained.

As @dandrezner.bsky.social notes, we must highlight where Trump's authoritarianism is failing, too. "Civil resistance works. Combined with the inevitable economic downturn, it is what will bring his regime crashing down to Earth." (cites my piece on this) danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-weakne...

It’s like a watergate level scandal every six hours plus he’s just straight up bombing boats full of civilians every few days

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Well, I am against fascism. I believe there’s a word to describe that political stance but it’s escaping me at the moment. Oh well!

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

“It is unfair [building illegal settlements in WB] because the [occupied] West Bank has nothing to do with Hamas…This becomes a political project and his [Netanyahu's] aim is not to dismantle Hamas but to deny Palestinians the right to live in peace.” - Macron in an interview with Israeli Ch. 12.

to be clear, this is both illegal & criminal.

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

Conservatives whenever I do or say anything: “Booo, Comrade Green, booo!” Conservatives when I file an ordinance literally designed to unleash the power of the free market: . . . “Booo, Comrade Green, booooo!”

Leonard Peltier on DN! today describing the Chippewa Cree’s “termination” orders in the 1950s, designed to end the Cree as a contiguous people on their land. It was enforced by, among other things, mass starvation. Settler colonialism is, as they say, a system

After months of smearing this guy as a possible terrorist or terrorist supporter who they needed to eject as soon as possible back to Egypt, the trump administration today filed a motion in court basically going, eh nvm Glorious taxpayer funded use of time www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

UNHCR official warns that the 1951 refugee convention is increasingly under threat “I am not exaggerating when I say that the institution of the asylum worldwide is under more threat now than it has ever been,” said Ruvendrini Menikdiwela at UNHCR in Geneva apnews.com/article/asyl...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Hani Mahmoud reports that the journey from Gaza City to Al Mawasi would normally take around 15 minutes (an indication of how small the strip actually is). But right now that journey is taking 5 to 7 hours.

It would be extremely on brand if an attack on a talk show host was the breaking point for the American public.

1. He can fire all the prosecutors he wants but still a long way from getting a conviction without evidence. We'll see. 2. He's getting crazier by the hour now, isn't he? This is on top of talking about re-invading Afghanistan and no one is allowed to criticize him on TV...and that's just today.

Israel has pretty unequivocally committed the crime of aggression in Syria. “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore . . . is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." IMT, Nuremburg (1948)

This is a clearly impeachable offense he’s reportedly going to finish committing tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

Blackwater coming to the border. www.levernews.com/defense-bill...

ABC News: “At least 13 people have been wounded, five critically, in two shootings that erupted over a span of 12 hours at homeless encampments in Minneapolis.”

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

these are bad times & i truly could not be more grateful (and in awe of) my partner, who is doing more than seems humanly possible to fight for our world all while holding our own little universe together. it's nick's birthday tomorrow. give him some love.

On this day last year, the UNGA gave Israel a year to end its unlawful presence in the occupied Palestinian territories. That deadline has passed. Israel has utterly defied the ICJ & GA, further entrenching its expansionist, apartheid project. youtube.com/live/IQhP1fs...

these people are genuinely idiots

“The tap water is cloudy, smells strange and upsets stomachs, the families told their attorneys. The hand soap the facility provides for showers has been causing rashes, the families said. Children also struggle eating the food, like the snacks of graham crackers, apples, juice and milk.”

Do you remember when people were putting Yemeni flags in their profile pics and saying 'what about Yemen?' in early 2022? Yeah I kind of miss when people at least pretended to be worried about mass starvation in Yemen

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

i think the capacity debate around authoritarianism really underscores how defund the police was fundamentally correct. the biggest lurking danger in america right now is the mass federalization of local LEO like they’re trying to do in florida

A lot of people on here rightfully cry about leftists who are pro-BDS but anti sanctions on Russia but the reverse position is far more common

oh. my. God. this gives me an entirely new understanding of the far right media apparatus.

At vet urgent care tonight and we were hearing these insane chicken-like squawks from the back & a Doctor just comes out and goes: “lest you all think we are torturing a dog back here, we have a very vocal husky. And we are…shaving his leg.”

“if the city believes it cannot enforce the conditions in the LUCS itself, it raises broader questions about why the city granted the LUCS [to Zenith oil] in the first place.” Yes it does. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2025/09...

The U.S. government is trying to deport Ohio children’s hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, alleging tenuous connections to terrorism. If DHS succeeds, experts say it could hand the Trump admin. a “sledgehammer” to use on mass deportations. ➡️ Read the full story: www.propublica.org/article/ayma...

grateful to my Senator & @vanhollen.senate.gov for this important report The depiction of Israel's senseless ever-changing bureaucratic restrictions on aid is particularly strong. These obstacles are in bad faith and should be treated as such. www.vanhollen.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.