For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

4 years ago, President Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples Day meant to “honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today.” Happy Indigenous Peoples Day www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...

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Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees. Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/9Nstfnp

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

More than 15 million people 55 or older don’t have a spouse or biological children; nearly 2 million have no family members at all. Who will be there for these solo agers as their lives draw to a close? How many of them will die alone?

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

Hundreds of people have been doxxed, fired or threatened for social media posts that were seen as callous or celebratory after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In a Texas town, people flooded online feeds with attacks that spilled into the real world for a paramedic. nyti.ms/4n7CSND

JD Vance is a coward. He sold his soul for a seat of power. He sold his soul to someone he called “Hitler” to advance his own career. JD Vance is everything that’s wrong with our politics today.

Speaking with Fox Business Friday morning, Rep. Buddy Carter said that (instead of working to end the government shutdown) he and his colleagues were going to file a resolution “today” to honor the president with the Nobel Prize. trib.al/Kh8Xqij

It’s easy to cast Trump as antidemocratic and hostile to the rule of law. It’s harder to take on institutions and people such as Weiss who invoke ideas like the “free press” while actually advancing a right-wing agenda. That's why this kind of conservatism is so dangerous. trib.al/VosixvW

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

This Is Fascism

Trump is using unmerited criminal prosecutions & unnecessary National Guard deployments to push autocracy But the courts are pushing back I explain why he will fail in my NEW @contrariannews.org Publisher's Roundup 👇 -TN contrarian.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

a russ vought special

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE “Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

America was built on hate and exploitation. To say otherwise is delusional. It doesn’t mean ours is not a great nation. If you tell the WHOLE truth you can see our greatness.

The question of what Thomas Jefferson really meant when he wrote “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence has persisted throughout American history. It’s time to move beyond the fixation on his intent, Annette Gordon-Reed argues.

We all know what he meant. Some people just want to play gaslight games.

Ugly laws: The blueprint for Trump’s anti-homeless crusade

The document was a declaration of intent to establish America as a “business” and to clear the path for doing so.

The USDA is screwing the states by ordering them to implement SNAP work requirements practically overnight. This means that families with teenagers older than 14, or grandparents who retired early to help care for their grandchildren, will suddenly find themselves without food. trib.al/E4dQdoG

BREAKING: Letitia James held Trump accountable & now he’s hijacking the DOJ to indict her in retaliation This isn’t justice, it’s abuse of power We will be amending our existing ethics complaint against Halligan & pursuing other legal measures www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/10.09.25...

What is the average length of an American’s political memory? MTG is about to test it.

Not long ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a hard-line MAGA acolyte. Lately she’s been breaking with her party, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily.

If you doubt that we’re in a new Gilded Age, check out the price of gold. Since Trump took office, it’s risen by 50% and what causes gold to rise is a falling dollar. trib.al/prk5Pav The “gilded rococo nightmare” of Trump’s Oval Office is becoming a symbol of his gross economic mismanagement.

Groupthink is “harming both our democracy and our individual well-being,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. “Here is how to know if you are falling prey to a collective illusion—and how to break free from it without fear”:

In Opinion | “No one in Gaza is under the illusion that peace is fully here,” Samer Sinijlawi writes. True peace, she reminds us, “is written in the rebuilding of homes, in children returning to school, in fishermen allowed back to the sea.”

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Around 200 Texas National Guard soldiers and 300 soldiers from the Illinois National Guard have been mobilized in the greater Chicago area for an initial period of 60 days, according to the military unit in command of the troops.

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump officials and Laura Ingraham don’t get the difference between furloughing and firing federal workers. Let me break it down for them: workers are furloughed because Trump shut down the government. His threats to FIRE them are illegal — and would devastate American families:

Exclusive: The Pentagon has investigated nearly 300 Defense Department employees for online comments after the death of Charlie Kirk. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's order to target those critical of Kirk reflects deepening alarm over his stewardship.

It looks shiny and new on social media, but smoked salmon has been part of Indigenous tradition for centuries. "It’s important for people to understand it: Where does this come from?"

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

"Pritzker and Newsom see it as a defining challenge of this moment that Trump is consolidating authoritarian power daily, and using it to subjugate and dominate Blue America as if it’s akin to an enemy nation within." newrepublic.com/article/2014...

If Republicans don’t pass our bill to reopen the government and extend ACA tax credits, millions of families will see their health care costs soar. Here's just one example of a MD couple who would see their costs nearly TRIPLE — a health catastrophe and another Trump betrayal:

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown. This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

On this solemn two-year anniversary of the horrific Hamas terror attacks of October 7th, let us remember the lives lost that day, and commit ourselves to bringing home the hostages, ending the war in Gaza and building a future that ensures security, peace, and dignity for all.

Can’t stop thinking about this and what it says about a person.

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

California is the 4th largest economy in the world. It’s time it and other blue states used their economic clout to fight Trump’s agenda. The latest from @clarajeffery.bsky.social:

Stephen Miller is portraying opposition to Donald Trump in any form, including by judges issuing legal rulings, as an illegal rebellion, Jonathan Chait argues: