This is driving me crazy. The New York Times calling this madness an “anti-drug operation” is one of the worst forms of propaganda: accepting stated motivations of powerful people as the truth.

Ugh, not surprising. Well we just have to fight fire with fire and wear them to ICE actions and to record police abuses.

So now Mark’s creeper specs do what they are intended to do and the company can claim users are circumventing the “guardrails” and violating the TOS. Everyone gets what they want, except for the rest of us, who get screwed.

RIP Dave Ball, who told stories with synthesizers. When I was a kid I thought this what London at night sounded like: sad, sleazy, wounded, majestic youtu.be/y9KgEs3Zksg?...

A trans girl playing seventh grade soccer is a legitimate concern and issue worthy of condemnation from every mainstream democrat, but a man with a nazi tattoo on his chest running for senate is something we have to accept

On this day in 1835, a white mob angered by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery activism dragged him by a rope through the streets of Boston, threatening to kill him.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Sometimes you do need to beat a dead horse

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once. And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior. To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also. Sick.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Aw as someone who went to the High School Journalism Institute at IU this makes me happy

UK Home Office’s appeal to stop the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action has been rejected. Not only that, the court of appeal granted two further grounds on which to challenge the legality of the ban. High court hearing begins Nov 25th.

Made me smile to discover this. A little nugget. 😊

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

What a time to be alive when the State Department run by proud Cuban-American Marco Rubio is crowing about policing wrong think on Bluesky, scouring it for Visa holders to deport like their the Communist secret police on the lookout for traitors to the proletariat.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

Once again, @govpritzker.illinois.gov's state police have attacked protesters while doing crowd control for ICE in Broadview. Pritzker positions himself as a Trump opponent, but he's doing ICE's dirty work in Broadview. It has to stop.

This too— he has already repeatedly answered this stupid hypothetical.

A woman's 🏀 pro told us she had to fire her prominent agent because "it was revealed to me through her instagram stories that she was a raging Zionist, spreading false propaganda + frankly racist narratives that painted Palestinians as ‘savage’ or ‘terrorists’." www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

“Athletes for the Palestinian national teams in multiple sports have been killed by Israel, yet most of the sporting world appears to be totally fine entering into competition with Israeli teams as if everything were normal.” - Jesse Joseph, US Olympic trial runner

Lethal strikes on civilian boats in the Caribbean that don’t threaten US forces is illegal, unethical, and terrible strategy to boot, with very serious implications. Congressional Dems should make a big issue of Adm. Holsey resigning, and Rep. Adam Smith tells @gregsargent.bsky.social they plan to.

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Hasan reacts to Cuomo name dropping him.

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

"Lorde is famous for the maxim “Your silence will not protect you,” but in this case, Lorde’s initial silence on Palestine did protect her career and her flourishing afterlife as a patron saint of the oppressed."

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Yall need to read…

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola. Fuck Columbus.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. My latest video for @propublica.org.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night. Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical. We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.” - released Palestinian prisoner

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰 How genocide happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Please nobody tell professional writer praising professional journalists Caitlin Flanagan what "out of whole cloth" means

It’s not a badge of honor to celebrate the ascendancy of someone who refuses to correct factual errors in pieces purporting to be journalism, and a hagiographic article which fails to mention that reality. But you know that, you just know the faux-martyr routine pays better than actual competence.

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?

Shanae Aurora Martinez is a professor of Indigenous Literature at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In this interview, she shares her story about being suspended for defending her students’ rights to protest the university’s investments in weapons manufacturing.

Capitalism is awesome because no one can afford groceries and instead of blaming anyone with wealth or power we get mad at people living on the street or trying to move to the country to work

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Relatedly, I've learned a lot about the situation in Ethiopia from a friend who works on that. Their strongman ruler, PM Ahmed Abiy, is a monster who attacks his own people with drones and jails journalists and opposition leaders He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats