Anna Paulina Luna just made yet another comparison between Charlie Kirk and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Again: Kirk very publicly and enthusiastically criticized King within the past year and a half, calling the Civil Rights icon "a bad guy" and decrying the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a "mistake."

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to know what happened to him. By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 South Korea is taking legal action against the United States government for the inhumane treatment of legal residents working at the Hyundai plant. 🚨🚨🚨 Hey, those perpetratrating these atrocities are also accountable. 1/2

Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."

Worth watching this brief clip. -Note the reporter who asked about Memphis. -Note that every other reporter should have picked up the baton and kept asking that same question. Missed opportunity to do their professional, collegial, and civic duty. Please try it next time.

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Based on this it appears to be another circle jerk EO that will be implemented in a hapharazard manner and changes as needed based on pushback. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Direction given by MS to employees LAST NIGHT. Might change this morning. bsky.app/profile/rive...

These are the companies who have the most H1B Visa employees. h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors This is what happens if the employee is fired or quits. www.lawfirm1.com/non-immigran...

The Washington Post Fired Karen Attiah, But They Only Elevated Her The Post fired Karen Attiah, its last Black opinion columnist, because she posted about America's history of coddling white violence. Well, she's got a few things to get off her chest. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-washin...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

When you baselessly call LGBTQ people terrorists who murdered Charlie kirk, this is the result. people.com/charlie-kirk...

“U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert informed employees at his office in Alexandria, Virginia, Friday that he intends to resign, according to sources, after President Donald Trump said he wants him out.”

When you see stories about how the northern border is to be militarized like the southern border, see it for what it really is: mass surveillance for millions who live nearby, attempts to geographical curb civil rights, and BILLIONS of dollars in contracts for right-wing surveillance tech CEOs.

The incompetence is staggering. To have 4 votes and not even legal experts can figure out what the recommendations are is wild (I’m not positive either- the meeting was profoundly incoherent)

The Democrats in the Senate and Congress did *not* vote for a "murder is bad" resolution as some are claiming, they voted to *honor* the actions and ideology of a Nazi and grant him a national holiday. Let's not let this truth get twisted.

Oh. So when you trained them on the notes of medical doctors they repeated the same biases. Odd that.

A hugely important story largely overlooked by most US media. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sec...

Chicago. Posted today.

“The BLS — charged with collecting critical data on employment, prices and more — did not explain the reasoning for the delay or when it might ultimately be released.”

Any rich dems want to fund an independent science news and commentary outlet, hmu (climate, vaccines, energy, public health, biomedical research, assults on science writ large, etc)

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

"Meanwhile, their parents are kept up at night with a slew of questions." "What if their child's medical records are subpoenaed by the Justice Department?" "And what if all access to gender-affirming care [..] is stripped away?" "We deserve to live here." #WashingtonDC #Virginia #USA #Healthcare

Ditto with putting your pronouns on profiles. It's small but helpful. It helps keep us from being the only ones doing it.

On Tuesday, we’re hosting a FOIAthon with @muckrock.com as part of our project to uncover, preserve and encourage reporting on documents and data regarding government actions that impact trans communities. Save the date and join us on YouTube! ✨ (Members: Additional details in your inbox.)

Missourians have repeatedly used ballot initiatives to adopt policies that lawmakers in the GOP supermajority refuse to move on: abortion rights, paid sick leave, Medicaid expansion. In response, Missouri Republicans are attempting to make direct democracy impossible: boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...

lots of electeds and political candidates here this morning. i see congressional candidates kat abughazaleh and (evanston mayor) daniel biss, lieutenant governor juliana stratton, and chicago alder andre vasquez:

federal agents are getting increasingly violent as the morning goes on and the crowd of protesters outside the broadview ice facility grows. i’ve seen multiple people pushed and thrown to the ground. dhs is now playing a dispersal order warning of arrests and the use of chemical munitions.

an agent on the roof of the broadview ice facility is filming the crowd of protesters below with a dslr. a protester joking asked, “does it shoot 4k?” and the agent nodded his head yes.

looks like some border patrol agents have joined up ice’s chicago field office special response team to rough up protesters outside the broadview ice facility.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

at least 9 agents with ice’s special response team dragged and pushed protesters out of the way of the building’s driveway so a black passenger van could leave the broadview facility. agents grabbed a protester and have detained them inside the facility. the crowd is chanting, “let them go!”

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

Yesterday, Air Force One: Trump said the quiet part out loud… He threatened to yank broadcast licenses from networks that criticize him. “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”

Urgent: Please share and give if you can. Nema has to move south due to the evacuation order but now she is unable to take her son to the hospital regularly to help him with his breathing, which means that she'll have to buy a Nebulizer for Mohammed.

I am so sick of this bullshit www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

This follows reporting by Ken Klippenstein that the FBI will label trans people as domestic terrorists. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

By the head of the Federal Communications Commission, in 2022:

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

I can’t fucking believe I lived to see pro- and anti-regime Man Show hosts

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

I think the immigration judge deciding his case has a very real voice in the back of their head saying that if they rule against the admin, they'll be fired.

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.