It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..” @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

we’re gonna need a cbs news pitchbot pretty soon

at this point you have to acknowledge that there is no way that these guys don't try to mess with the 2026 midterms. there is absolutely no respect for the legitimacy of the opposition

100% accurate assessment.

A "contrarian" is a bog-standard reactionary who identifies, for marketing purposes, as "actually pretty liberal."

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

Make Lying Wrong Again

Evidence for this thesis continue to stack up

Not to even get into the difference in coverage between the former and current president. Biden made the slightest wobble or stutter and it was all you heard about for forever. The current president has his obvious sundowning+dementia rambles and there's almost ✨️nothing✨️ said from most of the media.

I like that there’s not a single argument here for why discrimination makes the military more effective or even a frank admission that’s what he wants

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

I dunno man, try listening to marginalized people *before* shit goes wrong, and maybe it won't keep being like that

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

Republican policy is increasingly framed around the idea that accurately describing what they are doing is worse than doing it. They just got a Supreme Court ruling co-signing racial profiling as "common sense." So I guess the court smeared them.

Too many Black Americans wait longer for transplants — and some never get the chance they deserve. We’re asking Black voices across the country: What does organ donation mean to you? Take our quick survey — your answers can save lives: wordinblack.com/organ-donati...

Judges allowed one of New York's most prolific guardians to engage in apparent self-dealing as she transferred $1.5 million of her wards' money to her own company. (Published Aug. 2024)

New serenity prayer just dropped. 👇🏻

People really have no idea how violent, cruel, and intentionally torturous American jails and prisons are. And most people in American jails have never been convicted of a crime.

Hamer’s call was not just to witness brutality, but to resist it. Her fight for dignity, safety, and freedom lives on in those facing ICE violence today—and in every demand that this country live up to its promises. #FannieLouHamer #Chicago inthesetimes.com/article/i-qu...

61 years later, we’re still forced to question America. In Chicago, ICE agents—backed by federal funds and impunity—are unleashing violence on both activists and immigrant communities. The tools of state terror may look different, but the targets remain the same.

Today would’ve been Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday. In 1964, she asked a question that still echoes: “Is this America… where our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings?” inthesetimes.com/article/i-qu...

Amazon Ring devices will start including #FacialRecognition. Learn why this is such a dangerous move here, with commentary from STOP's @foxcahn.bsky.social. @shiraovide.bsky.social's www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

OpenAI's Sora gambit is somehow even more reckless and arrogant than we've grown accustomed to with the company. OpenAI is betting that it can spit in the face of creatives, workers, and the largest media companies on the planet—and bend copyright law to its whims.

"Organizers say that the crackdown has created a climate of fear and intimidation that is not only directly harming workers and their families, but is also stifling ongoing worker efforts to improve conditions on the job, and organize to protect themselves from raids."

‘The mainstream press is largely playing its usual “both-sides at fault” game, but Americans nevertheless do understand the reality.’ Via @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/partisan-b...

This is bull. Also the technosolutionism is bul because they JUST released a paper saying they just realized this was a fail point of their moderation . They could have deescalated and didn’t pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3lz4sgu7iec2...

A new nonprofit provides resources to Black families of transgender and nonbinary youth at a moment of heightened political hostility.

Mother Jones reported have 3x Free Press’s subscriber count but I haven’t noticed an oligarch paying $600m and giving Clara Jeffrey control of one of the 3 broadcast networks. revealnews.org/press/merger....

With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is now coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of the long-term consequences, writes Julie Huynh.

Social media clips of ICE arrests "have kept up the appearance of an ever-expanding campaign," Nick Miroff writes. But "ICE’s own data show that the agency’s buildup stalled over the summer": https://theatln.tc/KiaDKEoz

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

The Ojibwe tribe is fighting to preserve manoomin, a wild rice in northern Wisconsin that’s under threat from a pipeline, climate change, pollution and invasive plant species.

Reminder that everything you post can be seen by law enforcement. Be smart, especially now, and don't snitch on yourself. Posting specifics about actions or promoting violence on social media is just a bad idea. There's a reason organizers and activists use Signal. You can't resist from a cage.

“One of the people who marched past my house on July 8, 2000, was a woman I didn’t know about then, but who had done more than I could’ve understood, at just a decade into life, to shape the America I grew up in: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till,” MFP News Editor Ashton Pittman writes.

This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Frontlines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom. Learn more at the link below👇

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

Skepticism towards things you have quantifiable data for is a sign of poor cognition

A Kansas sheriff’s deputy is charged with murdering Charles Adair, a Black man who was handcuffed in a jail cell. New details show that the officer held his knee against Adair’s back for 1 minute 26 seconds, court records say.

Why introverts HATE phone calls 👇

Caller ID isn't enough for me any longer. I need to know why you’re calling

This was lazy reporting, and the Times would have done better for its audience exploring why so many Portlanders voted in DSA council. Article includes nothing from these voters. Describing Republicans in Portland as an “endangered species” is a choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Confronted with the "The left must move right to help Dems electorally" argument, Ta-Nehisi Coates distinguished between politicians and everyone else. But @anatosaurus.bsky.social articulates the electoral flaws of moving right and offers alternatives. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

ICYMI: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since Charlie Kirk’s murder is a panel of abortion “abolitionists” — extremists who want women executed for ending their pregnancies. jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

I'll be with @interruptcrim.bsky.social for a conversation about how to advance narratives that undermine authoritarianism and increase solidarity. Join me, @dreanyc123.bsky.social and Lewis Wallen on October 15th, 3pm est! ❤️ ❤️