Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED: I just unlocked a new level of rage. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

This is good to see. Hopefully they’ll investigate the assaults on independent journalists and everyone else who has been attacked as well.

This is the fullest truth. ...also watching the video but only if it has subs so I don't have to put audio on

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Maduro also gives himself special powers to mobilise army and give it authority over public services and oil industry.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it was terminating its labor contract with the union representing over 30,000 prison employees, marking the latest step in the Trump administration’s push to tighten control over the federal workforce.

Group that includes most major insurers — apart form UnitedHealthcare — says its plans will continue to cover vaccines including Covid and flu despite potential changes to recommendations. More @statnews.com: www.statnews.com/2025/09/17/a...

The r/teachers subreddit is full of stories about lists of teachers who criticized Charlie Kirk (many listings without evidence) and harassment campaigns to get them fired. Free speech and open debate my ass. It’s the same as it always was—another way to destroy education

After a USTA memo, ABC appeared to mute the audience booing President Trump before the US Open Men's Final on September 7, playing music over his appearance (Glenn Garner/Deadline) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

PubMatic sues Google in Virginia over alleged illegal ad tech market monopolization, the second such suit since an April ruling that Google monopolized ad tech (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Trump's anti-press rhetoric is "not bluster; it is not a personality trait. It is deliberate," @stephaniesugars.bsky.social told @di-sly.bsky.social. "It is very much at the cost of the strength of our social fabric and our shared reality."

military flyovers disrupt the Epstein victim press conference

At an event with DeSantis, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said officials will push to end "all vaccine mandates" in law. "Every last one of them is wrong," (Politico) That’s measles, polio, chicken pox and tetanus… America’s anti-science anti-intellect shift is going to kill so many people.

I can now also confirm that previous reporting is correct, and the ICC charges against Ben Gvir and Smotrich are/were centred around the crime against humanity of apartheid. The crime has never been charged by an international tribunal. #WestBank #Palestine

Sandwich guy’s “moment of culinary resistance – he wouldn't be subservient, one could say – has become a symbol of the [DC]’s refusal to accept the situation quietly.” @maustermuhle.bsky.social @51st.news

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Google's lobbyists are a major force in D.C., yet they're not at the top of the spending charts. A colleague has a great story explaining the workaround www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Genius

ATLANTA: Vigil for Gaza's Journalists Saturday, August 16 · 7pm · Freedom Park Join local journalists and community members to honor the 260+ reporters, photographers, and media workers killed in Israel's ongoing mass slaughter in Gaza. More details in next post. Please share widely.

What’s craaaazy to me is that a Minnesota state rep was ASSASSINATED and nothing even remotely close to this happened there

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Wowzers.

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Adding this to my list of favorite books. An essential read. Reframes the Huck Finn story from Jim’s perspective. Scenes that may have been considered lively or boisterous the original play out deadly serious & terrifying here. 📚

NEW — I’ve learned members of the DC National Guard were told they were being activated via a mass text message sent with no warning this evening, less than 24 hours before they were expected to show up. Here is the full text of the message, shared with me by a DCNG source:

In an almost unprecedented move in D.C.’s 50-year experience with self-governance, President Donald Trump on Monday took control of the Metropolitan Police Department, putting its 3,100 sworn officers under his direct command for the next 30 days. 51st.news/dc-trump-mpd...

Anas was killed in a tent dedicated to journalists outside a hospital, shortly after he uploaded a video covering events in north Gaza. Israel has proudly taken credit for his assassination. Because for 22 months, the intl community has allowed them to do this with abandon. bsky.app/profile/msja...

The Committee to Protect Journalists and other orgs have published a massive report detailing threats to community journalists in Guatemala. It highlights the threats so many face. Many of the people named in the report are friends and colleagues of mine who I worked alongside in my years there.

Just from a logistical standpoint it is not feasible to conduct a "new" mid-decade census with accuracy. To give a sense of the scale of what is required, preparations are already underway for the *2030* census. This will add chaos to the Census Bureau and degrade the accuracy of the 2030 census

$18.50 for a can of Miller Lite ... Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

At least Cambodia has a tracking system

"The discursive shift among Israel’s allies is taking place as Israel’s continuing and new policies show that Gaza’s starvation crisis is no accident but part of a plan for expulsion and resettlement." @alfatau.bsky.social on how genocide against the Palestinian people continues.

New from me: Florida has failed to show legal agreements giving the state authority to detain immigrants in Alligator Alcatraz, despite two federal judges ordering them to produce them. The place is basically operating as an extrajudicial black site. It’s illegal.

NEW: @rns.org has tracked at least 10 incidents of apparent federal agents conducting immigration enforcement activity on church grounds or in the immediate area, with incidents spread across five states and Puerto Rico. “This is domestic terror,” one pastor said. religionnews.com/2025/08/04/w...

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

Blue dots are UN aid distribution sites that existed in Gaza before the IDF and US mercenaries took over the process and blocked the UN. Yellow squares are current sites. The current system is aid theater and has created killing fields where dozens of aid seekers are killed every single day.

The Capitol Rioters have had quite a lot to say since they received pardons from Donald Trump — most have no regrets, believe conspiracy theories, and remain loyal to Trump and the MAGA movement. I'm documenting their statements, activities, and networks at Pardon Tracker. Please consider donating:

We are in the wrong timeline!

BREAKING: At least 87 Palestinians, including 52 aid seekers, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2etx3o

Oh ffs

NEW: The immigration judge overseeing Mahmoud Khalil's case is *seething* over being ordered by Judge Farbiarz to vacate her decision finding Khalil removable under Marco Rubio's determination, accusing Farbiarz of "interfering with the legal process and the authority of the immigration court."

"Some pages had strikingly similar handwriting among many residents in a single building, for example. Others showed a single campaign worker collected more than 700 signatures on a single day."

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

#ThisIsJournalism 👇

The chicken heads tho ...

Following Google, Meta is also ending political advertising in the EU. I gathered some thoughts on why this is an abdication of responsibility that will make our elections less transparent AND not even end paid political influence online. A short thread. 🧵 www.france24.com/en/live-news...