got harassed on twitter by Sid Rosenberg and John Chell today and all i got was an admission that NYPD won't issue you a traffic ticket if you listen to the right talk show or have the right job nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/25/f...

Members of Congress shouldn't be allowed to fly until they figure out this airport bullshit.

Further cementing his status in the Desi Hall of Shame. I wrote about Kash bhai here: open.substack.com/pub/exportqu...

What if Trump’s foreign policy isn’t chaotic at all? What if it’s built on his mobster-style attitude towards everything: Pay up. Or else. @brynntannehill.bsky.social explains how the closest historical parallel isn’t modern diplomacy, it’s the Barbary pirates.

What's gonna happen with Bluesky y'all?

My freelance business fell apart last quarter. All of it (I ended one contract for my sanity). Oddly, I haven't been able to say that until recently but my life's work over the last 15+ years, each step I built upon, relationships - all gone bc of a bad market + ripple effects of fed budget cuts

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Instead of a hospital, it's night shift at a pizza place and it's The Hut.

This is really the dumbest dystopia.

There are people who have always asked this but the fact that someone like Robert Reich doesn't hear or see them is likely a big part of the problem.

How is it no one on these Senate committees saw this attack coming if they indeed have "access to a lot of classified info?" There's no way any member of Congress should trust any one in this administration to respect the powers of their respective branches at this point.

The fact this operation is called "Epic Fury" tells us everything: these men are running on emotions not confirmed facts, even by their own intelligence services. And Congress doing absolutely nothing should 100% affect the US midterms.

Going from Olympics to war in a week is political whiplash. I wrote and illustrated about Kash Patel, the Desi Hall of Shame, Trump, joy, and a little bit about Iran. I hope you like this series where I use collage art videos to make news less overwhelming www.exportqualitynews.com/p/the-desi-h...

He stops short of saying that he actually supports the action, just doesn't like the way it happened. This is not an anti-war statement, it's a 'you took my power away' one.

The idea of a legislative body representing the population having the ability to check the ultimate power of a country’s leader sounds really neat. Someone should write that down.

This is all making me wish somebody did interfere with the US election.

Our tax dollars are paying for this horrifying scene....AGAIN.

I want to get a PhD just so I can write a dissertation on how HR people and 2-factor authentication are the downfall of global society

BREAKING: The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/mRYS7FH

And what this chaos and maniacal need for personal glory leads to is children being imprisoned and used as bait, people with health problems being abused or dying, and an entire American city under siege by its own country's government. Noem isn't just bat shit insane, she's destructive and a danger

Minnesota still needs your attention

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?

Seahawks’ Sam Darnold completes epic redemption arc with Super Bowl win over Patriots buff.ly/WBOjAy1

After uprising of June 2020, the Seahawks coach (Pete Carroll), a number of players, & Seahawks Players Equality & Justice for All Action Fund provided the core funding for ZEP to launch Teaching for Black Lives study groups that continue to support teachers today. www.teachingforblacklives.org

Bad Bunny MVP

I can only assume Bad Bunny will come in late off the bench to score the winning TD for the Seahawks.

Well, the Patriots literally allow their jets to be used for ICE deportations.

I can't explain it but the Seahawks are the anti-facist team.

I'm sorry but what does this have to do with Bad Bunny? (/S)

Why? I don't understand what this is. And if many Harris alum are reuniting, how progressive could it be?

Just a reminder: if you are looking to cover midterms and are an indie journalist and/or recently laid off, let's talk. We all have our own newsletters but no reason we can't help/collaborate/commiserate/etc.

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

I truly hate that NYT is the last large newspaper left standing. I love a lot of parts of NYT and getting a byline in the Sunday print edition was a milestone, but it has to have competition. At some point maybe the Substack and Beehiiv's will coalesce to form a new wave of digital outlets a la 2012

Mass layoffs outlined by the likes of Amazon and UPS meant last month was the worst January for job cut announcements since the Great Recession, new data showed. https://cnn.it/4rvq5XI

I was laid off around the time of the News Red Wedding of 2019 and today seems just as bloody from the depressing news out of WaPo and AJC. I know a fair amount of you cover politics and if you want to keep covering midterms, let's talk. Going independent doesn't mean we can't team up to some extent

I was laid off around the time of the News Red Wedding of 2019 and today seems just as bloody from the depressing news out of WaPo and AJC. I know a fair amount of you cover politics and if you want to keep covering midterms, let's talk. Going independent doesn't mean we can't team up to some extent

I'm really sad to see this. NYT can't be the only place that thrives in journalism. And, not everyone can afford to put in all the massive amount of time/effort to make it as an independent journo. So depressing. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/w...

Breaking MS NOW: The Trump admin is now eyeing Ohio for immigration enforcement operations that could begin as early as next week. The operation is expected to target Haitian immigrants — with temporary protected status for Haiti expiring on Feb. 3.

These are the same journalists who shout from the rooftops about 'objectivity' But it also reminds me of how many journalists' voices were ignored in 2016 and 2024 when they warned people about a Trump victory.

How many of them know how to ask for a warrant? How many know what type of warrant they need or anything about sovereign land rights? We already know not all of them went through FLETC training but it seems the baseline of mental health and intelligence is lower than that of other /law enf agencies

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

1/ The @startribune.com has put its live blog outside the paywall www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... but here’s how you can support them even if you don’t subscribe …

Shout out to all our Journalist colleagues in Minneapolis right now. I can't imagine how covering all this feels but your work is important even if it feels like insanity watching ICE have zero rules or humanity or basic intelligence.

A father says he was with his six children when they were hit by munitions deployed by law enforcement in response to demonstrations that turned violent in Minneapolis. Three of the children went to the hospital, including a 6-month-old baby, who stopped breathing after being hit by tear gas

Many states have a key deadline today for people to enroll in an ACA plan. But Congress let expire the enhanced subsidies that helped make some of those plans more affordable. For small business owners and self-employed people, it’s created chaos: 19thnews.org/2026/01/affo...