If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

🚨 Republican Rep. Ty Burns pleaded guilty to domestic abuse after court records said he tried to gouge his wife’s eye and later ran his wife and daughter off the road. He still holds his Oklahoma House seat. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: For our next issue (Nov/Dec), the theme will be: What Is to Be Done? www.brightwalldarkroom.com/submissions Deadline: 10/19/25 Details:

Oof this kicker www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/a...

2/ Here’s the full memo. I spent years working on counter-extremism issues, under 3 Administrations, including at a JTTF. All out targeting domestic groups like this is such an assault on democracy. How are Republicans standing for this? When is it too much? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

1/ While everyone is focused on Comey, Trump did this today. How many more of us will be targeted? How many rounded up? How many designated terrorists and prosecuted before those who remain on the sidelines finally open their eyes to what’s happening? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

periodically I see the president doing things like “post crimes for his attorney general to do that were maybe supposed to be an unencrypted DM on his own personal social network” and I remember that he got elected in large part because of information security practices and I black out in rage

Once more: the best evidence shows that Tylenol taken during pregnancy is not harmful. **This question is settled.** The benefit of reducing discomfort and fever is extremely important at a time when the fetus is developing. Pregnant women - Tylenol is safe. sciencebasedmedicine.org/tylenol-and-...

I signed the Harper's letter to show I was brave enough to stand up to the left on free speech. But I've decided that I'm not brave enough to stand up to the right about it.

Controversial change

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

“Behind closed doors” being the most important words. fortune.com/2025/09/21/b...

this is genuinely true—lots of the advertisers are full-on MAGA anyway but the rest of them very much are not!

A useful element to consider in Trump’s putative war against comedians and the media. www.pbump.net/o/television...

"It is an attack on all our free speech rights." anntelnaes.substack.com/p/censoring-...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Remember @politico.com claimed that Trump wouldn't allow anyone who worked on Project 2025 to work in his administration? www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

Walz: This is North Korea style stuff. And it's being done because this is a weak, thin skinned man who's failing as a president. All of the things he promised are not happening. It's a it's our most cherished freedom to point out very clearly, this is a terrible president

Rising Unemployment Among Black Women Is a Bad Sign for the Economy. Really great to collaborate with the amazing @itsafronomics.bsky.social. Check out our article in Time. time.com/7315624/risi...

David Gelles in depth on the paradoxes of Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, the billionaire who thinks billionaires shouldn’t exist. slate.trib.al/zKJM31q

say all you want about ted cruz but you can’t deny this is a well constructed joke about the “dominos pizza line,” that totally real thing we all know about and are familiar with. you know, the line at dominos to buy pizza. just a perfectly executed witticism. The right is getting good at comedy

i went to cornhole for two hours and came home and Bari Weiss is running CBS????

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"

It doesn't "know" anything at all and the fact that the people most invested in, and involved with, the "AI" industry seem to genuinely not understand the basic structure of LLM-based chatbots is very disconcerting. They can't possibly be this stupid, can they?

A 3-judge panel of the 5th Circuit held late Tuesday that the Alien Enemies Act did not apply to Venezuelan migrants the Trump administration says are members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which they claim is invading the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.

Release the files Felonius!!!!

100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.

This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

How Sweden’s ‘secondhand only’ shopping mall is changing retail. Built alongside the city’s recycling centre, it includes a dedicated drop-off point called The Return, where residents donate unwanted items. theconversation.com/how-swedens-...

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

no, we don't carry the new york times we sell *real* newspapers here

Once again ... not a drag queen. 🙄

🚨 James Yokeley, a Republican election official in North Carolina, is accused of spiking his step-granddaughter and her friend’s Dairy Queen Blizzards with MDMA and cocaine. Police say surveillance video allegedly caught him in the act. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Something that has been missing from the Trump administration’s review of the Epstein case: considering the survivors. This week, they speak out, and we should all be listening. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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New in PN: "By the time you read this, the White House may have put out a Labor Day statement. It will no doubt offer an effusive tribute to Trump, who in his infinite beneficence has delivered workers a utopia of prosperity. But back on Earth, he's the most anti-labor president in modern history."

people like Ro Khanna who continue to boast about being text buddies with this man are showing how little they give a shit about his white supremacy that goes for all the journalists who characterize him as a “troubled genius” or whatever

All from an account called RAW EGG Nationalist.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

Last year, voters in Missouri passed a measure to protect abortion rights. But Republicans in the state have repeatedly blocked the referendum from taking effect—and are adding a new measure to election ballots that would largely overturn it.