Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head. That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

Huge.

Newsom's latest troll 😆

Seriously.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

Poor Fred Warner. So, so sad.

Here we go: www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/p...

Make sure to call fascism by its rightful name. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA

RFK Jr. is about to testify before the Senate again, after what could arguably be called the worst month in the history of the US Health and Human Services Department. Here's a non-exhaustive timeline of Kennedy's war on vaccines:

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.

These are the sorts of attacks on experts that resulted in a domestic terrorist firing 500 shots at the CDC just over a week ago. If you stand for evidence based public health interventions, you basically get a target placed on your back by DHHS leadership. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

.. mRNA “is a clear case study in how the American system of innovation .. can solve massive challenges. Yet the political climate is now so infected .. that the very technologies that saved lives are being defunded and defamed.” @jamespethokoukis.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/fasterpl...

Boom.

I FOUND SOME 2020 ELECTION FRAUD! Trump supporters Burkman and Wohl have pled guilty to 4 felony counts for orchestrating a series of robocalls to suppress the vote of predominantly black voters in Michigan in the 2020 election. www.michigan.gov/ag/news/pres...

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Commerce?!? @nytconnections

I'm a doctor. RFK Jr.'s purging of medical expertise takes my breath away. www.msn.com/en-us/health...

Oh, I know that. It means he was legally in the US and was detained. www.newsweek.com/green-card-h...

Forever grateful to this show and this crew for inspiring my love of words and language. ❤️#sesamestreet #savepbs

John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice. Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how: By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.

Yes!

Instead of using your tax dollars to actually provide help and prevention, we used them to create a god office that will pray for you.

So much of this was predictable for journalists who study history and try to grapple honestly with it. www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

Few people have embodied the best of journalism—its ability to cut through BS, its capacity to uplift those who’ve been wronged, its burning appetite to tell the stories people need to know—like Bill Moyers. We’ve never needed him more, writes @monikab.bsky.social.

Americans, you won't have health care, Medicaid, public schools, nursing homes, rural hospitals, or SNAP. But, you'll get UFC fights on the White House lawn. America, F YEAH! (No, I'm not making this up. Trump just announced this earlier today.)

$45 billion for ethnic cleansing

A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous. Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

R.I.P. Bill Moyers, who I have respected & whose work I have long admired. Journalist, political commentator, truth teller, lover and champion of the arts. He supported public media, & over his long career, brought many writers and thinkers into our living rooms & into public consciousness.

Toni Morrison is one of the greatest writers to ever live. What many don’t know, is that she was also the first Black woman to become a senior editor at Random House. I wrote about a new book that discusses how she edited by day, wrote by night, and ushered in a new generation of Black writers.

12 years ago, the Supreme Court issued a devastating decision, Shelby County v. Holder, which swung open the door for states to enact dozens of restrictive voting laws. Read: bit.ly/4jkwjoT

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I didn’t have the Supreme Court destroying the authority of federal district courts on my bingo card. But in retrospect that’s perhaps where all this shadow docket decision-making was going all along. Really scary stuff.

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Yes NAACP! #NAACP

"If you’re among the vast sea of Americans who remain enthusiastically grateful for vaccines, the time for pushing back against Kennedy isn’t later, when he’ll likely be ratcheting up his program to 'reevaluate' longstanding pediatric vaccines."

No Kings Protest in Oakland today. Powerful. Great energy. From babies in carriers to 90-year olds, who, btw, know how to lead protest chants.This is what democracy looks like.

Jesus Christ... the *entire Fulbright Board* at the State Department just resigned rather than cooperate for a second longer with this monster and his patently illegal schemes.

I know it’s not important in the face of fascism, but Jackie’s rose garden?! 😞 Add utter disrespect and abysmal taste to their mile-long list of sins.

100%

More of this.

Coco!!! 🎾 🏆

Come on, Coco! 🎾

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

RFK’s “Make America Healthy Again” report cites several studies that don’t even exist.

Correct, Harvard today the rest of the universities tomorrow