1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

The betrayal came not from Berkeley but from the CA state level: the UC Office of the President "several sources confirmed that other UC campuses shared data with the federal government following the UCOP directive" but these other campuses didn't inform the people whose names they gave up

This horror will get worse. This is Trump’s fascism on steroids. Horrific and indefensible. “An ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital.” — NYC Comptroller Brad Lander

Good riddance.

This is terrifying. Hegseth is summoning all flag officers from around the globe to Quantico the night before republicans shut down the government. Is this a final purge of dissidents? Are they going to use a government shutdown as pretext for massive domestic military mobilization?

Are people’s lives just a damn game to Homeland Security now? This is beyond sick.

Fantastic interview, @johnfugelsang.bsky.social <3

Interesting given 1400 detainees that were held at the Florida concentration camp are missing.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Jeffries: The government is scheduled to shut down on October 1st. The House was scheduled to vote and be present in Washington, D.C. on Monday, September 29th, and Tuesday, September 30th, in advance of the possible shutdown. And Mike Johnson has said, stay at home. That’s ridiculous.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. wants to find the causes of #autism by September. Erin McCanlies has spent the past 20yrs studying how parents’ exposure to chemicals at work affects the chance that they will have a child with the condition. RFK Jr. cut her entire lab. My latest video for @propublica.org

“They're confusing parents across the country”: @vinguptamd.bsky.social debunks Trump's link between autism and acetaminophen

@vinguptaofficial explains why Tylenol is safe for pregnant women to take, despite new guidance from the White House that claims it's linked to autism without clear evidence.

Since he ignores lower courts, and SCOTUS simply overrules them, he could save a lot of money from the Federal budget by simply disbanding the entire lower court system. He saves all those salaries and then he can sell off the courthouses to his real estate buddies. #SCOTUS

Disgraceful 🤨 MAGA Supreme Court Justices

BREAKING: SCOTUS Lets Trump Fire FTC Commissioner 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Don't fall for this fabricated story about Ringo Starr defending Charlie Kirk after the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show: www.snopes.com/fact-check/r...

A bit of James Baldwin today: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social

Each of you must carve out 12” to watch Jon Stewart’s interview with Maria Ressa; it’s now on YouTube. More than anyone, she knows what is happening to us. She will also explain why Armageddon is better than Apocalypse.

It’s a new kind of Saturday Night Massacre as Trump removes an experienced prosecutor he himself put in place in hopes he can find one who will prosecute a case based on politics, not the evidence. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Wonderful news.

Happy #Caturday from my grand kitten Franklin. #EastCoastKin #photography #CatsOfBlueSky #cat #PhotographetsOfBlueSky

The White House Lawn has been transformed for a UFC Fight

$100,000 HB1 visas are at the president’s discretion. He can refuse, or gift it for free, depending on if the company stays on his good side. This is NOT capitalism, it’s autocracy (see Merriam-Webster definition) Libertarians and Republican conservatives should be screaming this from the rooftops.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s DOJ shut down an FBI probe after agents caught Border Czar Tom Homan on tape taking $50,000 in cash from undercover operatives posing as contractors in exchange for promised gov’t contracts. MSNBC’s Carol Leonnig & Ken Dilanian with a massive scoop. Link in reply.

To my haters…. youtube.com/shorts/f3WAQ...

Alex Acosta remains defiant defending his decision not to prosecute Epstein. He “essentially said he didn’t have faith in the victims, their stories and their ability to tell their own story and their own testimony, which is deeply disturbing to all of us sitting in there,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost.

Hegseth orders Pentagon reporters not to report any news about national defense unless it has been approved by Hegseth.

Decades of history most Americans do t know. The younger you are the more you need to read this entire article, as you won’t be learning it in school.

We love @politicsgirl.bsky.social, who was born in Canada, and is a naturalized US citizen. Hear her talk about her immigration story, and her fears for herself and other US immigrants. It’s not about the “criminals.” It’s about ANYONE Trump doesn’t think belongs in America. #demsabroad

Why does he still have a job while Kimmel gets cancelled?

I experienced this last week & refused, saying I had never before been asked to provide the names of any analysts I was planning to quote to get a comment. Spox replied that maybe they were D donors. (In that case, it was 3 retired top military JAG officers.) I guess that was not a weird oneoff.

BREAKING: Trump is about to fire the US Attorney for the EDVA for refusing to indict NYAG Tish James for mortgage fraud for lack of evidence. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

Trump nixed $400 million in Taiwan military aid www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

President Donald Trump has declined to approve a more than $400 million military aid package for Taiwan as he seeks a trade deal with China, according to the Washington Post

Taking Kimmel off the air has nothing to do with HIM and everything to do with YOU. He’s losing his show, but you’re losing your rights. youtu.be/mnXtlL1bHVA

They are watching how we react… Like raptors at the fence, testing for weakness. youtube.com/shorts/BBWoG...

@karenattiah.bsky.social could've written a great piece in Washington Post as well, but she was also cancelled. Brian Kilmeade of Fox who said all homeless people should be killed still has his job though.

Democratic New York lawmakers — as well as City Comptroller Brad Lander — were arrested by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers Thursday after demanding access to an alleged detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Federal Plaza.

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

I keep thinking about a George Carlin line about the Bill of Rights: “They’re not rights, they’re privileges; and you ain’t got ‘em.”

Exactly this

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

We might have thought the biggest right-wing hoax was that Trump won the 2020 election. But the biggest hoax they perpetrated was that the media is “liberal.”

ABC’s decision was announced almost immediately after Nexstar, which owns dozens of ABC stations across the country, said it would no longer air Kimmel’s program. Nexstar is currently seeking approval from Trump’s FCC for a $6.2 billion merger with rival TEGNA. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/tru...