eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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“…The party was a celebration of all that TIME had done that year. I had forgotten that (Crown Prince) MBS was one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.” Important context: the regime-aligned WaPo fired Attiah, their last black columnist, last month.

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT: “The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

Powerful new piece from Ta-Nehisi Coates @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

One thing I look at in today's post is the different perceptions of local and national. (And personal and national). This is key to defeating the "burn it all down" tendency. bsky.app/profile/pete...

i think how we got here is that the right's favorite move is working the ref and the radical centrist's favorite move is self flattery that they could never be worked

I’m a U.S. citizen who was wrongly arrested and held by ICE. Here’s why you could be next www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

My friend Jane Leavy aka @ballgirl.bsky.social --author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...

“I’ve never seen this before—I’ve never seen the Democratic leadership not endorse the Democratic candidate. It’s so ugly, it’s so cowardly, it’s so stupid."

Exclusive by me: US research agency upheaval costs UK universities millions Scale of disruption to British medical research caused by Trump’s science cuts revealed Been working on this (intermittently) for months www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

I will die on this hill: it isn’t hard to say “at the height of the pandemic” or “at the start of COVID” during a podcast interview. Producers, hosts, don’t let your guests say “during COVID” like this thing is over. Correct them. Ask them to say the sentence again. This is your job.

OMG DeSantis and his Surgeon General are not only utterly stupid, they are lethal to many #Florida citizens of all ages, no matter their immune response status. Where is the community-mindedness that used to make Americans proud to protect ourselves and our neighbors from death and disfigurement?

This is SO bloody insane - the height of arrogant stupidity, sacrificing the lives of children (and their teachers and families too) just to own the libs, curry favor with the MAGA/MAHA lunatics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives worldwide since 1974, have driven down infant mortality by 40%… Reducing vaccinations — through access walls or wilful misinformation (RFK Jr’s lunatic theories/claims) — will kill people – adults and children alike. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

As the new military leadership scrutinized so-called “DEI” initiatives aimed at gender equity, the vicious harassment that Williams faced during her eight years at Delta Force is a cautionary tale for female service members in elite units shrouded in secrecy and steeped in privilege and impunity

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“Kiriyenko was accused by the US justice department last month of creating 30 internet domains, some on X, to spread Russian disinformation intended to erode support for Ukraine and influence the US presidential election.“

Amid rising starvation in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli government minister said on Thursday that Israel had no duty to alleviate hunger in the territory and was seeking to expel its population. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...

It shouldn’t be a crime for members of the public and journalists to document abuses at farms, labs, and puppy mills. Yet ag-gag laws are spreading and becoming a model for cracking down on reporting on other industries.

did any body follow up on trump just completely making up a ted kaczynski story yet how about the who nominated that powell dude statement any updates yet any follow up

They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Blood not traveling to his brain would explain a lot, actually.

And Jesus decided not to heal the 10 men afflicted with leprosy, for he did not wish to show toxic empathy. #Satire

US citizens tired of the regime's human rights abuses confronted Trump regime ICE forces outside of San Francisco’s immigration court, blocking vans. The heroes formed human chains and disrupted transfers. ICE proceeded to attack them setting off a street clash. #3E #StopICE

Unable to fight off an angry crowd of US citizens, Trump regime ICE forces threatened lethal force; attacked civilians with a van outside San Francisco’s immigration court, running over at least one woman. This is the most violent clash with ICE so far as tensions nationwide escalate. #3E #StopICE

WHAT IN THE HELL JUST... a walkoff inside the park HR???

Nvm. Found it. bsky.app/profile/broe...

After watching dozens of ICE raid/arrest videos it's clear how smartphones change the dynamics in these situations: It's why faces are covered, why operations are fast-in/fast-out, and in many cases why agents show restraint. > Filming and knowing your rights is crucial to a balanced power dynamic.

You could not find a more gifted researcher on the planet to write this book. Sure to be a banger!

With the passage of the big policy bill, ICE will have an even bigger budget to execute Mr. Miller’s vision and, in effect, serve as his own private army.

The Trump administration is pissed over CNN’s report on ICEBlock, a real-time “early warning” app that alerts users when ICE is in the area. Now DHS is threatening legal action against CNN and wants to prosecute the app’s creator. I downloaded it.

Medics and officials in Gaza reported that about 90 people were killed overnight & on Thursday, including many women & children. Also, Marwan al-Sultan, a cardiologist & director of the Indonesian hospital in northern Gaza, who died in an airstrike that also killed his wife & five children.

The DOJ memo says that the federal government will pursue denaturalization cases via civil litigation. In civil proceedings, any individual subject to denaturalization is not entitled to an attorney…there is also a lower burden of proof for the government to reach.

Zohran Mamdani is probably the best speaker in American politics since Obama.

According to AZ Republic's Nick Piecoro, DBacks star Ketel Marte sobbed on the field tonight after a fan in the crowd at the White Sox stadium yelled something about his mother, who was killed in a car accident 8 years ago. The fan was ejected. I am once again asking what is wrong with people.

CNN: Three sources tell CNN that according to an early U.S. Intelligence assessment, the U.S. Military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country's nuclear program and likely only set it back a few months

no surprise, this

It’s precisely my understanding of antisemitism which leads me to root for Zohran. As Jews, we thrive when everyone thrives. When other minority groups suffer, we also suffer. Few things could make me feel safer as a Jewish American than a Muslim mayor who fights for working people.

But given the avalanche of attacks on Mamdani by establishment Democrats desperate to prevent any progressive remaking of their sclerotic and widely mistrusted party, is anyone listening? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...

Good trouble is just what we need right now - ‘nonviolent’ does NOT mean ‘make no trouble, do not disrupt’, bc for rouble to be good it must be disruptive

The NIH has rarely revoked funding once it has been awarded. Out of the tens of thousands of grants overseen by the institution since 2012, it terminated fewer than five for violations of the agency’s terms and conditions. Then Donald Trump was reelected.

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

People in L.A. are waving Mexican flags—not because they hate America, but because the Trump regime is disrespecting immigrants. The Mexican flag has become a symbol of resistance and solidarity in these times. Make no mistake: they love what this country stands for—just not what it’s turning into.

The media, over and over: “why oh why won’t the Dems abandon trans athletes, even though polling shows that after years of us fearmongering on that issue, polling shows it’s unpopular?” Because the public is WRONG. Just flatly wrong. As it was on marriage equality, integration, and a ton of things.

This says it all.., ‘As the Trump administration ships migrants to countries around the world, it is abandoning a longstanding U.S. policy of not sending people to places where they would be at risk of torture and other persecution.’ Torture is what Trump loves. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...