WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

I’d seen the nutty excerpts of Miller’s speech at Kirk’s memorial, but hadn’t seen the whole thing. It’s easily the most unhinged, unapologetically fascist rhetoric I’ve ever seen from someone in US government. It’s more of a discount, Dwight Schrute Goebbels than Goebbels. But still.

Showing the extent to which America's "leadership" fetish, justifying the economic inequality that flows from it, is also a fraud

Mission accomplished, time to cash in

First Brands-linked entities file for bankruptcy on.ft.com/42Ivukf

Kennedy Center interim President Rick Grenell sent in a group of gay conservatives to heckle and harass a Black performer during her concert because she was a “liberal.” Prominent fingerstyle guita...

The attorney they’ve put in charge of fabricating charges against Comey and Letitia James was the person who’d previously been charged with bringing “truth and sanity” to the Smithsonian. So that tracks. newrepublic.com/post/199376/...

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Global investment in renewable energy up 10% in 2024 despite Trump rollback! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nunziata was GOP chief nominations counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Played a key role in Roberts’s and Alito’s confirmations. And now he’s speaking out against Trump’s assault on the rule of law more firmly than most Democrats. Read this. Consider it a challenge to match his urgency.

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

Love to give this guy control over a video streaming platform www.404media.co/larry-elliso...

If you’re wondering why the oligarchs propping up a regime would put so much effort into dividing citizens into a zero-sum set of factions, their freedom to engage in rank corruption and profiteering just might have something to do with it. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

What “fascism” means Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DO6EvDz...

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

argentina will get more support from the united states government so they can continue their libertarian collapse than americans will get during a recession lol

Bouie is a national treasure

In 1983, 90% of U.S. media was owned by 50 companies. By 2012, that number was 6. Today, it's just 5. Decades of media consolidation made it "a lot easier for authoritarian government to exercise control," consumer advocate Gigi Sohn says. Much more in my new piece: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is your Republican Congress. It is exactly what their response is to every abuse of power by Trump. Vote every one of these sycophantic cultists up for reelection out of office in 2026. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Rather than saying "no money for Trump's war on Americans" Chuck keeps doing his best to launder Trump's authoritarianism through his normalcy bias machine.

Verily, you cannot change the Democratic Party overnight or even in time to prevent the consolidation of fascism. BUT, you can change how they communicate in three minutes. And by gum, America would notice.

Again Bouie from the top rope

Universities: - Stop offering workshops on how to use ChatGPT to write papers - stop using DeepL to translate your websites or make it sound useful for our research - stop pretending AI usage is inevitable. I don‘t want to work for institutions who can‘t employ critical thinking to new tech.

In a sane society, this would be a deal killer. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

Pa.'s 2 senators, including alleged Dem Fetterman, picked the wrong week to tell Americans not to talk about fascism, Hitler The shredding of the 1st Amendment that led to gov't coercion to silence Jimmy Kimmel is fast becoming our own Reichstag fire My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jimm...

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

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".

This is the whole ball game, gang.

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

The decimation of public media in the U.S. begins here, in central Pennsylvania, with the closing of WPSU, Penn State’s NPR and PBS affiliate. web.archive.org/web/20250917...

Not-surprising, but still important, evidence that media ownership influences political outcomes. Grossman, Margalit, and Mitts (2022) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

„…she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” …. Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore“. www.thecut.com/article/ai-i...

As always, there are zero demands, expectations, or criticisms of the far right authoritarians. Only Democrats/The Left/Those Liberal Academics Must (Not) Do Things. No one else has agency in 🇺🇸 politics, least of all the party/people overseeing the worst Article I constitutional crisis in history.

This is not what a free society does

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

We are still under attack, and you are not immune to propaganda

The right's message to Americans: participate in the whitewashing of a provocateur’s career, or suffer the consequences. trib.al/TzlL7RB (Unless, you’re Donald Trump, who was back to obsessing over the White House ballroom within hours of Kirk’s death, and skipped his vigil to go golfing.)

Just days after Fox News host Brian KILLmeade called for euthanizing homeless people, there has been a mass shooting at a homeless encampment in Minneapolis.

Fascist and proud of it 👉

With little fanfare, Trump announced he was gutting the US's shell company registry, and undoing the biggest anti-corruption step the US had taken in decades. If "cruelty was the point" of the first term, it's clear that, in the second term, corruption is the point. newrepublic.com/article/1922...

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

Trump is baselessly demonizing political opponents in an effort to silence critics and divide the nation into those who are with him and those who are against him. We're about to witness the depths of MAGA's anti-democratic authoritarianism. I'm hopeful most Americans will see this for what it is.

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Kash Patel is bragging about the low U.S. homicide rate at the same time that Trump is saying crime is such an emergency that he has to order military occupations of American cities.