Des Moines crowd begins to grow as locals protest ICE detaining Dr Ian Roberts.

Yes sir we're chanting "Release the Earhart Files"

Oh didn’t like it being pointed out that both companies are right wing, did they? Trying to pretend neutrality, right?

Maybe we should have 21 Justices at 10 year terms

This is the 20th time the Supreme Court has granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration since January. That's TWENTIETH.

Hi, just a note— The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

If my story sounds familiar, it’s because this Popehat Signal was about me

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

Parents concerned about vaccinating their babies deserve to know why doctors recommend it. Immunologist Donna Farber explains why vaccines work best when we’re young.

Microsoft Cuts Off Some Services Used by Israeli Military Unit to Spy on Palestinians

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

In case anyone thought ICE shooting at journalists was just an LA thing. Or that they'd cut it out after repeated warnings from judges. Nope. More of the same in Chicago.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

They pepper sprayed us after this. We washed our faces and are back to singing we shall overcome. They’ll never win.

In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting.

The third fascistic tactic to watch out for is their tendency to label anyone they disagree with who is to their left "a Communist." Fascists claim that they alone can save their nations from "the communist menace." Anyway, the 2024 GOP platform contains the phrase "Christ-hating communists."

Rocky Horror was my first outlet and introduction into queer culture growing up in ultra-conservative Omaha, Nebraska. It was nothing short of a lifeline for so many of us at the time

The administration celebrating Wounded Knee is congruent with the administration asking for dismissals or one-day sentences for cops convicted of civil rights violations. It’s part of a coordinated message. /1 apnews.com/article/woun...

Today's highlight, I think: the Reichenbach Falls...

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

In case you're wondering why AI is pushing so hard into education, that last bullet point is why. Get consumers hooked in young and they're likely to stay. And get embedded enough into classrooms and curriculum and the education system can't function without it - ie permanent consumers.

It’s absolutely right that workers walk off the job in response to the government taking a chainsaw to Canada Post. If we lose the unique national infrastructure the postal service has, it will never be rebuilt. We should be using it to expand services to the public, not nickel and diming it.

These announcements inherently hinder Canada Post’s ability to become financially viable. If it’s a service increasingly focused on rural and remote communities, and effectively ceding much of the urban parcel market to private companies, there’s no way it can turn a profit as the government wants.

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

Breaking: Texas Tech chancellor limits academic mentions of transgender and nonbinary identities at five universities.

Angelo State University officials have told professors not to discuss transgender and nonbinary identities in their courses, according to interviews with faculty members and several emails a professor provided to The Texas Tribune.

just in case we wanted to know the Guardians magic numbers for clinching or a wild card spot.

They are a termite infestation and will never be happy until they eat the entire country from the inside out.

Feels a bit egregious to post about awards two days in a row, but I have just found out I was nominated for – and have won – an independent journalism award for my reporting following the Supreme Court decision in For Women Scotland for @wearequeeraf.com Thank you!

Pretty sad when the bad site actually has a ton of replies and a community note correcting this, but here all you get are tons of blue maga replies and qt's boosting this complete bullshit

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Dr Taylor also founded BlackPast dot org, a website I use often and often direct my students to. A great place to learn about Black history, especially the lesser known stories and people. blackpast.org

In particular, I cannot recommend these three works highly enough: - Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California - African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 - In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West 1528-1990 bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Aw man. His work was massively influential on me as a grad student. I got my Master's in US history and focused almost exclusively on Black history in the American West/California. His work shaped a lot of my thinking. What a legend!

The Trump Admin's new "civics" initiative is a propaganda project but more. It's an example of what @penamerica.bsky.social calls "censorship by stealth." Driven by Heritage and Christian nationalist groups, it's one reason why teachers need us to fight for them like we fought for Kimmel. More:

I mean, try issuing something called a Brit Card to most of the population of Derry. Go on, I fucking dare you.

Aug. 26: Stephen Miller says "the Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization." Sept. 25: Miller put in charge of coordinating a federal campaign to prosecute "domestic terrorist organizations."

Ok, we “saved” Jimmy Kimmel. Now can we bring that same energy to migrants, trans people, BIPOC and women? Or are we just reserving that for rich white guys?

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Not even 20 minutes later and I guess we’re doing 50% tariffs on IKEA for some reason. He’s a man with a plan to make life more expensive and he can’t be stopped.

How to Start Your Own Rapid Response Group to Protect Immigrants In Your Neighborhood The only proven defense against armed masked agents in your neighborhoods is an organized community. After all, no one knows your neighborhood more than you. @eltragon.bsky.social

Come on, let’s play some #guardsball

Me, entering my grumpy old man era: Why would someone want to buy a brand new car that looks like it has a primer paint job?

I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable. Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.

Follow up question: Does he know the difference between engraving and writing with a sharpie?

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...