You’ve probably heard about Planned Parenthood Southeast’s interim CEO, whose actions gave rise to concerns that the organization may have been subject to an anti-abortion infiltration. @susanrinkunas.com has previously unreported details today at @autonomynews.co:

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

It’s us

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

The US State Department is instructing its staff to deny visas to those engaged in activities like combatting misinformation, disinformation or false narratives, fact-checking, content moderation, compliance, and trust and safety. www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone who tries to minimise Palantir's role in public life gets branded as a conspiracy theorist at some point, but look! Yet again! It's all here! Very clearly! And still, govts will work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Arizona) said she was pepper sprayed by ICE agents in Tucson as she tried to find out more information about a raid taking place at a restaurant in her district.

The onion just prints the news now

It happened again: The Trump administration has admitted illegally deporting a man to Guatemala despite an immigration judge's order that he was likely to be tortured there. A judge has ordered the administration to facilitate his return by next week.storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

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DC Metro remains undefeated for "whole station ad buy targeted at a small number of federal procurement officers who aren't me"

Imagine being a goy and standing up and telling Jewish people they don’t know or understand their own fucking history. That Jews are ignorant and too uneducated to have correct opinions about the Jewish issue of our time that has broken families and communities. You absolute piece of trash.

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Shocking footage out of Minneapolis emerges as activists on the ground report ICE is pulling people out of their cars simply because they look Somali:

"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.

Facing war crimes allegations, Pete Hegseth posts AI image of Franklin the Turtle firing missiles at drug boats www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

🔥 BREAKING: A spokesperson for Kids Can Press, the publisher of the Franklin the Turtle books, messaged me today about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth using the likeness and image from the books to make light of killings in the Caribbean in his post yesterday on X.

Trump says he plans to pardon former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 drug trafficking sentence apnews.com/article/trum...

Meanwhile in Minnesota...

trans people, especially kids, are a existential threat to the foundation of conservatism because they inherently require allowing your propert, er sorry kids, a degree of autonomy to transition. they’re a threat to them the same way no fault divorce was and is

This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.

Any recommendations for furniture companies that sell unfinished wood pieces? I'm looking for a wood corner hutch/cabinet for my kitchen and want to stain+finish it myself but that's been hard to find!

Earlier today, Martin Hernandez, the Organizing Director for United Food & Commercial Workers Local 99, was detained by Mesa PD while filming ICE activity in near Brown and Country Club.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

‘Racism is when you alert people to ICE’s presence’ - yard sign stealing guy. Honestly, we'd be embarrassed for him if he wasn't terrorizing our communities. Hopefully, someone buys him a dictionary for Christmas!

ICYMI, this is great stuff. both better designed and more comprehensive than Biden's child tax credit boost www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/11/20/r...

Ice is gassing neighbors in St. Paul this morning g during a paramilitary fascist raid on the city.

WATCH St. Paul police, aiding ICE, restrain a man and spray him full in the face. They are not and have never been on our side. Credit: @reportermark.bsky.social

Exclusive: FEMA and Illinois officials pulled dozens of personnel back from surveying flood-damaged neighborhoods in Chicago because immigration agents were conducting patrols nearby, messages show.

GOP Sen. Susan Collins, up for reelection next year, backs referendum to overturn Maine’s protections for transgender students www.bangordailynews.com/2025/11/24/p...

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

this uh, doesn't seem sustainable arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...

A @nytimes.com investigation has found that state prison guards have been credibly accused of engaging in such behavior — putting inmates in restraints and then assaulting them — far more often than was previously known.

hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires

I was ... extremely surprised to read these two paragraphs about the Anti-Defamation League's $180 million investment fund. Maybe I shouldn't have been. ejewishphilanthropy.com/jlens-hits-1...

"I am so sick of hearing about the teens. It was the 1980s. People don’t understand that New Jersey in the ’80s was a different time. Move on."

if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground

An hour and a half left at Umbrella Arts Fair at 18th and K NW

“Despite telling the officers he was an American citizen, one of them broke the driver’s side window and detained him. In a video shared to the outlet by Cesar Jimenez, Christian can reportedly be heard asserting his citizenship while an officer responds “get out of the car” and “I don’t care.”

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

I wish I were posting as a nefarious political influencer, I’m in it for the love of the game and that’s just sad

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

BREAKING: Israel bombs Beirut's southern suburb - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/breaking-israel-bombs-beiruts-southern-suburb