🚨 BREAKING: James Comey posts a video statement following his indictment "My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump...But I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either...And I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith."

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

They sent a letter! POW! Asking for a meeting! BAM! To discuss a path forward! BOOM! To keep funding Trump’s takeover! ZAP!

WHOA. Tom Homan was being investigated for accepting a $50K bribe from undercover agents before Trump and Pam Bondi shut it down. The $$$ was in exchange for access to government contracts in Trump’s 2nd term. HUGE scoop. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Israel’s recent strike in Yemen reportedly killed 31 journalists – one of the deadliest attacks on the press in over a decade. As we fight to protect the freedom of the press at home, we must also do so abroad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis/

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

NEW Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her team are positioning her to run for president or if she ultimately decides against that race, for US Senate. Full Story: bit.ly/4gwZ2r0

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An @nytimes investigation finds staggering levels of insider dealing: The Trump administration confers benefits on the UAE (despite security concerns) as the UAE confers riches on the Trump family. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

ICE killed a father of three in Franklin Park a few days ago. They are snatching people at gas stations, at bus stops, and from their homes and cars, leaving screaming, panicked children in their wake. It is a nightmare, and when ICE has amassed 10,000 new agents, it could be the new normal.

Importantly, I don't think Kash ever commented on this. In any other Admin, this would be deemed an egregious LE failure but ... gone.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

The Roberts Court just created second-class citizenship, the latest horror from a majority hell-bent on rolling back Reconstruction. The next Democratic administration must expand and reform the Court to save our democracy. I have the comprehensive bill to do it.

GM 🌞 The chaos is real. It's not a pretty world we live in right now. But hope grows in the cracks, and resistance keeps breaking through. 🍀

better things are possible!!!!

🔥💰 MICHIGAN Senate Candidate @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social : “Tariffs are making everything more expensive — Trump is telling us prices are down… while he’s selling us out to the same corporations jacking up prices on the things we love.”

Arsonist says there is no problem with house burning down.

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

Article brushes by the fact this incredible 93-year old is also a Michigan football alum (and '54 UM grad). Joined the 1950 team as a freshman but wasn't going to play with so many war vets on GI Bill scholarships. www.westsiderag.com/2022/03/16/h...

This is the most important news of the day. Sending Texas guardsmen to Illinois is an intentional, unprecedented provocation. It should be immediately challenged in court. Follow @democracydocket.com for breaking news and updates on this developing story. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pritzker: "He has no idea what's he's talking about. There is no emergency that warrants deployment of troops. He is insulting the people of Chicago by calling our home a hellhole, and anyone that takes his word at face value is insulting Chicagoans too."

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Judge Blocks Flights Sending Hundreds of Children Back To Guatemala “It is a dark & dangerous moment for this country when (Trump) chooses to target orphaned 10-year-olds and deny them their basic legal right to present their case before a judge” www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Thanks to 6 Supreme Court Justices who just HAD to allow DOGE unfettered access to our most private information over very real and sane objections. Can’t unring that bell. americanoversight.org/supreme-cour...

Ten-year-old survivor Weston Halsne shared that during the shooting, his friend Victor bravely protected him by covering him and was shot in the back, they stayed concealed beneath the pews for several minutes before moving to a secured gym. #ProudBlue #DemVoirce1

"ICE Gives No-Bid SUV Contract to Republican Donor with a History of Fraud" The $2.25M award for ICE recruitment vehicles seemed to go around normal contracting procedures. Read Jason Paladino's latest scoop for Zeteo:

Peer reviewers are more likely to recommend accepting papers that cite their work — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/policy/publi... @aidybarnett.bsky.social

Trump allows Russia to kill Ukrainian civilians without consequence; meanwhile, he might sanction EU officials implementing the bloc’s social media regs based on the false premise they’re censoring Americans. Tilting at windmills, with a heaping side of empty morals. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Krasner: So, if what you have is a group of ICE agents, or even the military, coming into Philadelphia and committing crimes—assaults that are illegal, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, obstruction of the administration of justice—they can be prosecuted.

Definitely don't repost the research that anti-wind groups are trying to bury using lawsuits www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/services-1 drive.google.com/file/d/1TAZw...

Morning Spew for Night Owls—At an objectively insane press conference last Friday, the mayor and deputy mayor simultaneously praised those accused of City corruption, while distancing themselves from bribery claims through twisting the definition of time itself.

the us rn:

Watching the #Permafrost thawing is like watching all hope for a #SustainableLife go down the drain #1Planet1Chance #BlueEarth #OV1 #ResistanceUnited #VoteClimate

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza killed four journalists on Monday, including a freelancer who worked for The Associated Press, according to health officials.

Journalism is not a crime

ICE arrested the husband of a Dem candidate, a disabled U.S. Army vet in a wheelchair, at his own naturalization hearing. Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry has lived here 25+ yrs, earned multiple medals, & served with Veterans for Peace. He has a green card. This is racist political persecution.

Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

This!

A North Texas lawyer notorious for his involvement with far-right extremist groups — and his legal representation of members of white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups — is working as a court appointed attorney in Denton County. My latest for @thebarbedwire.com. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/22/c...

Tech boosters like to use a set of terms to thwart any kind of pushback against their proposals to insert "AI" into any and every organization. Here's a dictionary of their language and what these terms mean. sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

Texas in 2025.

If you're in Finland for five minutes, you'll hear how they beat back the Soviets in 1944. But it hasn't been done more subtly or effectively than Stubb did here.

Western journalists are failing to stand up for their colleagues in Gaza | Mohamad Bazzi

Sally Rooney: “I would happily publish this statement in a UK newspaper–but that would now be illegal. The present UK Gov has willingly stripped its own citizens of basic rights & freedoms, including the right to express & read dissenting opinions, in order to protect its relationship with Israel.”

This is devastating, and part of a larger move to entirely push science out of NASA's mission. It is horrific betrayal of so much work, not to mention the fact that it violates NASA's charter.