The Chinese government unveiled a program to woo foreign talent just as the US cracked down on H-1Bs with a $100,000 fee. The move immediately provoked xenophobic backlash.

New Washington Post poll on who voters blame for the government shutdown:

Not institutional neutrality, but firm adherence to MAGA ideology is being demanded of all colleges and universities receiving Federal money. Hillsdale and Liberty University are being paraded as examples of what they must strive for. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The White House released a 10-point memo making "substantial and meaningful federal grants,” contingent upon schools capitulating to Trump's right-wing culture war. trib.al/YGqs7Sl

From student council president to white nationalist leader, Nick Fuentes has used alternative platforms to turn hate into influence. Banned from mainstream sites, he found audiences on Rumble & Telegram, building real institutional power while exposing the digital pathways that normalize extremism.

You could not more perfectly invert the whole point of the power of the purse than this false notion the legislature cutting off appropriations means the executive gets more power.

Why can't one of these guys just say something like: "Yes, I'm a Republican. But more importantly, I'm an American and a human being. And what the President has (posted/said/done) is simply wrong." I mean, what is the worst that could happen? They regain some dignity??

The Mississippi Museum of Art now owns the only two known portraits of enslaved Mississippians that were painted before the Civil War.

Putting aside the researchers' inability to identify acts of state terrorism, the number they're using to justify this subhed is five.

NEW: Jeffries praises Eric Adams in a statement, saying he has "served courageously and authentically for decades" and that "meaningful progress has been made" during his mayoralty. Says he will "publicly weigh in" on the mayoral race "well before the start of early voting.”

"...in that one deal, Mr. Trump’s corruption enabled Mr. Adams’s and Mr. Adams’s corruption enabled Mr. Trump’s."

now that eric adams has ended his campaign for mayor it’s time to stroll down memory lane

i think people are underestimating the Senate effects of the soybean apocalypse

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Congratulations Brett Kavanaugh

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Stephen Miller Claims Simply Calling Trump Authoritarian 'Incites Violence and Terrorism' www.commondreams.org/news/miller-...

It’s Happened: The United States of America IsNo Longer a Democracy newrepublic.com/article/2007... via @newrepublic.com

Israel didn't starve the Gazans? Netanyahu himself boasted abt it. The ratio of civilians to combatants killed is 2:1? All est are far more grim. But beyond the lies, the most disturbing parts of Netanyahu's speech were when he told the truth @nirhasson.bsky.social www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Either Dr. Ian Roberts is a master con artist or ICE is lying. He cannot have arrived in the US in 1999 and graduated from Coppin State in 1998. This is not an Orwell novel. Both of these things cannot be true.

New from me: I talked to these people outside the CDC headquarters about Tylenol, vaccines, Charlie Kirk, and going "down the truth rabbit hole"

If we're finally going to crack down about lying to Congress under oath, I think there are several Cabinet members and a few Supreme Court justices whose testimonies might need revisiting.

Bertrand Russell once received letters from Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, inviting him to a debate. Russell not only declined but replied quite generally that “nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

The man appears to be the same officer who was caught last month on NPR audio aggressively arresting a court observer.

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a short speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos.”

Kagan: The so-called irreparable harm that the Trump administration says it suffers is merely "the price of living under a Constitution that gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws...a frustration any President must bear."

JD Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE, saying, "The Democrats and the media — because they so hate the idea of a real border — are engaging in a kind of blood libel against ICE agents." Somewhere, our ancestors wept.

The 21st century has been one long joke and this is the punchline

ICE has been sweeping through Chicago for weeks now, yet coverage of it is still really hard to find. I wanted to compile both my go-to places that I turn to, as well as offer some ideas to news orgs on how to cover the onslaught better: dansinker.com/posts/202…

#BREAKING: Over the dissents of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson, #SCOTUS grants (yet another) stay to President Trump—this one allowing him to cease obligating $4 billion in foreign aid funding appropriated by Congress. I’ll post the link when it’s up.

How long until immigration lawyers are arrested?

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Steven Bannon are mentioned in the latest Epstein files released by the House Oversight Committee www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei... via @delaneyrules.bsky.social

OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE LIVING ROOM SHELVES

"Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?" My story for @barnraiser.bsky.social about one family carrying the torch. This is a story against the grain. A story of hope in a dark time. A story of long time horizons. 1/n barnraisingmedia.com/can-a-family...

Genuinely curious(turns replies off)

elite liberals who don't have reactionary right wing family from the South are completely ignorant of the ways in which you can say "I am racist" using a lot more words that don't technically parse as "I am racist," and it's why they constantly get taken for a ride by ppl explaining their votes

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

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.

NEW: Jeremy Carl, a top Trump nominee, deleted 1000s of social media posts, many w/inflammatory commentary — including incendiary posts about race, claiming “peaceful coexistence” w/Democrats is impossible - even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty. www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/p...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered virtually all of the U.S. military’s top commanders worldwide to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week. Here’s what we know:

Charlie Kirk’s memorial was a religious revival of MAGA authoritarianism. With the exception of his widow, it was a celebration of rage, hatred, and retribution. I wrote about it for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/charlie-kirk...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

Trump: “I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to Hell.”

Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/jdcm...