SCOOP: An MIT professor canceled an Israeli military funded research grant after pressure from students. “This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency." theintercept.com/2025/09/22/m...

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

Scoop: DHS is trying to unmask Instagram accounts that named and shamed federal agents. One activist just filed a motion to quash the subpoena which was sent to Meta in early Sept. theintercept.com/2025/09/18/d...

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Utah Was Shifting Away From the Death Penalty. Then Came Trump and Tyler Robinson. Another must-read @theintercept.com by the indomitable @lilianasegura.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/09/18/c...

I wrote about the weaponization of the Justice Department to exclusively protect white christian conservatives earlier this year. Feels very relevant right now in light of everything we've seen from AG Pam Bondi theintercept.com/2025/02/22/t...

Radley, if you don’t know, was a canary in the coal mine at WaPo Opinions, writing deeply reported pieces about police violence, which were utterly ignored by Opinions editors, who seemed hellbent on them NOT being seen during the peak of national interest. Then laid off for vague traffic reasons.

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We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Another reporter fired JUST FOR ACCURATELY REPORTING WHAT CHARLIE KIRK SAID. They want that guy elevated to sainthood not because of what he did but DESPITE it. This shit is as fixed as wrestling.

Holy shit. Things are out of control.

Not great at self-care but I started taking daily early morning walks this summer and it may be the only thing keeping me sane.

I spoke to @theintercept.com about a bonkers bill that would let Marco Rubio, who thinks pro-Palestine op-ed writers are terrorists, revoke passports for whoever he deems a supporter of terrorism. It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.

The fact he wasn't fired for this shows exactly just how asymmetric everything in the media is right now. He was literally advocating mass murder and said "just kill them."

Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.

Purest distillation of what the Trump regime is all about.

being this dog could fix me

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

It's been a gift to see all of the white people who are publicly defending that man. A true gift. They are offering you an opportunity to clearly identify your antagonists.

Follow local journalist @djbyrnes1.bsky.social to keep up w what is happening at the ICE processing facility near Chicago today. He is giving helpful details as the morning unfolds.

If you hate read Ezra Klein’s column yesterday, you’re not alone. Think of this as a rebuttal. Kirk didn’t “practice politics the right way.” He denigrated Black people, immigrants, gay and trans people, and women — and hid it behind religion. Listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

good morning from outside the ice detention/processing facility in broadview, illinois. protesters are gathering here to oppose president trump’s mass-deportation blitz. about a dozen camouflaged ice agents, some with with less lethal weapons, one with a rifle, are standing in the street.

"This is no time for whitewashing the memory of a man who did more than perhaps anyone in his generation to recruit young people into the inherently violent cause of white nationalism." interc.pt/4goBuo6

In 2016, major companies across the United States pushed back against North Carolina's anti-trans policies. A decade later, they've proven themselves to be fair-weather friends.

EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Ilhan Omar is introducing a war powers resolution in response to Trump’s strike on a boat leaving Venezuela last week theintercept.com/2025/09/11/v...

[Trump deploys federal forces and secret police to occupy major cities and disappear their immigrant residents] Top Democrats: This is a distraction. [Charlie Kirk gets assassinated] TD: Our flags shall fly at half mast for this controversial-but-essentially-noble figure who invited civic debate.

"Kirk, the founder of the far-right movement Turning Points USA, was committed to organizing America’s white young men, from college campus to college campus and beyond, into a politics of revanchist, resentment-fueled, patriarchal white nationalism," writes @natashalennard.bsky.social

I've spent too much precious energy being angry at the mawkish tributes to that professional racist. But it has also been just 3 days since SCOTUS declared open season on Latinos and there are only so many ways to compartmentalize just to get through the fucking day.

I guess this is just "practicing politics the right way"

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

You’re just not allowed to do journalism if it displeases MAGA

This is vile. VILE. You and the NYT should be ashamed to be doing the fascists’ work for them.

We don’t even have to worry about him being martyred by the right. Liberals are doing it for them already

today is one for the "who do you identify with" books

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors American officials said the repeat drone strikes were carried out by Special Operations Command, and more attacks could come soon. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

Social media has convinced a lot of ordinary people that you have to put out a statement about major events and I promise you don't.

A few questions about Brett Kavanaugh: nymag.com/intelligence...

Almost makes you wonder how people feel when they are seized and interrogated by armed agents of the State for no fucking reason

New: I wrote for Rolling Stone about the "rapid deployment units" Trump has ordered Hegseth to have at the ready. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The real story here is that Republicans know the only conceivable chance of getting Trump to give a shit about putting a sociopath in charge of public health is to swaddle it in obsequious praise for Trump and try to get him to see said sociopath as somehow diminishing Trump's glory.

omg it's finally happening occasionally former judges speak out about the Supreme Court but I have long wished current judges would do so a sitting judge saying it is "inexcusable" that "sweeping rulings arrive with breathtaking speed but minimal explanation" feels like an important door opening

“You learn to live with this fear, because at any moment it can return.”

"His mother told NBC4 that the agent told her son they had confused him with someone else, but to “look at the bright side: you’re gonna have an exciting story to tell your friends when you go back to school”." WTF www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading