Scott Pelley got a big scoop with the Trump DOJ whistleblower that almost surely was going to be the top story on 60 Minutes this week. But per the NYT, Bari Weiss personally booked Jared Kushner on 60–letting him take a victory lap for the Gaza deal. Pelley’s story was pushed to second position.

We don’t need a fake video of Donald Trump dumping shit on America, because we see it every day for real.

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

Abolishing the death penalty is an urgent moral need. Revolting to be in the shrinking minority of nations that still sentence people to death.

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

For refusing to “go away,” Christopher Williams Jr. was handcuffed and slammed unconscious — left with a brain bleed and broken bones. Doctors drilled a burr hole into his skull to save him. The cop who did it? Cleared. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Republican efforts to wipe out medical research in the U.S., to take a trillion dollars away from hospitals, & to eradicate health insurance access are integral to the eugenic fantasies of their fascist project. All expressions of the same fascist ideology.

Actual thought crimes. For not revering Little Brother, as far as Big Brother was concerned.

But what are his redeeming qualities?

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The book, Copaganda by @equalityalec.bsky.social goes into detail about this type of deceptive reporting. Great book that shines a light on the practices used to shape false narratives.

As the 1st part in a series about the failure of many liberals to grasp how repression works, I wrote up my recent reflections on a somewhat hidden underbelly of what we are seeing with ICE and other far-right attacks: emboldening predatory behavior. equalityalec.substack.com/p/something-...

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Janet Mills has announced a run for U.S. Senate. If elected, she would be 85 at the end of her first time. If you care about democracy, generational renewal, and leadership that actually serves working people—You should want new leadership in Graham Platner. open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

From what we know of the callous inhumanity of many cops, it very well could've happened to anyone. Fact is, though - it happens with PREDICTABLE frequency, FAR more often, to people of colour. Particularly Black men & women. Because to cops... BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER. It's a fucking fact.

No nation in this history of the world has even been better prepared for becoming a police state. For years, half of all scripted dramas on American television have been about police or military police. And police are the heroes of every one. …

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker But I am losing faith, rapidly. Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

Another one for the "And they'll know we are Christians by our love" files.

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program. ➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

Are you fucking kidding me.

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A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

Republicans want to make your health insurance premiums to skyrocket while wiping out federal resources for preventing communicable and eradicated diseases

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump. It’s oligarchs all the way down. My first for @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

The Moodies rank as one of my all-time favorite bands. And John Lodge is/was terribly underrated as a bass player.

Trump signed an EO to combat "anti-Christian bias." This week ICE shot a Christian Pastor, David Black & not one MAGA politician, pundit, or person has bothered to condemn it. Instead they celebrate it. It was never about anti-Christian bias—it was always about fascism masquerading as Christianity

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

That is pretty rad.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Students talk about the demoralizing effects of AI. It makes them feel like they don't need to know anything and can't learn how to do anything well enough to compete with the machine.

Two years after 10/7, we never hear media report in the year prior to 10/7—Hamas killed 240 Israelis, kidnapped 800 Israeli kids, held 8000 Israelis hostage, & built 12,000 homes on Israeli land. Why? Because Hamas did none of those things—Israeli government did www.qasimrashid.com/p/two-years-...

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

This morning, Congress had the opportunity to ask Attorney General Pam Bondi anything and didn't ask a single question about NSPM-7 👍

It looks like the US has two major parties, one of which whole-heartedly embraces and is pushing forward with fascism, and the other exists to capture all the opposition and hold them to one side until the fascism bit is done, and then complain about it but not actually fix it. Is that how it works?

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security. Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data. Now he's in charge of IRS.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

Last week: When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

Yes. Beyond that, behind the curtain is a well funded psyops operation to bend our citizens minds away from reason and towards radicalization with a slant toward malice and depravity. Consider this. www.bettedangerous.com/p/who-went-n...

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

Not everything is a distraction from the Epstein files, y'all look like the tinfoil hat brigade. The Trump regime genuinely wants to use the military to murder Americans they don't like. As a central goal. There's no complicated distraction game. They are just violent people who hate us, is all.

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

Where Is the Line? On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America. If we can’t even agree to hold the line against Trumpism, democracy must perish. New piece: steady.page/en/democracy...

I wish more media would pick up stories about NAR and the other whacko evangelical offshoots that run through the Trump admin. Journalists can't use typical political lenses to explain their bizarre and iconoclastic policy choices. They're using govt to destroy govt and to establish a theocracy.