At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing xtramagazine.com/video/anti-t...

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

In "it's all the same guys" news: the main guy pushing for a new "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism" designation also wants to abolish birthright citizenship

My professional assessment is that Ezra Klein is a moron @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

One side has UNLIMITED no strings attached money and the other asks for 50 pages of paperwork for $10,000.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

I find this extremely chilling: I spoke w a reporter this morning about Kimmel. (Reporter was / is great) They got back to me a short while ago to say they sought White House comment & WH demands to know first which experts they spoke with. I told reporter I'm happy to be quoted IN THE STORY but 1/x

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Israel’s military launched its ground assault on Monday “to occupy Gaza City,” killing at least 62 Palestinians, most of them in the city, according to Axios and the Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/k3tiwn pic.x.com/GeRMd5IGJO

I highly recommend that you read @leximcmenamin.com's latest: "When the WSJ reporting came out, I knew it didn’t matter if it was true or false; the damage was already done. It’s not about truth or reality. It’s about demonization and easy targets and reaffirming their own rhetoric."

NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

that wsj story now feels like a culmination of anti-trans panic that should prompt a reckoning in the mainstream media. was totally bunk, false, peddled. it’s the kind of thing that has led to reconciliation before, and it should now. news editors should be looking at themselves in the mirror

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

MSNBC is gonna have all white men talking about “extremists on both side of the aisle.”

BREAKING: SCOTUS refuses to step in, for now, in a dispute over one trans student's bathroom access in South Carolina. For now, the Fourth Circuit's injunction granting the student relief stands. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would have granted SC's stay. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/two-cases-...

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

If folks want a protest on a weekday and want people to stay in the streets indefinitely, then you have to organize it. Who is supposed to make this happen? Why not you?

Zohran wants universal childcare for everyone in this city and I hear people who NEED this asking 'OK but how will he pay for this?' I'm like 'bitch I haven't heard your ridiculous ass ask ONCE how the city is paying 11 BILLION A YEAR FOR COPS.' NOT ONCE. So damn demagogued.

"Protesters are expected to absorb violence but never inflict it—to function as shock absorbers to be acted upon, whose sympathetic value is nullified by any deviation from that standard. This expectation briefly wavered during the...George Floyd protests,...but largely restabilized over time." 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾

Actually wild that the Texas legislature banned trans people from bathrooms in government buildings yesterday and it hasn’t gotten a whiff of news coverage in the Associated Press, NYT, WaPo, etc I guess the national news biz is just shrugging at this stuff now?

jobs are either "Grant Writer ($32,165–$33,165)" or "Senior Vice President of Child Slaughter ($650,000–$750,000, 401k/medical/dental/vision/you can touch the art at museums)"

NEW: Retired Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, the former GHF subcontractor who exposed Israeli and GHF forces firing on civilians at Gaza aid sites, was escorted out of today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after disrupting it to accuse the panel of complicity in genocide.

NYPD boss Jessica Tisch ignored the advice of her department's own trial judge when she recently let cop Jonathan Rivera off without discipline for killing NYC father Allan Feliz in 2019. Now, Feliz's family says the trial they sat through feels like a 'sham.'

I want a politics that widens the circle to include everyone, not one that shrinks the circle by throwing *undesirables* under the bus. I think this is basic. I am interested in a politics that is rooted at the sources of people's suffering. I am interested in a politics that attends to basic needs.

You have to organize. I don't know what else to tell people. And organizing is not sexy and it is difficult and it matters that you be persistent. We need long-distance runners right now.

Watch as Republicans REFUSE Rep. Erin Zwiener's request for an amendment to #SB8 to prevent government-mandated genital checks in Texas bathrooms. #txlege

I watched throughout the day and what really stuck with me is just how dumb the bill author is. Truly not bright and unable to answer any questions.

Acknowledging that we are living under a fascist regime at the Federal level is essential for figuring out how to fight. And I'm sorry but burying one's head in the sand at this moment is actually allowing fascism to be further entrenched & authority more easily consolidated.

Texas will attempt to pass a statewide bathroom ban, but activists with @genderlib.com are fighting back. The top stories in trans news to start your week from Assigned Media. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Trans activists occupy toilets in Texas state capitol building to protest ‘bigoted’ bathroom bill ➡️ https://bit.ly/4mRE5c0

Texas trans organizers ain't playin! When they called, GLM answered. They asked for support on a bathroom sit in, inspired by our action at the U.S. Capitol we took last December, and we came down to throw down.

Trans Texans face yet another attempt to ban them from bathrooms 19thnews.org/2025/08/texa... via @19thnews.org

BREAKING: Dozens of Trans Advocates and Allies Stage “Bathroom Sit-in,” with banners that say “FLUSH BATHROOM BIGOTRY,” protesting bigoted anti-trans bathroom bill SB 8 #banbathroombigotry

GLM is on the ground in Texas for today’s hearing of yet another iteration of a bathroom bill SB 8. We’re here to say BAN BATHROOM BIGOTRY. This is not about protection, but about gender policing which harms cis and trans people alike.

The impunity of policing is a feature, not a bug. The solution is to get police out of our lives in every way we can. gothamist.com/news/tisch-o...

Defund, dismantle, & abolish the NYPD.

NYPD is over funded and do not have any mechanisms to be held truly accountable.

So whats the plan? Disciplinary processes for NYPD abuse or killings is already stacked against victims and families. NYPD delays and obstructs to prolong process for years, often using this orchestrated delay as a reason to dismiss any investigations or charges in the first place.

BREAKING: A federal raid at a warehouse in Edison, New Jersey led to the arrest of 29 immigrant workers on Wednesday, per officials. It seems like the largest raid in NJ this year, conducted by Customs and Border Protection. We interviewed workers: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/n...

Breaking News: A close adviser to Mayor Eric Adams was suspended from his campaign after trying to give a journalist cash inside a potato chip bag.

BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...