Everyone, rumors are spreading on social media that the private autopsy on Trey Reed (the Delta State student found hanging in a tree) found injuries on his body. These claims have not been confirmed, since the second autopsy has not yet been finalized or released.

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Who even remembers this? Came in at about 0.1 on my outrage meter.

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

If I were still working, I think this would be a great story. Any other NYC journalists who are interested - I can send you my friend’s number.

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

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I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

So Hegseth’s plan is to drastically reduce military recruitment.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

As profiteering corporations attack Medicare, the Labor Campaign for Single Payer is enlisting state labor federations and central labor councils in a campaign to ensure that traditional Medicare continues to be a true financial option for retirees and unions labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Pritzker: "For Donald Trump and the MAGAs in Congress, this is not about fighting crime or public safety ... this is about consolidating power in Donald Trump's hands. What he plans to do with that power now or during the 2026 elections should worry all of us."

Blaming Democrats for a shutdown when you control the House, Senate, and the White House only proves you can't govern.

We are no longer at a “tipping point” or “an inflection point.” We are no longer “sliding” toward autocracy. Donald Trump no longer “aspires” to be an autocrat. Last week, Trump went full-bore authoritarian. The United States currently is not a functional democracy. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Fuck ICE.

I really don't like to pick on the same people over and over, but Hakeem Jeffries and Ezra Klein won't stop saying things.

This shouldn’t matter. But also - it can’t only matter when it’s not right-wing violence.

One of my biggest fears: That most Americans will slide into fascism denying that it exists, pretending their neighbor hasn’t been disappeared, that sham elections are real democracy, that troops in the streets are there for our own good. Blindly going along with all of it.

The thing about health disinformation is that when it comes from the highest office, people believe it. Parents & pregnant women want to do the right thing but are now making health decisions based on fear. This is causing real harm. It's also making our jobs as healthcare professionals harder.

All of this is so deeply upsetting because children will have preventable febrile seizures, mothers may miscarry due to untreated fever, and some pregnancies will be more challenging due to unmanaged pain. There are no upsides to this reckless misinformation from the top just harm and pain.

“This is what happens in Iran, this is what happens in Cuba, this happens in China and deeply repressive states in which, if you have the courage to stand up and speak truth to power, you are silenced.” trib.al/NLeAgzW

Mafia Don speaks.

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

Smdh at Sinclair. THIS is exactly why so many of us have for years and decades spoken up against media consolidation.

A complete breakdown of everything Sinclair owns because this is war. #BlackoutSinclair

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

We are in an all-hands-on-deck moment for women across the world. I spoke to the @nytimes.com about the strong forces trying to turn the clocks back and how we can all fight for women's rights and futures. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

The really nauseating thing about these WaPo editorials that they take the absolutely phony pose of a sorta-liberal who has been grudgingly convinced by Trump's brilliant logic ("isn't a bad idea"!) when we all know Bezos made them go full MAGA.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Charlie Kirk has left a hateful, dehumanizing legacy of words that Conservative Christians are either choosing to ignore in their zeal to canonize him, or they simply share his racist, phobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, supremacist sentiments. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-shamef...

He’s really going full fascism now, openly threatening American citizens while attacking both the press and basic democratic freedoms. Once again, Trump tried to glorify his deployment of the National Guard in

A good piece for today.

I don’t know how legacy media companies think they can survive when they capitulate to Trump/MAGA. They are already hemorrhaging viewers. Wait until MAGA cancel culture goes after all of the scripted shows they don’t like. There will be nothing left to watch.

MAGA is clearing the networks for their own programming. MAGA’s Got Talent hosted by Lara Trump. Who Wants to Be a Crypto Billionaire with Don Jr. (No one besides the Trumps actually win anything.) ThankYou for Your Attention to This Matter. 12 hours of Trump praising himself.

Y’all know we are going to have to have a general strike, right?

This is stupid and comical. People should be openly laughing in Trump’s face.

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Won’t be long before falsified charges against political enemies are routine.

MAGA genius declared to someone who got a flu vaccine that they are now more likely to get the flu. It is exhausting.

Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.

Quick point. Trump cannot silence you, period. He doesn’t have the means or the tools, and if he did he would be too weak to use them. This is a bluff. It only works if you let it.

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Remember to send Bondi evidence of doxxing and calls to violence from the right. I’m sure she’ll get right on it.

“NYTimes is a Dem mouthpiece! I’m suing them for a ridiculous amount of money.” Meanwhile, on Fox News…

Despite what Klein says, he’s not trying to understand the American right. Understanding them requires being honest about their beliefs, policies and (far!) higher propensity toward violence. Pretending this is all a polite philosophical disagreement is the opposite of fostering understanding.

The double standard in American discourse in 2025: the right can make jokes all day long about Paul Pelosi being beaten with a hammer, but the left isn't allowed to use actual quotes of Charlie Kirk, or that is considered "hate speech" or "glorification of violence" or something. 🙄

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation