They still haven't consolidated full authoritarianism yet; they can still lose

Book trailer time. Please take a tour with me through my Ohio hometown to see why I wanted to tell the story of how how Urbana became a microcosm for the nation's fracture. The book's out Oct. 7.

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...

Absolutely horrific. Israel continues to murder journalists in all directions with complete impunity, including this latest attack in which it killed 31 journalists in Yemen. This marks the deadliest single attack on the press in 16 years, per CPJ. www.washingtonpost.c...

The one surefire way to get people to stop saying mean things about you is to send out a press release, insisting that they stop saying mean things about you. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Tonight they're gonna party like it's 1939...

Pyongyang on the Plains. Oklahoma targets teachers for insufficient mourning of Charlie Kirk.

It's been more than three days. Has Charlie Kirk risen yet?

This is the same guy.

secret police of the fascists

This isn't a lawsuit. It's blackmail. And the only question is whether Sulzberger will hold firm or fold. I guess we'll see.

Why are single-stair buildings actually SAFER than two stair buildings in some circumstances? It seems counter intuitive… obviously, more redundancy is better, right?

Stephen Miller: “We are gonna channel all the anger we have over the organized campaign to led to this assassination to uproot & dismantle these terrorist networks … we are going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks"

Memphis is 63% Black, but not one Black person was with Trump today when he signed his presidential memorandum to send the National Guard to the largest Black city in America. The Black mayor of Memphis, the Black mayor of Shelby County, and the Black police chief, were not involved.

“The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of ‘corrosive ideology.’”

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Oliver Darcy has obtained the termination letter sent to Karen Attiah by the Washington Posts’s HR chief. The letter specifically mentions her postings about “white men” violating Washington Post policy. Oliver’s Newsletter: bit.ly/4me42St Karen’s Substack Statement: bit.ly/3VOZTcO

Broadcasting from the White House, JD Vance vows to use the government to dismantle nonprofit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

"If ICE is mocking legal South Korean detainees with slant-eyed gestures, you'd think Congress should do something and what is this org going to look like in a year?" bsky.app/profile/shar... "korean reporting nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in" bsky.app/profile/shar...

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

ICYMI — REP. @sarajacobs.house.gov : “It’s interesting (Nancy Mace) is so obsessed with trans people when many in this body have received gender-affirming care — boob jobs and Botox are gender-affirming care.” *Nancy Mace loses it*

Nancy Mace is a hateful Trunt.

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

Whatever happened to 2A proponents’ “now is no time to politicize the victim’s death” admonishment that always follows a lethal shooting?

Students are trying just to wait outside the board meeting, which is being illegally constituted, and the admins are ordering the cops to clear them. One officer already put his hands on a student to push him off the rotunda steps

The Board of Visitors at UVA, which has no legal quorum to do business, is mysteriously meeting anyway. A cop tried to push off a peaceful student protester who has every right to be there.

"The Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 10 to prohibit Confederate or segregationist street names in Loudoun County. Amendments to the county ordinance were passed 8-0-1 (Chair Phyllis Randall was absent) at a public hearing in Leesburg."

👀 i don't think she's formally announced yet, but it looks like shannon taylor is coping with losing the AG primary by running for congress

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

The BBC claims to have identified the image on the shirt of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. Probably not what his fans would have anticipated.

What a great day to be Brazilian

Would it though? time.com/7316346/matt...

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

The MAGA Saint Charlie Kirk is declared

Totally. A national strike is what's needed. Only when the labor force that hasn't already been deported or terrified into hiding shows up and says no more, will attention be paid Corporate Business is profiting from fascism each and every minute, they aren't listening

There’s no “stakes” on the weekend. The “power” doesn’t care if you waste your time off. Waste the time of the “power”. On a fucking weekday. Ffs. You’re not getting it America. And you’re gonna lose it. Weekends are powerless to change. Fix that. Please. Fuck.

NEW: The National Guard analyzed its mission and found it is perceived as "leveraging fear, driving a wedge between civilians and the military, and promoting a sense of shame among troops and the military." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Useful frame for understanding Trumpism from @aselrod.bsky.social: "It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists. Trump/MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-...

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago remove a statue of Christopher Columbus 🔥 According to Port-of-Spain Corporation the statue was removed on 6 August 2025. The process commenced at approximately 10pm in Independence Square in the capital city. Shout out 2 “Rastaman” who took down the statue ❤️💛💚✊🏽🔥