This is a regime of the bullies, for the billionaires; of the pedophiles, for the profits; of the criminals, for the corporations; and the brave of us will end their hostile takeover of OUR government and Free America.

Spoiler alert.

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

@rcfp.org's statement on the arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were charged with violating federal law while covering a protest inside a Minnesota church. 🔗 Read more: www.rcfp.org/lemon-fort-a...

Using DOJ to target, arrest, harass and incarcerate anyone the regime doesn't like, Part Gajillion: Magistrate judge recognized there was no case, they appealed to federal judge to make the magistrate let them arrest Lemon. The First Amendment is apparently imaginary. Like Bigfoot.

Don Lemon Georgia Fort This is where we are now.

Most media headlines right now are like "We are laying off 2/3 of our staff and also the president is our ombudsman now" but somehow David Brooks got two new jobs in one day

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By the way, patriarchy centers men. Matriarchy centers children.

*swear words*

Journalism school: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” CBS News: “On it.”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

JM: "What if the line was enjoin Operation Metro Surge while this case is moving forward? You all named it. You all declared it. [...] Since you created it, you understand its scope. Not you personally."

Great people. Great team.

if you are a staffer, it's your job to tell him i am the Bailey's pet duck, i don't make the rules

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Please understand. The cities are rising up. The concentration camps are in revolt. We. Can. Win. We can bring these motherfuckers to their knees. Look at the future and see it clearly. It just takes courage.

Journalists aren’t supposed to report “both sides.” They are supposed to report the truth. DHS is not telling the truth. Stop reporting their lies.

The things he brandished were his values, his courage and his humanity

All of these people getting abducted and shot are our neighbors. All of them. If you are moved by what’s happening in Minnesota, you can already bring their actions closer to home. They are all our neighbors.

Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, Breeze FC) is donating $50,000 to relief efforts organised in response to ICE raids in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. On Monday Bueckers won $50,000 in the #Unrivaled free throw competition after successfully scoring 13 free throws. (Source @brwsports)

Dear all journalists - Just because the president has long believed [X] or has always wanted to [Y], that doesn’t make it, y’know, a thing. Or legal. Thanks.

Ari Melber is insufferable.

But also, even the smallest version of ICE’s mission on paper would affect all of us. Immigrants are a part of our communities and we feel the violent absence of every single person who is taken from their homes.

I had a thought tonight that will actually take all this rage and direct it in a positive direction: I am going to look up the legislation that established the 9/11 victims compensation fund and use it as a model to begin drafting a legislation suggestion for

They shipped off a five year old wearing a hat with rabbit ears to detention in Texas.

Most of you have these broad strokes figured out. But maybe you’re trying to educate or radicalize others who haven’t been paying attention. This package is clear and easy to understand. www.npr.org/2026/01/21/n...

Theft. This is theft.

Really wish the asshole Europeans would understand that this isn’t the U.S. starting an imperial expansion. This is an eviscerated shell of a U.S. government being used as a weapon by *international* tech oligarchs to end traditional, democratic nations and replace them with a tech-run dystopia.

Almost literal Nazism. The fact that the legacy media doesn’t cover this as the lunatic racist ravings of a demented madman is a sign of their determined unwillingness to acknowledge reality.

im starting to think this country has bigger issues than pronouns in bio and corporate diversity training videos

Found tied to the barricade.

This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:

MAGA, a movement of cynical cruelty that is fueled by atomization, has accidentally created the conditions for in person communities to be formed around resisting their repression bsky.app/profile/aaro...

There's a reason so many of the Christian pastors who are the most outspoken Trump supporters are "faith healers" whose entire business model revolves around getting desperate people to believe the lie that the charismatic guy with the microphone & the Venmo account can use God's power to heal you.

It’s the unspeakable, sadistic cruelty.

Nobel Please Prize

NPR just referred to the Trump regime’s “willingness to push the boundaries of the law.” Trump keeps breaking laws, and the media keep saying he’s *almost* breaking laws.

Endorse

I’m gonna need physical therapy for all the eye rollin’

Understanding how we got here includes seeing how the worldview of extreme individualism will necessarily lead to fascism. America needs to adopt a worldview of interdependence if we want to emerge transformed from this collapse. And it needs to be explicitly named in a brand new constitution.

I would go see a band called the Feckless Chodes. But they can't be allowed to run the country.

It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.

Newsroom raids and searches of journalists are hallmarks of illiberal regimes, usually intended to intimidate journalists from reporting and to deter their sources from sharing information with them. We need to make sure these practices aren't normalized here. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

May her memory be eternal!

"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it." Elmer Davis, the great Hoosier journalist and broadcaster from Aurora, Indiana, was born on this day in 1890 rayboomhower.blogspot.com/2019/07/elme...

Damn, you'd think with Aaron Rodgers being anti-vaxx, it'd be easier to catch something from him.

Big trend on right, unavoidable. A year ago it was Nazi salutes w no recompense (Elon). Now the Rs who will live past Trump’s second term are back to normal sweating their own futures. Which is a very American check on power indeed

Yet another example of how defunding media harms the public at large. Good repro reporting takes years of experience, training, and carefully-cultivated relationships. This level of knowledge/experience is why you also can't just feed articles to the plagiarism machine to 'replace' someone.