"Democracy dies if prominent black writers don't frame their arguments around appeasing white voters in Wisconsin," or "Democracy dies unless liberal writers praise radical, hateful conservative activists" is the subtext. And it's worth thinking through who makes these kinds of arguments and why.

The kind where Karen Attiah gets fired and Ezra Klein and Ross Douthat have massive, multiple platforms.

so weak. so so weak. and so sad for the rest of us how profoundly you aren’t the person for this moment.

Hakeem Jeffries while being dragged to an gulag by ICE goons: "This is bad for American healthcare"

The thing about the Democrats in Congress is that they're currently demonstrating, every day, exactly how to serve as an effective opposition to the Presidency of Mitt Romney while Donald Trump actively destroys the republic right in their face while laughing at them for not even trying to stop him.

"Being respectful of our history" means not lying about it. There are not, actually, "a lot of questions" about this grisly massacre You should put your "confidence and trust" in the nonpartisan scholars who have studied this extensively instead of a right-wing Fox & Friends propagandist

Want to read the Epstein files? Or important climate reports? You’ll probably need a FOIA office for that. Use FPF's new tool to help us tell Congress that Trump’s decimation of FOIA offices is unacceptable. Americans deserve access to all their records.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask.

🚨Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old Canadian citizen and longtime U.S. resident, died in ICE custody in Florida while awaiting deportation over past drug convictions. His death spotlights rising concerns over detention conditions. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Feds just arrested a reporter at the ICE facility outside Chicago

Funny thing is the question “of what country are you a citizen” violates your 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination. It also completely backs up immigration checkpoints when lots of white citizens refuse to answer this question. youtu.be/lMN5DQFz0Pg?...

He lied. Gotta use the word

I'll say this once more: @kairyssdal.bsky.social, of public radio (APM vs NPR), giving daily lessons on putting things clearly and honestly. Enough of this "falsely" and "without evidence" and "departure from norms" wiggle talk. The man lies. Is deluded. Steals. And constantly breaks the law

New from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/2

So glad you asked. Here's the book.

💔💔💔 Breaking: Hit-and-Run Driver Kills Cyclist in Brooklyn - nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/27/b...

SAD!!

It’s likely that this happened to them, in which case, again, this should be much bigger news. We can’t just disappear thousands of people without notifying anyone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

DetentionReports.com has been updated based on data through September 15, 2025. It now contains pages for 201 facilities across the United States and its Territories.

I’m about to nail a constitution to a door Martin Luther style.

More kids died from flu last season than in any non-pandemic season since monitored began 20 years ago. Almost 90% were unvaccinated. Parents: talk to your doctor about getting your kids vaccinated. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

It won't mean much, but: got the fucker who did it

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Leading the dissent, Kagan laments that her colleagues continue to use the shadow docket to decide novel issues. She called Trump's actions "essentially, a presidential usurpation of Congress's power of the purse." @courthousenews.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

When people complain about "politics as entertainment," this is what they miss - this is entertaining in the sense that it tells a compelling story, but in this case it's a story that calls listeners to action, rather than making them passively consume it.

not sure if I've ever seen a campaign so grounded in the history of the place itself (like the scavenger hunt) --- Mamdani sells the notion that you're invested in the place you live, that history is meaningful and relevant, and you are part of a legacy both good and bad. it's fascinating

And willing to admit people are complex and can do both good and bad like Sanger. The best way to move forward is to embrace the positive and learn from the shortcomings of the past so we can do better, be better.

What Schumer and Jeffries don’t understand is that they need his endorsement at this point, not the other way round. Their constituents will not forget when their primary challengers come knocking…

Cuomo could never.

...and there is no sidebar because no Black person has ever won a Nobel Prize in science. One. ONE has won it in economics, W. Arthur Lewis, who developed the Lewis model of economics, which describes how developed capitalist societies rely on non capitalist subsistence ones for too-cheap labor

“I’m a climate scientist. Trump’s U.N. address is a fire hose of misinformation” | My new op-ed in the @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... #ScienceUnderSiege

Commentary: Even in New York, not everyone can exercise their reproductive rights www.timesunion.com/opinion/arti...

Do y'all know that I made a 2 part podcast about Johnny Cash many years ago with my friend Sam? If you appreciate Cash, you should listen. soundcloud.com/nia_audio/jo...

He’s already forgotten who Kirk was

Our latest study @jamahealthforum.com shows the harms of work requirements for safety net programs. Women who were subject to harsher requirements and who received less cash assistance from TANF were less likely to breastfeed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu 1/

Amazon agree to pay $2.5 billion to settle an FTC lawsuit over allegations that it duped users into paying for Prime subscriptions and made it hard to cancel memberships. techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/ama...

Whopper of the Week from @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is on Kennedy's lies about fluoride. Kennedy wants to change the water fluoridation recs, get states to ban fluoridation, and phase out approvals for fluoride tablets at FDA. Pay attention! www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...

For the record, the local police had to arrive to free the girl from … the federal police. This is horrific. It’s undeniable that we will need trials for ICE officials and officers after all this. “Leominster police arrived at the scene, recovered the child and returned her to the family.”

ICE is still out here at Broadview firing pepper balls at protesters. Some folks just got hit pretty bad. Air out here is awful and people are retching.

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

This is what happened with the EMTALA case in Idaho, that justices then decided should be decided by the appeals court because they took it too soon.

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Holy shit

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed. We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake Add your voice here: forms.gle/Kd2PGNagHoLM...