NEW: Cliff Johnson, a Mississippi civil rights attorney, is running as a Democrat against Mississippi's 1st Congressional District Republican incumbent, Trent Kelly. Johnson has successfully litigated against debtors' prisons and practices that jailed people for months and years without attorneys.

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

what condiment would you partner with to promo your book bc mine is this

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Kaleb Horton’s mom has written some comments and asked to spread her thanks for everyone online who’s been sharing their appreciations: “you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.” @lukeoneil47.bsky.social @nedraggett.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social

october? nah man this is NOTober bc i am not doing shit i am so tired

He's saying Congress is irrelevant. He's saying his own job doesn't exist. Wonder if anyone will write it that way.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Excuse me, I believe you mean SIGNORE Pope. Dude doesn’t even know the Vatican’s in Italy lol

i just got thrown back into my freshman year of college with this screenshot

A quick FYI: They have *just* relaunched the online NPR shop with bunches of new stuff, plus some throwbacks and, of course, the Tiny Desk hoodie. So if you are that kind of public media person, there’s some stuff to check out! shopnpr.org

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So let me be very clear: there was a massive rash of bomb threats at universities nationwide this week. ELEVEN of them specifically called out the university or college libraries.

I'm calling Schumer and Gillibrand to thank them for this and to ask them to continue to #HoldTheLine. NO DEMOCRATIC VOTES FOR MAGA CUTS.

Please sign up for this if you can. Supporting worker-owned businesses is a wonderful way to strike back against all the corporate nonsense we're mired in.

This video of an ENTIRE LECTURE HALL of students chasing this hateful piece of garbage out made my morning — highly rec. it’s a great reminder that majority of people find this stuff disgusting.

A Nazi really ran into a class, calling them slurs & other Nazi nonsense, got chased by the entire class then when he was caught complained they were rude to him. Lmao. Nazis are whiny babies.

If you live in Illinois, we need your help. This will take less than five minutes and will truly pressure your local elected officials to stand with the people rather than ICE.

Wizards of the Coast is hosting a Twitch stream to support Trans Lifeline, a hotline and non-profit organization offering direct support to trans people in crisis – for the trans community, by the trans community. Tune in to twitch.tv/magic on Oct 4th at 10am PT to play games with us and support!

Excuse me, I believe you mean SIGNORE Pope. Dude doesn’t even know the Vatican’s in Italy lol

Every day we slide deeper into PREZ

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Holy SHIT they've identified an actual biomarker!!!

God I love the dorks (affectionate) that run this campaign!!

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Now #GhostOfTsushima is reading my mind

hey chatgpt can you make an image with some uhhhhhh Jewish stuff in it

What a time to be paying taxes.

God his body language is so sniveling, so smarmy, it is making every inch of my skin crawl

Re: DC generally and the Metro specifically, if living in Oakland for 13 years has taught me anything, it's that a lot of people can't tell the difference between being unsafe and the mere presence of non-white people.

“Kavanaugh stops” is a tremendous term term for cops racially profiling people and someone should start a crowdfunding effort to pay a bunch of SEC sorority influencers to popularize it on TikTok. We must fight fire with devastating trending topics slate.com/news-and-pol...

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Once again, if for some reason you’re actually relying on Politico for news, you can achieve the exact same results by striking your forehead with a hammer a few dozen times.

Heartened to see colleagues across North Carolina standing up against UNC compliance with rightwing attacks on antifascism! Image of statement reposted with alt text.

Oct 1, 2025 Rise and Resist join other activists to demand a free press, after the recent attacks on journalists in NYC by I.C.E. agents.

Jane Fonda relaunches the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of “McCarthyism” during the 1940s.

Adding "feds fucking choking a man in broad daylight" to the list. Absolute terror across Chicago today. Begging for national attention that matches the level of crisis on the ground here feels like screaming underwater at this point.

“It’s not known how many kids have been exposed to this kind of synthetic intimacy.”

me being the only account to change their name after this:

Multiple states are jointly suing the Department of Health and Human Services and its Secretary, RFK Jr., over new rules restricting what can be taught in sexual education classes, after the administration threatened to cut funding to states that acknowledge trans people in their sex ed classes.

Tired of the corruption and anti-science in our government? You're not alone—and you don't have to do it alone! Meet like-minded scientists, activists, and allies in Stand Up for Science at our two Action Hours coming up this month — Join us in the fight to protect science! zurl.co/viaW8

I just think if you're the kind of person who does this -- using a theft machine to capitalize on an actual person who did actual writing -- you're a piece of shit who should be shunned out of the community

AI-Generated Biography on Amazon Tries to Capitalize on the Death of a Beloved Writer Kaleb Horton 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Sept 30 vs Oct 1 but like, the real edition

This always sounds good until we find out who is considered toxic. Like is funding a legal campaign to erase an entire group's existence & posting triumphant selfies every time you manage to hurt them more or less toxic than the people who are hurt being upset about it? These are vital questions!

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

Ohh so it's a "Get you fired for being wrong" level of bad. Good of them to announce that.

DOL employees got the same email in yet another Hatch Act violation. We encourage every federal employee who was told to blame Democrats in their OOO message to submit a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel. Here's how ⬇️