Pour one out for the @nytpitchbot.bsky.social. Satire is dead in a world where the real "reporting" looks like this

We knew we could count on @mcbride.house.gov to speak to the moment and inspire us for the work ahead at our National Dinner! As the first openly transgender member of Congress in American history, Rep. McBride is a trailblazer — and HRC alum — we’re always proud to celebrate. 💛💙

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Big rally of multiple unions in DuPont Circle in DC right now. “They want us to be quiet, but we’re just gonna get louder.”

CDC scientists receive a heroes welcome after walking out today.

Listening to a podcast where a well known tech world wannabe fascist calls journalism "nonconsensual invasion of privacy for profit" and thinks that's clever and my goodness does that reveal a lot of how completely brain wormed a bunch of these guys are once they faced a tiny bit of criticism.

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

We are fans of Dr. Bennett

“Liberation Day” in DC? More like occupation. This is absurd and Trump’s characterization of my city is simply false. We know how to govern ourselves and we don’t like being used as a prop to distract from failed leadership and the Schmepstein Tiles.

IF you actually cared about decreasing the crime rate in DC, this is not where you'd patrol. This is about getting B-roll footage for the right wing media ecosystem. As with everything, this is theater. We are all living in The Apprentice: DC edition.

The difference is Long was actually Trump's pick and only had his "ceremonial" swearing in 3 weeks ago. The question is: what happened? Long has already killed the Direct File program that saves people tax filing costs and IRS already was cooperating with ICE.

The Trump admin just got caught deleting the sections of the Constitution that protect us from unlawful arrest & detention. Falsifying digital records that feed AI is how they get Grok, Gemini & ChatGPT to tell people they have no civil rights.

Given her track record, I'm not sure Ghislane Maxwell's definition of doing something "concerning" is the same as you or me. Who could have guessed that the convicted human trafficker serving 20 years would exonerate the one person who can get her out of prison?

"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc

TEXAS @repcasar.bsky.social : “Imagine in another country a corrupt president was trying to change the election laws. Then that president’s political ally threatened to remove all the legislators of the other party to get it done. That’s what’s happening in Texas right now.”

Hello. The president's continued insistence that the BLS numbers are rigged, political, or otherwise manipulated is a lie. Please stop saying 'baseless claim.' Thank you.

Show us the data, Secretary.

Duffy can't even adequately staff our traffic controllers and he's going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon? Come on...

Arizona is now all in on vouchers and it is decimating public schools as predicted. The Big Bad Bill contains a voucher program. This is the GOP vision. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Same…

Finally, a united nation.

Americans now spend more on health care than groceries or housing, with health care accounting for approximately 20% of household expenditures, according to the New York Times.

Yes/and…rebuilding should mean reimagining our government for the 21st century so we don’t recreate the exact same system but find areas for reinvention.

We are actually not done with parliamentarian rulings, folks. Things could still get tossed from or added to or changed in the bill. Voting is ongoing on the Big Beautiful Bill in the Senate, Republican leaders want it passed tonight, it has massive consequences, & the text is *not even complete*.

Congressional Democrats need to show up at every single one of these and refuse to obey the unlawful policies of DHS. “Oh you have a rule? That’s adorable. We have the law.”

The Justice Department has demanded that the president of the University of Virginia resign to help resolve a civil rights investigation into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

Trump: “Schumer, our great Palestinian senator. He's changed. He used to like Jewish people. Now he's totally against Jewish people. It's the most incredible transformation I think I've ever seen.” This is insane. Why is the media treating Trump as if he’s a normal president?

“.. the overlapping timeline of that decision with his meetings with Senate staff and the White House Counsel’s Office has not previously been reported.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

In Savannah for the weekend. We were happy to find a No Kings protest here!

jfc they took all the employees into the cafeteria and demanded their papers everyone with proof of residency got a green wristband, everyone else got zip tied and escorted to a bus with blocked-out windows youtube.com/shorts/2s0s1...

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

Last week, Linda McMahon was threatening to cut funds to NY schools because of a state ban on Indian-themed mascots. She said she was deeply concerned that the move was “an attempt to eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes.”

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

root, root root for the home team 🎶

What do you know? Secretary 🧠🪱 released a report with made-up sources. This fully discredits the MAHA Commission report. RFK Jr. is a deranged conspiracy theorist, so no one should be surprised by his lies, but we should still call them out.

“despite”

If a voter has never heard of IRA, doesn't know it exists, then the fact that a factory is getting built in next county, employing them & their families, does not auto-magically lead them to credit Dems. Facts are inert without narratives & worldviews to render them legible.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Most of the nearly 400 books pulled from US Naval Academy library in DEI purge are back on shelves in latest shift.

Conservatives will likely point to private charity or paid work as the solution here. But families on SNAP are already relying on overstretched food banks to fill in the gaps in the program. And most families on SNAP are already working--their jobs just don't pay enough to keep their kids fed.

A reality that crops up across this administration — but perhaps especially at the Department of Health and Human Services — is that the figures nominally in charge of things aren't, when it comes to decision-making or accountability, actually running them. For example:

BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

“The $400 million private jet that the government of Qatar gifted to Donald Trump is the Michael Jordan’s house of private planes,” says Chris Hayes. “It turns out, no one wanted to buy Qatar’s hand-me-downs… it looks like Qatar finally found a sucker to pawn it off to.”

The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.

Republicans are right now in the process of making sure that kids like this don't have the medical care they need to survive-- all to offset a tax cut for people like Trump and Musk. But sure, party of family values. Got it. h/t @caringacross.org