If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

This could wind up being the most-watched newsmagazine segment in television history!! Congratulations to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss!!!

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Why?

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Safety first! From pandemic to apocalypse, a high quality mask will protect you and your loved ones, no matter what transpires. Your future matters!

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Everyone who legitimatized Prasad owns this. None of this was hidden.

I swear to fucking god mozilla, *everyone hates this idea*. Do NOT succumb to The Fear & the Monetization Disease. You don't need to have a "modern AI browser", at all, ever. You need to be th comany that respects user privacy, meaningful consent, & choice; the one w/ The Browser That Fucking Works

Essential reporting by @propublica.org detailing how Trump's policy starved hundreds of thousands of people - sometimes I forget that in addition to the monstrous things happening in the US, Trump is doing even worse things elsewhere

America, you've spoken loud and clear: you do not like being stabbed in the dick with an ice pick. But what if stabbing yourself in the dick with an ice pick is the only way to fight, idk, climate change or whatever?

This is what the Vermont National Guard are being sent off to - lawless killing without Congressional oversight 💔

The #GOP tolerates a deranged child rapist so women can die more readily while pregnant; so trans kids can be bullied by their own country; so we can violate international laws; so the worst people can billion their billions; so the economy can be burned; so everything can be worse. #RemoveTrump

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

can’t wait for my phone in a couple of months to create one of those photo slideshows no one asks for featuring “Fall in Chicago 2025” and it’s just a series of masked goons and constitutional violations.

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."

Everybody involved will need to go to prison and if democrats in congress don’t have the stomach for punishing these people they should just resign now.

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous. (video) snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

Scott scolding people who rightfully identified "consolidation is not the solution" is very on brand. Consolidation is not going to save taxpayers money but will complicate the administration of public education. Y'all aren't nearly MAD ENOUGH about Scott's many failures.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

When asked by Stephen Colbert why he was wearing a mask in public, Tom Hanks said.. “I’ve had Covid enough in my life I don’t need to do that again. I’m wearing this for health reasons” More celebrities need to speak out like this.

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

Tolkien is not perfect but he did, in fact, hate the fucking Nazis.

When he's finally gone, there is going to be this flood of books and tell all interviews from Republicans about how hard it was to be a Republican in Washington during this time and I am going to be galatically furious about it.

Trump is illegally withholding essential funds from Vermonters because he doesn’t like how we voted #dictatorshit

If he manages to build the #EpsteinBallroom then someday it should become an education center about how fascism takes root. #RemoveTrump

This is how a dictatorship works

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

Seeing this acutely in VT - if you can only reach a minute % of voters, perfect messaging doesn't matter

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

This is the correct take.

American fascists are, obviously, very scared about how big a protest "No Kings" will be this weekend, as seen by their hysterical, dishonest rhetoric about it. Let's make their fears come true by showing up on October 18

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January * 100s starved to death, including kids * Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel * US citizens murdered in the West Bank I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

ICE out! Following our success with the Tesla protest, it's time to turn our energy toward a new challenge. ICE is doing online surveillance out of 2 national facilities, one in Vermont! Stand with your fellow Vermonters to defend our values: a place where all people feel safe, welcomed, and free.

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

To everybody, like me, who lives somewhere where this isn't happening YET, what's the plan?

If you’re watching us from outside the United States, it’s pretty much as bad as it looks.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

Americans: My family needs healthcare GOP: No Americans: It is VERY important GOP: NO healthcare but here’s coal Americans: I don’t need coal GOP: It’s all we have. Wait, here’s measles. Americans: But my kid is sick GOP: The gold in the White House is 24 karat. #RemoveTrump

Des Moins superintendent kidnapped by ICE

Now pushing no Tylenol for kids. My two small kids recently spiked three fevers in two weeks (Covid, virus, virus). You want me to make them stay up all night sweating and keening rather than give them one safe chewable, drop their temp, and let them go to sleep? You are an actual monster.